The Ninja drops some mad wisdom about the future of Internet media & throws some new media facts at you along the way. And some of them are even true!

Blockbuster unveiled a prototype of an in-store kiosk for downloading movies at its annual meeting on Wednesday, part of its plan to transform into more than just a DVD rental chain. The kiosk prototype, which will begin testing within the next three weeks, was developed by NCR Corp. For the pilot launch, the kiosks will […]

Back in 2005, so-called “godcasts” – religious podcasts – were one of the most talked about podcast genres.

Podcaster Craig Patchett in 2004 created the GodCast network, featuring a variety of Christian podcasts and even a Klingon Word podcast. Hundreds of churches followed suit, distributing weekly sermons as podcasts.

While mainstream coverage quickly moved on to other topics, godcasting is still going strong. In fact, recent research suggests that Christians are twice as likely as the average to be listening to podcasts.

Remember VHS tapes? Ion Audio has introduced the VCR 2 PC – a VHS player with USB output. The player comes with software that lets you burn your videos to DVD or watch on your PSP, iPod or laptop computer. You can also connect VHS, VHS-C, or 8MM camcorders to the front panel jacks to […]

R&B star Usher has launched a video podcast, Ucast, to coincide with the release of his latest CD, Here I Stand 10 initial video podcast episodes are planned, offering viewers a behind the scenes view of launching an album, producing a video and preparing for a tour. “The entertainment business is much more than the […]

Amazon.com and Simon & Schuster today announced that Simon & Schuster will make 5,000 additional titles available for Amazon Kindle in 2008. When added to books already available on Kindle, these Simon Schuster titles represent the vast majority of sales from the publisher’s catalog. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo also offered incentive for other publishers for […]

Internet TV is rapidly stealing viewers away from traditional TV, according to the latest research from media research firm Ipsos: The percentage of video viewed on a TV among video downloaders and streamers declined from 75% in February 2007 to 70% in February 2008 The percentage of total screen time captured by movie theaters also declined significantly […]

In April, we reported on Arbitron/Edison Media Research’s latest report on the podcast audience.  At the time, we were struck by their stats for the podcast audience, which showed that the audience for audio podcasts grew 38% in the last year, and the audience for video podcasts grew 45%. Edison’s Tom Webster also has offered his take on […]

Social messaging/microblogging site Twitter today addressed some of the most frequently asked questions about the site’s infrastructure, frequent downtime and what the company is doing about it. One of the most interesting comments they have is that Twitter power users are responsible for the site’s downtime: The events that hit our system the hardest are […]

Senuti is a simple app that lets you copy songs from an iPod back to your Mac.  Got multiple Macs? This could be an easy way to put your music onto your extra machine.  To copy songs back to your computer, all you have to do is select the songs and click the transfer button […]