The WordPress team created this video to highlight the new features of WordPress 2.7. Much of the focus in WordPress 2.7 has been on usability, which should make it faster than ever to work with WordPress. Here’s a list of what’s new: XMLRPC Comments API (Ticket 7446) Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation (Ticket 7643) Sticky […]

The New York Times takes a look today at some of the people that are making real money on YouTube: Cory Williams, 27, a YouTube producer in California, agrees. Mr. Williams, known as smpfilms on YouTube, has been dreaming up online videos since 2005, and he said his big break came in September 2007 with a music […]

Location’s Hero 3 series of outdoor jackets are are some serious jackets. They offer two sets of performance lenses, one for daytime, one for nighttime and connections for your gear. The Location Hero 3 Google ICU Check Jacket even has an integrated control panel for iPods at the arms. I can imagine a lot of […]

GOSHone claims that his video forNewteknowledge is the first music video shot entirely on an iPhone. It was filmed using a jailbroken iPhone 3G using Cycorder. Edited using After Effects, since Final Cut didn’t like the resolution from Cycorder. The video itself isn’t especially notable, but the fact that it was shot an an iPhone is.  The […]

comScore released its latest stats today on online media use. Here are comScore’s top ten video destinations, ranked by numbers (in thousand) of videos viewed: Google Sites – 5,373,783 Fox Interactive Media - 519,926 Yahoo! Sites - 363,426 Viacom Digital - 305,258 Microsoft Sites - 286,464 Hulu - 235,096 Turner Network - 228,024 Disney Online - 126,611 AOL LLC - 122,580 ESPN - 104,724 […]

The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many organizations that publish only on the Internet, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced today. The Board has decided to allow entries made up entirely of online content to be submitted in all 14 Pulitzer journalism […]

Barron’s reports that the future of Microsoft’s Zune media player is in Danger: The company will unveil (at the Consumer Electronics Show January 7) a new device combining the features of the company’s Zune music player and its Danger Sidekick handhelds, combined with…. “some motion enhancement features” using an accelerometer. That would be consistent with […]

Want a safe job in journalism? Work in television. The Committee To Protect Journalists reports that, for the first time, more online journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium. In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, the Committee found that 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, […]

Audioengine has introduced a high-end wireless adapter for iPods and iPhones, the Audioengine W2.  The AW2 uses uncompressed CD-quality transmission technology with no network setup, software, or computer required. The system lets you wirelessly send you music, at up to CD-quality, to a hi-fi system. The Audioengine W2 (AW2) Premium Wireless Adapter for iPod is priced at […]

TechVideoBlog has measured the HD qualities of the various video services now offering HD video sharing, and it looks like YouTube and Facebook are now the leaders.  Here are the specs they measured, along with links to example videos: Youtube HD: 1280×720 – 2mbit/s H264 – full framerate – 44hz stereo 254kbit/s AAC audio Facebook […]