At the Democratic National Convention, Rachel Maddow interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt on how the Internet is changing politics. More videos from the Big Tent, the Google-sponsored facility for alternative media, are available on YouTube. via JD Lasica

Dozens of people are being arrested in Minneapolis ahead of the Republican National Convention, apparently in a pre-emptive attempt to stifle protest and independent media coverage. The people arrested appear to fall into two general group, liberal protestors and video bloggers. The New York Times reports “Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention“: On the weekend before […]

Flickr has introduced a new feature that lets you create fullscreen slideshows that can be embedded and shared. Slideshows are available from just about every page where you see a group of photos on Flickr: photostream pages, sets, tag pages, group pools and search results. Just look for the slideshow icon, right. I’ve embedded an […]

Ashley Payne is a design student at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. The Zune Bug is her design concept for a Zune-branded nightlight that reacts to your room’s ambient light level.  It’s also designed to be a wireless remote speaker for your Zune and responds to the frequency and volume of your music with variations […]

The University of Utah’s Classical Guitar Podcast (iTunes link) features classical guitar audio and video podcasts. The podcasts feature performances of works by Tárrega, Torroba, Berkeley and others, as well as original compositions by Tully Cathey, a classical and jazz guitarist who teaches at the College of Fine Arts. Image: ycguitar814

Podcasting continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with the total audience for podcasts increasing by 58% in under two years.

The dedicated podcast audience – those that download podcasts every day – has gone up 300% in the same time.

Yongfook has released Sweetcron, a web application that you can download and install on your Web site that automatically creates a lifestream site from the pages you bookmark and content you publish at Twitter, Flickr and other social networking sites. An example is available a Yongfook.com site.  Sweetcron joins an already crowded field of lifestreaming […]

YouTube has announced a new feature – video captioning – that lets you add captions to give viewers a deeper understanding of your videos. Captions can help people who would not otherwise understand the audio track to follow along, especially those who speak other languages or who are deaf and hard of hearing. An example, an […]

Like to turn your experience with podcasting into a sweet new media job? Check out the experiences of podcaster and new media guy Dan Patterson. He’s translated his experience with producing the Creepy Sleepy podcast, along with work as a correspondent and social media evangelist for the Talk Radio News Service, into a new gig […]

This isn’t new – but it’s pretty cool. Internet famous Sarah Meyers interviews professor Jamie Wilkinson, who teaches a graduate class at the Parsons New School for Design called Internet Famous. Students are graded by algorithmic software tht determines each student’s grade, based on a quantitative measurement of their web fame. via todayandtomorrow