Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against Google is getting ugly. The federal court hearing the case has ordered (pdf) Google to provide Viacom with “all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website or through embedding on a third-party website”.
The ruling brings a new twist to [...]

Loren Feldman, the puppetmaster behind the puppet Shel Israel video blog, is moving on.
Puppet Shel Israel is a sort of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for new media, parodying “new media expert” Shel Israel, while scooping him with entertaining interviews, like this discussion with Digg’s Kevin Rose:

While Loren’s puppet has been scoring the interviews, Israel [...]

Video community site Seesmic has announced that it has partnered with Six Apart, the maker of Movable Type to provide Movable Type users and their readers with the ability to integrate video comments alongside traditional text-based comments.
Seesmic already offers a plug-in for integrating its video system into WordPress sites.
The MT plug in is a free [...]

12seconds.tv is a new site, now in private “alpha” testing, that is sort of like YouTube for cell phone videos. 
The site “allows friends and family to record and share short video updates about what they are doing or where they are.”
The site doesn’t currently have a lot of features yet, but you can post short videos and then [...]

TubeMogul, a video analytics and distribution service, has announced its TubeMogul Top 40, and indie video podcasters and new media networks top the list. This is a list of the publishers using TubeMogul to distribute their videos that get the most views each month. 
While it’s not surprising that the list is dominated by new media people, [...]

Where the Hell Is Matt (2008), above, is an amazing video that follows Matt Harding around the world, doing a funny little dance and getting lots of other people to dance with him. 
It’s also a fun example of the power of vlogging and Internet video.

Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client.
Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement:
While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK supports video. [...]

Rocketboom host Joanne Colan is leaving the show, according to a report in Valleywag:
According to a source at the Creative Artists Agency, host Joanne Colan is leaving Rocketboom, one of the Internet’s first prominent news videoblogs. During her tenure, Colan never managed to transform the show (directed by creator Andrew Baron) from a quirky but [...]

Reddit today announced that it was working with PBS to create a new weekly television news program, Your Week, that’s “powered by you.”
Material for the show will come from hot stories on the reddit front page every week. Meta discussions about that content and the show itself will all take place at yourweek.reddit.com:
Whereas traditional television [...]

YouTube’s newly-minted News Manager Olivia M. has announced the launch of a citizen journalism channel on the site, called Citizen News.
Explains Olivia, the proliferation of inexpensive and easy-to-use media tools (blog engines, video cameras, multi-function mobile phones, etc.) has sparked a boom in user-generated news coverage. “[T]here’s an amazing amount of news being reported on [...]