We had fun watching Joss Whedon’s musical Internet video experiment as he released it. If you missed it the first time around, though, it’s available now on Hulu. The musical follows aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), who wants to join the Evil League of Evil and win the girl of his dreams. Dr. […]

Jason Calacanis has published a smart post today, looking at the implications of Google Knol – and the idea that Google’s now a content company competing with Wikipedia, media networks and you as a blogger, vlogger or podcaster. When Google announced Knol, we said “Google is looking for a way to monetize user-generated articles, effectively […]

Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder is heading to Internet television, as the star of Electric Farm Entertainment’s zombie comedy Woke Up Dead. The comedy centers on a USC student who wakes up underwater in the bathtub one morning and suspects that he might be dead. Woke Up Dead will be a series of fifty three-minute episodes, […]

The Zune’s biggest fan, Steve Smith , aka the Zune tattoo guy, has given up on Microsoft’s portable media player. “I am done, throwing in the towel due to a lazy offering by Microsoft,” says Smith. To make it even worse PR for Microsoft, Smith’s bought a new portable media player. “Bought a new PMP […]

A lot of people are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6. Earlier in the week, we reported a simple hack you could use to get things working again.  A reader, John Leavitt, sends word of an even easier fix – the No Revisions plug-in. It disables the new […]

Despite the success of Hulu, a lot of people seem to be struggling with the simple idea that people want free, ad-supported Internet television. A new survey may help change that. The survey (Ipsos) found that three out of four people are willing to watch some ads in exchange for free TV shows and movies. […]

The audience for broadband Internet media will grow to half a billion people within the next five years, according to new research from Gartner.

Numbers like this point out that the broadband audience is rapidly growing to be larger than traditional broadcast audiences.

A new version of aTV Flash, a $49.95 software upgrade to enhance the functionality of your Apple TV, has been released that’s compatible with the version 2.1 of Apple TV firmware. aTV Flash adds support for more video formats, USB external hard drives & web browsing. Key Features: Play most video formats (DivX, Xvid, AVI, […]

MXL has announced the MXL Studio 1 portable USB condenser microphone, designed to be a low-cost mic for music training, field recording, and professional spoken word recordings. According to MXL, it’s “excellent for podcasting and multimedia voiceover”. The MXL® Studio 1 does not require any special drivers and is completely “Plug & Play” for instant […]

Bad news for Microsoft: its most passionate advocate – mszunefan, aka The Zune Guy – is “done with the Zune” and has vowed to get rid of his Zune tattoos: “I am done.  I have had the Zune since day 1 and have noticed little improvement. I have tried my best to support them every […]