Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is going the route of Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and others and releasing his latest work, Slacker Uprising on the Internet as a free download. According to Moore, it’s the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the internet.
Slacker Uprising traces Michael Moore’s 62-city tour of the [...]

Want to improve your love life?

A new survey has found that digital video recorders are not just indispensable, they may even improve your love life.

Amazon today announced Amazon Video On Demand, a new video service that lets customers watch ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs.
Previously, customers could only download titles and watch them on a PC (using the Amazon Unbox application) or on their TiVo box. Now customers can either watch instantly within their web browser [...]

MTV jumped the shark, at least when it comes to music video, years ago.
But a video podcast - Blogotheque’s The Take Away Shows - is making music videos relevant again.
“Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBC failed to cash in on interest in the Olympics with its online presence:
NBC’s decision to limit the amount of Olympics footage on its Web site has ticked off sports fans. But that decision could also dog the network in another way: NBCOlympics.com will generate just $5.75 million [...]

Last week, we asked Is It Too Early To Declare NBC’s Online Olympic Coverage A Failure?
If your comments are any indication, the answer is a resounding “No!”. A lot of Podcasting News readers are frustrated with the hassles of NBC’s 2008 Olympic coverage.
Here’s a sampling of what readers had to say about NBC’s online Olympic [...]

Nielsen has released its VideoCensus rankings of the top online video sites for July, and it looks like long-tail television site Hulu is the company to watch.
In July, Hulu’s traffic grew to 105 million streams per month, and the site leapfrogged several competitors to become eighth most popular vide site. Not bad for a site [...]

New research shows that people are relentlessly moving from traditional media - including newspaper, radio & television - to Internet-based news sources.

In the last ten years, the percent of people getting their news from the Internet has tripled, while the radio and newspaper news audience has declined 14% and the television news audience has declined 9%!

Apophenia’s Danah Boyd has an interesting post on wanting Olympics 2.0:
Everything about how NBC has covered the Olympics has been abysmal.
I want an Olympics where the “best” is broadcast on TV, like now. But I also want an interactive version. Take gymnastics. I want to know on each apparatus who is up live. And I [...]

We’ve published several articles looking at how NBC & the Olympics are losing viewers with the restrictions they’ve placed on online coverage, and noted that millions may be turning to unofficial sources like BitTorrent or skipping the Olympics altogether as a result.
Some think that NBC has a winning strategy, though: use online video to drive [...]