"B&H has put together a nifty little guide to the current generation of digital audio recorders, with models ranging from the low-end Zoom H2 to the high-end Sony PCM-D1."

Ryan Sholin: "If you run a major metro online operation and you’re not paying attention to what this talented crew of all-stars put together in Las Vegas, you’re in the wrong business."

"Times Online users will be able to give accounts of their travels from anywhere in the world, and read those posted by other readers. … using SpinVox."

"New services being considered include developing packages of audio and video content with paid-for content forming a key strategy of the new services."

The Economist’s audio edition "is revolutionary because of the way it undermines radio. … What "iPod News Radio" in this form does is make radio into a something that feels like a newspaper."

CSM correspondent Nicholas Blanford recounts his night in a Lebanese military jail following an encounter with Hizbulla. (Nice embedded audio, too)

Paul Conley has prepared a great list of essential resources for teaching yourself journalism skills online.

Ryan Sholin looks at the skills that newsroom photographers, graphics artists and reporters need to learn.

“A lack of standards for placing podcast ads or measuring audiences has hobbled ad spending, which only hit $80 million last year.”