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The BBC is reporting from PodcastConUK, Europe’s inaugural podcasting conference, in London.

There are some interesting quotes from the BBC and Virgin radio on Podcasting:

“It won’t be too long before this [podcasting] becomes the normal route to discover new talent,” says Chris Kimber, head of BBC Radio Interactive.

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In the short term, thinks Mr Kimber, this is likely to affect the types of programmes that get commissioned for the BBC radio output.

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At PodcastConUK, Mr Cridland announced that Virgin’s new unsigned band show, Virgin Radio Extreme, had been created with podcasting at its heart

Read more at the BBC

Podscope is a search engine that allows you to search for spoken words within audio content. Currently they are indexing podcasts. The technology is developed by TvEyes, which has been indexing television and radio broadcasts since 1999. It seems to work pretty well. Check it out !