CBS News reports that Drew Carey, the host of CBS’s The Price Is Right, is willing to donate up $1 million to Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong Foundation if he gets 1 million followers by midnight on December 31, 2009. On Saturday, Carey tweeted that he would bid and donate $25,000 to Drew Olanoff, who currently owns […]

There’s a lot of discussion today about Adobe’s plan to bring Flash to Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm and Google phones. To bring Flash to all the major cell phone platforms, it seems, except for Apple’s iPhone. “This is bringing the full Flash capabilities to these devices, it hasn’t been available before,” said Adrian […]

Can you podcast physical things? Most people think of podcasting in a fairly limited sense. – for example, radio shows that you can download automatically. We’ve always had a broader view, that podcasting was the publishing of downloadable files with an RSS 2.0 news feed. With that in mind, you can use podcasting to automatically […]

Good news for new media publishers – Internet media is rapidly becoming the biggest channel for advertising. The Guardian reports that the UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising, with a record £1.75bn online spend in the first six months of the year. This […]

This is an edited version of Social Media Revolution, a video that brings to life some amazing facts and statistics about new media and social media. Music by Fat Boy Slim, Right Here, Right Now (1999).

This video, via Socialnomics, looks at the social media revolution. Watch it – you’ll find out some facts that will surprise you, no matter how engaged in social media you happen to be.

While the Associated Press and newspapers around the US debate to compete against online news sources, they may be missing an even bigger threat: you and your iPhone. The New York Times reports that Fwix – a local news aggregator – plans to enlist mobile social media creators to generate realtime local news coverage: Fwix, […]

The TV industry has as little as two years to get their online act together. Otherwise, it’s going to face face an “iTunes moment” and cede its online future to Apple, according to Microsoft’s Ashley Highfield. “The industry has about two to three years to adapt or face its iTunes moment,” said Highfield, the managing […]

Media research firm IPSOS has found that twice as man Americans are streaming TV shows and movies as were doing it a year ago. In the past 30 days, 26% of online Americans have streamed a full-length TV show and 14% have streamed a full-length movie. This is more than two times the levels measured […]

Print Media Deathwatch: The Newspaper Association of America has released its latest numbers on Web traffic to newspaper sites, and while the numbers sound impressive, they reveal a fundamental challenge facing the industry – getting your attention. Highlights of the NAA’s stats: The total U.S. unique Internet audience: 195,974,309. Of these, 70,340,277 or 35.89 percent […]