Here’s video of the flash mob that hit London’s Victoria Station Friday: More views of the controlled pandemonium:

An iPod flash mob party took over London’s Victoria Station Friday. An estimated 4,000 dancers turned up for the spontaneous event before four vanloads of police moved in to break up the gathering. The Victoria Station flash mob started at 6.53pm. 4,000 partiers did a 10-second countdown before the scheduled time and then erupted, dancing […]

Microsoft is changing its tune on DRM-free music. The company is now planning to follow Apple’s lead, selling music from EMI DRM-free. “The EMI announcement on Monday was not exclusive to Apple,” said Katy Asher, a Microsoft spokeswoman on the Zune team. “Consumers have made it clear that unprotected music is something they want. We […]

Marketwatch’s Bambi Francisco is leaving her role of the last eight years for a new role, as a Internet media entrepreneur at Vator.tv. The site is described as “a place where entrepreneurs can share their ideas with the rest of the world through video.” “Vator.tv began as a little garage project that I started last […]

YouTube has announced a new channel for political videos, Citizentube,. As YouTube’s political video blog, Citizentube’s mission is “to add fuel to the revolution that is YouTube politics.” What is YouTube politics? The answer to that question is as varied as the users who jump onto the platform. But it’s one thing for certain: a […]

Magnatune is using some great pro-podcasting propaganda at its site to promote music podcasting. The Podcasting is Selling Music logo parodies a 1980’s campaign by the British Phonograph Industry, Home Taping is Killing Music. Despite the best C30-C60-C90 efforts of home tape-makers, music somehow survived. Magnatune is a net music label that specializes in Creative-Commons […]

Here’s something that makes you realize that¬†there’s still room for¬†a tremendous amount of growth in podcasting; a high school in California is considering adding podcasting as¬†a new class in its curriculum. Gary Bissell, a computer science teacher in Atascadero, Calif., is planning a new podcasting class. Bissell came up with the idea for the class, […]

Pleasant Software is now shipping Ubercaster, its all-in-one podcast creation software. It’s made in Germany, by Germans. And it’s Uber! Ubercaster is a complete production suite for podcasting on the Mac, offering podcasters tools for podcast preparation, recording, editing and publishing shows. Features include live audio recording, auto ducking, effects, chapters for enhanced podcasts, ID3 […]

ZDNet.com reports that Russian anti-virus specialists Kaspersky Lab has discovered what is believed to be the first proof-of-concept virus designed specifically to infect Apple’s iPod devices. Fortunately, the Podloso virus only works on iPods that have the Linux operating system installed on them. The “virus” isn’t even contagious – you have to manually install it […]

EMI has beat Apple to the punch, releasing The Good, The Bad & The Queen, an album by Gorillaz’ Damon Albarn’s latest supergroup as a DRM-free download. It’s the first EMI album to be offered for legal download in mp3 format, free of copy protection. For the first time, downloads by EMI artists purchased from […]