The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for WordPress version 0.7.1 is now available. The latest version includes a large number of new features as well as bug fixes. New Features: Simple/Advanced Modes Simple Mode is perfect for podcasters just starting out Advanced Mode includes additional settings, tools and features. Enhanced iTunes Summary option (learn more) Create Unlimited […]

Clay Shirky has published an interesting essay looking at the “unthinkable future” of news, where the Internet removes barriers to publishing and increases competition, making the traditional model of newspaper publishing beyond saving: If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There […]

Local news as we know it is dead. But that’s not the biggest problem facing newspapers today.  A bigger problem is that most readers are telling their local newspapers “I’m just not that into you”. According to the latest stats from Pew Research, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper […]

Sirius announced plans today for an application to stream its satellite radio service to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Sirius XM CFO David Frear made the comments on its earnings conference call, which covered Sirius’ fourth quarter results. The company reported a fourth quarter net loss of $245.8 million on revenue of $644 million. […]

Matthew Davidson, a blogging graphic artist and musician, made this great statement at his Stretta blog: Technology decimates media in the order of bandwidth. First, newspapers, periodicals, books. Text and pictures compress tightly, and are low bandwidth. Next comes audio. After that comes video. It’s a interesting statement, especially when you see the carnage going […]

Apple today introduced an updated iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you. The new VoiceOver feature lets the iPod shuffle speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. iPod shuffle can even tell you status information, […]

The Guardian  – a UK news organization – today announced a new initiative to make its content and data for free and weave it “into the fabric of the internet”. The Guardian’s Open Platform launched with two separate content-sharing services, which will allow users to build their own applications in return for carrying Guardian advertising: […]

The problem with newspapers is that they’re stuck on the old model, where every newspaper covers everything. And the more important the story, the less efficiently it gets covered.

But, it’s not just newspapers, it’s local radio & TV, too.

Local media is dead. Radio, TV, newspapers – all of it.

Here’s why.

https://videopress.com/v/Pk6aHQhX IntenseDebate, a hosted comment platform for WordPress comments, has announced that it’s opened the platform to third-party plugins. As part of the introduction, IntenseDebate has introduced several plugins: PollDaddy: Readers will be able to create polls right in the comment section. Seesmic: Readers the ability to record and post video comments. YouTube: Commenters can […]

Boxee has released an update that brings back Hulu support, but in limited way, and has added an app store, something we’ve been calling on Apple to do with it’s Apple TV for a long time. Boxee is an open source “social media center”, designed to be a platform for Internet television. Here are the […]