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Kutiman Remixes YouTube, Blows Minds

Mar 6th, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Has anything blown your mind lately? If not, it’s time you check out Kutiman’s Thru You – an Internet album of music videos completely made out of remixed YouTube footage. Kutiman takes YouTube footage of people giving gear demos and doing their music thing, and then turns them completely inside out, recontextualizing them and turning […]



PodPress Gets Compatibility Update, But Needs Developers

Mar 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Podcasting Software

PodPress, a WordPress plugin that adds features for podasters, has been updated to 8.8.1, removing compatibility issues with recent versions of WordPress, according to its developer: Version 8.8.1 is temporary maintenance release to make podPress compatible with the post revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6. If somebody is interested in maintaining podPress while the main […]



Podcasting Goes Mainstream

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, iPods & Portable Media Players, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

Podcasting is going mainstream, at least according to eMarketer: Podcasting has evolved from an odd, funky blogging experiment into a broad medium with mainstream trappings. Today, the vast majority of the top-rated podcasts come from recognizable media entities that are using podcasts to expand their existing radio, TV, cable or satellite audiences. They peg the […]



Did Facebook Kill Television?

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, Video

Paul Graham has published an interesting post that looks at Why TV Lost, arguing that the Internet, especially sites like Facebook, have “killed TV”. He highlights four reasons for this: The Internet is an open platform. Anyone can build whatever they want on it, and the market picks the winners. So innovation happens at hacker […]



YouTube Looking For Video Bloggers To Feature

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Vlogs

YouTube has announced that it’s looking for video bloggers to discuss some of the little-used features of the site, and that it plans to feature some of these user-generated video: Every week we release new tools, or enhancements to current ones, to help you make better videos, connect with one another, and understand your audience. […]



Can The iPhone Save The Kindle?

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured Story, iPods & Portable Media Players

Amazon has released a new Kindle iPhone App that expands the reach of the Kindle platform to Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod touch.

Will the Kindle iPhone application help make Amazon’s ebook platform relevant, or is it just another speedbump on the road to a more open ereading future?



Podcast Gear Update: The iMultiMix 16 USB

Mar 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: General, Mobile Podcasting, Podcasting Hardware

Alesis Product Specialist Rob Bachi runs through the features of the iMultiMix 16 USB, a 16-channel USB mixer that features a built-in iPod dock for your iPod. The mixer’s iPod integration could be a nice feature for people doing podcasting. Alesis has smaller versions of the iMultiMix available, too, with fewer channels. If you’ve used the […]



New Media Changes The Game For Entertainers, Media Personalities

Mar 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: General, Podcasting

Econsultancy has published an interesting post that looks Adam Carolla’s podcast, and at how podcasting and new media are changing the game for entertainers and media personalities: With his podcast, Carolla runs the show. He controls operations, can set his own direction without approval from higher-ups and has almost no limitations on what deals he […]



Brian Eno Predicted YouTube In 1991

Mar 1st, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Check out artist, composer & producer Brian Eno‘s predictions for The Future Of Television, from 1991: Future TV will be made with simple equipment unqualified people small budgets and bad taste Adjust your set as much as you like Sounds a lot like YouTube, doesn’t it? How do you think he did on his predictions? […]



Adam Carolla Podcast Makes Radio Irrelevant

Mar 1st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured Story, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting

It looks like the Adam Carolla Podcast may do to radio what Nine Inch Nails did to the music industry – make it irrelevant.

On Friday, February 20th, Adam Carolla’s radio show left the airwaves, as part of a format switch.

Four days later, Corolla had a hit podcast.