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Martha Stewart Moves Content to Hulu

Good news for Martha fans: Three Martha Stewart Living shows launched on Hulu and Hulu Plus yesterday, and more episodes will become available every Monday. Once "From Martha's Kitchen," "Emeril's Table," and "DIY Crafts" wrap up, Hulu will begin to unveil more stuff from the archive (over 15,000 ... More >>

Just Like Being There: The Economics Of Livestreaming Concerts

Tonight, at 10 P.M., you can see the Dirty Projectors live. They're playing here in town, in support of their just-released new album, Swing Lo Magellan, at Music Hall of Williamsburg. If you didn't get a ticket, or just don't feel like leaving your apartment, you can cruise over to the YouTube home ... More >>

All Of The Arguments About Digital Music, Summarized

Piracy is theft. Piracy isn't theft because nothing physical is being stolen. You are taking money out of the hands of artists. Artists were already being ripped off by labels. Artists can make the money back by touring. Kickstarter.

Party Supplies' Five-Step Guide To Making Music From YouTube

"I'm like a magician!" says Party Supplies, the Williamsburg-based producer who rolls with the Fool's Gold label and whose latest output is Blue Chips, which he recorded with Flushing's finest, Action Bronson. When lauding his musical sorcery, Party Supplies is referring to his talent of making enti ... More >>

100 & Single: fun., Gotye, M83, EDM, And The Beginning Of The Hot 100's Spotify Years

How do you know when you're at the dawn of a new pop era? It's not like someone sends a memo. Sure, occasionally there's a well-timed cultural event that offers a hint—the disastrous Altamont festival in December 1969, which signaled that the flower-power dream was over, or Comiskey Park's Di ... More >>

The Cinnamon Challenge: Don't Try This at Home, Kids

Marilyn Hagerty might be the biggest internet food meme of the moment, but another culinary craze on the internet has spiked in popularity in recent weeks: the cinnamon challenge. If you're not already aware of the challenge, the purpose of it is to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon without water and, ... More >>

Barack Obama Takes Over the Internet, Runnin' Scared Live Blogs the Prez's Video Stream

In what looks like an attempt to win "cool" points with many of the young, tech-savvy voters he has pissed off during his presidency, Barack Obama is hosting a Google Hangout this afternoon, where he'll answer a few not-at-all cherry-picked questions via live video stream. (We hope a lot of questio ... More >>

Franchesca Ramsey, Vlogger, On Making "Shit White Girls Say...To Black Girls"

Yesterday, graphic designer, vlogger and comedian Franchesca Ramsey posted her video "Shit White Girls Say...to Black Girls," the latest (and to us, the funniest) YouTube video riff on "Shit Girls Say." It got over 1.5 million views its debut day. The Voice spoke to Ramsey by phone this morning to c ... More >>

Why Do People Want Rick Perry To Be More "Disliked" Than Rebecca Black?

​You may have heard that Rick Perry's mind-meltingly horrible anti-gay campaign ad has more dislikes on YouTube than Rebecca Black's "Friday." The story has been covered by Time, the Today Show, and the Huffington Post, among many others. There's only one problem: that's not actually true. The ... More >>

This Football Sunday, Please Don't Videotape Your Child Crying

​Sundays in America are the best Sundays in the world--that's why God gave U.S. citizens the day off when he wrote us the Bible. There's nothing better for a family to do today than get together on the couch, microwave up some cheese dip, and watch eleven hours of football. These are great tim ... More >>

Qwikster, Netflix's New DVD by Mail Service, Has Some Problems (See: Pot-Smoking Muppet)

​Qwikster! Have you heard of it? If you haven't, it's Netflix's new attempt to break its mail-in DVD service away from its online streaming Netflix Instant service, and, along with having a verifiably ridiculous name, it has other problems as well. For one, the @Qwikster Twitter account is cur ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"

Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.​On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>

Netflix Fee Increase: Humanity's Most Trying Moment

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we take a look at Netflix's monthly fee increase and the fervor surrounding it. The Internet boldly takes a stand and says, "Six ... More >>

Did a Hacker Take Over the Screens in Times Square With an iPhone? Probably Not!

In the above YouTube video, the user BITcrash44 claims to hack the video screens in Times Square using just an iPhone, a weather balloon, a transmitter, and something called a "video repeater." But like anything amazing that happens on the Internet, a lot of people doubt it's real. It might just be ... More >>

The Civil Wars

Subway Dancer Hits Head Hard, Earns Tip

Master curator of New York City YouTube videos NYC the Blog brings us a Friday morning treat of the America's Funniest Home Videos variety. A dance duo is killing it up and down the subway car, working up to a big stunt better practiced in the open air of Washington Square Park. Using his partner's ... More >>

YouTube Stoners Calling For Obama To Answer "Burning" Questions

Ya dig?​YouTube is now taking submissions for its second annual "Ask Obama" online town hall meeting. Naturally, marijuana legalization advocates have spammed the YouTube channel with questions about their favorite pastime and the "world saving herb." On Thursday, at 2:30 p.m., some of the top ... More >>

Million Dollar Hoax? Guy Claims He's Getting a Huge Gift, Promotes Comedy Show

Craig Rowin, a local comedian, made a series of YouTube videos in which he asked for one million dollars simply because he thought "it would be awesome." He asked Steven Spielberg specifically, and then he asked Nike or Apple. It was a good gimmick, resulting in about 50,000 cumulative YouTube views ... More >>

Electra in a One-Piece Moves the Greeks Online

Social media gets gory

Kanye West Will Be Hosting Another Ustream Chat Today at 4 p.m.

Rap-Up​Back in early August, Kanye West made his Ustream debut, perching out on a Korean hotel balcony, the ocean stretching into the distance behind him. "I actually don't know a rapper before me that liked white people more than me, in all honesty," he said into the glow of his own computer ... More >>

Amid Cablevision Confusion, News Corp. Pulls Fox From Hulu, Then Puts It Back

​We told you this morning about the dispute between Cablevision and Fox parent company News Corp., which resulted in three million homes in the New York area losing access to the television stations Fox 5 and My9. As Saturday progressed, the battle got uglier, with News Corp. blocking Cablevis ... More >>

How Kanye West's Twitter Killed Music Magazines

​Today, Slate posts "an all-access, totally non-exclusive interview with the would-be king of hip-hop," Kanye West. The conceit is as follows: though the rapper stopped giving many interviews in the aftermath of his mother's death, in 2007, he's lately been on "a new-media-heavy promo offensiv ... More >>

This is What It Looks Like When Someone Jumps on the Subway Tracks and Lives (Video)

​Obviously we wouldn't show you YouTube footage of someone getting run over by an F-Train, I think. But we take no issue in showing you a YouTube video of some woman jumping on the track, lying down, and then being pulled out before the train comes because she realizes she jumped on the subway ... More >>

YouTube Will Spend $5 Million on Quality Traffic-Monger Viral Videomakers

​Calling all YouTube Stars! On Friday at VidCon, a 3-day online video industry conference, YouTube announced it will begin paying amateur video creators to create content to attract mainstream advertisers. Awesome. The ubiquitous giant of a site is not hurting for traffic, but it's a quality v ... More >>

The Guggenheim Wants Your "Creative Videos" From YouTube

​In the past five years, YouTube has facilitated your avoidance behavior with numerous cultural phenomenons such as impersonations and making fun of people. Now the Guggenheim is cashing in on the Internet's split-second-of-fame dumping grounds for their upcoming art exhibition, YouTube Play: ... More >>

Too Weird Not To Mention: Watch A Live Stream Of A Bunch Of Cats Listening To The New Devo Record

​So Devo has a new record, Something for Everybody, out today. Their first one in a while. But as they realize money's tight, we're in a recession, there's lot of competition for your entertainment dollar, etc., they've both contrived a free preview for you and convened a focus group. Thus, he ... More >>

Little Boys Striking Diva Poses in YouTube Videos!

In a Daily Beast article, Jacob Bernstein addresses the rash of adorable kids of the male persuasion flouncing around in YouTube videos as Beyonce and Lady Gaga.

Annoying Orange Seeks to Irritate a Wider Audience via Television

Dane Boedigheimer, creator of the Annoying Orange online video series, already makes ad revenue probably in the thousands of dollars a month and, according to the Wall Street Journal, has an agent seeking a deal for a TV show starring his irritating fruit character. Using the superimposed human mo ... More >>

News Roundup: Nine Inch Nails, Peter King, Beck, Online Radio

-- After abruptly announcing that Nine Inch Nails's appearance at Bonnaroo last month would be the band's last US show ever, Trent Reznor has decided to let fans down a little slower. NIN will play a series of holy-shit-they're-playing-there club shows later this summer to mark the band's supposed f ... More >>

New Rye Rye Video, Directed By M.I.A.: "Bang"

Sometime NYC-resident M.I.A. makes her directing debut with the video to Rye Rye's "Bang"--it's a suitably epileptic video for a pretty epileptic song, plus it's got tons of dancing, and lately, that's all anybody wants to look at again, right? Also, apparently this song played over the credits of ... More >>

YouTube Delight: Joey Heatherton Kicks and Twirls

I can stake a tiny little claim to pop culture history, which is that when John Waters was looking for '60s singer-dancer-actress Joey Heatherton to put in his movie Cry-Baby in 1990, I was able to provide him with her contact information. I know people in high places! And looking at this YouTube ... More >>

Warner Pulls Music Vids from YouTube; More to Come?

YouTube Cracks Down on Porn

YouTube Slowly Turning to ProTube

Chris Crocker Leaves YouTube, Alone

Robert Jackson to Audience: "Shut Up"

The Year's Best Music Videos

Blast from Past: Rove and Rather in '72

Billyburg Has Its Own Borat: "Why People Do Hang Shoes?"

YouTube Rap Videos, Please Break Up

YouTube Flirts with Legitimacy

The Rebound of Internet Radio

Hits and Bits

Cheap and simple software choices for capturing webcasts on your iPod

Everything's on Sale

Universal Reversals, Webcast Battles, RIAA-Safe Tuneage

All Hands Off the Keyboard!

Pseudo's and DEN's Biggest Mistake? Asking People to Stop Typing and Watch

Adventures in Hi-Fi

Digital Kills the Radio Star