Video director and new media pundit Tim Street was at MacWorld this week, where he interviewed New Media Expo founder Tim Bourquin about his recent decision to sell the NME (formerly the Podcast and Portable Media Expo) to the organizers of the Blog World Expo. The combined show will be called the Blog World and […]

Michael Geoghegan, veteran podcaster, author and co founder of training seminar series The Podcast Academy, is offering download access to the complete recordings for Podcast Academy #1. The catch? The podcast recordings, long out of circulation, are available for today only, only to visitors who complete a quick 10-question survey. The first Podcast Academy was […]

Blendtec has introduced a new iPhone app, Will It Blend (App Store Link), that builds on the success of its insanely popular podcast: What makes this app unique is that it contains original footage of Will It Blend? videos in a higher resolution that has ever been released before. The iPhone’s stunning screen is the perfect platform […]

via PNME 2007: A discussion by John Havens of BlogTalkRadio and Paolo Tosolini of Microsoft on The Business Value of Podcasting and New Media for Corporate Organizations. Description: Although the number of podcasts being produced by organizations like IBM, GE, and BMW continue to proliferate, many businesses have not bought into the value and potential return on investment for podcasting at […]

Video search engine company Blinkx today announced the launch of “an Enhanced Metadata Enrichment solution for publishers” of online video. There were lots of big, Web 2.0 press release vocabulary words to plow through (if I ever see another announcement with the word “monetize” repeated so many times, I will have to retreat to a […]

The New York Times takes a look today at some of the people that are making real money on YouTube: Cory Williams, 27, a YouTube producer in California, agrees. Mr. Williams, known as smpfilms on YouTube, has been dreaming up online videos since 2005, and he said his big break came in September 2007 with a music […]

The news was not unexpected, yet somehow was still surprising when it came today. The two big (for-profit) new media conferences, Blog World Expo and the New Media Expo are combining into a new annual event, The Blog World & New Media Expo. The hybrid conference inaugural run will be at the Las Vegas Convention […]

  The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers today released their latest numbers on Internet ad revenues, and things actually look pretty good for ad-supported new media:   Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion for the third quarter of 2008, representing an 11 percent increase over the same period in 2007. “A weakening economy will continue to […]

James Melzer, creator of the podcast novel The Zombie Chronicles, has landed a three-book publishing deal with indie publisher Permuted Press. In one of the most heartfelt and gracious announcements I have ever read, Melzer says: “I will treasure this moment, the moment I put pen to paper in order to finalize the deal, for […]

Lifestyle podcast publisher Personal Life Media have added ten new shows to their network, bringing the total to 35 weekly audio programs and one daily vidcast, along with their companion blogs. The focus of the new shows ranges widely: from hobby-related digital photography, literature and genealogy, to conversations about lifestyle design and holistic health, to […]