Venerable newspaper The New York Times is considering charging readers for access to its website, less than two years after discontinuing an earlier Times Select online-subscription service. In an online question-and-answer session, Bill Keller, the Times’ executive editor, discussed how the newspaper has been debating whether to charge for online access to the newspaper’s content: […]

KATA – a company that makes gear for photographers and filmmakers – has designed a backpack specifically for mobile media producers.  Kata Multimedia Backpack Features:   The top and bottom of the backpack are separated by a removable divider and can be opened individually. The divider can be removed should you need the full height […]

In this episode of the New Media Update, Podcasting News’ Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Mark Rotblat, one of the founders of TubeMogul.com, a web video distribution and analytics startup. TubeMogul has developed an interesting tool for video producers. It lets you upload your video once, and TubeMogul distributes the video to whichever popular video […]

At the recent Podcast and Portable Media Expo, I had a chance to talk with Douglas Sarine (L) and Kent Nichols (R), the guys behind the viral video podcast hit Ask A Ninja. I was suffering from laryngitis at the time – which meant that I spent most of the interview listening. It’s just as […]

We, along with a lot of people in the podcasting community, were excited to hear recently that Microsoft had hired Rob Greenlee to be its Podcast Programming & Marketing Lead for the Microsoft Zune. Rob was doing Internet radio long before podcasting was created. Rob, along with his wife Dana Greenlee, hosted WebTalk Radio, an […]

Last year’s inaugural PodCamp Boston was a wildly successful experiment in un-conferencing, a self-organizing kind of convention in which the participants themselves set the agenda and lead the breakout sessions. Not knowing whether to expect any attendees from outside Massachusetts, PodCamp co-founders Christopher Penn and Chris Brogan (and their friends and co-organizers) were happily surprised […]