The New York Times has introduced a new Freakonomics podcast: Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, are books that explore “the hidden side of everything.” Now there’s a Freakonomics podcast, hosted by Dubner. Prepare to be enlightened, engaged, perhaps enraged, and definitely surprised. You can subscribe by adding this podcast feed to […]

Apple has announced its picks (iTunes link) for the best podcasts of 2009, breaking them out into four categories: This Year’s Audio Podcasts – The Adam Carolla Podcast topped the list. Other noted include Robert Ashley’s A Live Well Wasted, WTF with Marc Maron, The Memory Palace and Norman Centuries. This Year’s Video Podcasts – […]

Want to know how to make money podcasting? You could do worse than to look at the example of Leo Laporte, the creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT podcast network. He spoke before the Online News Association this week and discussed his experiences with making money with podcasting and new media. According […]

Podcasting network Wizzard Media is expanding it program to promote iPhone apps in podcasts with the acquisition of distribution rights to three new iPhone apps: Word Party, Dietician and Yo Mama. Wizzard plans to continue to acquire the rights for up to 100 already launched and approved iPhone Apps to provide podcast producers with a […]

via PNME 2007: A discussion by John Havens of BlogTalkRadio and Paolo Tosolini of Microsoft on The Business Value of Podcasting and New Media for Corporate Organizations. Description: Although the number of podcasts being produced by organizations like IBM, GE, and BMW continue to proliferate, many businesses have not bought into the value and potential return on investment for podcasting at […]

JJ Abrams‘ new series, Fringe, is one of the most talked-about television fall television debuts, in part because it introduces as many mysteries as it answers.  Fox has also introduced a Fringe podcast, which addresses a lot of the questions raised by the pilot. It’s a great idea: get people hooked on a mysterious show, […]

We’ve been following Blendtec and their WillItBlend? video podcast for several years now and are amazed at how well the company has reinvented the infomercial as something that people will actively seek out. The company is taking its success to another level, though, as their most recent video demonstrates. In the video, Tom Dickson notes […]

Internet media isn’t just being used by people wanting to limit the role of government in the US; it’s also being used the the goverment itself to attract people to serving in the military. 70 percent of the US Army’s new prospects are attracted via online video campaigns, according to digital ad agency MRM. The […]

The official Blade Runner podcast may be a promo tie-in for the 25th Anniversary DVD of the classic sci-fi film, but it’s also the official Blade Runner podcast. Queue the Love Theme. To subscribe, add this podcast URL to your podcast software: http://wired.uk.com/BladeRunnerDVDUKPodcast.xml

The latest episode of NYT’s Only In New York podcast celebrates the history of Take Me Out To The Ballgame. The lyricist was Jack Norworth, a 29-year-old actor and monologist, who was performing that spring at Hammerstein’s in Midtown, and who had already written another classic, “Shine On Harvest Moon.” Supposedly, Norworth was riding the […]