An installment of The Gillmor Gang features Hearts of Space host Stephen Hill discussing public radio's reaction to podcasting and other developments in new media. (Via ILoveRadio.org.)

"I didn't understand what all the hullabaloo was about," KQED President and PBS Board member Jeff Clarke told the San Francisco Chronicle after screening cartoon bunny Buster's visit with children in Vermont. The Boston Globe reports that the controversy over the "Sugartime" episode of Postcards from Buster coincides with talks over whether the PBS Kids series will be renewed for a second season.

We've added some new podcasters to our list, including Hearing Voices, Benjamen Walker and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

He's no Elvis: The NPR fleece jacket purportedly worn by Bob Edwards has gone for $43 on eBay — $9 less than what you can pay for what looks like the same item at the NPR Shop.

Members of Metafilter discuss Minnesota Public Radio's new KCMP, with reactions ranging from "Now I can finally listen to music on the radio again" to "I could be unlucky, but every time I turn it on it sucks." More praise in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "The idea that Public Radio would venture beyond All Things Considered and the lesser-known works of Dvorak to offer an alternative to popular music is so sensible, both as a business and cultural decision, it is remarkable it took so long."

When you're Ira Glass's girlfriend, "you have to put up with a lot of him thinking about his job rather than what's going on in front of him," says his squeeze in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (signup required) says WHYY has joined the pubTV stations planning to air the Postcards from Buster episode condemned by the U.S. secretary of education for featuring same-sex parents. Major stations in Boston and New York City and the Vermont and New Jersey pubTV networks say they'll run it, too. Others won't air the show, including Alabama PTV (Birmingham News), Detroit PTV (Detroit News), KWBU in Waco, Texas (Waco Tribune-Herald) and South Carolina ETV.

In related crisis news, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants said his kidvid characters aren't gay. Even though they hold hands a lot, the cartoon sponge and starfish are "almost asexual," PlanetOut.com reported.

Alberto Ibargüen, chairman of the PBS Board, will serve as president of the Knight Foundation. (Foundation press release.) He will step down as publisher of the Miami Herald. (Via Romenesko.)

The Vermont same-sex couples featured in the controversial Postcards from Buster episode regret that PBS will not distribute the episode, reports AP. "I feel betrayed as a parent,'' said Tracy Harris. "We feel it's important that we not exclude kids because of what their family structure looks like," said a WGBH spokeswoman in the New York Times.

Floridian Dave Plotkin has apparently failed in his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous radio broadcast by a single DJ. But he's dead set on a second attempt. "I will obliterate all comers," he tells Current. Plotkin, who finished his 110 hours Jan. 21, didn't know that the most recent record was 120 hours, set by Arulanantham Suresh Joachim in Canada in June 2003.