After Perez Hilton recorded a single-day high of 13.9 million page views on the day after the Oscars, web research firm Hitwise found that the celeb gossip site’s top traffic source is Facebook. That’s crazy — for nearly as long as web analytics have been widely available, the top ...

Big rectangular screen, controls along the bottom, triangular play button, some kind of timeline. The fact that video players look mostly the same doesn’t stop every platform from making its own (see a collage of five control strips below). But we’re seeing some ways that video players a...

How does an old media guy do new media? With big budgets, but not too big. And with his eyes on the prize of crossing over any one project onto all sorts of platforms. In his “old world” experience of producing young adult media properties, Albie Hecht, CEO of web studio Worldwide Biggie...

Live video is a slam dunk for sporting events, bringing in major viewership the Olympics and golf’s U.S. Open and basketball’s March Madness, and significant paying audiences for sports from baseball to basketball to hockey to cricket. One sport that gets hardly any oldteevee love whatso...

I attended the 2009 TED conference last week, but I didn’t really. I was given a press pass to cover a simulcast of the event held at a separate venue two hours away. As the famed conference expands, its organizers are trying to find ways to include more people in real time, a laudable effort ...

Did you, like me, miss the premiere episode of The CollegeHumor Show, the new MTV series based on web videos made by CollegeHumor? Did you expect it would be online, since MTV seems to put many of its other original shows online, and hey, this one’s basically based on a web series? The College...

Matt Harding of Where the Hell is Matt? readily admits that he is famous for dancing badly around the world. Harding has made three videos over the last five years of him flailing about in 80 countries, alongside thousands of other people. The videos are hypnotic and happy and they have garnered, as...

Making documentaries about the earth’s fragility may have at one time been a unique idea. Al Gore needed only a dramatized slideshow, and we’ve all admired a crazy beautiful IMAX film or Planet Earth DVD set by this point. That was made all the more clear at the TED Conference today, whe...

Integrating a show with a social network, like Prom Queen on MySpace or KateModern on Bebo, is a great way to attract and interact with an audience. But the world’s biggest social network, Facebook, has no such original content initiatives. Its one content project, Facebook Diaries , a collabo...

Tomorrow I head down to Palm Springs to attend the 25th annual TED conference. I’m mulling over ways to cover the conference, so I thought I would post here as I sort things out. So first of all, TED is a pretty neat event, but it’s radically different from others I’ve covered. The...