The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has launched one of the stranger user-generated video contests ever, iTuber Take II. They are inviting potato lovers from across the country to create videos featuring potatoes. In celebration of the International Year of the Potato, the Idaho Potato Commission has launched a special category just for Idaho high school […]

Yeah – this is pretty far off-topic – but it’s Quake on the iPhone! This highlights that the iPhone has a lot more potential as a platform than as just a phone. What would you like to see running on the iPhone? via Scott at Hermitworks

Remember all the goofy things you did as a kid, and how you’re glad sometimes that people don’t know about them? Things are different now. With YouTube, today’s kids are completely pwned. WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a great post that looks at a terrifying and hysterical sub-genre of YouTube videos: AP English classes’ […]

NPR’s John Schaeffer takes on the skeletons in your musical closet on the latest WNYC Soundcheck: Everybody has a dirty little secret from his or her pop-music past. They go far beyond guilty pleasures. Everybody has songs, albums, concerts, and other fan moments too embarrassing to remember and/or too shameful to acknowledge. Host John Schaefer […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced a set of Digital Video Ad Format Guidelines and is looking for feedback. The guidelines and best practices address the most widely used current in-stream ad products, including linear video ads, non-linear video ads and companion ads. They were created to address: Simplifying digital video ad buying across […]

Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, who’s got to be the A-1 top of the food chain numero uno most charismatic French new media entrepreneur ever, announced today that his company had acquired Twhirl, a Twitter client. Not just any Twitter client, though – le plus grand Twitter client. Seesmic is a video blogging and conversation […]

Queen Rania, the queen consort of King Abdullah II of Jordan, has announced that she’ll be vlogging at YouTube in order to encourage a global dialog to dismantle stereotypes of the Muslims and Arab world. I was skeptical about the idea, until I watched her video introduction, above. It’s quite remarkable. She may be a […]

[display_podcast] Podcaster and novelist JC Hutchins, creator of the 7th Son thriller trilogy, needs your help: THE NATIONWIDE BLACKOUT IS NOW … the violence and chaos are HERE … and YOU are a victim. Call the number in the video below and submit your story of horror and survival! Email your friends this blog post […]

MySpace is working on a digital music store, striking a deal with three of the big four music companies to start a music Web site. The New York Times reports that MySpace will spin out its MySpace Music service as an independent joint venture, in partnership with Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group. […]

Apple confirmed the rumor we reported earlier, announcing that the iTunes Store had surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US. “We launched iTunes less than five years ago, and it has now become the number one music retailer in the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We […]