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 [...]

Video conversation / social networking community Seesmic moved out of beta and opened up to the general public last week. The company launched in the fall of 2007, and raised $6 million in its “A” series of funding late this winter. Today, Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur announced that the company has raised an additional $6 [...]

A scandal has broken out over the fact that the most-viewed video of all time on YouTube, Evolution of Dance, has been beaten by a fan video for the song Music is My Hot Hot Sex. A lot of people are crying foul – not just because the Hot Hot Sex video is so bad, [...]

The New York Times has a story today about the case of Stacy Snyder, a 25 year-old mother of two that lost her job over a MySpace photo of her as a “drunken pirate”: In the absence of strong protections for employees, poorly chosen words or even a single photograph posted online in one‚Äôs off-hours [...]

The controversy over the Richter Scales’ Here Comes Another Bubble appears to be drawing to a close. The video was taken down from YouTube after photographer Lane Hartwell objected to the unauthorized use of one of her photos in the video. This has led to a great deal of debate over the role of copyright [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a comprehensive account of Comcast’s packet-forging activities and has released software and documentation instructing Internet users on how to test for packet forgery or other forms of interference by their own ISPs.Separate tests in October from EFF, the Associated Press, and others showed that Comcast was forging small [...]

Wonder why the Amazon Kindle is getting so much attention from top bloggers today? A lot of people are scratching their heads on this, wondering why so many a-list blogs are jazzed about an expensive, ugly device that lets you buy expensive DRM’d content. A device that’s kind of like a first-generation Zune for ebooks. [...]

Major League Baseball (MLB) has struck out with at least one baseball mega-fan, author and blogger Allan Wood. He got thrown a curve ball when MLB changed their online video service, dumping their DRM provider and rendering fans’ older video purchases unplayable. Wood’s a vocal, major-league fan of baseball. He’s written a book about Babe [...]

Several of the world’s leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of copyright guidelines for user-generated content designed to protect the intellectual property of content owners. According to the companies, the principles offer a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services and content creators work together [...]

Apple’s PR fiasco over its decision to actively fight the unlocking and hacking of iPhones appears to be going from bad to worse. This video mashup is an example of the fallout Apple is reaping from its decision to fight developers that want to add to the iPhones capabilities. It takes the narration from Apple’s [...]