Conan O’Brian wants you to make your own Late Night commercial.
One winner will get a shopping trip to the NBC Experience Store in New York City with Late Night stage hand Steve Graham, who will use his employee discount to get you 25% off all merchandise. Plus, the winner will also receive complementary round-trip bus [...]

A reminder that there’s a podcast for just about anything:
Flyers worried about being able to remember what they can and cannot take in and out of the UK have received aid in the form of a podcast.
Downloadable from the HM Revenue & Customs website, the free audio podcast sees customs expert Mark Fuchter detail which [...]

LadyAda, creator of a variety of cool DIY projects that have been featured in Make magazine, has a new kit that lets you make your own Internet set-top box out of an Altoid tin. 
Description:
The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. Connect it to your TV and you can design customized content to be delivered [...]

One of the stranger iPod accessories we’ve ever seen that still manages to have some practical use is the RadioRaft floating stereo.
It’s a completely submersible iPod dock and stereo system. Your iPod goes inside a waterproof iPod dock, and you control the sound using waterproof controls. The system has 400 watts, 5 speakers and offers [...]

Remember last month’s blogging can kill you hysteria?

In April, the New York Times ran an exposé on the health risks of blogging. At the time, we were skeptical, and it turns out that our instincts were right.

Researchers now say that blogging is actually good for you.

The Phoenix Mars Lander has a Twitter feed, and as Evil Mad Scientist notes, the Mars Lander is Twittering in the first person:
I’m sitting on very flat surface here. Tiny rocks around my foot pads. The horizon is flat and looks perfect for digging!!!
It’s unclear if this is an official feed or not; I [...]

Ever struggle to get a decent recording of your voice for a podcast?
This video, from poykpak, shows that there’s more to life than great voiceovers….

Last week, the venerable New York Times blew the cover off the shocking world of 24/7 blogging, where bloggers blog until they drop…….if not sooner.
Now, BarelyPolitical has gone undercover to reveal the tragedy of indentured blogitude, a problem that until now has gone completely unnoticed.
And if it’s happening in the world of blogs, can bet [...]

It’s tax day in the US, and it looks like that’s not the only bad news.
Here are a few news items related to new media that aren’t exactly making my day:

Twitter is adding advertising. Would you like spam with that tweet?
Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto is sort of optional; they run new projects against an [...]

Remember all the goofy things you did as a kid, and how you’re glad sometimes that people don’t know about them?
Things are different now. With YouTube, today’s kids are completely pwned.
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a great post that looks at a terrifying and hysterical sub-genre of YouTube videos: AP English classes’ takes on [...]