Somebody at the BBC gets the idea of making the most of niche content – they’ve announced plans to put 81 years of classic British television online: Spanning 81 years of radio and television, the project will create a web page for every episode of every single programme ever broadcast on the BBC, and be […]

NewTeeVee has introduced a new site and video podcast, NewTeeVee Station, that offers their take on the best in Internet television. According to Om Malik’s announcement, the site: Features editorial reviews of online videos written by a team lead by Liz Shannon Miller, who comes to us from Variety and the Daily Reel. Has over […]

A Florida judge has ordered two teenage boys who used the site for a prank to create a video apology for their mischief and to post it on YouTube.

While this seems at first like an apt punishment for the teens, it also seems like it goes against the site’s content guidelines, which forbid posting videos of people getting humiliated.

Should the state be forcing minors to humilate themselves on YouTube?

Yesterday’s Steve Jobs keynote was a bust: he announced what people already knew he was going to announce, but little more. And the only real surprise was that Apple’s iPhone “price cut” was really a price hike, buried in your monthly AT&T bill. The biggest surprise of the day turned out to be that Twitter […]

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & The Colbert Report are among the two latest additions to Hulu’s offerings. This could take Hulu’s traffic to another level, given the two shows’ popularity and late-night time slots. We’d still like to see Hulu fix its ad targeting and for it to work with set-top boxes to […]

The SFGate has published an interesting piece that looks at how Internet media affected Hillary Clinton‘s campaign: What hurt Clinton most, political analysts say, is that she couldn’t consistently use the newfound ubiquity of video to soften her image with voters. Or, as George Washington University Professor and new-media analyst Michael Cornfeld said, “It’s like […]

There’s a lot of rampant speculation going on about Apple‘s WWDC announcements tomorrow. The biggest question, though, may be whether or not Twitter will go down because of the traffic during Steve Jobs’ keynote. Over the last year, Twitter has become a love/hate relationship for most users. The site has the worst uptime of all […]

Apple TV is seen by many as a technology also-ran.

While it’s sold several million units, it’s missing that certain something that would turn the device into a hit, like the iPod, the iPhone, or even Apple’s notebook computers.

Apple TV is perfectly positioned to take off. It’s the most successful Internet TV device to date, and Apple has successfully lined up a lot of content partners. And the Internet television audience is growing rapidly.

The problem is – nobody is sure what it’s going to take to turn Apple TV into another hit.

YouTube is looking for citizen journalists.

“People around the world have been using YouTube to report on the events and issues affecting their lives, shedding light on stories that might otherwise not be told and offering new perspectives on events covered by the traditional media,” notes YouTube’s Olivia M. “To highlight these journalists on YouTube, we’re announcing the launch of the Reporter channel type.”

YouTube plans to create a special browse page to highlight “Reporter” channel content.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offers his views on upcoming changes in technology and media. His outlook for the future of traditional media is bleak: In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down — my opinion. […]