Like to turn your experience with podcasting into a sweet new media job?
Check out the experiences of podcaster and new media guy Dan Patterson. He’s translated his experience with producing the Creepy Sleepy podcast, along with work as a correspondent and social media evangelist for the Talk Radio News Service, into a new gig at [...]
Want to see a great example of a podcast audio tour?
The Friends of the Public Garden in Boston have launched a Public Garden Audio Tour podcast, a self-guided audio walking tour. The audio tour is available as a free download at the Friends of the Public Garden website, and as a podcast on iTunes. Visitors [...]
Ever since Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 3G, we’ve been waiting for this moment - the time when Tom Dickson from Will It Blend? destroys the over-hyped, twice-as-expensive, underpowered device in one of those monster Blendtec blenders.
Fortunately, it didn’t take long:
OK. Maybe we’re just a little bitter that 3G coverage is non-existent in Iowa.
But you [...]
Internet media isn’t just being used by people wanting to limit the role of government in the US; it’s also being used the the goverment itself to attract people to serving in the military.
70 percent of the US Army’s new prospects are attracted via online video campaigns, according to digital ad agency MRM. The company [...]
Microsoft today announced the release of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), a free, open source podcasting kit that offers organizations a centralized solution to create, manage and distribute podcasts.
Built on the SharePoint Server and Microsoft Silverlight platforms, and compatible with the Zune, PCs and other devices that play podcasts (ie., iPods & iPhones), the [...]
R&B star Usher has launched a video podcast, Ucast, to coincide with the release of his latest CD, Here I Stand
10 initial video podcast episodes are planned, offering viewers a behind the scenes view of launching an album, producing a video and preparing for a tour.
“The entertainment business is much more than the red carpets [...]
EQAL, the studio behind faux-vlog shows LonelyGirl15 & KateModern, has signed a deal with CBS to create online content.
The two companies will work on producing multi-platform content, including online and mobile, around CBS programming. EQAL will work on a non-exclusive basis with CBS at consulting, producing and scripting.
“This partnering signals CBS’s attention to the web [...]
Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser reports that the co-producers of lonelygirl15, Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, have raised $5 million in venture funding for their new company, EQAL.
They’re building a digital media studio and working on product placement and licensing deals.
“We’re going to teach Hollywood how to do it right,” said Beckett.
The latest episode of NYT’s Only In New York podcast celebrates the history of Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
The lyricist was Jack Norworth, a 29-year-old actor and monologist, who was performing that spring at Hammerstein’s in Midtown, and who had already written another classic, “Shine On Harvest Moon.�
Supposedly, Norworth was riding the old Ninth [...]
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The Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California is expanding its reach, using YouTube to bring things like the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest (above) to the world.Â
“The purpose of a fair is to celebrate and showcase the community. Fairs are social events and social media is perfect for fairs because of this. We’re inviting folks to participate online, [...]
