Techcrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reveals an interesting new technology development designed to improve the podcast format:

Seattle based podcast discovery and management service Pluggd is unveiling a major new feature at DEMO this weekend that combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to let users search for and skip to parts of an audio file that are related to topics of interest to …read the rest of this article

What did I expect when I called Robert Scoble, perhaps the best-known blogger to have become famous for blogging? I wasn’t sure. Maybe someone very Californian. In the bad way.
Anyway, he isn’t. Yes, he’s laid-back and he did use the expression ‘real good’. We only had a short conversation, but I can imagine him being a big hugger. I like …read the rest of this article

Updated statistics. Following the Bivings Group report into US newspapers’ adoption of Web 2.0 approaches such as blogging and podcasts, which I wrote about here, BBC English Regions Community Producer Robin Hamman has compiled a similar survey for the top eleven UK dailies. The results are as follows (click for bigger):

Mark Glaser offers a great summary of a new report about the online offerings of America’s top 100 newspapers produced by the Bivings Group, a Washington PR company. The full report is available for download here (PDF file) and offers an insight into the ways the papers have, and haven’t, embraced Web 2.0 technologies.
Rather than mimic Mark’s excellent digest, I …read the rest of this article