At the Digital Watch blog, Steven Lin has posted an interesting article looking at Why Podcasting Never Killed the Radio Star in China: Three years ago, an article from Time magazine changed my life. “Will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?”The idea of a automatically-downloaded multi-media feed changing the new media landscape blew my mind. In […]

Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation on the Anthropology of YouTube at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. It’s a great presentation, jam-packed with information, but with enough new media references to make it a lot of fun, too. More info on Professor Wesch at his Kansas State University site on Digital Ethnography.

Flixwagon has announced that it has an alpha version of a new iPhone live streaming applications available for testing on “jailbroken” iPhones. Features: Express Sign-up on the fly: simply enter your phone number and you’ll be instantly logged-in. You’ll also receive a text message with your new user name and password (which you can change […]

Google’s YouTube troubles just got kicked up a notch. Italian media company Mediaset SpA is suing YouTube and its owner, Google, for at least 500 million euros ($779 million). Mediaset claims that Google and YouTube carried out the “illegal distribution and commercial use of audio and video files,” according to a Bloomberg report: According to […]

The US National Parks Service is getting into podcasting in a big way, and now offers 18 park service podcasts and virtual tours, offering hundreds of audio and video programs that you can get from park websites or iTunes. The podcasts include: Acadia NP Antietam National Battlefield Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP Canyonlands NP […]

We had fun watching Joss Whedon’s musical Internet video experiment as he released it. If you missed it the first time around, though, it’s available now on Hulu. The musical follows aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), who wants to join the Evil League of Evil and win the girl of his dreams. Dr. […]

The industry group formed around the nascent podcast industry, The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), has announced the release of two sets of recommended guidelines: ad unit standards and audience measurement guidelines. The recommendations released today grew from feedback and discussions of proposed standards, which were first unveiled in April at the ad:tech conference in […]

Shel Israel has posted an interesting article looking at how he’s begun to rely on Twitter as his “personal search tool”: I am coming to trust Twitter as my personal search tool…and here’s why: I can consider the recommender. Much of the information comes from people I already know and have chatted with online. Most […]

Back in 2006, we suggested that YouTube as you know it is dead, when Google bought the site for $1.65 billion and money came into the picture in a big way. Since then, Google’s admitted it’s got a problem trying to make money off of YouTube, and admitted that more than 97% of the videos […]

Google today announced Knol – an alternative to Wikipedia that promises to pay authors. Getting Google’s advertising onto more and more pages is key to the company’s growth. Wikipedia poses an obstacle to Google’s growth, though, because it’s ad-free and quickly becoming becoming the most popular source for information on all sorts of topics. To […]