digg now does podcasts. Feel free to digg ours.

Pluggd has been around since the start of 2006. It was just another aggregator of podcasts, albeit a pretty one, and there are some pretty ugly podcast directories out there.

But pluggd now has a great new feature that enables users to search for words in podcasts. It’s still in beta, but you can watch a great demo here.
Wired have a great in depth write up, but one of the quotes rings true at Audemos:

Pluggd co-founder and CEO Alex Castro admitted that quality of production affects the indexing mechanism’s accuracy. For instance, if Pluggd were able to identify 90 percent of the words in a file with high-production values, that recognition rate would drop to around 65 percent with a cellphone-quality version of the same audio.

Another reason to improve the quality of your podcasts.

Russell Davies writes about Penguin being at the forefront of innovative branding.

You could make a convincing case that Penguin are the smartest branding/product business around at the moment. (And that they’re have had the longest history of doing so, they’ve been innovating since 1935)

I have listened to quite a few of Penguins Podcasts, and have to admit they are pretty good, sound wise and editorially. It’s great to see a brand take on board new broadcasting stuff like podcasting, and use it in an interesting and engaging way.
Read Russells post.

Just stumbled across a post on Open Culture. One of their missions is to explore the best of contemporary intellectual life. They write loads of stuff about online media, and have created a great round up of cultural podcasts.

Some of our favorites are on the list including the Media Podcast from Guardian Unlimited.

As we’re gearing up to launch our new website we thought we’d start a blog to keep you up to date with our latest news and anything else that interests us.