It’s Carl Sagan day – the tenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death, and blogger Joel Schlosberg is leading a Carl Sagan Memorial Blog-a-Thon that’s already proving to be very popular. If you’re not familiar with Carl Sagan, it’s likely that you weren’t alive in 1980 when his acclaimed television series Cosmos hit the airwaves. Cosmos […]

Microsoft has announced that the Zune software has been updated to be compatible with Vista: Today (Tuesday the 19th of December) we‚Äôre issuing a 22 MB update to make Zune compatible with Windows Vista. The update also improves the Zune software installation process, addressing the issues that some of the known issues users reported. Like […]

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million, and kick in thousands more in customer refunds, to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers computers without consumer’s knowledge. The settlements, announced Tuesday, cover lawsuits over CDs loaded with one of two types of copy-protection […]

Remember Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron’s recent critique of ABC’s new Amanda Congdon video blog? One of his chief complaints was the show’s “irrelevant pre-roll ads that outlast many people‚Äôs curiosity.” While Baron’s critique may not be completely impartial, his experience as a video podcasting pioneer gives him insight into what works and doesn’t work in […]

Digg, a popular social networking news bookmarking site, introduced an update today that makes podcasting a major feature of the site. The site is also emphasizing video bookmarking, making multimedia much more prominent than it had previously been. The change could dramatically change the face of podcast discovery, as Digg focuses on the viral spread […]

This year, we’ve had the fortune and misfortune to see hundreds of new iPod-related gadgets, clothing and other accessories. Some, like the microphones from companies like Belkin and Griffin, are something than any iPod user could use. Others, like the $180 uber-remote from Keyspan, Koyono’s iPod clothing or the expensive-but-cool tube iPod amp may not […]

Online sales of TV shows, movies and other prerecorded video will become a billion-dollar business in 2007, according to a new report from technology research firm Strategy Analytics. The report predicts that, by the end of 2007, the market will grow to $1.5 billion. By 2010, global revenue from online video sales, rentals and subscriptions […]

Nielsen SoundScan reports that sales of individually downloaded digital tracks are up more than 67% over the same period in 2005, accounting for more than 525 million digital downloads; This is 173 million more downloads than 2005‚Äôs annual total. In 2006 to date, 54 tracks have sold more than 500,000 units as opposed to only […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has a few choice words about ABC’s new video blog featuring former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon. He’s also got some interesting points to make about mainstream media’s attempts to clone the success of indie vlogs: “I’m going to set aside all of the technical problems everyone has already mentioned with the […]

Microsoft invited a small group of influential bloggers to their Redmond campus Thursday for an hour long one-on-one with Bill Gates, as part of Microsoft’s Mix n’ Mash ’07 event. In doing so, Gates demonstrated how to use bloggers to pwn the media: Invite a group of influential bloggers Pay their expenses Give them free […]