Time has recognized YouTube as the Best Invention of the Year for 2006: Meet Peter. Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree. Back in WW II he served as a radar technician. He is now an international star. One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed. In the past 12 […]

“You have the right to choose – you have the right to vote” – Paul Van Dyk 9 Ways To Cover The Election MobileCasting Update: Veek The Vote

The first PodCamp on the West coast will be held in San Francisco on November 18-19, 2006 at the historic Swedish American Hall. PodCampWest is free to attend for the community and is inspired by PodCamp Boston. Event organizer Vic Podcaster reports that PodCampWest aims to “bring together the movers and shakers of New Media, […]

New Assignment’s David Cohn has suggested 9 ways you can blog, vlog or podcast about tomorrow’s elections: At Betsy Devine‚Äôs blog you can learn more about ‚Äúsnapping the leaflets,‚Äù a project to document what propaganda voters are subject to days before the election. Video The Vote is an organized effort, using camera phones and video, […]

YouthNoise, a social network for youth dedicated to social change, and Veeker, a mobilecasting service, have announced the launch of Veek the Vote 2006, intended to encourage youth to get politically active this November 7th by using the video cameras in their mobile phones to communicate their experiences on Election Day. YouthNoise, through its Web […]

The Vloggies, a video blogging award presented by PodTech, were held Saturday, November 4th, in a ceremony in San Francisco. The ceremony was hosted by PodTech’s Irina Slutsky, and soap-opera star turned vlogger Daniel McVicar. Winners included Rocketboom, Ryanne Hodson, Ask a Ninja, Diggnation and Galacticast. Josh Wolf, who is currently in jail for refusing […]

Apple today announced the launch of iTunes Latino, a dedicated area within the US iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) featuring Latin music, music videos, television shows, audiobooks and podcasts. iTunes Latino offers hundreds of thousands of Latin and international music tracks, including exclusive tracks and albums available only on iTunes.‚ÄúLatin music has been a huge hit on […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is fighting a self-help group‚Äôs subpoenas that seek to identify anonymous users of several video sharing sites. According to EFF, San Francisco-based Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, is trying to suppress an investigative television news piece critical of its methods. Citing alleged copyright violation, Landmark subpoenaed […]

Sling Media has announced the immediate availability of the SlingPlayer for Mac OS X, a software download for Slingbox customers who wish to view their home TV natively on an Apple Macintosh computer. The Slingbox allows users to watch their cable, satellite, or digital video recorder (DVR) programming from wherever they are, turning any Internet-connected […]

The Halloween Videoblog Festival has a collection of Halloween-themed vlog episodes The videos range from the silly to some “vlogoween” creepiness, with a surprising number of puppet hosts along the way. In Ernesto Loves Halloween (.mov), RSS News’ culture and sex correspondent Ernesto shares his love for Halloween and sexy senoritas.