For about fifteen years, our family has had a tradition of a shared Advent calendar. Every day from December 1 – 24, the children take turns opening the little packages, one for each day of the Advent season. After a disastrously messy first year’s (chocolate) calendar when our boys were toddlers, we’ve had many years’ […]

Popular children’s program “Sesame Street” is celebrating its 39th year on the air with a move into Internet media, a Reuters article reports. The public television show, which debuted in 1969, is broadcast in 140 countries, and now will also be available on Hulu, YouTube, and via the iTunes Music Store, according to Sesame Workshop […]

Video podcasting/Internet television startup Revision3 today announced its results for 2008, highlighting revenue tripling from last year, viewership growing to 140 million minutes of engagement monthly and more than 60 advertising partners. “Despite today’s tumultuous economic climate, Revision3 is making huge strides, dramatically increasing both viewership and revenue,” said Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3. “Like everyone else, […]

How long is four years? Well, if you’re a child, being four years old makes you old enough to dress yourself, make your own bed, maybe go to preschool. If you’re a Presidential term, four years brings you back to re-election time, or limps to the end of your lame duck phase, depending. If you’re […]

Podcaster and social media guru Chris Penn has posted his take on the future of podcasting, and says that “There are still hundreds of millions of iPods out there that have not tuned in, largely because people still don�t know how.”

YouTube Podcaster is a free service that lets you take YouTube searches and turn them into video podcasts, which you can subscribe to with iTunes or other podcast client and view on your portable media player. The site is a bit kludgy, so here’s a quick guide to how to turn YouTube searches into video […]

We’ve been following Blendtec and their WillItBlend? video podcast for several years now and are amazed at how well the company has reinvented the infomercial as something that people will actively seek out. The company is taking its success to another level, though, as their most recent video demonstrates. In the video, Tom Dickson notes […]

Rocketboom has announced a big distribution and advertising deal with Sony Pictures, giving the daily video blog exposure and promotion across all of Sony’s IP universe: via PS/3, Bravia TV and Crackle.

We talked with Rocketboom creator Andrew Michael Baron about the deal, the future of Rocketboom and more.

Foxinni’s WordPress Videos Theme is designed to make creating a video blog a no-brainer. The theme is makes it easy to embed your own videos and videos from YouTube, Meta Cafe, MySpace, Veoh and other video platforms. Features: Multiple Color Schemes Dark or Light Layouts Built-in Recent Videos Widget Embed personally hosted videos (.flv) Embed […]

Andrew Baron, creator of New York-based daily video podcast Rocketboom, sent us a note this morning, and asked that we spread the word about some job openings there: “Rocketboom is expanding its content offerings and looking to hire several writers to join a daily team of writers for the online show. We’re looking for extremely […]