Apologies for being away for a few days.

What have I been doing? Among other things, I’m working on a talk I’m giving next week on podcasting in higher education. It’s been a lot of fun to prepare, as it includes a mini-timeline of podcasting in education as well as some survey results and interviews with practitioners. I’ve also been working on a large-scale project that I know will interest many of you, but which I can’t announce yet. Among the more mundane but critical achievements I’ve made this week is reorganizing my 300+ RSS feeds (not counting college and university feeds). I’m still using Sage for FireFox, but now, for the moment, there’s some sanity to my daily scan.

Here are a few links to help you through the weekend.

-Get your news via podcast from Podcasternews.com (link via Scobleizer)

-Discussion about Audible.com’s recent announcement about a podcast tracking service.

-PR Week piece on the launch of Society for New Communications Research (link via SNCR’s blog), a group of communications professionals studying the impact of blogs, wikis, and podcasts. They got a nice quote from Dan Forbush about connections between this think tank and college and universities. Dan is the one behind FutureOfPR.com, a resource for communications professionals in higher education. (Disclosure: I am a member of the SNCR advisory board.)

-MTV piece on classroom podcasting. “One advantage is that you get classroom time back for purposes other than shoveling out information,” says Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University.

-Macworld: University of Portsmouth announces plans for marketing-oriented video podcast.

-An RSS feed for videos of the MIT SICP lectures. SICP stands for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, a cornerstone course in MIT’s computer science curriculum.

-Podtrac launches, beats Podshow to market.