Science fiction author Bruce Sterling, speaking at the Vimeo Festival & Awards, offers his take on the future of video and on ‘vernacular video’. Along the way, Sterling hits on the loss of prime time and mass audiences.

YouTube has officially announced their online video editor, and they spared no expense on the introduction. The YouTube Video Editor lets you: Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video; Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos; Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs, including hits […]

A 23-year old Minnesota teacher has announced plans to stream the birth of her first child over the Internet to anyone that wants to watch. “We wanted to share this experience,” Lynsee said about the decision she made with her husband Anders. “If I were in a classroom, I’d be teaching about development. It was […]

When Nine Inch Nails looked into filming their first-ever live peformance of The Downward Spiral, they ran into legal and financial barriers. But crowdsourcing saved the project: On the recent Wave Goodbye tour, we were unable to professionally film the band’s performance of The Downward Spiral at Webster Hall, due to exorbitant fees requested by […]

It sometimes seems like you can’t go to a concert anymore without getting warned that audio and video recording are prohibited. Nine Inch Nails is taking a different approach, though, encouraging fans to not just film and record their shows, but to put together edited DVDs that you can download. The video above is a […]

Why are sites like Hulu still torturing us with long, untargeted ads?

Don’t advertisers know that we’re muting the sound, checking our email…..or Twittering about how bad their ads are?

YouTube Product Manager Ryan Junee shared an interesting stat today: YouTube users are uploading 20 hours of video every minute, on the average: In mid-2007, six hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. Then it grew to eight hours per minute, then 10, then 13. In January of this year, it became 15 […]

Peter Burrows at Business Week speculated earlier this week in his “Byte of the Apple” column that the next iteration of the iPhone will feature an easy-to-use video suite. A new, updated version of the iPhone is rumored to be unveiled next month at the Apple Worldwide Developers’ Conference. Burrows says his “gut” – and […]

Forget worrying about how much video the kids are watching these days on the TV and the Internet.

New research shows that Baby Boomers are the biggest couch potatoes/mouse potatoes of all.

Knowledge@Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania business school’s online journal, has a great interview with televsion producer Joss Whedon. Whedon, the screenwriter/head writer of the “Buffy The Vampire-Slayer” movie and television series, creator of cult favorite “Firefly” and its movie counterpart “Serenity,”talked with the magazine about his recent web-only miniseries, “Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.” The whole […]