We decided we were running out of room in the old place, so TPN SL HQ has moved! This time we have an entire island to play in. Visit TPN SL HQ!

Green Dragon aka Martin Devaughan has launched his first episode on TPN Rock Monday and it’s a kicker! Has one of my favourite acts in it Planet Of Women! Click on the Rock logo below to have your eardrums pummeled!

Well apparently the Aussie Rules season is over (I know that because I saw something briefly in the news today about a cat doing something, I didn’t quite catch the significance), and Jeff and Paul from TPN’s AFL SHOW have put up their final episode for the year. I wanted to congratulate the boys on their own great season - they were the #1 AFL show in iTunes!

That’s not bad going when you consider the competition they had from professional sportscasters. I hope the boys will be back next year to do it again! Click on the image below to listen to their final episode for 2007!

British actor, writer and comedian John Cleese is to release Headcast, a series of online videos, which he describes as “some humorous, some more thoughtful, giving me a chance to sound off in my old age.”

A free version will be made available over the next few months on The Podcast Network, which John says is “rather good, run by Australians, and none the worse for that.”

A premium version of the Headcast will also be made available.

John’s free podcast, produced by UK new media company Funk, has achieved close to 500,000 downloads in 2007.

Dean Whitbread from Funk said:

“John is really forward-looking when it comes to technology. He got into video early and he reaped the benefits. He’s been investing in online media for some years now, and when we started to produce podcasts for him in 2005, we saw a huge take up from the online audience.

John’s podcast at http://johncleesepodcast.co.uk has been free since we started, and we’re going to maintain that, but its success to date means we can now explore other options, including more video, and adding premium content.

The Headcast is another example of John embracing new technologies to further his creativity - and although he’s well known for being very funny, this gives him the option to do whatever he wants to do and take it wherever he wants to go.”

Cameron Reilly from The Podcast Network said that having a living legend like John Cleese joining The Podcast Network’s growing roster of talent was a coup for the business and a personal thrill.

“Having grown up watching and listening to John, I am extremely pleased that he will be contributing his new material to our site. I have been a fan of his podcasts over the last year and am excited about bringing the Headcast to a wider international audience. Having someone of John’s caliber producing podcasts is another sign of the increasing legitimacy of the medium.”

NOTES TO EDITORS

About: The Podcast Network
The Podcast Network is an privately owned media company in Australia with over 80 audio and video podcasts in production and a monthly international audience of over half a million people.http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/

Contact:

Cameron Reilly, CEO

Tel: +61 400455334 Email: cameron@thepodcastnetwork.com

Ewan Spence, VP

Tel: +44 (0)7966 152772 Email: ewan@thepodcastnetwork.com

About: Funk
Funk is a creative new media company based in London and Brighton, UK, comprised of producers Mark Crook and Dean Whitbread. Funk is a part of social media business Talking Voices www.talkingvoices.com

http://funk.co.uk

Contact:

Dean Whitbread

Tel: +44 (0)7050 644088 Email: jc@funk.co.uk

http://headcast.co.uk

We’re very excited today to announce that Martin Devaughan aka Green Dragon is joining TPN!

Martin helped to make music history when unsigned band Koopa entered the UK charts earlier this year, thanks to exposure in his Bite Size Bonus podcast. He began podcasting in October 2004, is credited as the UK’s first ever podcaster, making the switch from radio and club DJ and artist management to become one of the UK’s best known podcasters.

As of next week he’ll be producing the Monday edition of TPN Rock and in a couple of weeks we’ll be launching his new, top secret music show!

As Australia’s first podcaster I’m excited to welcome the UK’s first podcaster to TPN!

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With the awesome help of Dave Wallace (SL: Dave Koi), TPN now has a HQ in Second Life!

If you’re in Second Life, you can find it here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Liddy/91/148/21

This will be a place where we, TPN hosts and audience, can catch up to solve the world’s problems and extend the conversation that starts in the podcasts and blogs into another dimension.

I tell ya, grabbing some land and putting up a building in SL is very exciting. I’m buzzing!!

It’s been a year since we’ve heard their dark, kinky and NSFW sense of humour, but it was worth the wait. The GOH are back in da TPN house!

I was sitting in a meeting with the MD of a local ad agency last week and mentioned the number of listeners we have on TPN and he said “WHAAAT??? Where does THAT information reside outside of your head??” And I realized we should perhaps publish this stuff more broadly.

So, starting this month, I’ll post up a report on our podcast statistics.

Let me preface all this by saying this:

We are a humble little privately-owned media company. No funding. One FTE. Don’t even have a full-time IT department yet. We’ve been running two and a half years. Yes, we’re making money. Yes, we’re profitable. Yes, we iz in ur internets, stealing ur audiences.

Technorati Tags: the podcast network, podcast statistics, podcast growth

I’m very pleased today to launch The Connections Show with Stan Relihan. This is going to be a show dedicated to the power of Social Networking. Stan, who is a LinkedIn Power User, with something like 7000+ connections, is going to be exploring how we can all make the most of the tools we now have available to us.

Check out his first episode:

Duncan Riley, founder of “The Blog Herald, co-founder of b5 Media, and presently a writer for TechCrunch, joins TPN today with his new podcast “On The Pod“.
On The Pod features guests that might otherwise not have a high profile yet have something interesting to say. The topics vary from Web 2.0, through to Tech and general politics including labor issues and topical events. On The Pod aims to provides something different amongst the swarm of podcasts, great listening fodder for the commuter or frequent traveler.

If you know Duncan’s work, you’ll be aware that he is known for his particular “take no bullshit” style, so I can’t wait to hear his interviews! His first episode features an interview with serial blogger, David Krug.