Video analytics and distribution company Tube Mogul looked at the past several months of metrics for You Tube videos featuring U.S. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama: “John McCain’s campaign appears to be shifting resources away from YouTube. Overall, they are launching 39.8% fewer videos than last month, and 29.7% fewer than August. Perhaps […]

The Christian Science Monitor today announced plans to discontinue its daily print edition in favor of a largely online “multiplatform strategy”.  Plans include production of a daily e-mail version, a continually-updated online edition, and a weekly print edition.  All three editions will be created and maintained by a single staff. Editor in Chief Mary Trammel […]

Among the announcements Monday from Internet TV network Revision 3 was the discontinuation of its licensing agreement with the popular video podcast, Wine Library TV. Rev3 had produced a special edition of the show featuring highlights of the daily series called Wine Library Reserve. I caught up with the creator and host of Wine Library […]

How long is four years? Well, if you’re a child, being four years old makes you old enough to dress yourself, make your own bed, maybe go to preschool. If you’re a Presidential term, four years brings you back to re-election time, or limps to the end of your lame duck phase, depending. If you’re […]

Revision 3, the video podcast production network launched by Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, today announced the elimination of three of its original shows. The layoffs are said to include nine staff members. The cancelled shows are Pop Siren, Internet Superstar, and the longer-running Photoshop show Pixel Perfect. Of the two newer shows, […]

A politically-obsessed friend in a nearby college town emailed that she had seen my name mentioned on a “national news website.” Interest piqued, I figured it was a rehash of something I did or said during those heady days of media attention early in the 2008 Presidential campaign, during the Iowa Caucuses, a million years – um, ten […]

Raw Voice CEO Todd Cochrane has introduced the company’s Podcast Advertising Campaign Management System (PACMS), a tool for managing podcast campaigns from proposal to completion. Cochrane explains how it works: “A podcast advertising campaign typically starts with a request for proposal (RFP) from a media buyer or advertiser. With the RawVoice PACMS, we enter the […]

On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina‘s devastation along the Gulf Coast of the United States, another huge hurricane, Gustav, is howling around Cuba and heading for New Orleans, which was devastated by the 2005 hurricane. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is calling Gustav “the mother of all storms,” and has ordered the mandatory evacuation […]

Not twelve hours had passed after the end of the Democratic Party’s National Convention in Denver, before presumptive GOP Presidential nominee John McCain this morning named whom he’d chosen to be his Vice-President on the Republican ticket. Not three hours had passed after McCain’s nomination of first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin before little known facts […]

In this exclusive interview, audiobook podcasting pioneer Scott Sigler explains how he used his podcast to get a book deal and even a movie deal, how he uses social media to promote his work and why he wants to kill you off in his next book.