For about fifteen years, our family has had a tradition of a shared Advent calendar. Every day from December 1 – 24, the children take turns opening the little packages, one for each day of the Advent season. After a disastrously messy first year’s (chocolate) calendar when our boys were toddlers, we’ve had many years’ […]

Podcasters Across Borders co-founder and organizer Mark Blevis sent word that registration for PAB2009 is opening today (December 1, 2008) at midnight Eastern Time. The three-day podcasting and new media conference is scheduled for June 19/20/21, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). This is the fourth year of the event, which focuses on not just podcast […]

Last week, the UK Podcasters Association appointed Neil Fairbrother (of Pod3.tv) their new chairman. Previously the position was held by Dean Whitbread, one of the founders of the organization. I caught up with Dean recently, and asked him to give me a rundown of the things he and the UKPA worked on, fought against, and/or […]

Blubrry has announced that they’ve released version .5.0 of their Powerpress podcasting plugin for Wordpress.

The latest version incorporates a number of bug fixes as well as some minor enhancements.

Vicoustic has introduced a budget solution for recording vocals, Flexi Screen Lite. The £65.00 unit has a dual functionality, absorbing the singer’s energy on the inside to give a less ambient sound, while at the same time, partially absorbing scattered room reflections on the outside. According to Vicoustic, Flexi Screen Lite’s acoustic foam has optimum density and thickness, using […]

PodCamp co-founder Chris Penn has posted his thoughts on the future of PodCamps, a series of user-organized podcasting conferences. Penn offers six suggestions for 2009 PodCamp organizers: Use the tools! 2008 showed rapid growth in every social network of note, and as organizers, the more you can help people meet and greet prior to the […]

Podcast Channels is a new WordPress plugin designed to fill in some of the gaps in WordPress’s native podcasting support: What do you need to podcast with WordPress? Nothing — WordPress puts enclosures in the feed for you. That’s the bare bones and it works well enough. But iTunes metadata would be nice. And, how […]

The American Veterinary Medical Association has launched “Chew On This,” a podcast about food safety and protecting the [U.S.] food supply. Dr. James Cook, AVMA President, says, “We’re going to explore and investigate many of today’s topics surrounding food – where it comes from, how it gets to our tables and why it’s important to […]

A note on Mark Blevis’ blog tipped us off that PodCamp Ottawa is happening this Sunday at the National Arts Centre from 9:45 am to 4 pm. The un-conference theme is “Fresh Thinking and Approaches.” One of the freshest things I noticed on the event main page is the advice to bring a floor pillow […]

WordPress is a great blogging/podcasting/videopodcasting platform, but there’s always something new to learn.  If you want to learn more about WordPress, you’ll want to check out Specky Boy’s comprehensive list of 100+ WordPress video tutorials. He says there are 100+, but we think the 100 jillion number may be more accurate.