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Daily Podcasting Blog and news related to podcasting, RSS, podcast news and aggregation. Information related to podcasts are added on a daily business and cover the gamut, from new podcast product announcements, podcast directories, marketing for podcasters and much, much more.

05/30/2007 Submit Your Podcast The list of sites to which you can submit your podcast for directory listings and podcast search indexing is growing. Be sure to submit your podcast to all the podcast directories.

05/30/2007 ESPN Launches Video Podcasting ESPN has launched its first free, downloadable video podcasts available daily via the ESPN PodCenter and soon to be available via the iTunes Store.

05/29/2007 Create Social Bookmark Chicklets This web based tool helps you create chicklets so that pages can easily be bookmarked by the social networks.

05/29/2007 Intellectual Property Overhaul in Japan Japan is considering new intellectual property rules that would allow any webcaster to redistribute any television content—provided that royalties are paid.

05/23/2007 Best Sound Program 2007 The following applications have been nominated for the Best Sound Program 2007 Best Sound Program or Utility ALSong by ESTsoft DAccord iChords by DAccord Music Software RecordForAll by NotePage, Inc. Winamp Pro by NullSoft

05/22/2007 Why Independent Artists Should Podcast Independent artists have a unique opportunity available to them. Podcasting is a fairly new medium that has far reaching distribution opportunities. Independent artists were once restricted by geography, playing at local clubs to increase their base. Podcasting has no borders. Producing a podcast can mean the difference between success and failure for an independent artist. Why Independent Artists Should Podcast

05/22/2007 Males are the Dominant Podcast Listeners comScore and Ad Infuse, a mobile marketing firm, followed podcast downloads in October 2006 and males aged 18-24 accounted for 63% of the podcasting audience while females of the same age range accounted for only 37%. The 18-24 age group in general accounted for roughly 29% of the entire podcasting audience.

05/15/2007 Podcasting Revolutionizes Education Schools all over the country have flocked to podcasting as a new medium to assist the teaching profession. Professors are using podcasts to instruct students and get their messages out. Podcasting is not restricted to one educational sector, professors at prestigest colleges from Bentley to Purdue have flocked to this medium. A growing number of professors are recording their lectures, the term coursecasting has been adopted in academia. Podcast lectures are used as study tools, and are available for students who might have missed class. Some podcasts are password restricted to students who are enrolled in that specific class. While other institution's publicly post their podcasts and offer non-enrolled students insight into the class material. Podcasting Revelotionizes Education

05/14/2007 Amazon Enters Podcasting The worlds largest Internet retailer Friday joined a medium that has been more associated with grass-roots amateurs than commercial giants: podcasting. Amazon.com debuted its Amazon Podcasts network -- featuring original interviews and content in four areas. - Amazon Wire is a biweekly feature of short interviews with an author, someone associated with a film or DVD, and a musician. - Its BookClips lets listeners hear seven- to 10-minute excerpts from new audiobooks. - Music You Should Hear  is a service that exposes listeners to tracks from new albums. - A monthly podcast called Significant Seven offers Amazon.com book editors' seven picks for best upcoming titles, along with a discount of 40 percent off the books, for a limited time. We are not just about selling products. We're about providing an experience for customers and helping provide information that will inform their entertainment and experience, said Amazon spokesman Sean Sundwall. With podcasting, it's more entertaining, it's a richer medium.

05/14/2007 TouchPad iPhone Apple has filed for a patent that indicates the company may be considering the use of a touch screen on other devices besides the iPhone, which is scheduled to ship next month. The patent request, filed Thursday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, shows blueprints for placing a touch-sensitive screen on the backside of a device for control purposes, leaving the front side for presenting information appropriate to the device, such as video.

05/14/2007 A New Study Shows Problems with iPods and Pacemakers iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school student to a meeting of heart specialists on Thursday. The study tested the effect of the portable music devices on 100 patients, whose mean age was 77, outfitted with pacemakers. Electrical interference was detected half of the time when the iPod was held just 2 inches from the patient's chest for 5 to 10 seconds. complete article

05/08/2007 Filter Podcast Feeds There is a new script called RSSFilter which allows users to filter the contents of RSS feeds or podcasts. The RSSFilter PHP script can be used in conjunction with other scripts, namely RSSmesh and multiple podcasts and feeds can be merged and filtered.

05/08/2007 NBC on Viacom Side No surprises here: NBC Universal is taking sides with fellow media conglomerate Viacom Inc. over a piracy lawsuit filed against Googles online video sharing site YouTube, according to papers filed in court. Of course NBC realizes it could just as easily be them...

05/07/2007 iPod Recovery Tool The iPod data retrieval Software is a tool for your iPod Photo and iPod Video to retrieves lost erased music files from iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod mini, iPod Hi-Fi and iPod fifth generation series. Use iPod data recovery software to restore all previously existing data stored on your iPod.

05/03/2007 Peter Gabriel Launches Ad Supported Music Former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel and others are launching We7, a free ad-supported music download service according to Podcasting News.

05/01/2007 Effective Podcast Interviews Conducting a successful podcast interview can be a tricky proposition for a podcaster starting out. Once you have determined individuals that will appeal to your target audience contact potential interviewees and arrange a time to conduct the interview. Following this guide will insure that the interview goes off without a hitch. 1. Prepare Questions in Advance Prepare a list of questions prior to the interview, contemplate possible follow-up questions based on the expected responses. Create a list of notes along with the questions that are accessible during the interview and will help you direct the conversation. Effective Podcast Interviews

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