Opportunity is knocking for bloggers, podcasters and video podcasters interested in making money online. The amount of money spent in the US on online advertising will nearly double in the next four years, going from $21.4 billion in 2007 to $42 billion in 2011, according to a report by eMarketer. This represents an increase from […]

Amid an ever-increasing number of podcast event offerings, the very first Blog World and New Media Expo officially kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas, Nevada. Business executives were gathering today for a special pre-conference new media workshop, followed by a special sneak preview of the upcoming movie, “The Kite Runner.” Podcasting News‘ publisher Elisabeth McLaury […]

Zune Podcast Programming Manager Rob Greenlee sends word that podcasters will be able to add their podcast to Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace podcast directory starting on November 13th. We will be launching our Zune Marketplace Podcast Directory with approximately 1,000 podcast feeds shortly. The reason we are doing this is to seed the catalog with a […]

Australian vocalist Kylie Minogue appears to be the first mega-diva to launch her own social networking site. KylieKonnect.com lets fans blog, upload images and video and interact with other users. By letting fans blog and post videos, the site has the potential to be the locus of attention for Kylie fans. Currently the site is […]

Nick from the Gnatline podcast sent us a link to some photos of a custom podcasting table that he built. The setup has spots at the table for multiple hosts, a central mixing area, a swivel-mount computer monitor and even a place below the table for rack-mounted audio gear. While Nick has obviously put a […]

A reader, Graham Pollard, wrote us, wondering why podcasting hasn’t seemed to reach Apple’s UK stores. Pollard is a big fan of podcasts, and dropped by the Apple store recently on a visit to London, so he could check out the latest iPods. He writes: “I was quite surprised to find that at the nano […]

PodCamp AZ, the latest in a series of unconferences focusing on podcasting and new media, will be held tomorrow at The University of Advancing Technology. PodCamp AZ is a free, one-day ‚Äúunconference‚Äù dedicated to the sharing of information and ideas on the subject of social media including blogging and audio and video podcasting. Participants will […]

Tascam has posted updated drivers for the FW-1082, FW-1804 and FW-1884 audio interfaces to support Windows Vista 32 and Vista 64, Microsoft’s latest operating systems. In addition, drivers for Tascam’s legacy USB products US-122, US-224 and US-428 have been updated. Nearly all of Tascam’s interfaces have been now been updated to support Windows Vista. “Windows […]

A new podcasting and new media industry group, the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) generated a great deal of discussion in the podcasting community when it was announced in July. I caught up with two of the ADM’s founders earlier this week to get an update, and what I found out may surprise you. Susan […]

Pioneering sci-fi podcaster Scott Sigler, creator of the EarthCore and Ancestor podcast novels, wants to kill you. He’s working on his latest novel/podcast, Nocturnal, and he needs some people to kill off. Here are the gory details: “I’m running a contest where your name can be the name of a victim in NOCTURNAL. All you […]