Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane has announced the tentative schedule for the 24 Hour Podcast, a marathon celebration of indie media scheduled for December 20-21st. Here’s what Todd has to say about the event: I kick off the event at 6am HST / 8am PST / 11am EST and go for 24 hours straight. We […]

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=44B64495B703FFA0 Expert Village – a site that features video tutorials – has a YouTube channel focusing on how to make a digital movie.  The channel includes information on topics ranging from creating scripts for indie films to lighting. There’s lots of information that applies not just to making movies, but to any indie video production.  […]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick brought to our attention a great new podcast feature from NPR that lets you mix your own podcast feed. NPR’s Mix Your Own Podcast lets you enter in topics that you are interested in and it will create a custom podcast feed for you.  I’d like to see them provide the ability […]

Shure SM58 & SM57 mics have a reputation for being reliable to the point of being indestructible.  They’re popular with musicians, because they’re cheap and you can store them in the back of a van without worrying about breaking them. The SM58 is popular with podcasters, too, because it’s fairly cheap and delivers great sound for the price.  Mats […]

Rockifone’s Easy Recorder (App Store link) is a free iPhone app that turns your iPhone into a dictaphone-style audio recorder.  Easy Recorder doesn’t have a lot of features, but it lets you record audio at three quality levels and the price is hard to beat. To sync recordings, Easy Recorder has a built-in Web server that […]

P2P distribution for new media seemed like a good idea to a lot of people a few years ago. The idea was that you’d be able to distribute your content over P2P networks and avoid paying a lot of money for bandwidth.  Unfortunately for content producers, P2P distribution for new media doesn’t offer any benefits […]

Video search engine company Blinkx today announced the launch of “an Enhanced Metadata Enrichment solution for publishers” of online video. There were lots of big, Web 2.0 press release vocabulary words to plow through (if I ever see another announcement with the word “monetize” repeated so many times, I will have to retreat to a […]

Throughout the month of December, we’ve been (very) intermittently profiling some of the end-of-year holiday podcasts we enjoy. One favorite, that is actually produced by someone we know in real life, is Podsafe Christmas. Podsafe Christmas is the creation of Kansas City-based meteorologist and musician (and weather and music podcaster) Ed Roberts. The show runs […]

The latest version of the Oxford English Dictionary – described as the the definitive record of the English language – has added podcasting: podcasting n. A very new word, for a recent phenomenon, and a great example of how technological change, especially that relating to the Internet and the media, can be a driving force not […]

Gunp Media Productions’ Podstreamer (App Store link) is a native iPhone application designed to complement the iTunes-iPhone system for listening to podcasts. As the name suggests, Podstreamer is designed to stream podcasts, rather than download them.  It’s great to see a new iPhone podcast client – but Podstreamer doesn’t offer a true alternative to Apple’s […]