The Halloween Videoblog Festival has a collection of Halloween-themed vlog episodes The videos range from the silly to some “vlogoween” creepiness, with a surprising number of puppet hosts along the way. In Ernesto Loves Halloween (.mov), RSS News’ culture and sex correspondent Ernesto shares his love for Halloween and sexy senoritas.

Macworld Expo 2007 will feature Podcasting Day, a day-long series of sessions for podcasters, hosted by Dusty Wright and Richard Burns, the owners and hosts of the” smart culture” audio and video podcasting site Culture Catch. The Podcasting Market Symposium will take place Jan. 12, 2007, in San Francisco at MacWorld. This series of sessions […]

MySpace announced today that it plans to screen user posts to block unauthorized copyrighted music audio recordings from being hosted on the site. MySpace will automatically screen audio recordings uploaded by community members to their profiles. The technology is designed to let MySpace identify copyrighted music for designated rights holders and let MySpace block the […]

Blogger Greg Verdinos writes about the irony of the Nielsen BuzzMetrics clients-only CGM Summit 2006, held last week: “The agenda is cram packed with sessions covering all aspects of Consumer Generated Media CGM including an overview of where we are today, why people do this stuff, where CGM is going in the future, and how […]

Veeker announced today the Beta launch of a mobile-to-Internet service that lets U.S. consumers publish video content from their mobile phones. According to the company, it is “positioning itself to help these and other consumers evolve their mobile communication habits from audio and text to video.” Mobile videos sent to Veeker are viewable within seconds […]

A dialog about podcast statistics between vlogging gurus Ze Frank and Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron appears to have quickly descended into a bragging match about size and penetration. “Ze Frank has laid into me because he doesn’t believe how he could only have a fraction of the audience size of Rocketboom,” writes Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron. Baron’s […]

All right. We’re bracing ourselves for your catty comments, but we just can’t help ourselves. We’ve been sitting on our hands all day, knowing that we’ll be mocked mercilessly for mentioning this momentous event…. but it *is*, after all, five years since Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod. And even though it pains us […]

Denver Pediatric specialist Dr. Steven Rothenberg is taking his surgical techniques and sharing them with other doctors around the world, via medical video podcasts. The surgeon says this makes “the surgical world a lot smaller and more capable of saving babies worldwide.” For example, Chloe Faith Smith was born prematurely, and suffers from a severe […]

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has launched its BSO Online Podcast, now available on the orchestra’s website and as a podcast.The podcast focuses on the BSO’s two-year Beethoven-Schoenberg project ‚Äî with audio and video clips that include video documentaries about the composers’ lives and historical contexts, plus overviews and analysis of the music to be performed […]

Over 40 podcasting seminars are scheduled for the International Podcasting Expo, an online expo being held October 20-22. Anyone with an Internet connection can attend, and participants may download all event recordings. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Lewin of Podcasting News, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, Andy Wibbels of BlogWild. Other speakers include Eric Olson of Feedburner, […]