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Shel Holtz
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Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, announced at the Wall Street Journal’s “D3: All Things Digital” conference in San Diego that the next iteration of Apple’s iTunes software will accommodate podcasts. The new software is due in about 60 days.

Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily quotes Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart Inc: “Current plans call for podcasts to be free downloads. Users will submit their podcasts and Apple will be hand…

There’s a lot of discussion over Bill Gates’ prediction that cell phones will eventually displace the iPod as the media player of choice. Over at Strategic Public Relations, there’s skepticism: “...are we asking too much from a device where small size is clearly an advantage? I mean, several mobile phone models are starting to look more like a choking hazard than a wireless…

At some point during yesterday’s “For Immediate Release” podcast, Neville and I revisited the issue of newspapers producing podcasts. Coupled with newspaper blogs, it seems clear that this move is recognition by some mainstream media (MSM) that to survive, they need to embrace new media and integrate it into their current offerings. The Philadelphia Daily News’ PhillyFeed, for example (which I reported on here…

It seems like such a great boon for podcasting. KYOU is the new San Francisco-based radio station, owned by Infinity, that is broadcasting podcasts. While it’s not podcasting (as PodcastNYC’s host Rob points out), the exposure ceertainly can’t hurt can when listeners who don’t know what podcasting is tune in. However, a press release from the International Nanocasting Alliance warns that the small print in…

I’ve said for years—and I’ve said it here—that new media do not kill old media. Instead, it forces the old media to adapt. Television didn’t kill radio, but radio stopped broadcasting the kind of content that was better suited to television and began presenting material that was better served by an audio-only format.

So I don’t believe for a minute that newspapers are on their way out. Yes,…

Thanks to Trevor Cook for pointing to this excellent resource, a listing of public radio podcast feeds.

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