Craigslist’s Craig Newmark has penned an interesting article at the Huffington Post, suggesting that the source of mainstream news media’s troubles isn’t Craigslist, but the fact that mainstream news media has betrayed the public’s trust: Trust is the new black, as I like to say. The great opportunity for news organizations is to constructively demonstrate […]

Zoom is now shipping the Zoom Q3, a $249 pocket-cam that promises to be “the best sounding video camcorder you’ve ever heard.” The Zoom Q3 looks like it should be a great camcorder for “prosumer” level video podcasting and video blogging. The Q3 has two condenser mics on-board, in an X/Y pattern in order to […]

The original Star Wars (aka Episode IV: A New Hope) is a classic – cheesy acting and all. But the crowd-sourced Star Wars Uncut may end up challenging the original for the position of second best Star Wars movie ever. Organizers cut the original movie into 15-second clips and 473 indie moviemakers are recreating the […]

It sometimes seems like you can’t go to a concert anymore without getting warned that audio and video recording are prohibited. Nine Inch Nails is taking a different approach, though, encouraging fans to not just film and record their shows, but to put together edited DVDs that you can download. The video above is a […]

Twitter plans to add video tweeting to its mobile microblogging platform. According to a story in the  Telegraph: Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernize the site. Twitter’s founders hope by adding live video-tweeting it will help boost its prominence as a fashionable social-networking […]

Chad Hurley posted an update on the state of YouTube today, calling the site the Burger King of new media: Today, I’m proud to say that we have been serving well over a billion views a day on YouTube. This is great moment in our short history and we owe it all to you. Looking […]

Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit, filed by Viacom against Google’s YouTube, may have found evidence that YouTube employees uploaded pirated videos to the site, in order to bump up traffic. According to a CNET News article: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of unauthorized content on […]

Check out this demo of the Livestream Livepack – described as “a satellite television truck in a backpack.” Plug in a camera and you can stream HD video to the web, wirelessly.

Want to know how to make money podcasting? You could do worse than to look at the example of Leo Laporte, the creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT podcast network. He spoke before the Online News Association this week and discussed his experiences with making money with podcasting and new media. According […]

Think YouTube and the iPhone are pretty cool? In 5 years, there will be more than 12 billion devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of on-demand video content. According to Intel’s projections, on-demand TV will be ubiquitous in five years. “We are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and […]