Back in August, we took ReadWriteWeb to task for publishing a gloom and doom take on the state of podcasting. RRW’s article suggested that podcasting was stagnating, that podcasting was losing steam and that it was even going out of fashion. At the time, we said that ReadWriteWeb was clueless about podcasting. We called their […]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007. It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting. It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. […]

NewsGator announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge, including NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. The public beta of NewsGator Inbox 3.0 also began today. “It‚Äôs all about ubiquity,” said Greg Reinacker, NewsGator CTO and founder. “We found that the more people […]

Yahoo today announced a new free browser-based MP3 player that you can use and freely embed in your page. Here’s how it works: You add links to MP3s in your web page. These can be anywhere on the web. You add a line of code to insert Yahoo’s Javascript library. Working play buttons appear next […]

Apple today introduced the new Xserve, a 1U rack-optimized server that is up to twice as fast as its predecessor and includes an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server Leopard. Starting at $2,999, the new Xserve has up to two Quad-Core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors for 8-core performance, a new server architecture, […]

Apple today introduced the new Mac Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor. The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel‚Äôs new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz, powerful new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage […]

Podcast.com announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas its list of the “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” for 2007, in conjunction with media aggregation/distribution company Treedia.com, which created the feed management platform used at Podcast.com. Podcast.com, a podcast directory and feed management site, maintains a list of 43,000 podcast feeds. To […]

Audacity, the cross-platform audio editor that has been used by many podcasters as an entry-level podcasting tool, appears to be dead on the Mac platform. “1.3.4 for OS X will appear when someone volunteers to compile it and sort the remaining bugs out,” writes richardash1981 at the Audacity Team Forum. “There is currently no one […]

On Monday, December 31, 2007, President Bush signed into law the “Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007,” which amends the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by: establishing a definition of “a representative of the news media;” directing that required attorney fees be paid from an agency’s own appropriation rather than from […]

There’s been a lot of controversy in the last year over the use and reuse of coyrighted content in videos published at sites like YouTube. A new study on copyright and creativity from the Center and American University‚Äôs Washington College of Law may help clear things up. The study (pdf), Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted […]