The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has launched one of the stranger user-generated video contests ever, iTuber Take II. They are inviting potato lovers from across the country to create videos featuring potatoes.
In celebration of the International Year of the Potato, the Idaho Potato Commission has launched a special category just for Idaho high school students [...]
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 [...]
Chuck the Poetic Prophet offers a rap that looks at how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.
Yep - user generated media about search engine optimization and proper coding. You gotta watch that!
The rapping may be a bit wooden, but the advice is good, and [...]
A story in the Muncie, Indiana Star Press serves as a reminder that there’s more to podcasting than “monetization”:
When Ben Ranfeld, Liz Ranfeld and Paul VanDemark decided early last year to start a podcast centered solely on one topic - the movie The Big Lebowski - they figured they faced one major problem.
“We didn’t really think [...]
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, [...]
It starting to look like geeking out with new media may be good for your social life.
First, Cosmo revealed that the Apple Store is a great place to meet people “for a fun fling or a long term relationship”:
Most guys are natural gadget lovers, and with sales of iPods and MacBooks skyrocketing, more men than [...]
The BBC is warning about the rampant new problem of techno addiction - when gadgets get so damn sexy that people become addicted to them.
According to the venerable BBC:
Techno addiction can become so bad that people wake up several times a night to check their e-mails and text messages;
Techno addiction can interfere with an addict’s [...]
A new report refutes claims that portable music players, such as Apple’s iPod, interfere with cardiac pacemakers.
Howard Bassen, a researcher with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., led a research team that measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and an [...]
Alberto Frias Transport “perceptual pod” isn’t like other iPod accessories:
The Transport is a $16,000 composite fiberglass waterbed pod;
It is handmade & numbered for authenticity;
It has a built-in full-spectrum LED lighting system;
It has a remote control so that you can control the built-in sound system and lighting effects; and, best of all…
The Transport offers “a sensual [...]
Animation producer Kevin Gamble, otherwise known as Tiki Bar TV’s fez-wearing bartender Johnny Johnny, recently moved from Vancouver to New York. They say that New York is the most exciting city in the world, but Gamble got more excitement than anyone could wish or plan for this weekend when he rescued a woman who fell [...]