Remember PodZinger? They were an early entrant into the “make money with podcasting” scene, with a “speech-to-text” technology (developed by BBN Technologies in about 2006). The idea was to convert, without an expensive (human) transcription service, a podcast audio file into a text file — which, in turn, would help search engines to find the […]

Used to be, the only tools aspiring journalists needed were pencils and a spiral notepad. Then, in the last decade, journalism schools recommended that their students have access to a computer (preferably portable) and an Internet connection. That seemed perfectly up-to-date in terms of media hardware, until today. Now, at the University of Missouri Journalism […]

The Berklee College of Music has a wonderful, eclectic music podcast that is worth checking out. The music school, based in Boston, is home to 4,000 students (and two record labels), and alumni run the gamut from Diana Krall to Melissa Etheridge, Quincy Jones to Aimee Mann, Howard Shore to John Mayer. The monthly “Sounds […]

Mignon Fogarty, podcasting’s “Grammar Girl,” has been nominated for an Audie Award, for the audio version of her book, Grammar Girl’s Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Writing. The Audie Awards are sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), and “recognize distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.” The only awards program in the United […]

For nearly five years and counting, we’ve been creating, and writing about, podcasts. We know what podcasts are, and chances are, you do, too. We love them, and think they are super-neat. We think everybody ought to create podcasts, because they help you: share your passion and expertise widely, and connect, over long distances, with […]

Livescribe, creators of the Pulse smartpen, have announced a tool that turns your handwritten notes and audio recordings into Flash videos, called “pencasts,” that you can embed within any Web site or blog. Publishing multimedia from your smartpen is a bizarre application of some bizarre technology, but it’s also some geeky ubiquitous computing fun! Here’s […]

Audio podcaster and novelist Seth Harwood is pulling out all the stops, celebrating today. No, not the typical americanized Cinco de Mayo revelry. Today commemorates the publication of Harwood’s crime novel, Jack Wakes Up, by Random House. This is his first novel to be published by a major publishing house, but Harwood is no stranger […]

YouTube is cracking down on content creators whose “branded integration” [that is, product-placement, or promotional] deals haven’t been given the go-ahead from the video site. According to Mediaweek, “the company issued written notifications to several producers … reminding them that according to its Terms of Service, users are not to post commercial videos on YouTube […]

President Barack Obama is turning the White House into a leading example of how organizations can use Internet media and social networking. In a post at the official White House Blog, The White House called its approach to the Internet WhiteHouse 2.0, noting its extensive new media and social media presence. According to The White […]

Mobile phone giant Nokia this week announced another round of staff cutbacks, alongside an announcement that it was further opening its technology to mobile application developers. Another 450 employees of the Finnish company were let go this week, on the heels of layoffs of 1700 staffers in March, and an initial reduction of 320 back […]