Wizag’s Twitter Trend (App Store link) is a free iPhone app designed to do one thing – make it easy to see what people are talking about on Twitter.  The app lets you discover Hot, Rising and Emerging topics from thousands of tweets, so you can see what’s happening in one glance: Hot: Most popular […]

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=44B64495B703FFA0 Expert Village – a site that features video tutorials – has a YouTube channel focusing on how to make a digital movie.  The channel includes information on topics ranging from creating scripts for indie films to lighting. There’s lots of information that applies not just to making movies, but to any indie video production.  […]

The Bivings Group today announced their latest report on the use of the Internet by US newspapers, and, while newspapers are rushing to catch up blogs and new media sites – they are rushing to catch up with blogs and new media sites.  According to Bivings Group’s Jesse Johnson, “Our study shows that newspapers are trying […]

P2P distribution for new media seemed like a good idea to a lot of people a few years ago. The idea was that you’d be able to distribute your content over P2P networks and avoid paying a lot of money for bandwidth.  Unfortunately for content producers, P2P distribution for new media doesn’t offer any benefits […]

Blown to Bits – a book that looks how the Internet is changing the world - is now available for free download, under a Creative Commons license. Topics include: privacy, findability, encryption, copyright, free speech issues and the future of media. You can download Blown to Bits here.

In what the newspaper deems a “groundbreaking” move, the Detroit Free Press and News announced that they are cutting home delivery to three days per week. The Free Press and The Detroit News are the first first “big city papers” to make the shift from mostly-paper to mostly-online news publishing, citing a steep decline in […]

Apple has announced that 2009 would be the last year it participated in MacWorld.

It also announced that Steve Job’s wouldn’t be attending for the keynote – effectively killing off the company’s participation immediately.

Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, have introduced an add-on that turns Movable Type into a social networking platform.  Motion is a Movable Type application you install and run on your web server. Motion will be freely available in early 2009 for any licensed user of Movable Type Pro.  According to Six Apart, “We looked at […]

The latest version of the Oxford English Dictionary – described as the the definitive record of the English language – has added podcasting: podcasting n. A very new word, for a recent phenomenon, and a great example of how technological change, especially that relating to the Internet and the media, can be a driving force not […]

comScore released its latest stats today on online media use. Here are comScore’s top ten video destinations, ranked by numbers (in thousand) of videos viewed: Google Sites – 5,373,783 Fox Interactive Media - 519,926 Yahoo! Sites - 363,426 Viacom Digital - 305,258 Microsoft Sites - 286,464 Hulu - 235,096 Turner Network - 228,024 Disney Online - 126,611 AOL LLC - 122,580 ESPN - 104,724 […]