Ze Frank offers his take on the writer’s strike….

Hollywood’s film and television writers are on strike, after negotiations broke down between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and major television networks. At the core of the disagreement between writers and studios is the issue of writes for new media. Issues the WGA wants […]

A funny thing happened today. Pretty much everyone that’s been roasting NBC for yanking their content off of YouTube and iTunes is eating their words, now that they’ve seen Hulu, NBC’s new video site: “I was busy sharpening up the knives at BoomTown HQ to prepare for the debut of Hulu this week,” admits Kara […]

Struggling podcasting startup PodTech isn’t closing up shop, according to PodTech VP Robert Scoble. It’s changing direction. “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!” said Scoble. “This is total, 100% bull####. Not even deserving of a response. I’m not leaving PodTech. When, er if, I am you’ll read it here on my blog.” Daniel Lyons, writing […]

ShredOrDie.com, a new website that wants to the be YouTube of extreme sports, launched today. The site is a collaboration between the creators of funnyordie.com and skateboarding icon Tony Hawk. ShredorDie.com features action sports videos, with an emphasis on skate, snow, surfing, BMX, motocross and action sports culture. Tony Hawk provides creative direction and a […]

Google and the Nielsen Company announced today a multi-year, strategic relationship. As a first step, the relationship leverages Nielsen’s experience in television audience measurement to bring demographic data to the Google TV Ads advertising platform. By combining Nielsen demographic data with aggregated set-top box data, Google hopes to provide advertisers and agencies with comprehensive information […]

At GigaOm, Om Malik is starting to ask the same question we’ve been asking, now that big media is pulling its content off YouTube, developing their own video sites and ganging up to fight YouTube: Is YouTube screwed? “It is becoming increasingly obvious: Big media companies (content owners) are lining up against YouTube & Google, […]

MySpace today announced the launch of an original scripted web series, Roommates, the first original web series created for MySpaceTV. It’s a fauxality show focusing on hot chicks just out of college. The first of 45 episodes goes live today on MySpaceTV, with new episodes debuting each weekday at 1:00 pm PT/ 4:00 pm ET […]

SanDisk Corporation today announced the U.S. availability of the Sansa TakeTV video player, a sneakernet alternative to Apple TV. According to SanDisk’s Daniel Schreiber, the TakeTV has “No confusing wireless network set-up, no wires running across the living room and no cumbersome burning of DVDs. Just use the Sansa TakeTV device to move your favorite […]

NBC Universal has quietly yanked Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake’s D*ck in a box off of YouTube. Try to view the video, and you get a message that the video is no longer available. The video removal appears to be part of a larger shift in NBC’s strategy for Internet video. According to reports, NBC […]