If you like ninjas and you like pirates, tomorrow may be just about the best day ever.
Sept 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day - and this year, the Ninja from AskANinja plans to “attack swashbucklers and scurvy dogs.”
The Ninja will be chatting live about pirates at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ask-a-ninja-live or http://fans.askaninja.com 3pm PDT/6pm EDT on [...]

Not twelve hours had passed after the end of the Democratic Party’s National Convention in Denver, before presumptive GOP Presidential nominee John McCain this morning named whom he’d chosen to be his Vice-President on the Republican ticket.
Not three hours had passed after McCain’s nomination of first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin before little known facts about [...]

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 [...]

Blog Maverick Mark Cuban argues that the best way to increase your audience for Internet video is to allow downloads:
Many of the major video sites have added this option, but its amazing that newspaper, TV and other sites that have recently added video, for the most part do not.
With online video, maybe adding the word [...]

Tim Street, creator of the video podcast French Maid TV, is live-streaming a French Maid TV shoot, via UStream. (Note: the embed has been updated to point to video from the streaming event. )
French Maid TV was an early breakout hit among video podcasts, each episode a 5 - 10 minute “how to” lesson, taught [...]

On the evening of the last batch of U.S. primary elections, Presidential candidate Barack Obama wrapped enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.
Although Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton has not formally ended her Presidential bid, it is looking fairly assured that Obama will, after his official nomination at this summer’s convention in Denver, face off [...]

Mobile broadcast network FlyTunes has added video and audio podcasts to its offerings, in addition to a new user interface and a customizable channel guide.
The new video and audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment, politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. FlyTunes now offers users over 350 channels [...]

Okay, a confession here: I spent much of Earth Day today, a beautiful sunny day, outdoors. Away from my laptop computer. Away from wi-fi. It seemed a fitting way to celebrate the thirty-ninth annual Earth Day, riding my bike and enjoying cold beverages at a succession of locally-owned establishments.
One thought that kept coming back to [...]

Kids just got a great justification for getting bigger iPods - PBS & Apple have added a large variety of educational programming to iTunes U:
From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with top [...]

The Salt Lake Tribune has an interesting article that takes a look at the guys behind the wildly successful video podcast, WillItBlend?
George Wright and Tom Dickson have managed to do two things on the Web that advertising execs worldwide have yet to achieve: launch a successful viral video campaign - and make money from it.
“We’re [...]