PodCamp South Africa – a free podcasting unconference – will be held this weekend. Here are the details: Date Saturday, 19 April 2008 Time 09:00 to 17:00. Venue Orangia Bowling Club, 8 At Horak Avenue, Bloemfontein Cost FREE, verniet, niks, mahala! What to bring Your laptop, video cameras, digital cameras, audio gear or anything else […]

The latest PodCamp podcasting unconference will be held Saturday, April 19, 2008 in DC. Here are the details: Date Saturday, April 19, 2008 Time 9:00 am ET – 11:00 pm ET Location Art Institute of Washington/ Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre 1820 Fort Meyer Drive Arlington , VA 22209 Map Google | Yahoo | Mapquest | Microsoft […]

Darren Rouse at Problogger has declared it Blogger Appreciation Day: On the spur of the moment this morning I declared it Blogger Appreciation day and asked readers to email another blogger to let them know that you appreciate something about them. I also suggested that you could also write a post with your words of […]

While mainstream coverage may not reflect it yet, podcasting is rapidly moving towards mainstream adoption. According to a new e-Marketer report, a January 2008 Arbitron-Edison Media Research study found that podcast use is exploding: The podcast audience has grown nearly 40% in the last year. Podcasting reaches 18% of the US population, up from 13% […]

Mainstream media is getting savvy to the way podcasts are being effectively used to promote authors and their work. A Washington Post article looks at how Scott Sigler, J.C. Hutchins and Cory Doctorow are using podcasting an Internet media to get noticed: Horror writer Scott Sigler, one of the pioneers in this area, began regularly […]

Kids just got a great justification for getting bigger iPods – PBS & Apple have added a large variety of educational programming to iTunes U: From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with […]

The Open Rights Group has an in-depth look at Magnatune, a pioneering record label that licenses its releases under Creative Commons licenses. This means that Magnatune’s music is: Shareable: Users are invited to share their purchased tracks with up to three friends, can listen to the entire catalogue for free via the website’s 128kbps streams, […]

If you want to rip DVDs to use on your iPod or iPhone, the free OS X app Instant HandBrake makes it a no-brainer. Instant Handbrake is a stripped down version of HandBrake, a general video ripping tool. Stripping away the extra options makes the app a lot less confusing for casual users. Here’s how […]

Wizzard Media is working together with Adobe to distribute video content from their network through the new Adobe® Media Player. Launched today, the Adobe Media Player is the first application built on Adobe AIR software, a cross operating system application platform that extends rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. The first installment of video […]

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Media Player 1.0 software, a app built on Adobe AIR that could significantly change the world of Internet media. Adobe Media Player is a cross-platform media player that is being distributed by Adobe, but that can also be distributed as a “branded” player by publishers. Major television […]