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The Cassiopeia Project - an effort to make HD science videos available to everyone - has a great series of videos available that look at the enormous breadth of information that make the concepts of common descent and macroevolution inescapable, obvious conclusions. 
Think dinosaurs and cavemen walked the earth together? Then you probably haven’t watched any of [...]

Weddings aren’t all faith, love and happiness.
There’s usually a bit of abject terror mixed in and something - be it the bridesmaid’s dresses, the flowers or the dj - from hell itself. 
Case in point: A rivalry between two wedding podcasters has devolved into a battle to the death - at least for one of the [...]

YouTube today announced YouTube Alive, “a celebration of the site’s vast user communities; everyone from bedroom vloggers to world-famous rock stars, musicians, comedians, athletes, artists and more. Part concert, part variety show and part party, the event will bring to life many of the amazing videos and talent that YouTube viewers have already made popular [...]

Need a reminder about how quickly technology changes?
Check out the search results for “podcasting” from Google’s 2001 index of the Web:

Zilch!
Google has published a search page based on its 2001 index as part of its 10th anniversary. 
Don’t bother looking for “YouTube”, either. And, back then, “iPod” was just an abbreviation for things like “Image Proof [...]

Google today announced updates to YouTube Insight’s analytics, adding a new feature, “Hot Spots”, that shows you the hottest scenes in your videos and also what’s not so hot. 
The Hot Spots tab in Insight plays your video alongside a graph that shows the ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within the video. Google determine “hot” [...]

Ever wish there was a PodCamp in your area?
PodCamps are fun, free or inexpensive events for people interested in blogging, social media, social networking, podcasting, video on the net and new media, in general. 
They’re also a chance to meet a lot of other cool podcasters. You might even end up in the greatest photo ever. 
The idea [...]

How’d you like your Internet speed to 100 times faster than it is today?
The Finnish government has announced plans for universal broadband access across Finland assuring that no person will be further than a mile and a half away from a broadband Internet connection of at least 100 megabits per second (Mbps). 
“The development of that [...]

Blubrry has released another update to the Powerpress plugin for Wordpress, version 0.3.0.
The latest version incorporates a number of new features and enhancements:

Added list of important feeds in feed settings
Logic to prevent stats redirect duplication
Added podcast only feed

The new podcast only feed is useful if you wish to provide your audience a feed that only [...]

According to a new survey, the number of people watching video streamed through a browser has doubled over the past year, going from 32% a year ago to 63% today.

“Consumers are changing their online habits quickly,” says research director Michael Wolf. “Broadband speeds have continued to increase at the same time that Hollywood has decided online distribution is a legitimate monetization opportunity.”