PaidContent has an interesting list of 10 magazines that have bit the dust in the last six months.
The list includes some heavy hitters:

Alpha Media Group: Blender—March (Online only)—Down 30.6
Hearst: CosmoGirl—December-January (Online only)—Down 10.9 percent
Condé Nast: Domino—January (Shuttered)—Down 4.1 percent
Hallmark Cards: Hallmark Magazine—February-March (Shuttered)—Up 11 percent
Condé Nast: Portfolio—May (Online only)—Up 2 percent
Hearst: Oprah At Home—January (Shuttered)—Ad [...]

This video, via Gideon Shalwick (Become a Blogger) offers a fairly in-depth look at 7 ways to optimize your YouTube videos.
7 Killer Tips For Optimizing Your YouTube Videos

Create outstanding content
Optimize your YouTube Channel
Use keywords cleverly and in the right places
Add URL’s in the right places
Link to your videos from where ever you can
Provide plenty [...]

In 2008, podcasting, vlogging and new media in general were effectively banned from the Olympics.
For future events, the Olympics has to embrace new media, according to Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger, because the rules governing who can report from the Olympic Games are outdated in the age of Twitter.
In a speech to the International Olympics Committee [...]

Are Twitter users anti-social?
Last week, Internet marketing blog HubSpot released their second State of the Twittersphere report (pdf).
According to HubSpot’s report:

79.79% Twitter users fail to provide a homepage URL
75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile
68.68% have not specified a location
55.50% are not following anyone
54.88% have never tweeted
52.71% have no followers

So - [...]

The Amazon Kindle may be a failure as a new media platform, but it’s great for reading books, right?

Maybe not.

Based on the experience of Gear Diary’s Dan Cohen, buying a book on the Kindle platform is a game of digital Russian roulette.

ReadWriteWeb blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick, right, and proto-podcaster Dave Winer kicked off a new podcast today, the Bad Hair Day Podcast.
The podcast is old-school, basically an unedited conversation between the two, tech snafus and all.
In the first episode, Kirkpatrick and Winer touch on the new iPhone OS, Twitter and even Kirkpatrick’s bizarre unicorn fetish. Fetish may [...]

 

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The Kindle book reader is a technological wonder - but some bloggers are beginning to recognize that the device is a bit of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

The Kindle looks like it should be a new media platform, but it’s primary focus is old media.

As a result, supporting the Kindle is, at least for some bloggers, a waste of time.

WordPress has announced that a new release of its popular blogging and podcasting platform, WordPress 2.8.
2.8 is more of an incremental update than 2.7. Here are the highlights:

New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
Browse the theme directory and install themes from the [...]

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor has been doing some amazing things over the last few years, experimenting with new media and doing more than any other major musician to forge a new model for using the Internet to interact directly with his fans.
Here’s a few examples:

Reznor has released several albums as free downloads, using a [...]

Independent studio Ag8 has announced Purefold - a series of linked 5- to 10-minute web videos inspired by Blade Runner. Purefold won’t be a sequel or prequel to Blade Runner, but is a new set of stories set in the same world.
“It’s…..based on the same themes as Blade Runner,” says Ag8’s David Bausola. “It’s the [...]