Posts Tagged ‘ video blogging ’

Jimmy Justice Exposes Law Enforcement’s Double Standard

Aug 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, Video

This is an example of the work of video vigilante Jimmy Justice, a video blogger and “cop-arazzi” that films New York law enforcement officers breaking the law and then posts his films online.
Justice is featured in a Washington Post article that looks at the effects omnipresent video cameras are having on law enforcement.
Justice is using [...]



WordPress Theme For Video Blogging

Jul 31st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

Foxinni’s WordPress Videos Theme is designed to make creating a video blog a no-brainer.
The theme is makes it easy to embed your own videos and videos from YouTube, Meta Cafe, MySpace, Veoh and other video platforms.
Features:

Multiple Color Schemes
Dark or Light Layouts
Built-in Recent Videos Widget
Embed personally hosted videos (.flv)
Embed from supported videos sites:

YouTube
Meta Cafe
Daily Motion
Vimeo
Veoh
Break.com
Blip
MySpace
Live Leak
Hulu

Video [...]



Broadcast Live From Your iPhone With Flixwagon

Jun 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Mobile Podcasting, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs, iPhone

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. [...]



LonelyGirl15 Creators Get $5 Million For EQAL Startup

Apr 17th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Networks, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

EQAL, the faux reality show startup of LonelyGirl15 creators Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, has raised $5 million in capital to help it produce new shows and international versions of its show:
Per Becket & Goodfried:
We’ve spent the last year and a half working hard at producing lonelygirl15, launching KateModern, and figuring out a business model [...]



CBS Moblogic Taps Into Video Podcasters’ Experience

Mar 7th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General

CBS Interactive, a division of old-media television network CBS, announded yesterday the debut of MOBLOGIC, a new daily web video show.
MOBLOGIC, which begins airing episodes today, paints itself as offering “news and politics with attitude.” The show will be hosted by Lindsay Campbell, the former host of video podcast Wallstrip (which started out as an [...]



ooVoo Introduces Real-Time Video Conversation Recording

Feb 6th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, General, Podcasting Services, Video

Real-time video chat site ooVoo today announced the release of the newest version of its real-time video chat service, ooVoo 1.5. ooVoo 1.5 offers new ways to create and share content including recording a video conversation for friends or colleagues or for posting online.
The video recording services is designed so that you can record conversations [...]



Fast Company Now Twice as ‘Naked’

Jan 28th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General, Video Podcasts

Writer and new/social media guru Shel Israel announced this morning that he will be joining his Naked Conversations co-author Robert Scoble (late of PodTech and former Microsoft blogger) at FastCompany.TV.
Israel’s new video podcast, GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), debuts March 3. The program will detail “social media’s impact on culture and business.” Israel comments, “While my primary [...]



New Revver Plugin Pairs Video With WordPress Blogs

Oct 23rd, 2007 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Video, Video Podcasts

Video sharing platform Revver now has a WordPress plug-in for users of the popular blogging application. Revver takes user-created video content, pairs it with targeted advertisements, and shares the revenue with the video’s creator. They also have an existing set of developer tools for non-WordPress users, for making video sharing websites.
Podcasting News took a look [...]



New Media Types ‘Converge’ in North Carolina This Weekend

Oct 18th, 2007 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Podcasting Events

Bloggers, podcasters, and assorted online enthusiasts are gathering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, (NC), Oct. 19 and Oct. 20 for ConvergeSouth, an annual conference focused on enhancing creativity online for everyone. Exploring “the online revolution in personal expression”, ConvergeSouth focuses on digital publishing, videocasting and podcasting.
Friday’s topic is “The Fifth [...]



YouTube Playing Favorites, Paying Popular Video Bloggers

May 4th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

YouTube has announced a new program to expand its revenue sharing program to top YouTube video bloggers, including LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary.
Participating user-partners will be treated as other content partners and will have the ability to control the monetization of the videos they create. Once they’ve selected a video to be [...]