Voting for The People’s Choice Podcast Awards is open through the end of the day August 11. Podcast Awards creator Todd Cochrane recently announced the nominees, in categories including Best Produced Podcast, Business Podcasts, Comedy, Podsafe Music and more. This is the second annual Podcast Awards, which was created and is managed by Cochrane’s Podcast […]

The Corporate Podcasting Summit, a podcast conference that focuses on business podcasting, has announced plans for events in London, UK and the US East Coast in 2007. At the inaugural Corporate Podcasting Summit, held in San Francisco, June 2006, there were speakers from Whirlpool, the host of the Disneyland Resort podcasts, BEA Systems and Keane, […]

Podcasting guru Todd Cochrane (Geek News Central, Blubrry.com) has announced the nominee slate for the 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Voting for the nominees will be open July 28th to August 11th. Cochrane notes that the overall quality of the RSS feeds for podcasts that were nominated was surprisingly poor. “I have never been so […]

The Podcast Peer Awards, a community of podcasters organized to recognize quality podcasts, is looking for podcasters to take part in its nomination and voting process.Membership at the site is limited to podcasters who have done at least six shows and who have been podcasting for at least three months. Members have access to a […]

The seminar schedule for the online Women’s Podcasting Expo, being held July 14-16, 2006, has been announced. Over 25 experts in women’s issues, business and online media will present over 30 seminars and podcasts. Three (3) seminars are open to the public, including: “How To Create A Powerful Platform – Learn How To Consistently Out-Compete […]

People planning on travelling to Austin for NAMM Summer Session 2006, a music and recording industry convention being held July 14-16, should check out the Austin Connection podcast. In the podcast, host Jeffrye Glenn Tveraas talks to some of the best songwriters and musicians in the Austin area, and captures them performing their tunes and […]

The Corporate Podcasting Summit, described as Enterprise Podcasting 101, was held June 20 ‚Äì 21 in San Francisco. The Summit brought together people interested in corporate podcasting from around the world. Above, Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, Publisher of Podcasting News, at the Corporate Podcasting Summit with (l to r) Mark Blevis (podcasters across borders, electric sky […]

Podcasters Across Borders, a podcasting conference held June 23-24 in Ontario, Canada, brought together podcasters for an exciting grass-roots event. Event organizer, Mark Blevis (Electric Sky, Canadian Podcast Buffet, and podcastLounge.ca ) says of the gathering: “Podcasters Across Borders was an incredible success. I could carry on for a while about the energy, emotion, interaction, […]

Susan Mernit led a discussion of sex, relationships and widgets at the 2006 Gnomedex conference, being held June 29 to July 1 in Seattle, Washington. Mernit discussed how, after going through the breakup of a long-term marriage, she turned to the Internet in order to deal with sex and new relationships. She began by talking […]

At the 2006 Gnomedex conference, Dave Winer gave a short talk on his ideas on communication, technology, creativity and making money. He brought up two main themes: that the Internet is leading to the end of “monoculture”; and that making money on the Internet will depend on interaction with users, aggregating user desire and building […]