The LA Times, of all places, says that broadcasting is dead: Broadcasting, simply put, isn’t casting broadly anymore. As the sweep suggests, the TV networks are losing not just their viewers but also their sense of specialness. They’re becoming just the lowest numbers on the multichannel dial, rather than the last outposts of mass culture. […]

The audience for Internet video will hit one billion viewers by 2013, driven by increasing broadband penetration and the rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world’s population, according to ABI Research. That’s 1 in 6 people in the world that could be the potential audience for your Internet video! “The rapid […]

Amazon has quietly dropped the price of its Kindle book reader, the device it recently said was selling better than it expected. The Kindle electronic book reader had been $399; now it lists for $359. We’ve been skeptical about the Kindle’s prospects since it was introduced. While it’s a big name book reader, it has […]

The long tail of cinema is coming soon to Internet television, according to New York Times article. It looks at Cinetic Media, a company that is working on distributing indie films via the Internet: John Sloss is one of the top sales agents for independent films. Mr. Sloss, 52, has handled the sale of such […]

Remember Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google over copyright infringement?

Viacom sued Google, arguing that “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization….based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content.”

Google is fighting back, claiming that the Viacom lawsuit threatens the future of the Internet as we know it!

The Phoenix Mars Lander has a Twitter feed, and as Evil Mad Scientist notes, the Mars Lander is Twittering in the first person: I’m sitting on very flat surface here. Tiny rocks around my foot pads. The horizon is flat and looks perfect for digging!!! It’s unclear if this is an official feed or not; […]

The latest video by Weezer, for their song Pork and Beans, is insanely viral, racking up a couple million views in the last two days alone.  It’s not hard to see why. The video pays tribute to many of the stars and one-hit-wonders of Internet video, with new media cultural references that are almost too […]

Blue Microphones has introduced a new microphone designed for mobile use, the Snowflake.

Blue calls it “the first professional portable USB mic, and recommends it for mobile podcasting, VoIP software (such as Skype and Vonage), field recording, lecture recording and music recording.

It retails for $79.

Dimp is a video player prototype which allows to browse video clips by directly dragging their content. You can download and test Dimp. It’s currently Windows only.

Reddit today announced that it was working with PBS to create a new weekly television news program, Your Week, that’s “powered by you.” Material for the show will come from hot stories on the reddit front page every week. Meta discussions about that content and the show itself will all take place at yourweek.reddit.com: Whereas […]