Every bit of research I've seen shows that iTunes is the number one podcatcher. My own shows generate about 80% of their audience via the iTunes Music Store. Unfortunately, there is often some lag time between when I upload a new show to Libsyn and when that show appears in the iTunes Music Store podcast list. There is a fix for this. You can manually ping iTunes and let them know your show has been updated. Here's how to do it.

Given your involvement in digital media, you've no doubt heard of The Long Tail http://www.thelongtail.com. This is the notion, made famous by former Wired editor Chris Anderson, that suggests that people value highly cherished entertainment content that's important to them but that they can't find anywhere but online because it's viewed by the major content owners as too obscure to...

In Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago, and the media and volk seemed obsessed by the "Bus Uncle" incident. The Wikipedia entry is pretty good on it. A phone video of a probably drunken exchange on a bus was downloaded onto YouTube, a video file sharing site very popular in Asia, and had over 2 million hits, and found...

Last week I reported pictures surfacing of the $100 laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project. eWeek.com recently reported the first working model made by PC Manufacturer Quanta....

There are lots of reasons to create show notes. One of the best reasons is that it gives you text that search engines can see. While it's currently not possible to rely on good audio search, text search via engines like Google can bring you lots of traffic.

It surprised me to learn it, but one of my most-cited posts has been 10 Journalism Tips For Bloggers, Podcasters & Other E-Writers. It turns out there's a lot of interest in using the web not just for sounding off, but for practicing real journalism. And as in so many areas--music, video, politics, etc--the amateurs are crashing the gates that...

The One Laptop Per Child program has posted pictures of the first working laptop model. Interesting!...

Hey look! It's another tag cloud. This is a map of my interests for the past few weeks, based on the bookmarks I have been saving to my del.icio.us account.Del.icio.us will make tag clouds for you, but sometimes you just have to roll your own. So I wrote an article about how to make these amorphous wonders in Perl...

The Where 2.0 conference is all about the geospatial realm - tools for finding things, developer interfaces, slick new technologies and, perhaps most important of all, networking with those who are making it all happen. One group that is helping advance mapping and geospatial tools is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation - OSGeo.org. If you are going to be at...

In a new-to-me post on his Ventureblog (OK, it as way back in Dec/05), venture capitalist David Hornik explains why the real money in Long Tail businesses goes to the companies that aggregate and/or filter content- and not to the content creators. This is the point I've been exploring in talking about the economics of digital distribution and the Fallacy...