In 4 steps, Jordan’s Queen Rania shows you how to create video clips designed break down stereotypes. It’s fascinating to watch what Rania is doing with YouTube and how she’s using it as a platform to encourage understanding between cultures. Does it still count as citizen media, though, when you’re the Queen of Jordan?

A midlife crisis inspired Gary Vaynerchuk to start his video podcast, Wine Library TV, which is primarily about wine, but also about action figures, the New York Jets, thunder, and Vaynerchuk himself and his quirky onscreen persona.

That quirky persona and unpretentious wine expertise has propelled “Gary Vee” to popularity on the Internet and in the mainstream media, leading to television appearances on “Ellen”, “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” and other shows. More recently, Gary Vee has authored a book, Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World.

Podcasting News’ Publisher, Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, sat down with Vaynerchuk this weekend for an exclusive interview, which looks at how he got into podcasting, using podcasts to establish a person brand, great wines for flood cleanup and a few secrets, along the way.

The latest in the series of participant-organized, Open Space “unconferences,” PodCamp Seattle debuts today (June 21, 2008) at the University of Washington Communications Building. Colleague, friend, and Edelman Digital social media expert Eric Weaver is one of the event’s organizers. He says that the focus of the Seattle PodCamp will diverge somewhat from previous PodCamps […]

Internet video startup Revision3, the home of Diggnation, XLR8R TV, Epic Fu and other popular video podcasts, has been making headlines since its founding in 2005.

The most recent headlines, though, have surrounded Revision3’s extended outage over Memorial Day weekend, and the way CEO Jim Louderback’s very publicly pointed the finger at anti-piracy firm MediaDefender as the cause for the outage.

Podcasting News’ Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin caught up with Louderback, who answered questions about Revision3, how they plan to respond to the MediaDefender attack and his vision for the future of Internet media.

Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement: While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK […]

[display_podcast] On the evening of the last batch of U.S. primary elections, Presidential candidate Barack Obama wrapped enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. Although Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton has not formally ended her Presidential bid, it is looking fairly assured that Obama will, after his official nomination at this summer’s convention in Denver, […]

The Phoenix Mars Mission, which is led by University of Arizona’s Department of Planetary Sciences Lunar and Planetary Lab, has a video podcast that’s available via iTunes U. The video podcast features videos related to the launch and landing of the Phoenix on Mars. There are also five Open House lectures, led by Victor R. […]

One of the stranger iPod accessories we’ve ever seen that still manages to have some practical use is the RadioRaft floating stereo. It’s a completely submersible iPod dock and stereo system. Your iPod goes inside a waterproof iPod dock, and you control the sound using waterproof controls. The system has 400 watts, 5 speakers and […]

R&B star Usher has launched a video podcast, Ucast, to coincide with the release of his latest CD, Here I Stand 10 initial video podcast episodes are planned, offering viewers a behind the scenes view of launching an album, producing a video and preparing for a tour. “The entertainment business is much more than the […]

Rocketboom host Joanne Colan is leaving the show, according to a report in Valleywag: According to a source at the Creative Artists Agency, host Joanne Colan is leaving Rocketboom, one of the Internet’s first prominent news videoblogs. During her tenure, Colan never managed to transform the show (directed by creator Andrew Baron) from a quirky […]