The Sydney Morning Herald took a look at the Cult of Podcast Celebrity and profiled pioneering podcaster Cameron Reilly: One Australian who is using podcasting to give himself – and his fellow podcasters – a voice is Cameron Reilly, who founded the Podcast Network – a stable of podcasts ranging from religion to martial arts. […]

Scott at Bitnotic sent us word about their new generative ambient music application, chill. The concept of generative music – popularized by Brian Eno – is that complex music can be created by setting relatively simple processes into motion. You can think of chill as a royalty-free music generator. It uses generative music processes to […]

Podcast pioneer and former MTV VJ Adam Curry shared this image of his podcasting setup on Flickr. This is his rig for recording Daily Source Code. It shows how you can get a professional podcast from a relatively modest setup. (It helps to have Curry’s 20+ years of media experience, obviously!) I spy what looks […]

I recently had a (way too brief) conversation with PodCamp NYC 2.0 co-organizer John C. Havens, VP of Business Development at Blog Talk Radio and fellow Advisory Board member of the Association of Downloadable Media. (He’s on the right in the photo, with Chris MacDonald.) John wanted to talk about this PodCamp’s wider appeal to […]

Podcamp NYC is coming up this weekend, April 25-26, at Brooklyn Polytechnic. Podcamp NYC is an unconference focused on educating participants on how to use, implement and share all kinds of new media tools including, podcasts, videocasts, blogs, Second Life, Facebook, and YouTube. The conference is free to attend, but you must register in advance. […]

PodShow has officially announced that it has changed its name to Mevio. Along with this announcement, the company announced updates to its site. The name change has been greeted with skepticism by many podcasters, and there’s already a “Mevio” entry in the Urban Dictionary.: The act of renaming a company / business, thinking that the […]

New data from Podtrac and TNS suggests that podcasts may be a much more powerful advertising platform than television. The companies studied podcast advertising from February 2006 to March 2008 across multiple product categories and ad types. Unaided awareness for podcast ads was 68%, compared with 21% for streaming video and 10% for television. ““The […]

Edison Research’s Tom Webster, who has been researching and reporting on podcasting for years now, has some interesting thoughts on promoting your podcast through social networking sites like MySpace and Twitter: Change occurs at the margin, and it would be unwise to ignore the increasing popularity and utility of the various social networking sites. However, […]

PodShow, the heavily-hyped podcasting startup from podfather Adam Curry, is dead; it’s changing its name to Mevio. NewTeeVee attributes the name change to a so-called “curse of the ‘Pod”” – the idea that any company with “pod” in the name is cursed. They note that PodZinger has changed its name to EveryZing & PodBridge has […]

Okay, a confession here: I spent much of Earth Day today, a beautiful sunny day, outdoors. Away from my laptop computer. Away from wi-fi. It seemed a fitting way to celebrate the thirty-ninth annual Earth Day, riding my bike and enjoying cold beverages at a succession of locally-owned establishments. One thought that kept coming back […]