Internet TV
Sep 5th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is going the route of Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and others and releasing his latest work, Slacker Uprising on the Internet as a free download. According to Moore, it’s the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the internet. Slacker Uprising traces Michael Moore’s 62-city tour of […]
Tags: Brave New Films, Michael Moore, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Slacker Uprising, the future of cinema, the future of television
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Sep 4th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, iPods & Portable Media Players, Video
Amazon today announced Amazon Video On Demand, a new video service that lets customers watch ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs. Previously, customers could only download titles and watch them on a PC (using the Amazon Unbox application) or on their TiVo box. Now customers can either watch instantly within their web […]
Tags: Amazon, Amazon Video On Demand, Internet television, the future of television
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Sep 1st, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video, Video Podcasts
If Lord Vader, the dark lord of the Sith, were a high school math teacher, this is probably how he would explain the Pythagorean Theorem. Via learnmegood – a third-grade math teacher in Dallas, TX.
Tags: Darth Vader, education, Educational Podcasts, YouTube
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Aug 31st, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
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
Tags: Democratic National Convention, politics, politics and new media, US politics, YouTube
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Aug 31st, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Citizen Media, General, Internet TV, Video, Vlogs
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 […]
Tags: i-witness, protestors, Republican National Convention, RNC, video bloggers
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Aug 28th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Software
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 […]
Tags: Closed Captioning, YouTube
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Aug 23rd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBC failed to cash in on interest in the Olympics with its online presence: NBC’s decision to limit the amount of Olympics footage on its Web site has ticked off sports fans. But that decision could also dog the network in another way: NBCOlympics.com will generate just $5.75 […]
Tags: 2008 Olympics, Internet television, NBC, the future of television
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Aug 21st, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
More and more companies are finding themselves dealing with user-generated criticism – on blogs, forums and on YouTube. This video is a great example of how to deal with this. As a response to a fan video for Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 that points out an apparent glitch in the game, Tiger Woods and […]
Tags: Tiger Woods, user-generated media, YouTube
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Aug 21st, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Law, Streaming Video, Video
United States District Judge Jeremy Fogel has delivered Prince, and Universal Music a fair use smackdown in a case that may end up reducing the number of nuisance takedown notices filed against people that share videos at sites like YouTube. Universal had sued Stephanie Lenz over the use of Prince’s song Let’s Go Crazy in […]
Tags: prince, Universal Music, YouTube
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Aug 20th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
Last week, we asked Is It Too Early To Declare NBC’s Online Olympic Coverage A Failure? If your comments are any indication, the answer is a resounding “No!”. A lot of Podcasting News readers are frustrated with the hassles of NBC’s 2008 Olympic coverage. Here’s a sampling of what readers had to say about NBC’s […]
Tags: 2008 Olympics, Internet television, NBC, the future of television
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