Ad Age has an interesting article today that looks at how big media companies are putting more and more pressure on Google to give them priority treatment -  above bloggers, microbloggers, podcasters and other indie media creators – in search results: Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the […]

Router and networking behemoth Cisco today announced its plans to acquire the privately-held Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the popular, inexpensive little Flip Video cameras. Cisco calls the reported $590 million acquisition “key to Cisco’s strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking.” […]

When his weekday show was suddenly cancelled in a sweeping format change, nationally syndicated radio host Adam Carolla launched a free daily podcast -  a podcast with a quarter million listens within 24 hours of the first episode posting. Wednesday, live streaming video service Stickam announced that it “will be the exclusive streamer for Adam […]

Print Media Deathwatch: Looks like Hearst is coming to grips with the idea that the traditional local newspaper is dead. They’ve laid off hundreds and shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pinning their hopes for the news organization on a “new type of digital business,” creating a business focusing on community news and local business advertising. […]

Podcasting pioneer and author Michael Geoghegan contacted us this morning with awful news: Brian Clark, a great friend and partner in GrapeRadio.com was involved in a horrible car accident in Central California last Friday. He is currently in the ICU and has received in excess of 13 units of blood and platelets. Many of you […]

The Guardian  – a UK news organization – today announced a new initiative to make its content and data for free and weave it “into the fabric of the internet”. The Guardian’s Open Platform launched with two separate content-sharing services, which will allow users to build their own applications in return for carrying Guardian advertising: […]

Publishers Weekly magazine reports today what may be the first offer of its kind from traditional publishing. Book publisher Thomas Nelson has launched “NelsonFree,” a program which gives readers their content in several different formats – as a hardcover book, an e-book, and an audiobook, all for the purchase price of a single volume. Thomas […]

Alesis Product Specialist Rob Bachi runs through the features of the iMultiMix 16 USB, a 16-channel USB mixer that features a built-in iPod dock for your iPod. The mixer’s iPod integration could be a nice feature for people doing podcasting. Alesis has smaller versions of the iMultiMix available, too, with fewer channels. If you’ve used the […]

Econsultancy has published an interesting post that looks Adam Carolla’s podcast, and at how podcasting and new media are changing the game for entertainers and media personalities: With his podcast, Carolla runs the show. He controls operations, can set his own direction without approval from higher-ups and has almost no limitations on what deals he […]

Amazon has announced that it plans to cripple one of the features of the new Kindle 2, its text-to-speech feature, to avoid angering publishers wanting to sell audio books: Kindle 2’s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative work is created, and no performance is being given. Furthermore, we ourselves are […]