Ken McGuire

Category: Podcasting

  • New podcasting logo?

    Is this the face of the new PodCasting logo? Reading MonkeyBites this morning it seems there was a contest held in Germany of all places to determine a universal podcasting logo? The result? An RSS icon wearing a set of headphones….

    Not sure how effective this kind of design would be. Personally I would rather see something a little more iconic, in the style of the new RSS icon. Somehow, adding a set of headphones just doesn’t do it for me!

    Update

    Alan from Spoiltchild / Pinstripe has made this offering (opens in new window) in retaliation. Certainly a lot more along the lines I was thinking…

  • Podcasts, The Open Source Way

    Juice - The Cross Platform Podcast Receiver

    Came across this in the morning reading, for those of you interested in grabbing podcasts without going the iTunes way (which I was trying out myself at the weekend). The article points to an open source option for scheduling the download of podcasts once you’ve got the URL you need. Called Juice, the full article is available here including a full tutorial on how to use it!

    Its cross platform too, PC and Mac versions available now with a linux version in the offing… and it already comes complete with a directory of thousands of available podcasts!

    The download is a nifty 6.29mb as well (windows)…

  • Carson Workshop Podcasts Available

    The podcasts from the recent Future Of Web Apps summit by Carson Workshops have been made available, looking forward to listening to them over the next day or two.

    Details and direct links below…

    Should make for some good listening given the feedback from people who made the trip to London!

  • Blogs 13 – Podcasts 12

    Picked up a press release earlier this morning on the findings of a recent EIAA survey, with some new interesting facts about internet usage in Europe.

    • 17% increase in time spent online across Europe
    • European super internet users revealed with 24% spending over 16 hours a week online
    • France tops Euro league spending 13 hours per week online
    • 29% of Europeans download music at least once a month
    • 10% of Europeans have made telephone calls over the web

    Whats more interesting is the figures relating to blogging and podcasting…

    Blogging is also becoming increasingly popular with 13% regularly contributing to online blogging sites while 12% are downloading podcasts at least once a month. Even very new technologies such as Voice over IP (VoIP) are proving popular with consumers with 10% of Europeans are already using the internet to make telephone calls

    Given that in the EU there are approx 460,270,935 (thats a good guess), that means there are 59,835,221 people (again, approx figure) that blog regularly throughout Europe!

    Where is everyone hiding??? Visit the EIAA website or read the article in full.