YouTube is removing about 1 in 12 of its popular videos, according to stats collected by YouTomb. YouTomb is tracking the videos because of concerns that YouTube may be pulling videos that may incorporate copyrighted material under fair use. Currently: 223,187 YouTube videos are being monitored by YouTomb; 4,395 of these videos have been taken […]

Podcast network blubrry has introduced a new service for podcasters, Premium Podcast Statistics: Many of you using our Podcast Statistic service have asked for a wide variety of additional reports. While our basic stats package will remain free, we want to bring you a much richer data set in the plus package which will be […]

The world of Internet video just got a lot more interesting. The Netflix Player by Roku is the first product that lets you get Netflix movies and TV shows streamed directly to your TV screen. It also costs $100 and offers about 8 times the movie selection of Apple TV. Best of all, if you’ve […]

You almost have to feel sorry for the mainstream music industry. Almost. The major labels have teamed up with Napster to offer what they are calling “the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store.” Yep – the labels are so intent on breaking Apple’s dominance in the world of digital music that they are giving […]

Senator Joe Lieberman Monday called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from YouTube. “Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training,” said the Senator said in his letter. “YouTube also, unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to maintain an active, pervasive, and […]

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon gets profiled in the New York Times, and somehow the NYT doesn’t even cough up a link to her new video blog, Sometimes Daily. “It’s weird,” says Congdon. The Times article also seems fairly dismissive of everything that Congdon has done: Ms. Congdon, 26, became the closest thing to an […]

JVC has introduced it’s take on the “YouTube camcorder” – the JVC GZ-MS100: The JVC GZ-MS100 connects directly to your computer, via USB. Clicking the camera’s built-in Upload button will send videos directly to YouTube. The JVC GZ-MS100 features a 2.7-inch LCD, 35x optical zoom, auto backlight control, Cyberlink software, and a battery that should […]

It looks like mainstream broadcasters will have to come to terms with YouTube, video podcasts and other Internet media or they’ll face the same fate as newspapers. TVWeek reports that this year’s May television ratings sweeps are a debacle: Low ratings during the February sweeps may have been a fluke due to the writers strike, […]

Videographer is a free WordPress theme for creating video sites. “It’s a great way to build content-rich niche sites, and use the power of YouTube at the same time,” says creator Shane Navratil. To use it, you’ll need to know WordPress, some HTML and possibly some php. No support is provided for the theme.

There’s been some discussion in the last few days about so-called “blogging 2.0”.

Call me blogtarded, but this “blogging 2.0” idea seems to be missing the most basic thing that has made the growth of blogging and Internet media interesting: the Internet is unrelentingly lowering the barriers to content publishing, to the point that it is becoming trivial to publish content.