A scandal has broken out over the fact that the most-viewed video of all time on YouTube, Evolution of Dance, has been beaten by a fan video for the song Music is My Hot Hot Sex. A lot of people are crying foul – not just because the Hot Hot Sex video is so bad, […]

Much as the movie industry would like to avoid having Apple becoming the dominant digital vendor for digital movies as it has in the world of digital music, Apple is doing it anyway. While the movie and television industry experiments with a bunch of incompatible standards and technologies, Apple has been inexorably putting together a […]

The LA Times has published an article by thirtysomething creator Marshall Herskovitz that responds to criticism of his show quarterlife, which was hyped beforehand as the first television-quality production for the Web. The show bombed on YouTube and went on to bomb on network television. Despite the show’s poor performance, Herskovitz thinks quarterlife is not […]

UK mobile developers Coolgorilla have launched the London Travel Guide, a free travel guide specifically designed for iPods, iPhones and mobile phones. The London Travel Guide packs over 400 pages of info, along with interactive features, onto your portable media player. The guide is designed to be regularly updated, so you can have the most […]

Prime Time Rewind TV is a new video site that promises to make it easy to find and watch the primetime network television shows online. “We would like to put you one-click away from watching your show,” claims the site. If that’s their goal, you have to wonder: Why do they present your viewing options […]

Pitchfork Media, a Chicago-based site that offers independent music news, reviews and other content, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch Pitchformk.tv, a Web-based music video channel next month that will offer “mini-documentaries, secret rooftop and basement sessions, full concerts, exclusive interviews, and the most carefully curated selection of music videos online.” The channel, […]

It starting to look like geeking out with new media may be good for your social life. First, Cosmo revealed that the Apple Store is a great place to meet people “for a fun fling or a long term relationship”: Most guys are natural gadget lovers, and with sales of iPods and MacBooks skyrocketing, more […]

Two thirds of all Americans are dissatisfied with the current state of journalism, and most now regard the Internet as their most important source of news, according to a new Zogby International survey. The survey also found that while most Americans (70%) think journalism is important to the quality of life in their communities, two […]

Video blogger Sarah Meyers (Pop 17) caught up with Steve Chen, one of YouTube’s founders, recently, and got a scoop on YouTube live video. The company plans to have a YouTube live video streaming service this year: “We‚Äôll do it this year,” said Chen. “Live video is just something that we‚Äôve always wanted to do, […]

Gravitas is a unique video podcast that pairs original music compositions with computer graphic simulations of the universe in motion. Here’s the podcast description: GRAVITAS is a visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity. Animations from supercomputer simulations of forming galaxies, star clusters, galaxy clusters, and galaxy interactions […]