http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=11FB595FB47EF47E Video Production Basics is a series of videos, via Expert Village, that offers short tips on making indie video.  Episodes discuss how to choose a camcorder, make an independent film and how to apply to film school with this series on video production basics. I’ve embedded the series above, or you an view it […]

Rise and Shine.tv is in the midst of a daily holiday songwriting project, and everyone is invited to help create the songs, via the Internet. The exercise in spontaneity and creativity is the brainchild of Dean Whitbread, co-founder of the UK Podcasters’ Association (and a talented songwriter and musician in his own right). Rise and […]

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=44B64495B703FFA0 Expert Village – a site that features video tutorials – has a YouTube channel focusing on how to make a digital movie.  The channel includes information on topics ranging from creating scripts for indie films to lighting. There’s lots of information that applies not just to making movies, but to any indie video production.  […]

YouTube has announced two developments: the expansion of their HD player and a test of three new landing pages. Here are the details of the announcement: HD on YouTube Starting today, if you click the “watch in HD” option below any HD-enabled video, the video will automatically play in widescreen – so you can find out […]

P2P distribution for new media seemed like a good idea to a lot of people a few years ago. The idea was that you’d be able to distribute your content over P2P networks and avoid paying a lot of money for bandwidth.  Unfortunately for content producers, P2P distribution for new media doesn’t offer any benefits […]

Video search engine company Blinkx today announced the launch of “an Enhanced Metadata Enrichment solution for publishers” of online video. There were lots of big, Web 2.0 press release vocabulary words to plow through (if I ever see another announcement with the word “monetize” repeated so many times, I will have to retreat to a […]

Seesmic is launching a new experimental version of its video social networking site, at this separate address: http://new.seesmic.com. Drawing on feedback (requests, suggestions and complaints) from its user community, the Seesmic test site keeps a lot of the functionality of the original application, but with these new features, among others: -Smaller Flash load, “except in […]

Hide the iPhone! Unplug the WiFi hub! A new survey by Intel has found that 46% of women would rather go without sex for two weeks than give up the Internet for that long.  Just when we thought we were getting our sexy back, too.  Here are the bare facts: 46% of women would rather go […]

The NFL has launched a new service that could turn out to be a milestone in the development of Internet media, Game Rewind.  Game Rewind is a $19.99/season Internet video service that lets you watch every NFL game in HD quality, with no commercials. Game Rewind provides DVR functionality and lets you watch up to four games […]

The San Francisco Chronicle has published their take on the year’s top 10 Web viral videos. They don’t explain their criteria – but it’s an interesting list: Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Not only was Fey’s impression of the Alaskan governor arguably the seminal pop culture event of the year, it also represented a turning […]