Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation on the Anthropology of YouTube at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.
It’s a great presentation, jam-packed with information, but with enough new media references to make it a lot of fun, too.
More info on Professor Wesch at his Kansas State University site on Digital Ethnography.

Video community site Seesmic has announced that it has partnered with Six Apart, the maker of Movable Type to provide Movable Type users and their readers with the ability to integrate video comments alongside traditional text-based comments.
Seesmic already offers a plug-in for integrating its video system into WordPress sites.
The MT plug in is a free [...]

Where the Hell Is Matt (2008), above, is an amazing video that follows Matt Harding around the world, doing a funny little dance and getting lots of other people to dance with him.
It’s also a fun example of the power of vlogging and Internet video.

The stars & creators of the latest Indiana Jones movie answered questions today via the microvlogging community Seesmic.
Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur explains:
The original idea was to have journalists around the World ask private questions to the actors and they would answer in private, as a way to give access to them. Instead of a [...]

Quommunication has released a premium WordPress theme, Video, designed for video sites.
According to the company, “Once Video is added to your WordPress you only have to find or upload any video you like, go to it’s page and search the embed function and copy the code in WordPress to the body of your new post. [...]

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 [...]

Robert Scoble left PodTech in mid-January to work for business magazine FastCompany. His new videoblogging gig, FastCompany TV, launched today. In his welcome video, Scoble lolls around on the beach in a seaside frolic (not kidding), and explains the company’s initial two video channels.
FastCompany Live, the more immediately interactive of the channels, will feature [...]

Utterz, a service that lets you post multimedia to blogs and social networks from your mobile phone, has expanded its service to 17 new countries.
The company has also introduced new online video and audio capture, and “conversational threading” capabilities to help users engage and connect with friends, followers and social groups, both online and [...]

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 [...]

Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes:
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always thinking about how the improvements we make [...]