Medical news-gathering site ProMedNetwork announced its launch this week. The site offers medical professionals access to the latest news and information in the way of free audio and video content produced by and for health care professionals. The company sees its main audience being EMTs, nurses, physicians, technologists, psychologists, medical residents and other health care […]

The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) today released a list of association members from across the downloadable and new media industry, all of whom are in voluntary support of the preliminary standards and guidelines agreed upon by the organization. ADM officials characterize this as “another step toward creating a landscape favorable to the commercialization” of […]

Hulu not only had the smartest Super Bowl ad last night, but they’ve put together an embeddable Super Bowl Ad Widget. It’s a great idea, but their execution has one major flaw: Hulu is showing ads before the ads! Fail! Anyone who says thinks that advertising is dead on the Internet, though, only needs to […]

This YouTube video game, described as the “first ever interactive photo hunt on YouTube,” makes very clever use use of clickable annotations in videos to create an interactive recap of the Oscar nominations. It was created by Joe Sabia for DailyFill.com. via BoingBoing

Video sharing site Openfilm has announced that it will recognize top filmmakers with a $500 reward every month. Openfilm is an online community of independent filmmakers, film schools, festivals and audiences, which launched in July 2008. Ten winners are selected every month, based on various criteria including technical execution, the quality of narrative and acting, […]

The New York Times reports that YouTube is working with Hollywood talent agency William Morris on a deal that would place the company’s clients into made-for-the-Web productions: The deal would underscore the ways that distribution models are evolving on the Internet. Already, some actors and other celebrities are creating their own content for the Web, […]

Marc Cuban has published a provocative post at his Blog Maverick site, The Great Internet Video Lie. In it, Cuban argues that new media producers that think that the Internet is democratizing video are suckers that have bought into a big lie: The Great Internet Video Lie is that the internet opens distribution to compete […]

Podcasting News publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Revision 3 CEO Jim Louderback about what traditional media can learn about online advertising from Diggnation and other Internet TV shows.

YouTube announced today that it had updated the site to allow you to edit your own video comments: We’re happy to announce the launch of a feature many of you have been asking for. Now you have the ability to delete comments you’ve made on videos. We’ve all been there. Whether you misspelled “pwned”, back […]

Yesterday’s article, about the newly-launched Vatican channel on YouTube, reminded us of a favorite Monty Python sketch, “The Pope and Michaelangelo,” which we embed here for your amusement. “Look – I’m the bloody Pope, I am! I may not know much about art, but I know what I like!” Priceless. It got me off on […]