A prelaunch webcast, live blogs, podcast, pictures and videos will highlight NASA’s Web coverage of space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-127 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour is scheduled to lift off this Saturday, June 13, at 7:17 a.m. Eastern (US) time, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Mission coverage will begin with a webcast on [...]
Rocketboom, a long-running daily video podcast, is looking for new talent to anchor the New York-based program, and its new West Coast desk. Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron posted the two job openings today on Internet classifieds site Craigslist under “tv video radio jobs.”
Responsibilities for the anchor jobs include “both appearing on camera and contributing behind [...]
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (New Mexico) is reaching out to his constituents by several different media. Bingaman has launched two video podcasts, a YouTube channel, and keeps in touch with voters via his Facebook page.
Why two different video podcast series? One podcast is a short (less than 2 minutes) weekly overview of Congressional and New [...]
Apple Insider reports that Stanford University will be publishing a video podcasts and slides from its “iPhone Application Programming” course via iTunes U beginning this week.
Official, for-credit enrollment in the class is limited, but the public may “audit” the class via podcast for free. Required “school supplies” for the class include an Intel-powered Mac, and [...]
The Wall St. Journal reports today that video podcaster and energetic force of nature Gary Vaynerchuk has signed a “seven-figure, 10-book deal” with publisher Harper Studio. The first of the series, “Crush It! Turn Your Passion into Profits in a Digital World,” will be published in September.
The publishing contract is noteworthy for a couple of [...]
Google video site YouTube today announced a number of new options for content creators and consumers who want to “take their videos offline.” The site has entered into working arrangements with several “partners” to allow sharing their videos “universally” and away from an Internet connection.
Citing an interest among some of their content creators to share [...]
A new version of free, open source HD video player Miro launched today. The makers of Miro 2.0 say that this is the “biggest update in the project’s history.”
Miro is a collaborative project developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a non-profit organization, and by volunteers around the world. PCF has a mission to create [...]
Podcast network Wizzard Media announced that it has signed an agreement with Attention Span Media LLC to distribute the studio’s “Sock Tube Presents” movie parody show.
“Sock Tube Presents” is a series of movie parodies starring tube sock puppets. (The current feature is a sock puppet rendition of “Slumdog Millionaire.”) Kara Swisher of the Wall Street [...]
Rise and Shine.tv is in the midst of a daily holiday songwriting project, and everyone is invited to help create the songs, via the Internet. The exercise in spontaneity and creativity is the brainchild of Dean Whitbread, co-founder of the UK Podcasters’ Association (and a talented songwriter and musician in his own right).
Rise and Shine [...]
For about fifteen years, our family has had a tradition of a shared Advent calendar. Every day from December 1 - 24, the children take turns opening the little packages, one for each day of the Advent season.
After a disastrously messy first year’s (chocolate) calendar when our boys were toddlers, we’ve had many years’ enjoyment [...]