Microsoft Zune podcast guru Rob Greenlee brought our attention to a little-known feature in the latest Zune firmware – wireless podcast sharing:

You can now send video podcast episodes to other Zune devices using its built-in WiFi radio. This means that if you have found a cool episode from the Best of YouTube podcast that you can send it to a fellow Zune user and then that user can watch that episode on their device and subscribe to it all in the Zune device software.

While the video podcast episode is playing – just click and hold the middle of the Zune touch pad until the subscribe screen pops up. Then click on “subscribe” and when you next sync your Zune it will add a new subscription to your “Collection” area.

PodCamps are a great opportunity to learn about podcasting and meet people involved in new media. The events are user-organized conferences for “new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media.” The first PodCamp was held September 8-10, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts, but they are now being […]

The Chicago Daily Herald reports that the the Chicago Area Podcasters Network has been growing since its inception in 2006, and is now an active, vibrant group. The group started with 10 members and has grown to about 50.  “Things really changed once iTunes made podcasting available,” said Tom Kim of Libertyville, founder of the podcasting […]

Back in 2005, so-called “godcasts” – religious podcasts – were one of the most talked about podcast genres.

Podcaster Craig Patchett in 2004 created the GodCast network, featuring a variety of Christian podcasts and even a Klingon Word podcast. Hundreds of churches followed suit, distributing weekly sermons as podcasts.

While mainstream coverage quickly moved on to other topics, godcasting is still going strong. In fact, recent research suggests that Christians are twice as likely as the average to be listening to podcasts.

R&B star Usher has launched a video podcast, Ucast, to coincide with the release of his latest CD, Here I Stand 10 initial video podcast episodes are planned, offering viewers a behind the scenes view of launching an album, producing a video and preparing for a tour. “The entertainment business is much more than the […]

In April, we reported on Arbitron/Edison Media Research’s latest report on the podcast audience.  At the time, we were struck by their stats for the podcast audience, which showed that the audience for audio podcasts grew 38% in the last year, and the audience for video podcasts grew 45%. Edison’s Tom Webster also has offered his take on […]

Jim Louderback, CEO of podcasting/new media network Revision3, has an explanation for why his site died over Memorial Day weekend: they were hacked and attacked by MediaDefender, a company that works for the music and film industries doing anti-piracy work.

“Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3’s servers for their own purposes, without our approval,” says Louderback. “They willingly admitted to abusing Revision3’s network, over a period of months, by injecting a broad array of torrents into our tracking server.”

If you want a fast Internet connection, South Korea is the place to be, according to content delivery network Akamai. South Koreans are three times as likely as Americans to have broadband conections.

If moving to South Korea seems extreme, though, there’s always Delaware. Delaware topped the list of US states, with over 60% of connections occurring at 5 Mbps or greater.

Blue Microphones has introduced a new microphone designed for mobile use, the Snowflake.

Blue calls it “the first professional portable USB mic, and recommends it for mobile podcasting, VoIP software (such as Skype and Vonage), field recording, lecture recording and music recording.

It retails for $79.

Our friend, radio producer Chris Vallance, sent word that he had recently interviewed PodShow – er, Mevio – executive Adam Curry for his BBC Radio Five Live Pods and Blogs program. Our regular readers will remember that Mevio co-founder and Chief Executive Ron Bloom raised eyebrows last month by explaining that the reason for the […]