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Clay Shirky: “That’s It For Newspapers.” - Wed, 07 Jan 2009
There’s an interesting article about Internet analyst Clay Shirky and his ideas for the future of traditional media at the Guardian today. In the article, Shirky paints a dim picture for the future of newspapers: Even if we have the shallowest recession and advertising comes back as it inevitably does, more of it will go to the web. I think that’s it [...]

Apple’s Last MacWorld A Pretty Ho-Hum Affair - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
Apple wrapped up its last MacWorld Expo keynote today, delivering a fairly ho-hum collection of incremental updates: iTunes Store - Beginning today, all four major music labels — Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI — and thousands of independent labels, will offer their music in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format with higher-quality 256 [...]

Free Beatles Podcast Says Hello, Goodbye; The Suits Say “You Can’t Do That!” - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's free podcast of all of the Beatles' music played Hello, Goodbye as it was introduced and then quickly yanked because of licensing agreements.

Party Like It’s, Um, 2009: Gadget Blogger Fete at CES - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
Parnassus Group (and a bunch of sponsors) will be hosting the third annual “It Won’t Stay In Vegas” party during CES, Friday, January 9, at the Atomic Testing Museum.  Promoters tout the attendance by and participation of Robert Scoble, as well as Gary Vaynerchuk, and Andru Edwards. Say the party organizers: “Gary Vaynerchuk has picked out [...]

Long and Winding Road Leads To Norwegian Beatles Podcast - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Beatles music is, for the first time, available for download in a podcast from Norwegian Broadcasting. [This of course begs some dumb puns about Norwegian Wood. Isn't it good? But we digress.] Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) made a 2007 documentary series on “Norgesglasset” radio, which explored “the [...]

Internet Video Watching Up by 34% - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
comScore today released November 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 34 percent versus year ago. 77% of all Americans on the Internet watch online video, an average of 273 minutes per person for the month. Other notable findings: 97 million viewers watched [...]

SlingPlayer Mobile For iPhone And Slingbox HD Streaming For Mac - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
SlingMedia has announced a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone being developed for the iTunes store at this year’s Macworld. Sling Media plans to deliver a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone to Apple for certification in Q1. SlingMedia is also unveiling a prototype of the new SlingPlayer for Mac HD which allows Slingbox PRO-HD users to [...]

Print Media Deathwatch: Plain-Dealer Renting Out Space? - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
The Cleveland Leader, a competitor of grand old newspaper stalwart, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, reports that the Plain Dealer is considering renting out downtown office and parking space — space no longer needed due to “staff reductions.” The Leader claims that Plain Dealer employees received a memo Monday about leasing space in its newly-constructed building to [...]

Podcast: Connecting Debt and Depression - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
William R. Patterson, financial advisor, author and host of the XM Radio show “The Power,” talks about the correlation between debt and depression (the emotional kind, not the economic kind) with host Bill Grady in the current episode of the You Are The Guest podcast. Much of the conversation is common-sense (i.e., anyone reading the news [...]

Roku Teams With Amazon For Video On Demand - Tue, 06 Jan 2009
Online retailer Amazon.com announced today that its 40,000-item library of movies and television programs will now be available via the Roku digital video player. Previously, the $99 device only supported streaming video rentals from Netflix. According to the Roku website, “Rentals [from Amazon] are available in prices ranging from 99 cents to $3.99, for a 24 [...]

From ‘Podcast Fresh’

Podango Shutdown Service - Sat, 03 Jan 2009
I was saddened by the news that Podango shutdown their podcasting services and right now, they are considering multiple strategic opportunities to restructure, roll-up, merge or be acquired. Podango’s sudden demise surprised many entities in the podcasting community probably because they are among the few premier podcasting networks that continuously move up by introducing new features [...]

Blubrry Unveils Mobile Site - Tue, 16 Dec 2008
Blubrry introduce another service improvement as they launched a new mobile version of their site: Blubrry mobile site last December 11, 2008. So this is good news for all of us because it is now easier to access or check the latest episode of our subscribed podcasts. Blubrry mobile site likewise allows us to search for [...]

Podcasters Across Borders 2009 Opens Registration Today - Mon, 01 Dec 2008
The 2009 Podcasters Across Borders announced the opening of its early registration today, December 1, 2008. The PAB which is set to happen on June 19-21, 2009 in Kingston, Ontario Canada is already on its 4th year of event. The Podcasters Across Borders is not just all about podcasting but a conference that will hone skills [...]

Vault Sale Of Complete Podcasting Education Is Up Until November 5 - Sun, 02 Nov 2008
The Podcast Academy is holding a sale of audio recordings of all the New Media Expo sessions, panels, and keynote addresses from the 2006, 2007 and 2008. The vault sale is just for limited time which started last October 28, 2008 and will end on November 5, 2008. The said audio recordings are initiated by Podcast [...]

PodCamp Goes Hawaii! - Thu, 23 Oct 2008
Aloha! Hawaii will inaugurate a PodCamp this coming October 24 and 25, 2008 in Hawaii Convention Center.  Podcasters and social networkers living near the Pacific Rim take their turn to host another event that focuses in podcasting, blogging, and creating new media for the World Wide Web. PodCamp Hawaii features a peer-to-peer unconference where anyone can [...]

The Lawsuit Of Two Wedding Podcasts - Sat, 18 Oct 2008
I just read today that there is a dispute between two podcast shows:  The Wedding Podcast Network vs. Wedding Planning AudioCast that reached the court. The Wedding Podcast Network sued Wedding Planning AudioCast for allegedly stealing their wedding podcasting idea. The creators of Wedding Podcast Network believed that Wedding Planning AudioCast copied their website format, modeled [...]

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Students Turn Their Cellphones On for Classroom Lessons - Education Week News - Tue, 06 Jan 2009

Students Turn Their Cellphones On for Classroom Lessons Education Week News,�MD�- 7 hours ago Podcasting and classroom-response systems are among the more than 100 uses of cellphones that educator Liz Kolb has collected, and in some cases invented, ...

Changes Coming to the iTunes Store - Cherry Creek News - Tue, 06 Jan 2009

Changes Coming to the iTunes Store Cherry Creek News,�CO�- 5 hours ago With Apple's legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as iTunes Movie Rentals, integrated podcasting support, the ability to turn previously ...

Young Bahamians urged to work together to bring about change - The Freeport News - Fri, 02 Jan 2009

Young Bahamians urged to work together to bring about change The Freeport News,�Bahamas�- Jan 2, 2009 ... the first Bahamian political website more than 10 years ago and I have since pioneered the use of political podcasting in The Bahamas," Mitchell said. ...

Posted by Mark June 2008

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