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Another general podcasting article, this time from ABC13 in Houston. As such artcles go it’s fairly meaty, but it still makes me smile the way that Adam Curry’s history as a hairy MTV VJ is always mentioned in these kind of articles as if it’s important information that everyone wants to know. Personally, I’ve never seen the guy or his show, and wouldn’t know him from … err … Adam.

Move over blogging, at the moment, podcasting is one of the hottest ‘it’ things on the web and it could stay that way for a while. Taking off last year, podcasting has taken the idea of the typed blog and dumped the text in favor of audio. Now anyone with a computer (or a phone in Holliman’s case) can reach out to the world and become an Internet broadcaster. So far, Holliman has around 1,000 listeners with some as far away as Germany and Sweden.

Read more at: ABC13.com: Houston podcasters becoming Internet celebrities but note that it tried to open a “popup".