Northern Voice, the Canadian personal blogging conference, just wrapped up at the University of British Columbia over the weekend. For this third edition of the annual gathering, an estimated 300 participants met for one day of “MooseCamp“, a BarCamp- unconference- Open Space workshop, followed by Saturday’s more traditional conference offerings. The blogging conference was held […]

Gizmodo is calling for a boycott on the RIAA in March: Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. […]

A majority of Americans (55%) said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to a new We Media – Zogby Interactive poll. Highlights: 72% said they were dissatisfied with the quality of American journalism today. 61% said they believed traditional journalism is […]

Viacom recently requested that YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips that they claim infringe on their content. Unfortunately, when you spread that wide of a net, a lot of dolphins get caught with the tuna. Among the 100,000 videos targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer […]

Blubrry has announced that it now has 1,000 podcasters partcipating in its podcasting community. Blubrry combines standard podcast directory features with community-building and podcasting advertising options. “In creating Blubrry, we all thought about our previous bad experiences with directories and podcast listing sites,” said Blubrry founder Todd Cochrane. “So Blubrry’s monetization options, the lack of […]

iPod Mondays are a thing of the past at Des Moines, Iowa’s The Lift bar. Apple asked The Lift’s iPod Mondays organizer Clint Curtus to stop using the name ‚ÄúiPod Monday‚Äù. For two years, Curtis has organized the weekly event, where iPod fans can get together and be share their music favorites. Curtis also created […]

Vlogger Nick Gisburne, below, has been banned YouTube for posting a video slide show of quotations from the Qur’an. The censorship of Gisburne’s videos raises issues about what is appropriate content and whether YouTube and other sites will allow open discussion of religion and other topics. Here’s Gisburne’s explanation of the situation: via Xooglers

PodCamps in Toronto, Atlanta & NYC will offer podcasters and people interested in podcasting a chance to meet, learn and share about podcasting. PodCamp Toronto, scheduled for February 24-25, 2007, will be held Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson University. PodCamp Atlanta is scheduled for March 16-18, 2007 at Emory University. PodCamp NYC is scheduled for […]

The Associated Press and NowPublic.com announced Friday that they have agreed to an initiative designed to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering, and to explore ways to involve NowPublic‚Äôs on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP’s breaking news coverage. NowPublic.com, based in Vancouver, is the world‚Äôs largest participatory news network with more than 60,000 contributors […]

More accessible technology and maturing business models are opening the floodgates for web video from both professionals and non-professionals, according to experts. According to Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of web video provider Brightcove, the internet is rapidly moving from a “text web” to a “video web”, spurred by the dropping costs of producing and hosting […]