The Council is pleased to present a series of three theme-based self-guided audio walking tours exploring the meaning, reception, and context of public art in Lower Manhattan.

Well produced walking tour Podcasts from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Travel has to be one of the most saturated areas of podcasting (apart from technology), but it is not often done well.  Here’s an Audemos guide to our capital city, London.

Mr Bear plans to release 156 new songs this year.  Podington is releasing them via a podcasting channel, you can subscribe here.

Took a listen to Elephants on Parade, and I could imagine elephants parading to it.  It didn’t really excite me that much, but I love the concept of releasing a new song every Monday, Wednesday and Friday using simple podcasting technology.

If your a musician and need some advice on setting up your own podcasting label, get in touch with Audemos.

Found this on Wired, and they have an interview with Podington on their blog.

This is a nifty one for ripping radio.

“The MusicDock is a portable MP3 player and a stand alone FM-radio with MP3 capture technology”

“Simply tune in any radio station and dock the MP3 player. The MusicDock recognizes any music category and captures the separate songs automatically”

“No computers or internet connections are needed to collect your MP3 tracks! It’s very easy to use.”

Well it sounds good in principle, but somehow I am thinking that a DAB tuner might have helped…and if collecting mp3s is what it’s all about…I think I’ll collect mine without the guidance of my local radio schedulers.

Thanks to Donald Melanson at Engadget for pointing this one out.

We recently inked a major deal with Discovery Home & Health – we can’t give you detailed information right now but we’ll tell you more over the coming months…watch this space!!

A year long study to identify the worst sound in the world has thrown up some interesting results. At number one is the sound of vomiting followed at number two by the high pitched wailing of microphone feedback.

The study, set up by Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustic engineering at Salford University, sought opinions on 34 sounds in the hope of learning what makes certain noises so objectionable.

The subject of sound preference, likes and dislikes is fascinating and informs much of our work at Audemos. We think very carefully about the sounds, music and voices we use, and the reactions to those choices.

Find out more about the research here

The DIY blog Make has a cool guide to pdf’s in podcasts. Make and magazines like Fader and Craft are using pdf and podcasting technology to send cool stuff to their subscribers via iTunes. Craft have sent out sewing and jewelry patterns, stencils and some great origami. Fader use hot links in each page to take you to extra information and adverts.

There’s a list of other pdf podcasts on the Make blog, so go check em out.

There is an interesting story on Wired about a company called Rock River Communications, which claims it has done deals with major labels so it’s podcasts can contain major label music. Wired asks:

What do you think? Could this patronage model ultimately be a good thing for artists, “podcasters,” and fans, or is it a sellout that will mostly be ignore?

My first thought when I read this was, cool, this is just what podcasting needs, a way for people to use “real” music. No more awful free music on podcasts. Then I realised that Rock River are only going to deal with major ad agencies, so small podcasters won’t get a look in. This isn’t so good.

This is a bit of a non story, as agencies like Rock River have been able to do deals like this before, in fact anyone can approach a label and license music. I guess they are just jumping on the Podcasting bandwagon and creating a bit of PR for themselves.

By the way, at Audemos we deal with podcasters big and small.