Celtx is a free multi-platform media pre-production program, designed to help you not just do scriptwriting, but to pre-produce all types of media – film, video, documentary, theater, machinima, comics, advertising, gaming, music video, radio, podcasts and videocasts. It’s a very deep application, with support for creating scripts, storyboard scenes and sequences, develop characters, breakdown […]

28 percent of Europeans now regularly watch online video, more than double the rate in 2006, according to a new report from JupiterResearch. In addition, time spent watching online video has grown by 50 percent in the last 12 months. Short form video content – typified by YouTube – currently accounts for most of this. […]

Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer today is challenging Apple to move Apple TV from being a “hobby” to being a real business: If Steve Jobs wants to make a serious run at owning our living room’s “digital hub,” then Apple TV needs a serious overhaul, ASAP. Why now? Because even though the industry is still […]

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg let us know about a new development in the WordPress 2.6/PodPress meltdown. “Two WordPress developers have volunteered fixes for both the 8.8 and 8.9 branches of PodPress,” says Mullenweg. “It’s only a few lines of code to cure the problem.” The unofficial fixes are available at developer Andrew Ozz’s blog, and […]

Foxinni’s WordPress Videos Theme is designed to make creating a video blog a no-brainer. The theme is makes it easy to embed your own videos and videos from YouTube, Meta Cafe, MySpace, Veoh and other video platforms. Features: Multiple Color Schemes Dark or Light Layouts Built-in Recent Videos Widget Embed personally hosted videos (.flv) Embed […]

WordPress 2.6 has been a disaster for a lot of podcasters. The update, which WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said “should be pretty painless,” has broken a lot of podcasts, leading to a lot of kludgie workarounds. Some, like Dan McKeown, think the WordPress/PodPress fiasco highlights broader problems with the way WordPress is handling releases: This […]

The US National Parks Service is getting into podcasting in a big way, and now offers 18 park service podcasts and virtual tours, offering hundreds of audio and video programs that you can get from park websites or iTunes. The podcasts include: Acadia NP Antietam National Battlefield Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP Canyonlands NP […]

CellSpin Soft has announced it has added support for Apple’s iPhone to its mobile blogging software platform. CellSpin is designed to let you capture audio, photos and text on the iPhone and publish it to your blog or favorite social media sites. Supported sites include MySpace Facebook Twitter Pownce, Blogger Picasa Flickr Live Journal Live […]

The industry group formed around the nascent podcast industry, The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), has announced the release of two sets of recommended guidelines: ad unit standards and audience measurement guidelines. The recommendations released today grew from feedback and discussions of proposed standards, which were first unveiled in April at the ad:tech conference in […]

A lot of people are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6. Earlier in the week, we reported a simple hack you could use to get things working again.  A reader, John Leavitt, sends word of an even easier fix – the No Revisions plug-in. It disables the new […]