Former Microsoft blogger and Naked Conversations author Robert Scoble has announced that he’s leaving podcasting startup PodTech to take a newly created position at Fast Company: First of all, thanks to John Furrier, James McCormick, and the entire PodTech team. I grew a lot over the past year due to the opportunities they gave me […]

WeGame is a new site that’s a bit like Seesmic for machinima. (Machinima are animated movies made using video games.) The site lets you download a client (Windows only) that lets you record video from a variety of games, including: Battlefield 2 Battlefield 2142 C&C 3 Call of Duty 2 Call of Duty 4 CoH […]

The Association for Downloadable Media has invited its members to an ADM committee update meeting/conference call being held during this week’s MacWorld. All ADM members are encouraged to participate on the call. The Association for Downloadable Media is an industry association focused on providing advertising and audience measurement standards for episodic and downloadable media (like […]

Here at Podcasting News, we’ve been so preoccupied with local politics (the Iowa Caucuses were last week), and then recovering from same, that we only noticed recently that the weekend is filled with National Football League playoff games. Who knew that Jacksonville had a professional football team? Not me! But apparently they are playing the […]

CES: Belkin has introduced the Belkin Podcast Studio – a $100 accessory that basically turns your iPod into a mini podcasting studio – just add a mic. Dual XLR and 1/4-inch channels give you a range of recording options. The Podcast Studio has a built-in mic and speaker are powered by their own battery, so […]

IT Conversations founder and Conversations Network head Doug Kaye sends word that his latest community project, PodCorps.org, is halfway to its goal of 1,000 volunteer audio “stringers.” PodCorps.org is a team of independent audio/video producers who record and publish important events and interviews anywhere in the world. PodCorps.org is a new project of The Conversations […]

It looks like podcasting pioneer Dave Winer took issue with Mashable’s rant about their inability to get advertisers interested in their podcast ideas. Winer also took issue with our response. We said that if you want to podcast professionally, you have to start thinking like a professional podcaster. “Both sides of this argument are full […]

Mark Hopkins at Mashable has penned an new variation on the podcasting doom and gloom story, in response to the recent news that Wizzard Media served up 1 billion podcasts in 2007. Hopkins acknowledges that “people do indeed love to download podcasts, and that it is a sharply growing medium.” But Hopkins goes on to […]

Today’s big podcasting news is that Wizzard Media announced their download totals for 2007, an amazing one billion podcast files downloaded. To put that large number into some context, we talked with Rob Walch, Wizzard’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations (and creator/host of the popular Podcast411). First off, congratulations – this is pretty stunning news. […]

Daily traffic to video-sharing sites such as YouTube has doubled in the last year and the number of women visiting has doubled, too. According to the latest research by Pew Internet: 48% of internet users said they had ever visited a video-sharing site such as YouTube. A year ago, in December 2006, 33% of internet […]