We live with a bunch of adolescents (and adolescents at heart), who also happen to be big fans of anything to do with space and astronomy.¬† But mention the ice planet Uranus at the dinner table (and pronounce it “your-anus” or “urine-us” depending on which syllable you accent), and at least four people dissolve into […]

A note earlier today from Mark McCrery, who is helping shepherd the elections process at the nascent new media industry metrics/trade group, the Association For Downloadable Media (ADM), confirms that ADM elections are officially open now, and will continue through November 23, 2007 at 12:00 PM EST. There are over 45 nominees for twenty open […]

IBM says that advertising as we know it is dead – most of us just haven’t realized it yet. IBM’s report, The End of Advertising as We Know It, forecasts greater disruption for the advertising industry in the next five years than occurred in the previous 50. IBM surveyed more than 2,400 consumers and 80 […]

We, along with a lot of people in the podcasting community, were excited to hear recently that Microsoft had hired Rob Greenlee to be its Podcast Programming & Marketing Lead for the Microsoft Zune. Rob was doing Internet radio long before podcasting was created. Rob, along with his wife Dana Greenlee, hosted WebTalk Radio, an […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) wants your input on a set of Rich Media Measurement Guidelines which determine at what point a rich media ad impression is counted. Members of the industry (advertising agencies, advertisers, online publishers and technology vendors) are encouraged to read the proposed guidelines and submit comments on the IAB site. After […]

Online ad revenues continue their unrelenting climb upward. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers today announced that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over Q3 2006. All three quarters in 2007 have […]

Liveblog of Mark Cuban‘s Closing Keynote at BlogWorld: My experience on “dancing w stars” is a lot like blogging — people I don’t know come up and feel free to tell me their opinions. I started my blog in 2004, after doing an interview for Dallas Morning News about Mavericks, half a dozen questions with […]

Liveblogging the Cult of Blogging session at BlogWorld expo. We were expecting this panel to be one of the highlights of BlogWorld. Panelists were to include Om Malik of GigaOM; Mike Arrington of TechCrunch; and ubiquitous video podcaster Leo Laporte. The session got of to an inauspicious start, though. Malik apparently dropped out because of […]

The BBC’s Chris Vallance sent word about a programming experiment that they’ve introduced, iPM on BBC Radio 4. The show combines elements of podcasting and radio, and is based around a blog which lets users submit story ideas, comment on stories and offer input on stories in progress. It will start Saturday November 10th at […]

Podbean, which describes itself as a podcast social subscribing site, has introduced an embeddable multimedia podcast player that can be used to put your podcast on Facebook, MySpace and blogs. The free player supports both videos and audios. It’s designed so that you can embed the player once, and Podbean updates the player content whenever […]