Wallstrip creator Howard Lindzon has announced that the show is getting a new host, Julie Alexandria: Don‚Äôt shoot the messenger. We all love Lindsay. She rocks. She is Wallstrip. Blah blah blah 🙂 . Now it‚Äôs Julie‚Äôs turn so just deal with it. Wallstrip is about stocks near or at all-time highs (for the most […]

Back in August, we took ReadWriteWeb to task for publishing a gloom and doom take on the state of podcasting. RRW’s article suggested that podcasting was stagnating, that podcasting was losing steam and that it was even going out of fashion. At the time, we said that ReadWriteWeb was clueless about podcasting. We called their […]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007. It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting. It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. […]

CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings. The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply their “Season Pass” recording capabilities […]

The New York Times has an article today that suggests that “blogging is a low-cost, high return marketing tool”: To its true believers at small businesses, it is a low-cost, high-return tool that can handle marketing and public relations, raise the company profile and build the brand. That tool is blogging, though small businesses with […]

Morgan Webb discusses how to video podcast and shows some behind-the-scenes secrets about how she puts together her video podcast, Webb Alert.

Back in 1957, when the British Queen delivered her first television message, she acknowledged the need to adapt to changing times. “I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct,” she said from her Sandringham estate in Norfolk. “That it is possible for some of you to […]

The Sex:Tech Conference wants you to create a video that answers the question “Why is sex so interesting and sex ed so boring?” They want you to make a video on one of these ideas: Theme 1. Share your sex ed experience so far. Show us how and why it sucked or rocked. Theme 2. […]

Kent Nichols, co-creator of the popular video podcast Ask A Ninja, has started a new blog, and it already looks like it could become essential reading for indie new media content creators. His first post takes a look at YouTube and why video podcasters and vloggers shouldn’t depend on it: “YouTube doesn‚Äôt care about any […]

The New York Times has an interesting profile of MIT’s Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor that has a new generation of fans thanks to his video podcast. Professor Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube‚Äôs greatest hits. He […]