What do World War II, the US Senate, Viagra & podcasting have in common?One man, former Senator Bob Dole. Dole, truly a Renaissance man, fought for his country, being gravely wounded in Italy during WWII. Then, he served for his country, as US Senator from the great state of Kansas. More recently, he opened the […]

Recently Apple announced that they were revising the podcasting categories at iTunes and asked that podcasters update their RSS feeds “as soon as possible”. If you’re a podcaster and haven’t updated your feed yet, ProfCast has released a free online tool that may help. The converter allows you to enter the URL for a published […]

Marketwatch’s Frank Barnako is bullish on podcasting, saying that “The most popular podcasts could be making their producers more than $1 million a year.” Barnako is highlighting research from Nielsen Analytics, released last week, that focuses on the Economics of Podcasting. In the past, Nielsen’s research has been subject to ridicule by some podcasters because […]

Podcast pioneer Dave Winer, who wrote the RSS 2.0 standard on which podcast distribution is built, has started building what he describes as a “community podcasting directory.” Winer intends to recreate iPodder.org (now IndiePodder.org), one of the earliest podcast directories. iPodder’s architecture was unique, because it was a distributed directory built on Outline Processor Markup […]

The latest episode of Xolo TV, a video blog, features an interview with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel recently introduced her own video podcast, Chancellor Angela Merkel – die Kanzlerin direkt. The interview , in German with subtitles, is a milestone for both the vlog and vlogging in general.

A new company promises to be the first podcasting supergroup, bringing together two influential pioneers of podcasting, Doug Kaye (IT Conversations, The Conversations Network) and Michael Geoghegan, right, (Reel Reviews, Grape Radio, and the DisneyLand Podcast).During the Gnomedex 6.0 conference last weekend, Kaye announced the launch of GigaVox Media, Inc., a for-profit partner company of […]

Some podcasters are “pissed” at PodShow, a podcast portal founded by podcasting pioneer Adam Curry. The site appears to be republishing podcaster’s podcast feeds, with changes, under PodShow URLs.”What was Podshow thinking?” asks Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane. “Podshow has hijacked every listed podcasters RSS Feed, stripped out data and inserted their own info.” The […]

The Ninja explains podcasting to people over the age of 12. You can subscribe to the ninja’s podcast at http://askaninja.com.