Welcome to an extra special episode 8 of the Zune Insider Podcast! Here's what we talk about in this episode: the recent Zune Outage discussed, recent trends in Zune podcasting. Paul Colligan, professional podcasting consultant/speaker, blogger/podcaster at ZuneLuv.com also joins us to discuss Zune podcast support and what the podcast community thinks of Zune's podcast support (15:50-41:40). And as always, we answer your questions. Download the MP3 directly here . Direct Podcast RSS Feed...

Everyone has switched into fall mode and that has translated into a huge jump in podcast interest in the Zune Podcast Marketplace software . This is an annual rite of passage, that summer is the time when podcast usage dips and then it comes stampeding back in the Fall and Winter. Well, this year is no exception and we have seen a 30% or more jump in new podcast subscriptions from August to September . This heightened activity around podcasts involves Zune users discovering great new podcasts in...

Greetings from Las Vegas! As Rob mentioned , we're here at the New Media Expo this week. Are you in town? Head over to Quark, the Star Trek restaurant here in Las Vegas . Come by, have a drink, say hello, ask about Zune - anything. See you there!

Zune Marketplace team has just started posting FREE to download videos from Comic-Con 2008 that are being produced by the Xbox Live Marketplace team. I am making this post from the Xbox Live control center that is across the street from the San Diego Convention Center. Zune and MSN are the only other places besides Xbox that will allow you to get access to this great daily content coming out of Comic-Con . I am hearing here that Comic-Con will have about 150,000 attendees over the four day run (July...