RSS and podcasting pioneer Dave Winer has a new project, FlickrFan, that’s a platform for uploading and downloading Flickr images. Even more important, though, it’s an attempt to turn your HDTV into a platform that embraces the Internet. Here’s how he explains it: It’s all about pictures… Pictures from your Flickr contacts… High-def pics from […]

Morgan Webb discusses how to video podcast and shows some behind-the-scenes secrets about how she puts together her video podcast, Webb Alert.

Radiohead,¬†the poster-boy for¬†Internet music promotion,¬†is promoting its album, In Rainbows, with an hour-long canned Internet video that will premiere New Year’s Eve on Al Gore’s Current TV. The pre-recorded performance will include all of the tracks from In Rainbows plus some “other bits”, according to the band. The event will air on Current TV and […]

Messing About In Ships is a new weekly maritime podcast. The podcast is unique in that it is recorded and published from the high seas. ‚ÄúI was lucky to be assigned a ship with satellite technology that allows me to record our podcast ‘Messing About In Ships’ regardless of my location,‚Äù explains Captain John Konrad. […]

Online television just got sexy for advertisers. According to a new report by Experian Research Services, consumers are 44 percent more engaged in advertisements inserted into online television programs than they are with the ads in programs they view on traditional TV. Viewers are paying more attention to what they are watching online and this […]

Paul Figgiani and Doug Kaye have made a great how-to video that shows how to use Skype to get broadcast-quality recordings:

Quarterlife, the heavily-hyped serialized drama from the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, is a bomb. Views for the show have plummeted, going from nearly 800,000 YouTube views for the first episode to just a few thousand for some recent episodes. That’s fewer than sleeping kitties, graffiti videos and even a video of Sims […]

Back in 1957, when the British Queen delivered her first television message, she acknowledged the need to adapt to changing times. “I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct,” she said from her Sandringham estate in Norfolk. “That it is possible for some of you to […]

With the latest update, the Microsoft Zune now offers the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe to podcasts directly on the Zune itself. This is a useful new feature, especially combined with the Zune’s ability to wirelessly sync. via Zune-Online

You may want to check out Pop Art’s iPhone snow globe. It offers seconds of mindless fun.