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.

Digg announced an update today that puts viral videos front and center on the site’s home page.
“We’ve gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page,” said Digg’s¬†Daniel Burka. ¬†”We‚Äôve gotten a lot of feedback that the videos are entertaining but people miss [...]

YouTube has introduced a new mobile offering that promises to blow out your mobile Internet plan.
The mobile version of the site, available at m.youtube.com, provides a selection of popular videos from the site, including top videos from the Featured, Recently Added, Most Viewed, Top Rated, Top Favorites, Entertainment, and People categories.
YouTube warns:
YouTube Mobile is a [...]

Blip.tv has announced a new way for content creators to make money with online videos. The model, “do-it-yourself targeted advertising,” allows shows to promote products, services and causes that are directly relevant to their content. The do-it- yourself (DIY) ads can be used by shows to sell t-shirts, DVDs or other promotional products in addition [...]

User-generated online video exploded in 2006. By the end of the year, user-generated videos made up 47% of the total online video market in the US. By 2010 more than half (55%) of all the video content consumed online in the US will be user generated, representing 44 billion video streams.
Although accounting for more than [...]

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 for [...]

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 never really made [...]

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 video [...]

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 video [...]

TiVo has announced a major new initiative to let TiVo subscribers convert and transfer broadband video from their PC to their television sets.
The move affirms the growing importance of video podcasts, vlogs and other Internet video to the future of television.
Through an expansion of its Desktop PC software later this year, TiVo subscribers will [...]