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Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Podcast is Critic’s Choice for the Independent

Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Podcast appeared as Critic’s Choice in yesterday’s Independent newspaper.
Rob’s twice-monthly, 30 minute podcast is described as ‘an insight into the eclectic world of Rob da Bank, the Radio 1 DJ and Sunday Best supremo’. Catch up on the Bestival with live tracks from XX Teens, Candie Payne [...]


John Cleese to release new video series in conjunction with The Podcast Network

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John Cleese to release new video series in conjunction with The Podcast Network.
British actor, writer and comedian John Cleese is to release Headcast, a series of online videos, which he describes as “some humorous, some more thoughtful, giving me a chance to sound off in my old [...]


RSS - Shown Really Simply

RSS De-mystified: Here’s a really simple explanation of how RSS can help you and also how to set it up. It’s well worth spending a couple of minutes watching this great video from the The Common Craft Show:
There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is [...]

 
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New Media Age; Podcast producers win licence to include full music tracks

The UKPA has agreed a deal with AIM which gives UKPA members a preferential rate on their podcast licence. This allows broadcasters, publishers and brands producing podcasts to feature any of the 30,000 tracks available under the AIM licence.
All tracks are no-DRM and are full length. Read more.


BECTU: Future Distribution

Dean spoke last night at the BECTU: Future Distribution event.
BECTU is the Broadcasting, Entertainment and Cinematograph and Theatre Union.
Speeches covered various topics including video content for mobile phones, digital distribution of films and of course podcasting.
Listen to Dean’s speech:

 
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Podcasting - where it’s been and where’s it going: Part 1

“So what is podcasting about?” is a question we’re often asked. People have heard about it, read about it and may have listened to podcasts but because podcasting can be used in so many different contexts and involves so many different media it can cause confusion.
Whether it’s used for entertainment, business or as a social [...]


Corporate Podcast Summit

We attended the Corporate Podcast Summit earlier this week where over 140 corporate movers and shakers discussed how podcasting could be used in a corporate context.
Over the 2 day event discussions we all focussed on all aspects of podcasting and how it could be used in business. Case studies were presented from some huge companies [...]


Cinema du Lyon Podcast

It was good to see that Podcasting News picked up on Talking Voices’ Mark Crook’s creative talents this week. Mark’s Cinema du Lyon video podcasts are special - and as Podcasting News explains: ‘The Cinema Du Lyon project features experimental ambient soundscapes in podcast and video podcast form. While Cinema Du Lyon creates music [...]


Talking Voices arrives in Ireland

We’re delighted to announce that Brian Greene, who won the IIA Netvisionary Podcaster Awards in November 2006 is now representing Talking Voices in Ireland.
Brian’s a truly creative, innovative and highly skilled podcaster producing podcasts on both a personal and professional level. He has already built a portfolio of clients in Ireland so we’ll no doubt [...]


Talking Voices Feedburner videocast gets the thumbs up!

The videocast ‘Creativity in Podcasting’ which Dean produced for Feedburner has had much positive feedback over the past few months and it was great to see that John C. Havens of About.com thinks so to!
In it Dean examines the truth in J.G. Ballard’s prediction that, “In the future, everyone will be living in their [...]

 
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