Anyone familiar with microphones will instantly recognize the Blue Microphone logo. The Snowflake USB microphone by Blue is USB 1.0 and 2.0 compatible and will work on your Mac or PC like that.
Read more: http://www.gadgetreview.com/2009/12/blue-snowflake-usb-microphone.html
VoloMedia, a maker of ad-serving technology for downloaded media, has been granted a U.S. patent for podcasting, prompting a number of technologists to question the company’s claims to the widely used Web technology.The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Patent 7,568,213, entitled “Method for Providing Episodic Media,” this week. VoloMedia applied for the patent in November 2003, which the company claimed was nearly a year before the start of podcasting.
Read More: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218900355
The process by which a technology goes from being an arcane technicality to a consumer product is always fascinating. The recent appearance of ‘podcasting’ on the radar of mainstream media is a delicious case in point.
The term is an amalgam of ‘broadcasting’ and ‘iPod’. Podcasting differs from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model. It has been possible for aeons to publish audio files on a website, but that’s not what podcasting does. Instead it uses the RSS syndication infrastructure of the blogging world to deliver an enclosed file to a computer, whence it is then downloaded onto an MP3 player (often, but not necessarily, an Apple iPod). Podcasting enables anyone to create what are effectively self-published syndicated ‘radio programmes’ (and incidentally, also gives radio broadcasters a new distribution method). Anyone wishing to receive these programmes subscribes to the author’s syndication feed.
Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jul/31/business.theobserver
The U.S. Small Business Administration has upgraded its podcasts to include new topics such as “Marketing to the Federal Government,” “Getting Your Small Business Ready for Tax Season” and “Online Reporting of Employee Wages.”
Read More: http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/02/23/daily15.html
National Public Radio has hundreds of great podcasts on music, technology, news, politics and lots of other topics. But those are broad categories that might not always have stories you want to hear. Now, you can create your own custom podcast of stories from NPR.
1. Go to NPR.org/podcast.
2. In the first blank field, give your podcast a name. In the next field, enter a search term that interests you, such as “technology,” or ” NASA.” You can also enter the name of a specific reporter or series. Then click on the plus sign next to that field.
3. You will now see a preview of some of the items your podcast will include. If it’s overwhelming, or if it doesn’t include stories that interest you, go back to the field above and hit the minus sign to remove that search term and enter a new one, perhaps a narrower search, such as “cell phones” or “space shuttle.” You can enter another search term on another blank field if you want your podcasts to include multiple topics that might not be related, such as music and sports.
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/orl-ymhowto2108dec21,3,6168754.story
Using a medium clearly intended to show off his familiarity with the internet to Russia’s younger generation, the 43-year-old leader tried to project an image of nonchalance and friendliness towards his cyber-audience.
Swiveling round in his office chair to face the camera, Mr Medvedev began his podcast with an almost folksy greeting, at least by Russian standards, of “my dear friends, hello!”
Although almost painfully self-conscious, the podcast has received almost universal praise from Russia’s ever expanding community of bloggers.
Mr Medvedev’s chumminess was a departure from the more hard-bitten style which he has adopted since becoming president in May.
Read More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3161529/Russian-President-Dmitry-Medvedev-shows-friendly-side-in-first-podcast.html
Wendy Harmer reigned supreme on FM breakfast radio for more than a decade. Angela Catterns was the darling of the ABC who once managed to topple Alan Jones in the ratings. Each was aware of the other but their paths didn’t cross until they found themselves at Vega, struggling with an ill-defined format and growing disappointment. That experience ended in tears. But from the ruins, the germ of an idea took place.
The two former queens of radio have formed an unlikely alliance to present their own podcast show for the ABC’s local radio network. It’s boutique broadcasting – a weekly radio show posted on the internet for listeners to tune into by computer or to download on their portable music players.
They say the idea came about during the dying days of Vega Mark I, DMG Radio’s ill-fated attempt in 2005 to launch a hybrid music and talk station for baby boomers. Catterns was presenting the breakfast show, followed by Harmer in the morning shift and they would chat on air before the changeover.
Read More: http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/peas-in-a-podcast/2008/07/26/1217097110297.html
If meetings take you from south Mumbai to Juhu, Airport Road to Richmond Circle or Connaught Place to Indira Gandhi International Airport, there seem to be few ways to spend the travel time. You can work on your laptop or read, which leads most to nausea. You can glare at the traffic. Or you can listen to music, which could get stale after 30 hours a month.
For those with a portable digital player, such as the Apple iPod, there is another option: podcasts. This is a techie term for audio or audio-visual shows distributed through the Internet and consumed on a computer or portable player. There are shows on news, religion, language learning, business and music. In other words, it is like having portable radio or television shows, except here you decide what and when.
Read More: http://www.livemint.com/Articles/2008/03/15020319/The-new-earpiece.html
You can use anything with a microphone and a recording medium to create a podcast, since they’re essentially sound files like any other. Still, if you’re getting serious about podcasting, you need something that’s portable and battery powered with good sound and the ability to record from both XLR and 1/4-inch cables. A little speaker wouldn’t hurt either, for playing back interview snippets in the field.
With its upcoming Podcast Studio ($100), Belkin appears to have come up with the device described above. The Podcast Studio uses an iPod as its processor and recording medium, cutting costs considerably (the competition, although it may offer audiophile-level sound, also offers audiophile-level pricing). The device does not include a mic, but the 1/4-inch and XLR inputs mean that the mic of your choice will work just fine. A recording meter, gain control, and a compressor/limiter ensure that your recordings won’t sound distorted.
Read More: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/01/ces-belkin-podc/
DJ Bun has interviewed lots of people, including parents, schoolchildren and special guests such as Ayesha Assantewaa, former presenter of the BBC radio show Big Toe Radio. Her interviews can be heard by a worldwide audience thanks to the internet.
And who is she exactly? Well, until recently, she was simply an 11-year-old pupil at Oakington Manor foundation school in the London borough of Brent, answering to the name of Chelsea Parkinson.
At Oakington, Chelsea and many other pupils have created podcasts – audio content that is published online to be downloaded from the internet. For her, podcasting has been “a fun thing to do”. She says she has learnt new skills and gained a lot of confidence.
“Podcasting has transformed our school,” says Oakington’s head of ICT, Ophelia Vanderpuye. “Kids are excited by it and it’s opened new ways of communicating with others. Every school should be podcasting.”
Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/sep/18/link.link16