Kiva.org – Philanthropy Goes Social

I just found out about a very interesting social-lending / social-philanthropy site called Kiva.
From their website:
“Kiva lets you lend to specific entrepreneur in the developing world – empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.”
Due to the generosity of contributors, Kiva personnel have had to limit donation amounts to $25 per entrepreneur to give everyone [...]

Cliff Ravenscraft takes the big leap into full-time podcasting

Cliff Ravenscraft, leader of the tightest, best produced, and diverse personal podcast networks, GSPN.TV, just announced that he is going to go at it full-time beginning January 1st. Go Cliff!
Cliff and his wife Stephanie produce and co-host, as of this writing, 18 different podcasts from their Kentucky home. It all started with their flagship, and [...]

Yahoo! closes podcast directory

On October 31st Yahoo! will be shutting down its podcast directory.
The site was infamous amongst podcasters for the lack of support, its duplicate and triplicate listings, and an overall sense that Yahoo! pretty much abandoned the idea less than a year after its initial debut.
Some argue that it’s a sign that podcasts are just a [...]