"Tameside Council has launched … a minute long broadcast. The weekly service, first aired on 4 April, has already attracted online opprobrium due to its perceived bias and running costs."

Peter Day on why his In Business podcast tops the BBC download charts: "We do not mention share prices, we shy away from the City, we pay little attention to profits or even losses. What we want to hear about is ideas."

"He has just turned 60, spends his spare time bell-ringing at his local church and has the slightly crumpled air of a university don. But Peter Day, a veteran business reporter on BBC radio, has become an icon for the iPod generation."

Kevin Anderson: "I can’t remember the last time I actually bought a physical newspaper. … But I’m drowning in information. … I can’t filter TV news so I don’t ‘use’ it much. It’s too time consuming for what I get out of it"

Pods and Blogs now available as a podcast. About time, too. A great programme broadcast at an unsocial hour demands timeshifting. I just hope it’s not one of those BBC "trials".

"The solution, and a good one at that: Podcast the interview. The reporter gets his quotes; the blogger gets his public interview; the public gets an extra piece of the story: Everyone’s happy. The question now, is how many of your sources would buy int

"Women’s Wear Daily … has raised the issue of magazine podcasting ethics separating advertising and editorial after Marie Claire’s Unilever-sponsored ‘The Masthead With Marie Claire’ podcast featured repeated mentions of the company’s products."

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