Bamboo MediaCasting has partnered with Britcaster.com, a UK podcast community, to deliver MobiPod, a service they describe as “the most advanced mobile podcasting service in the market today.” MobiPod lets users subscribe once to their favorite podcasts, then receive their personal selection of podcasts automatically. Full track, 30-40 minute podcast updates are delivered off-peak or […]

Actor turned video blogger Dan McVicar, aka Clarke Garrison on The Bold and the Beautiful, has been named a host of the Vloggies, an award show for the rising stars of new media. McVicar will host host the Vloggies, an award show for the rising stars of new media held in San Francisco on November […]

Bridge Ratings, a research firm specializing in radio, has updated its growth projections for radio an various alternatives as part of on-going study of audience attrition of traditional radio and subscriber and user growth of alternative digital media. The company positions podcasting as less of an immediate threat to radio than previously projected: “Podcasting is […]

A new Bridge Ratings consumer study of current terrestrial radio listeners finds that radio stations that aggressively embrace, utilize and market new digital technologies enhance their competitive position against other terrestrial radio stations as well as against the stand-along digital technologies. “Its is clear to us that this sample of radio listeners gravitated more positively […]

Podcast directory list update: Hispanocast is a new podcast directory specializing in Spanish-language podcasts. The site is described as “El agregador de todos los podcasts e video podcasts en lengua Espa√±ola.”

Next weekend’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo is all set and ready to go, event organizer Tim Bourquin says. “We’ve been planning this event for nearly a year. It’s like a bobsled – you start pushing it downhill, and, after awhile, it picks up momentum and speeds on its own.” In an interview with Podcasting […]

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo today announced that Grape Radio and Leo Laporte, right, are the 2006 recipients of the conference’s “Podcast of the Year” and “Person of the Year in Podcasting” awards, respectively. Winners will be recognized at a special reception next Friday, September 29, 2006 at 5 p.m. at the Ontario Marriott. […]

Organizers John C. Havens, Laura Allen and Eric Skiff have announced their intent to stage a PodCamp in New York in Spring of 2007. They are looking for people that are interested in organizing and attending PodCamp NYC. More information is available at the PodCamp NYC wiki.

The Corporate Podcasting Summit has announced that it is coming to London on 19 – 20 March 2007. Hot on the heels of the inaugural summit that took place in San Francisco, June 2006, the European summit will explore how podcasting and social media can help companies create dialogue with their customers, engage with employees […]

A new podcast, Talking Robots, features interviews with high-profile professionals in robotics and artificial intelligence for an inside view on the science, technology, and business of intelligent robotics. The podcast is created by the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Switzerland. The initial episode (MP3) features an interview with Dario Floreano, a professor at the Ecole […]