Breastfeeding blogger Jennifer Laycock is getting hassled by the The National Pork Board, but she appears to be making the most of the situation. Laycock promotes breastfeeding with her blog, The Lactivist. She has created a variety of funny t-shirts that promote breastfeeding, with phrases like “That’s my baby’s lunch you’re staring at.” The shirts […]

Video blogger Lisa Donovan, aka LisaNova, has been tapped to join the cast of MADtv, which airs Saturdays (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT) on FOX. Donovan will first be seen in the episode airing Saturday, Feb. 17. Donavan joins a growing number of successful podcasters that have leveraged their online success into other media. Donovan has been […]

CrunchGear is reporting that Microsoft is planning to release an an iPod-phone killer, the Zune phone: It will be a smartphone that works homogeneously with the Zune marketplace. It will most likely not, however, run Windows Mobile. Rather it‚Äôll make use of an interface similar to the current Zune, an interface that I consider among […]

Microsoft has announced that Bryan Lee, the executive responsible for the launch of the company’s controversial Zune media player, will be leaving the company. The launch of Microsoft’s portable media player is widely viewed as a fiasco, with more polite reviews saying the Zune is a dismal failure, and others just saying the Zune zucks. […]

Ford has launched a new video podcast, Edge Music Videocast, that features music videos from Cat Power, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfmother and Gomez. The video podcast is basically a collection of four music videos, with short “Ford Edge” branding segments. Ford believes the new offering is the first sponsored video podcast of mainstream music […]

Hayden Black, Executive Producer of the video podcast Goodnight Burbank (sample below), is creating a pilot for HBO Online, according to a source close to the project. “Hayden’s just been greenlit by HBO Online to produce a pilot for a possible new series for their website,” said the source. “The website is launching in Feb, […]

iPodJuice.com has introduced iPod Video battery replacement kits for 80GB video iPods. “Customers have been able to purchase batteries for the 30GB and 60GB iPod Video for a while now,” said Anthony Magnabosco, owner of ipodjuice.com, “but not until recently can they also pick one for the new 80GB player.” While most of the company’s […]

Yodio unveiled its new audio publishing service and online marketplace, described as the Blogger of podcasting, at the DEMO 07 conference today. Yodio hopes to define a new category of site, a Web community for anyone to create, publish, and buy/sell personal audio recordings. Yodio lets users record by phone using Yodio’s toll-free service or […]

Apple today announced that the iPod shuffle is now available in five colors: blue, pink, green, orange and the original silver. ‚ÄúiPod shuffle is the world‚Äôs most wearable digital music player,‚Äù said Greg Joswiak, Apple‚Äôs vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. ‚ÄúMusic fans can now choose iPod shuffle in one of five brilliant colors, […]

Kent Nichols, Douglas Sarine, and the Ninja have announced that they’ve signed a major ad deal. “We have signed with Federated Media to handle all of our advertising,” they note. “We’re really excited to be working with John Battelle and the crew over there. They’ve got a great track record and really seem to be […]