Jack Black, international sensation, has created a special infomercial on the subject of music piracy. “Look, super mega rock and roll gods and superstars are just regular dudes like you guys. We punch the clock, we put on the pants and we then we blow people’s minds,” according to Black. “And then these pirates come, […]

All right. We’re bracing ourselves for your catty comments, but we just can’t help ourselves. We’ve been sitting on our hands all day, knowing that we’ll be mocked mercilessly for mentioning this momentous event…. but it *is*, after all, five years since Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod. And even though it pains us […]

Denver Pediatric specialist Dr. Steven Rothenberg is taking his surgical techniques and sharing them with other doctors around the world, via medical video podcasts. The surgeon says this makes “the surgical world a lot smaller and more capable of saving babies worldwide.” For example, Chloe Faith Smith was born prematurely, and suffers from a severe […]

NBC Universal today announced that it was laying off hundreds and refocusing its strategy with Internet media in mind. The company‚Äôs new strategy, which they are calling NBCU 2.0, is a wide-ranging strategic initiative to assure future growth, streamline and strengthen operations, and exploit opportunities created by the rapidly evolving digital and global marketplace. ‚ÄúSuccess […]

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has launched its BSO Online Podcast, now available on the orchestra’s website and as a podcast.The podcast focuses on the BSO’s two-year Beethoven-Schoenberg project ‚Äî with audio and video clips that include video documentaries about the composers’ lives and historical contexts, plus overviews and analysis of the music to be performed […]

One more reason YouTube as you know it is dead: YouTube cut deals with the major music labels shortly before closing their deal with Google, giving the music industry ownership stakes in YouTube in exchange for video and music licensing deals. YouTube quietly cut deals with three of the four major RIAA member companies – […]

Over 40 podcasting seminars are scheduled for the International Podcasting Expo, an online expo being held October 20-22. Anyone with an Internet connection can attend, and participants may download all event recordings. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Lewin of Podcasting News, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, Andy Wibbels of BlogWild. Other speakers include Eric Olson of Feedburner, […]

It looks like the “wild west” days of video sharing may be over. YouTube as you know it is dead. The company plans to remove all videos that infringe on music industry copyrights, and is working with music companies to promote ad-supported distribution of music videos. Now the music industry is going after other video […]

Added to the podcast directory page: The Aloha Podcast Network, a site that offers a variety of Hawaiian podcasts. Description: Interested in life in Hawaii? Want to find out more about visiting the beautiful “Islands of Aloha”? Now you can sample a wide variety of Hawaii and Hawaiian themed podcast and vodcast via the Aloha […]

blinkx, a leading video search engine, today unveiled an updated site featuring “video walls”, a new interface for Internet video that combines the ‘sit back and watch’ element of traditional television with the interactive experience of searching and watching video online. Users will also be able to embed topical video walls in to Web pages […]