As they say in fashion: One day you are in, and the next day, you are out. And the same is true even for podcasting startups long after podcasting went out of style. Ron Bloom, cofounder of then Podshow, now Mevio, just touted the rollout of a site redesign on Monday. Now a tipster tells us that Bloom has been…

Stickam's rumored $100,000 signing bonus to woo nodcaster Leo Laporte away from live-video broadcasting startup Ustream.tv worked, as Laporte is officially working with the site, previously best known for emo camkids and a booming side business in pornography. Though I admit, Laporte drunk and out of control might…

Confirming our assumption based on a tipster's report of PodShow's new domain name, the podcasting network plans to ditch the "pod" prefix that was all the rage in 2005. TV Week reports:

Former MTV Web jockey Adam Curry's PodShow podcasting network is being renamed — to Mevio. At least that's what it looks like from this domain listing forwarded by a tipster. While podcasting was the hot new thing back in 2005, the luster has worn off. It's easy for producers to publish, but not so convenient for…

Podango, a podcast advertising network, acquired GigaVox Media in 2007 and launched several shows including Girls Gone Geek. Michael Arrington had the exclusive report on the news. "Something tells me it's going to do okay," Arrington wrote. That has turned out not to be the case. At least, that's according to one…

Former MTV VJ Adam Curry has pulled down some serious money for his podcast network, PodShow. And he's spending the dough on talent: 500 podcasters are receiving "upfront money" to produce audio and video for the network, Curry said earlier this week on Leo LaPorte's podcast, This Week in Tech. "Upfront money" is…

In honor of blogger Robert Scoble's move from Microsoft to podcasting network PodTech, Scoble baiter Chris Coulter lists eight reasons why the podcasting biz, despite being hailed as the new wave of media, is dead in the water.

Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, who, along with every oxygen-breathing life form in the media biz apart from the sweet-faced Bengali kid at Grand Central Station's Hudson News, has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Jim Kelly at Time*, certainly knows new technologies: his web-based magazine "plans to begin…

Fact check? Oh hell, who fact checks a story this juicy? Trust this rumor from a reader as much as you'd trust a hooker with a promise ring.

Those Bastards, the blog that proves some PR is bad PR, finally found the funny. The newest Bastard of the Blogs is Adam Curry, ex-MTV VJ and the Mick Jagger of podcasting.

March 15: Paul Matteucci of US Ventures, announces his $5.5-million investment in podcast producer PodTech.

Lifehacker gives corporate bull some toreador action by featuring Bullfighter, which strips the jargon from documents like a spellchecker. Favorite Bullfighter message: "Cliche, with a hint of arrogance and a dash of pompousness." [Lifehacker]
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We know we're supposed to be all technologically cutting-edge, being that we're bloggers and all, but we have a confession to make: We have never, ever listened to a podcast. (We've long suspected that the real phenomenon is the media's excitement for writing about podcasts, rather than anyone's actual excitement…