Barack Obama has soundly beaten John McCain and it’s clear that Obama’s new media strategy played a big part in this win.

While McCain pulled back from new media and focused his attention on core supporters via old media, Obama got his message out anywhere people were listening.

PodcampAZ Day 1 from Clintus McGintus on Vimeo. Clintus McGintus offers his take on PodCamp AZ, Day 1.

Yamaha is now shipping the Pocketrak CX, a portable audio recorder with an upgraded stereo microphone system designed for recording live music. Like its predecessor, the Pocketrak 2G Pocket Recorder, the Pocketrak CX supports a variety of different recording formats from 16-bit 44.1 CD quality .wav files to MP3. It comes with an onboard speaker, stand adapter, and […]

New media isn’t just for the cutting edge hipsters anymore; the suits are officially moving in. Marketers are jumping into new media and moving their advertising budgets from traditional media to social networking sites, blogs, podcasts and mobile marketing.  According to a new survey by Epsilon,  nearly two-thirds (63%) of the marketing executives they surveyed […]

From Rob Walch, creator and host of Podcast 411, and VP of Podcaster Development at Wizzard Media: “Usher has made a music Video. He is allowing podcasters to include it as an item in their feed.  This is a get out the vote message, and the version below has an intro from Senator Obama.   You […]

The Blogger & Podcaster Media Network is a new media network startup that promises a “six-figure income for all.” It’s not clear from the site if they are promising a six figure salary for everybody that signs up, or if everybody that signs up will just be asked to split it up equally. Here are […]

I recently discovered that the University of Oxford offers quite a few interesting podcast series. I was looking for some resources on Beowulf for one of our children, but was pleasantly surprised to find an incredible variety of topics presented in podcast format. Some of the 99 podcast feeds offered: refugees and forced migration around […]

Put this in the unsubstantiated rumor category – but AppleInsider is reporting that iPhone firmware 2.2 will add support for wireless downloads: A tipster shared with us some screenshots of the new firmware, including what appears to be the ability to download podcasts directly to your iPhone (and presumably your iPod touch). This could tidily […]

Professional podcast training event company and publisher The Podcast Academy is “opening the vault” for a week, offering for sale a set of audio recordings of all the sessions, panels, and keynote addresses from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 New Media Expo. “I decided to offer a historical look at podcasting,” said Podcast Academy editor-in-chief […]

Among the announcements Monday from Internet TV network Revision 3 was the discontinuation of its licensing agreement with the popular video podcast, Wine Library TV. Rev3 had produced a special edition of the show featuring highlights of the daily series called Wine Library Reserve. I caught up with the creator and host of Wine Library […]