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5/09/2008

The very popular among podcasters audio recording application, Audacity has received an update. Podcasting News has a full rundown of the changes, including many bug fixes. It is nice to see some interface fixes, too, as I’ve felt Audacity has always suffered on the UI side.

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2/14/2008

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Greg Cangialosi on B2B Podcasting

2/13/2008

While on business and conference-going on the west coast, my co-author of The Business Podcasting Book Greg Cangialosi was interviewed today for the City Biz List about B2B podcasting. After a short introduction Greg gets right to the point about why podcasting matters to business:

Simply put, podcasting presents yet another opportunity for an … Continue reading »

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Who's influencing podcasting and how are they doing it?

by Ryan Irelan

Podcasting just turned two years old and this weekend is the second annual Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California. With that in mind, here are PFAs 10 Podcasting Movers and Shakers. This isn’t a Top 10 because there’s no ranking. These are people who are actively making the podcasting space more interesting, profitable and more accessible to a wider audience.

Michael Geoghagen

With podcasting successes like wine enthusiast show Grape Radio, movie review podcast ReelReviews and most recently GigaVox Media, a company that is focused on recording and distributing conference presentations, Michael Geoghagen is one of the original podcasters, author of Podcast Solutions and one of the first to make podcasting profitable. Michael is on this list because of his ability to innovate and produce real world results with podcasting that extend past the trendy online circles. [MWG Blog]

Greg Cangialosi

Greg is someone that maybe doesn’t have the big name like Michael Geoghagen or Evan Williams, but his contributions to the current state of podcasting are undeniable. Among Greg’s accomplishments are securing, recording and producing podcasts for Disney, Verizon Wireless and GM, which moved podcasting out of the space of ‘geeks behind mics’ and into a real world marketing tool. With Greg’s savvy blend of marketing and vision, he has helped push podcasting into new areas of acceptance. Greg is the co-founder and President of Blue Sky Factory. [The Trend Junkie]

Evan Williams

After selling Blogger to Google and then leaving to do other things, Evan started up Odeo - one of the first well-funded podcasting companies. Recently Evan admitted that Odeo has made big mistakes in their business, but that doesn’t matter for this list. Evan and Odeo had the vision to do a podcasting site without ever calling it podcasting. He saw that podcasting was more than just a trendy word, but a technology that enabled other people to share audio with each other - whether it be for business, family or friends. In a time when everyone was rushing to jump on the podcasting bandwagon, Evan was building a new one. [Odeo]

David Warlick

This past January at PodcasterCon in Chapel Hill, NC, I saw David Warlick give a presentation on podcasts in education. If you ask anyone in attendance that day, you’d be challenged to find someone that didn’t agree that David’s talk was inspiring, well-done and effective. As a speaker, writer and consultant, David has been pushing the digital education agenda. It’s just now that some techies handed him yet another amazing tool to use. David also created the Education Podcast Network, which is “an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.” [David Warlick]

Adam Curry

Probably the most well-known podcaster, Adam made his greatest contribution to podcasting by his dedication to a daily podcast during times when everyone else was just getting started. Adam’s show The Daily Source Code (which more than 400 episodes later is still being produced almost daily) was originally created to give podcast “catcher” tools a way to test their software. Since then Adam has a show on on satellite radio and started a podcasting network called PodShow. [Adam Curry]

LibSyn

One of the biggest challenges with producing podcasts is distributing them. Having potentially hundreds or thousands of people download mp3 files from your web hosting account could cost a lot of money in bandwidth bills. Enter LibSyn, short for Liberated Syndication. Their grassroots service offers anyone the ability to distribute their podcast with unmetered bandwidth and at a low cost. LibSyn’s contribution to podcasting has been as an enabler - taking the worry out of podcast distribution. [LibSyn]

Leo LaPorte

Orginally a radio talent and then television host for ZDTV (later TechTV), Leo is the perfect fit for podcasting. Starting with This Week in Tech (TWiT), a technology podcast with a panel of Leo’s friends and colleagues, Leo has steadily built up a network of podcasts under the umbrella of TWit.tv. Leo brings grassroots professionalism to podcasting and a role model for profitable podcasting. [Leo LaPorte]

Doug Kaye

In the Spring of 2003, Doug was ahead of the curve by launching IT Conversations, a service that records, edits and distributes audio conversation about technology. With a background in audio production and software development, Doug is a real technical leader in this field, having established not only IT Conversations but now GigaVox Media with Michael Geoghagen. [IT Conversations]

Tim Borquin

Tim is the founder and CEO of TNC New Media, Inc., a company that produces conferences and expos. Tim makes this list because of his work in creating the Podcast and Portable Media Expo which is taking place this week for the second year in a row. Offering podcasters, entrepreneurs and big business leaders a forum to come together and discuss the future of podcasting, there is no doubt that Tim is mover and shaker in podcasting. [TNC New Media]

Apple Computer

In June of 2005, Steve Jobs announced that Apple has built into their iTunes music software support for podcasting. Not only that, but Apple also built a a podcast directory right in their iTunes Store. This one announcement had probably the biggest impact on podcasting since it’s inception. Because of Apple’s reach and press coverage, podcasting was thrust onto the main stage and as a result many large media companies began embracing the medium. Since then Apple has built a Podcasting Suite into their GarageBand software. [Apple iTunes]

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