A new genre of vlogs appears to be emerging – the time-lapse video self-portrait. Part art and part self-obsession, the videos combine images, typically taken daily over a long period of time, to create a video portrait. One of the most interesting examples is by Noah Kalina, a New York photographer. Kalina has published a […]

Sony Pictures has signed to a deal to sponsor CNN video podcasts, making it the first major studio to do so. Sony’s first campaign, is a promotion for the football drama “Gridiron Gang,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The spots run as brief preroll on CNN video podcasts. CNN began video podcasting in June and […]

Noah Kalina, a New York photographer, has published a video that provides a unique self-portrait. Kalina took 2356 photos of himself, a photo each day for six years, and then combined them to create a a sort of stop-motion or time lapse self-portrait.

t’s looking more and more like video podcasts will play an important role in the 2008 US presidential elections. One example of this trend is Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron. Baron, a life-long democrat, says that he hopes “to play a big part in this election.”In a post at his blog, dembot, Baron explains his anticipated plan: […]

You won’t hear it from Apple, but an Apple Movie Store appears to be on its way.During an earnings conference call last week, Lions Gate Entertainment CEO Jon Feltheimer said that his company had a digital delivery deal in place with iTunes, and that it would launch some time before the end of this year. […]

CBS plans to introduce a live online broadcast of the Evening News with Katie Couric when the program debuts September 5th, the network has announced.In addition to the live simulcast, the program will also be available in two other ways. The complete broadcast will be able to be viewed as an on-demand program any time […]

Podfather Adam Curry is trying out Perversion for Profit, a new video podcast.The rough video demo is ‚Äúthe first test episode of my new video show” according to Curry. Curry first came to fame as an early MTV VJ, and is considered to be one of the fathers of audio podcasting, and is one of […]

HBO has released one of its original documentary films, the cautionary Too Hot To Handle, in its entirety as a free podcast. The documentary, which offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States, is available as a four-part download. Too Hot To Handle features contributions from leading scientists in the […]

The Washington Post has announced a video mashup contest, the WashingtonPost.com Video Mash-Up, following the lead of vloggers and video podcasters that have encouraged mashups or remixes of their videos. Earlier in the year, for example, Rocketboom published a kit for making video mashups. The DIY Amanda Dinner & a Website kit featured video of […]

In July, the daily reach of YouTube pulled ahead of MySpace. YouTube’s growth has been explosive, going from nowhere a year a go to becoming the sixteenth most popular site on the Web, as measured by Alexa. The tremendous growth reflects increasing penetration of broadband, more vloggers creating independent video content and YouTube’s ability to […]