Star Wars Uncut is a fun example of groupsourced moviemaking. Organizers cut the original movie into 15-second clips. 473 fan moviemakers are recreating the scenes, low-budget style. Once all the clips are done, they will be stitched together to great a new version of the movie, Star Wars Uncut. Think it will be awful? I […]

Cato Unbound has published an interesting article by Clay Shirky that looks at the future of journalism. It looks at the chaos in the world of journalism created by new media, and how maintaining the status quo is impossible: Like driving, journalism is not a profession — no degree or certification is required to practice […]

Amazon today announced that more than 2 million users have downloaded Lexcycle Stanza, an electronic book reader application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Stanza users have downloaded over 12 million books. “These milestones highlight that many people are quite comfortable reading full length books via Stanza on their iPhones and iPod touch. From […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah-4U4C6wVk This episode of Traditional Media in Transition features Andrew Michael Baron of Rocketboom, one of the earliest video podcasts. Rocketboom is a daily international news program, based in New York City, covering a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to contemporary Internet culture.

iPod accessory vendor ThoughOut has introduced an iPhone tripod adapter designed to help you make the most of the iPhone 3GS’s new video capabilities: Our new PED3-TriPhone and PED3-TriPhone-FORM is a rotating iPhone tripod mount and holder that makes great use of the new video features as well as the still camera and the slew […]

Mobilecasting startup Audioboo and SpinVox, a leader in voice to content messaging, have announced that the SpinVox API (Application Programming Interface) will be used to automatically convert speech to text across Audioboo’s applications – including iPhone podcasting and Twitter posting. This is a cool new feature that will have all types of uses. For example, […]

Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor posted an interesting article yesterday looking at ways artists could use the Internet to promote themselves, even if they are new or unknown. In the article, Reznor shared these tips for how to use the Internet, new media and social media sites: Have your MySpace page, but get a site […]

In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and singer Dave Carrol saw his Taylor guitar being thrown around by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago: I discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didn’t deny the experience occurred but for nine months the […]

Print Media Deathwatch Update: Joshua Karp, founder and publisher of The Printed Blog, a Chicago newspaper startup that aggregated news blogs in print form, has announced that the newspaper is a money-loser and is shutting down: It is with great sadness that I must report that, due to a lack of outside investment capital, The […]

Pioneering videopodcaster Hayden Black (Goodnight Burbank) has snagged Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) to star in a web only science fiction comedy musical, TheCabonauts: The news is out and the buzz is pretty damn loud! The wonderful, beautiful, exceptionally talented Nicky Nichols – Star Trek’s Uhura – has come on board the Cabonauts as CJ, […]