RawVoice‘s Angelo Mandato has released a new free WordPress plug-in designed to help you promote your blog and podcast. Subscribe Sidebar displays subscription icons with links in the WordPress sidebar. The plugin detects the presence of the Podpress podcasting plug-in and can display the Podpress podcast feed, if configured. Subscribe Sidebar options: RSS 2 Feed […]

According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, Apple is again the top music retailer in the US. The five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 (January through June, based on purchases of CDs and a-la-carte digital music downloads) are: iTunes Wal-Mart (Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music […]

Make magazine has announced a new project a new national public television series, Make: television, coming in January, 2009, and is looking for Makers to submit projects to be featured on the show: Each week, Make: television will showcase the best projects from Makers who submit their videos, a segment of the show we call […]

This is an example of the work of video vigilante Jimmy Justice, a video blogger and “cop-arazzi” that films New York law enforcement officers breaking the law and then posts his films online. Justice is featured in a Washington Post article that looks at the effects omnipresent video cameras are having on law enforcement. Justice […]

This video demos VisionAire – new technology that lets you interact with projections, Minority Report-style. While this is just a demo, it’s easy to see how this concept will change computing, presentations and videos. Video podcasters doing new presentations, for example, could directly interact with their visuals, both streamlining the production process and making it […]

Kaltura, a company that creates open source Internet video software, has released an Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress. Features: Embed videos, photos, sounds and remixes to any blog post. Edit and remix videos using an online full-featured video editor. Easily import video, photos, audio etc from across the web with upload/import tool. Allow readers and […]

At the Digital Watch blog, Steven Lin has posted an interesting article looking at Why Podcasting Never Killed the Radio Star in China: Three years ago, an article from Time magazine changed my life. “Will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?”The idea of a automatically-downloaded multi-media feed changing the new media landscape blew my mind. In […]

Ask A Ninja‘s Kent Nichols is working on casting his upcoming movie, a remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and he’s looking for victims! If you’re interested in getting killed off on film by a bunch of tomatoes, visit the Real Red Manace YouTube site and submit a video of yourself being killed by […]

Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation on the Anthropology of YouTube at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. It’s a great presentation, jam-packed with information, but with enough new media references to make it a lot of fun, too. More info on Professor Wesch at his Kansas State University site on Digital Ethnography.

Celtx is a free multi-platform media pre-production program, designed to help you not just do scriptwriting, but to pre-produce all types of media – film, video, documentary, theater, machinima, comics, advertising, gaming, music video, radio, podcasts and videocasts. It’s a very deep application, with support for creating scripts, storyboard scenes and sequences, develop characters, breakdown […]