The biggest new story of the day may be Barack Obama’s Presidential inauguration, but, at least for people interested in new media, the most interesting story of the day may be the introduction of an official White House blog.  Three years ago, we predicted that the next President would be a podcaster, saying: The next […]

  At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, a convention that focuses on music and audio technology, Alesis announced their USB Recording Kit, an all-in-one computer-recording system. The USB Recording Kit lets you connect the pair of AM2 condenser microphones to the iO|2 digital-audio interface to record stereo audio, using the included Steinberg Cubase LE 4 digital audio workstation software. You […]

The Times Online has an interesting story today about Scottish beer maker Brewdog, looking at how it used blogging to market their beers. Brewdog’s approach was smart and incredibly cheap – give bloggers free beer. Brewdog was struggling to sell its product until its co-founders hit on the idea of using the internet to market […]

Podcasting News has been covering new digital media product launches at the NAMM Show for several years. This year, though, we’ve invited veteran podcaster and new media strategist Ron Ploof to give us his impressions of the show. Here, Ron talks with Dave Dysart of HHB Communications. HHB has an interesting microphone, the DRM H85, that […]

Royal Pingdom has released stats that show the free blogging platform WordPress is the most popular platform for blogs and new media.  They ranked the Technorati top 100 blogs, investigated what blog platforms they are using and found that WordPress has more than twice as many blogs in the top 100 as Movable Type, the blog platform […]

Google has announced YouTube For Televison – its initiative to bring Internet TV to your living room – is now available on Sony PS3 & Nintendo Wii game consoles: Currently in beta, the TV Website offers a dynamic, lean-back, 10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share […]

At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Alesis announced that its iMultiMix 16 USB mixer is now available. The mixer is a “prosumer” level mixer that offers professional recording direct to iPod.  iMultiMix 16 USB features a Universal Dock for iPod that let you record directly to any iPod Classic, 5th generation (video) and 2nd or 3rd generation iPod nano. […]

Adult use of social networking sites has more than quadrupled in the past four years – from 8% in 2005 to 35% now – according to a report by Pew Internet. Highlights of the research report: While media coverage and policy attention focus heavily on how children and young adults use social network sites, adults […]

Micro Persuasion’s Steve Rubel says, even in the day of new media, text is still king on the Internet.  He offers five reasons why: It’s scannable – according to Jakob Nielsen users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average site visit and 20% is more likely Three letters: SEO […]

YouTube is bringing back silent movies – by censoring at least some videos that make use of unauthorized copyrighted music. Here’s an example: More examples here and here.  YouTube displays this message under the videos: These videos cry out for remixing with some alternate music, don’t they? via Mashable