Actor turned video blogger Dan McVicar, aka Clarke Garrison on The Bold and the Beautiful, has been named a host of the Vloggies, an award show for the rising stars of new media. McVicar will host host the Vloggies, an award show for the rising stars of new media held in San Francisco on November […]

Next weekend’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo is all set and ready to go, event organizer Tim Bourquin says. “We’ve been planning this event for nearly a year. It’s like a bobsled – you start pushing it downhill, and, after awhile, it picks up momentum and speeds on its own.” In an interview with Podcasting […]

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo today announced that Grape Radio and Leo Laporte, right, are the 2006 recipients of the conference’s “Podcast of the Year” and “Person of the Year in Podcasting” awards, respectively. Winners will be recognized at a special reception next Friday, September 29, 2006 at 5 p.m. at the Ontario Marriott. […]

Organizers John C. Havens, Laura Allen and Eric Skiff have announced their intent to stage a PodCamp in New York in Spring of 2007. They are looking for people that are interested in organizing and attending PodCamp NYC. More information is available at the PodCamp NYC wiki.

YouTube today announced its first major music promotion, the YouTube Underground contest, and a major sponsorship deal with Cingular Wireless. YouTube is calling all unsigned musicians to enter. Bands can submit original videos that best represent their talents from October 2 through October 18 and the YouTube community will vote on their favorite YouTube Underground […]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems, is set to be the first female commercial space tourist, taking off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launching Monday, September 18th. She plans to blog and podcast from space at a site hosted by Los Angeles-based X PRIZE Foundation. “Over the next few days before […]

Guest Report by John Wall PodCamp Boston, a free ad-hoc gathering of people interested in podcasting is underway at Bunker Hill Community College, just north of Boston in Charlestown.. The event, being held Sept 9-10, 2006, is an informal get together where people can organize discussions on any podcasting topic they are interested in. Day […]

Tim Bourquin, founder and CEO of TNC New Media, producers of Podcast & Portable Media Expo, sends word that he expects this year’s expo to be bigger and better than last year’s inaugural Podcasting Expo. “Last year, many people were still asking what podcasting was,” said Bourquin. “This year, everyone wants to know how they […]

PodcastAwards.com has announced the winners in 20 of the 22 categories of the 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Winners announced include: Entertainment ‚Äì Pottercast; Mature – The Dawn and Drew Show; and Technology / Science – DiggNation. Podcasting News got spanked in the category of Best Podcast Directory, losing out to Apple’s iTunes. “We’re hoping […]

The International Podcasting Expo is inviting podcasters, podcasting professionals, and podcasting software and services companies to present seminars, workshops and podcasts during the October 20-22, 2006 online event. Presenters receive an online Exhibitor Booth, 20-person audio conference room during the Expo, and a 2-CD set of all Expo recordings. All seminars are conducted and recorded […]