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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]