Gnomedex 2006 Update: Future presidential candidate & podcaster John Edwards is scheduled to lead a discussion later, but Dave Dederer, best known as the guitarist and singer of The Presidents of the United States of America has the stage now. He kicked things off by covering a couple of Velvet Underground tunes, and then discussed […]

At the Gnomedex conference, being held in Seattle Washington, John Edwards led a spirited discussion of politics, citizen media and how the Internet is changing the political dialog. Though the audience was full of hundreds of people actively blogging, podcasting and video podcasting, he wasn’t afraid to be direct or to commit to a position. […]

At Gnomedex 2006, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, discussed the importance of net neutrality. First he discussed Powell’s Internet Freedoms: Freedom to Access Content Freedom to Use Application Freedom to Attach Personal Devices Freedom to Obtain Service Plan Information “The phone and cable companies will fundamentally alter the Internet in America unless Congress acts to […]

Nifty, a leading Japanese Internet provider, announced on June 28 the results of its latest research on podcasting users in Japan. The company surveyed 3,449 people who subscribe to its Japanese podcasting portal, Podcasting Juice. The results show that the majority of users are men in their 30s. Of those, 30% earn 6 million yen […]

Podcamp Boston will be held on September 9th and 10th, 2006, in a venue to-be-named in Boston, accessible by public transportation, and readily reachable via the train.Podcamp is a free unconference in the tradition of BarCamp. People register at the website (the secret group password is: nepod), and everyone can participate in some form or […]

Vloggercon has published the Video Archive of events at the recent video blogging conference.

Once a year, 1000 people are invited to the acclaimed TED Conference in Monterey, California, to share ideas.Now the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference has introduced TED audio podcast and a TED video podcast series of the best talks delivered at the conference. The talks, which feature Al Gore, Bono, and more than 30 other […]

Peter Davis, via Scoble, asks “Why listen to a podcast when you can get ten times the content when you read?” Davis questions the growing popularity of podcasts. “This is an inefficient means of receiving information. In the time I can listen to an average podcast, I could have caught up on my 50 favorite […]

Etiquette alert! In recognition of National Cell Phone Courtesy Month in July, Sprint is releasing a wireless etiquette podcast (MP3), encouraging cell phone users to tune in and brush up on their manners. The podcast is an episode of Sprint’s The Communications Insider podcast. Sprint’s etiquette spokesperson, Jacqueline Whitmore, founder and director of The Protocol […]

The St. Louis Art Museum is using iPods to enhance visitor’s experience of Remote Viewing, an exhibit that looks at how contemporary art can transform the chaos and information overload of our daily lives into invented worlds that exist somewhere between abstraction and representation.The museum is distributing iPods, along with a 40-minute multimedia tour. (The […]