Vlogs

EFF Fighting To Protect Anonymity Of Video Publishers

Oct 31st, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is fighting a self-help group‚Äôs subpoenas that seek to identify anonymous users of several video sharing sites. According to EFF, San Francisco-based Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, is trying to suppress an investigative television news piece critical of its methods. Citing alleged copyright violation, Landmark subpoenaed […]



Halloween Videoblog Festival

Oct 31st, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Podcast Quickies, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

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.



Podcasting Day Planned For MacWorld

Oct 30th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, How to Podcast, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

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 Implements Big Brother Content Filtering

Oct 30th, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

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 […]



YouTube Purges Over 30,000 Videos; More To Come

Oct 30th, 2006 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Digital Video Downloads, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Law, Streaming Video, Vlogs

One more sign that YouTube as you know it is dead: the site has quietly purged over 30,000 videos after receiving complaints of copyright infringement. According to a report in the New York Times, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, […]



Nielsen BuzzMetrics CGM Summit Kills Buzz

Oct 30th, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Commentary, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

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 Intros Mobilecasting Service

Oct 26th, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, Mobile Podcasting, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

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 […]



Andrew Baron Get’s Ze’d

Oct 25th, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Statistics, Strange, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

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 […]



Blinkx Intros Embeddable Wall of Video

Oct 11th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

blinkx, a leading video search engine, today unveiled an updated site featuring “video walls”, a new interface for Internet video that combines the ‘sit back and watch’ element of traditional television with the interactive experience of searching and watching video online. Users will also be able to embed topical video walls in to Web pages […]



UN Using Phony Vlogger In Ad Campaign

Oct 10th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Vlogs

The United Nations has hooked up with fake jailbait vlogger lonelygirl15 (actress Jessica Lee Rose) and the producers of the discredited YouTube flog for an ad campaign promoting a UN antipoverty event planned for Sunday. Rose, the actress who plays ‚ÄúBree‚Äù in the Lonelygirl15 videos posted on video-sharing Web site YouTube, will reprise the role […]