Podcasts just got another dose of mainstream validation. The NYTimes reports that podcasts are now eligible for National Magazine Awards: Podcasters, rejoice, for you are now eligible for a National Magazine Award. The creators of the prestigious awards plan to announce on Wednesday that they are adding 12 new categories covering online media. The categories […]

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.

In 2008, podcasting, vlogging and new media in general were effectively banned from the Olympics. For future events, the Olympics has to embrace new media, according to Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger, because the rules governing who can report from the Olympic Games are outdated in the age of Twitter. In a speech to the International […]

The Association for Downloadable Media and Edison Research are pairing up to present a free online Webcast covering the latest reasearch on the audience for podcasts. Tom Webster from Edison Research will present The Podcast Consumer Revealed – 2009, on May 21, 2009, at 1:00 EST. In the Webcast, Webster will discuss the fourth iteration […]

Livescribe, creators of the Pulse smartpen, have announced a tool that turns your handwritten notes and audio recordings into Flash videos, called “pencasts,” that you can embed within any Web site or blog. Publishing multimedia from your smartpen is a bizarre application of some bizarre technology, but it’s also some geeky ubiquitous computing fun! Here’s […]

Online marketing research firm eMarketer released its latest report Wednesday, a study that indicates a growing number of Americans Internet users are publishing their own blogs, for a growing blog-reading audience. The cloyingly named The Blogosphere: A-Twitter with Activity, report indicates that the number of American Internet users making their own blogs is growing: 27.9 […]

According to a new Nielson report, people’s attention is moving to Internet video and social networking, and online advertising is following. Highlights of the report: The number of American users frequenting online video destinations has climbed 339% since 2003 Time spent on video sites has shot up almost 2,000% over the same period In the […]

BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis has posted an interesting look at the future of news, Journalists: Where do you add value?: Journalism can’t afford repetition and production anymore. Every minute of a journalist’s time will need to go to adding unique value to the news ecosystem: reporting, curating, organizing. This efficiency is necessitated by the reduction of […]

Leaders from the 13 unions representing Boston Globe employees say that parent company New York Times Co. is demanding they agree to $20 million in concessions within thirty days — “or else the paper will be shuttered,” according to union officials who met with parent company management. NYTimes Co. executives met Friday with union leaders […]