Dave Winer, one of the fathers of podcasting, is calling out video podcasters and vloggers for becoming “everyday papparazzi”: The video cameras are so cheap and so are Internet connections, we’re heading to a place where even the most casual of encounters may be captured and broadcast.I want to just be a normal schlub, sitting [...]

Forbes has posted their take on the Web Celeb 25, a list of who they consider to be the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the Internet. Their pick for the No. 1 Web Celeb? Faux jailbait vlogger Lonelygirl15. Vloggers and video podcasters are well-represented on the list. Other Internet videographers to make the [...]

10 Zen Monkeys has published their take on the 10 Worst Vlogs of 2006. While we don’t agree with all their choices, it would be hard to beat their #1 pick – the accurately named Dogs Barking in Cars vlog. “Behold the future of multimedia,” writes 10 Zen Monkey’s Lou Cabron. “It‚Äôs a terrible idea [...]

PC World has released its list of The Top 21 Tech Screwups of 2006. Rocketboom made the list for its controversial handling of Amanda Congdon’s exit: She was the first star of the video blogging revolution. But last July, Rocketboom.com’s quirky-yet-perky Amanda Congdon parted ways with co-boomer Andrew Baron. The reasons behind the breakup were [...]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has a few choice words about ABC’s new video blog featuring former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon. He’s also got some interesting points to make about mainstream media’s attempts to clone the success of indie vlogs: “I’m going to set aside all of the technical problems everyone has already mentioned with the [...]

New research by interactive agency Sharpe Partners has found that 54 percent of adult Internet users currently create their own video offline, but only 11 percent actually upload it to the Internet. That gap, according to Sharpe Partners’ Kathy Sharpe, represents a huge opportunity for software and system providers that can help consumers migrate their [...]

Amanda Congdon, co-founder and former host of Rocketboom, is developing a comedy program for HBO. “HBO is exactly the place where I want to be,” Congdon said. “I’m most interested in playing in that new dimension with two parallel levels of programming, online and on TV.” According to Congdon, she’s aiming for a multiplatform property [...]

The Vloggies, a video blogging award presented by PodTech, were held Saturday, November 4th, in a ceremony in San Francisco. The ceremony was hosted by PodTech’s Irina Slutsky, and soap-opera star turned vlogger Daniel McVicar. Winners included Rocketboom, Ryanne Hodson, Ask a Ninja, Diggnation and Galacticast. Josh Wolf, who is currently in jail for refusing [...]

The Halloween Videoblog Festival has a collection of Halloween-themed vlog episodes The videos range from the silly to some “vlogoween” creepiness, with a surprising number of puppet hosts along the way. In Ernesto Loves Halloween (.mov), RSS News’ culture and sex correspondent Ernesto shares his love for Halloween and sexy senoritas.

Blogger Greg Verdinos writes about the irony of the Nielsen BuzzMetrics clients-only CGM Summit 2006, held last week: “The agenda is cram packed with sessions covering all aspects of Consumer Generated Media CGM including an overview of where we are today, why people do this stuff, where CGM is going in the future, and how [...]