Yesterday I came across a small newspaper called The Niagara Gazette. The interesting thing about this paper was the way they were doing their daily news roundups. Rather than simply post the headlines of the day - the managing editor David Arkin reads them, in a pretty energetic fashion, on their Daily News [...]

Podcast Ready believes that podcasts should be more interactive and easy to promote. With that in mind they have created a cool little widget that allows podcast subscribers to record and leave audio or video comments on a podcast. feedCaster is a free software widget that give podcast producers a new way to [...]

Wow - its a big day for PodShow as they announced that they just received fifteen million in VC money. Podshow describes themselves as a site where you get to choose what you listen to and when and where you listen to it. As the name would hint at - they focus on [...]

Steve Johnson from The Chicago Tribune recently wrote an interesting review of Starbuck’s new podcast series Coffee Conversations:
If the word “coffee” contained caffeine, the first Starbucks podcast would keep you awake for about three weeks.
The magical term is spoken 82 times in just under slightly less than 13 minutes of the weekly, corporate-sponsored chitchat about [...]

A well known podcast host (he produces eight in total), Leo Laporte recently asked his listeners whether they preferred a long or a short version of his TWiT.tv podcast. Twenty thousand people responded in favor of the longer podcasts. TWiT is 120 minutes long.
Leo’s podcasts include “this WEEK in TECH,” “Inside the Net,” “MacBreak [...]

Speaking at this weekend’s Portable Media and Podcast Expo, Dave Van Dyke of Bridge Ratings said that a year ago his research company had found less than 20% of podcasts were being heard on iPods or other MP3 players.
“That number has gotten worse (for players),” Van Dyke said…. “It’s no longer the [...]

Podbridge Inc., a startup company that provides demographics of podcast listeners, has announced on Monday that it has partnered with Forbes.com. This alliance has given Podbridge exclusive rights to be the provider of measurement tools and advertisement services for all of Forbes.com podcasts.
Forbes.com began providing online videos in 2002. With this partnership, Podbridge [...]