President-elect Barack Obama pioneered the use of new media in his campaign against John McCain, using it to make his message omnipresent on the Internet.  Now, new research explains why Obama’s strategy was so successful.  A  new study conducted by IFC (Independent Film  Channel) and Zogby International has found that most Americans think that media coverage of the Presidential  election influenced the outcome, and that more people trust the Internet than […]

Another one bites the dust: industry stalwart PC Magazine will print its last paper issue this coming January, according to an announcement from Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff. Increased print and delivery expenses contributed to the decision to move away from the print edition of the magazine, which has been around for 27 years. Ulanoff paints the […]

The New Tee Vee conference is underway today in San Francisco. Om Malik, one of the conference’s founders, says they started the event “in order to closely track and monitor the growth of online video.” This year’s gathering features panels and presentations from people involved in “old tee vee” (the creator of the CSI: series, […]

It looks like the hunt for Bin Laden is moving to Twitter. A draft US Army intelligence report (pdf) looks at ways Twitter, social media and other new technologies could be used by terrorists. The posting of the report on the FAS site was reported Friday by Wired magazine contributing editor Noah Shachtman on his […]

Twenty-five years ago, Richard Stallman announced his plan to create a free operating system called GNU. Since then, Stallman’s work has had a massive influence on the world of free and open source software, software that powers much of the Internet.  In honor of the 25th anniversary of GNU, Stallman has penned an essay on Avoiding […]

As part of Google’s 10th anniversary, the company asked ten of its experts for their take on the future of the Internet.  Today they posted “father of the Internet” Vint Cerf‘s take, and he keys in on two trends that we’ve focused on because of their importance to new media – mobile content creation and […]

Microsoft today announced Zune updates, timed to upstage iPod/iTunes announcements anticipated from Apple on Tuesday.  Unfortunately for everybody who owns a portable media player, Microsoft’s announcements are woefully misguided and mistimed.  You have to give Microsoft credit for releasing another Zune update that brings new features to their existing players. Apple typically saves significant new features […]

Several sources are reporting, unofficially, that Apple will be introducing a new version of iTunes next Tuesday. While this is an unofficial rumor, it seems likely, since it’s been close to 2 years since iTunes 7 was released. Here’s a rundown of expected features for iTunes 8: Genius iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists […]

Apple has unleashed a storm of criticism as a result of its decision to ban an ebook comic book, Murderdrome, from the iTunes store. Murderdrome may be stupid, it may be offensive and it is certainly gorey – but it’s no worse than a lot of comics that you can get at Barnes and Noble […]

SusanG at The Daily Kos points out an interesting discussion in U.S. News & World Report’s Washington Whispers column: Rocked by warnings that it will cost news organizations $50,000 more per reporter to cover Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, a growing number of journalists and press pundits are questioning why the media is […]