Router and networking behemoth Cisco today announced its plans to acquire the privately-held Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the popular, inexpensive little Flip Video cameras. Cisco calls the reported $590 million acquisition “key to Cisco’s strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking.” […]

When his weekday show was suddenly cancelled in a sweeping format change, nationally syndicated radio host Adam Carolla launched a free daily podcast -  a podcast with a quarter million listens within 24 hours of the first episode posting. Wednesday, live streaming video service Stickam announced that it “will be the exclusive streamer for Adam […]

Movie and television mega-database IMDb is adding a new category for Web TV series, Galacticast creator Casey McKinnon says after a conversation with the head of the Amazon-owned site. “Today there are dozens of web series listed on IMDb, but they continue to be listed as TV Series. At SXSW this year I asked Col […]

Local news as we know it is dead. But that’s not the biggest problem facing newspapers today.  A bigger problem is that most readers are telling their local newspapers “I’m just not that into you”. According to the latest stats from Pew Research, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper […]

Matthew Davidson, a blogging graphic artist and musician, made this great statement at his Stretta blog: Technology decimates media in the order of bandwidth. First, newspapers, periodicals, books. Text and pictures compress tightly, and are low bandwidth. Next comes audio. After that comes video. It’s a interesting statement, especially when you see the carnage going […]

The problem with newspapers is that they’re stuck on the old model, where every newspaper covers everything. And the more important the story, the less efficiently it gets covered.

But, it’s not just newspapers, it’s local radio & TV, too.

Local media is dead. Radio, TV, newspapers – all of it.

Here’s why.

https://videopress.com/v/Pk6aHQhX IntenseDebate, a hosted comment platform for WordPress comments, has announced that it’s opened the platform to third-party plugins. As part of the introduction, IntenseDebate has introduced several plugins: PollDaddy: Readers will be able to create polls right in the comment section. Seesmic: Readers the ability to record and post video comments. YouTube: Commenters can […]

Boxee has released an update that brings back Hulu support, but in limited way, and has added an app store, something we’ve been calling on Apple to do with it’s Apple TV for a long time. Boxee is an open source “social media center”, designed to be a platform for Internet television. Here are the […]

Has anything blown your mind lately? If not, it’s time you check out Kutiman’s Thru You – an Internet album of music videos completely made out of remixed YouTube footage. Kutiman takes YouTube footage of people giving gear demos and doing their music thing, and then turns them completely inside out, recontextualizing them and turning […]

ZillionTV has announced a new “personalized television” Internet television service. Through agreements with Hollywood studios and TV networks, ZillionTV plans to offer an extensive array of entertainment content; targeted and addressable advertising; and, television commerce, letting you make purchases through your television. The ZillionTV Service, currently in its Beta phase, will offer instant, subscription-free access […]