Popular video blogger Ze Frank is planning to end his show this week. Frank’s final episode will air on March 17, 2007.Launched in March 2006 as a one-year project, The Show with Ze Frank takes the form of a conversation between the host, Ze Frank, and the show’s audience of “sports racers.” Together they discuss […]

If you weren’t able to attend this year’s SXSW conference, you can listen to highlights from the event with the SXSW podcast. The podcast features audio of sessions like Sex and Computational Computing, Dan Rather’s Keynote and Five Tips To Make Your Lame Podcast Listenable. You can preview the podcast below, or subscribe to it […]

Media conglomerate Viacom is suing Google for $1 billion dollars, arguing that YouTube’s business is built on ripping off other people’s work: “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google. […]

Chinese authorities are considering new rules to regulate blogging and podcasting in China. Long Xinmin, director of China’s General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP), said March 12 that his administration, together with several other departments, is working on new rules on Internet publishing activities. Long said the rules will help guarantee freedom of speech […]

Media conglomerate Viacom, parent company of MTV, Comedy Central, BET, TV Land and Nickelodeon, has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google and its Internet video sharing site YouTube over unauthorized use of copyrighted entertainment. The suit accuses Web Google and YouTube of “massive intentional copyright infringement” of Viacom’s entertainment assets and seeks an injunction […]

MTV has announced record traffic and video streams for mtv.com since the beginning of the year. January and February were consecutive record-setting months for the site. The site delivered a record 84 million streams in January, only to beat that number in February with 85.1 million streams.Year-to-year comparisons are even more striking: January 2007 streams […]

Bagir Ltd., a manufacturer of tailored clothing, has introduced the Play List Jacket, a design which is exclusive to Express Men, that offers iPod support integrated into a blazer. “It’s the only tailored jacket in the world that has been specifically designed to be compatible to iPods,” says Offer Gilboa, CEO of Bagir, which has […]

March 13: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. Previously, we’ve highlighted podcasts with free guitar music, free jazz videos, free soundtrack music, and some brutal, harsh noise. And we’re not even halfway […]

Rain Recording has introduced the Element Pro, the first in a series of Quad Core-based Element digital audio workstations. Element Pro is designed to ensure optimum performance of all components, providing maximum audio throughput in the most demanding digital audio applications. If you need to or prefer to use Windows for audio work, Rain’s computers […]

March 12: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. Today’s podcast is the Jon Hammond Show – a video podcast that focuses on the music of aptly named jazz organist Jon Hammond. The […]