Salvia's Hallucinogetic Popularity May Thwart Medical Use

"Prohibition Could Prevent Promising Medical Studies Salvia has recieved recent media and legislative attention and is becoming criminalized at a fast pace. Researchers worry as there is promising data into possible medical uses for the powerful substance. According...

Music fans back legal downloads

"  Music pirates can be deterred by warnings from their internet service provider (ISP), suggests a survey. Almost 75% of music pirates would stop if told to by their ISP, the survey of 1500 UK consumers...

YouTube beams up 'Star Trek' for long-form video

Youtube is experimenting with sanctioned longer-form video clips... entire TV episodes, preceded and interrupted by ads. Basically, emulating television.""We are starting to test full-length programming on YouTube,...

YouTubes play back tool keeps a check on inane commenters

"In a move to improve the quality of discussion on its pages, YouTube has launched a new feature, called "audio preview," to humiliate commenters by making them listen to their posts before they submit them."

Be Careful Where you Click

"Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses ...

Google adds click-to-buy feature on YouTube

"Google Inc. added another jewel to its crown nearly two years ago with the $1.65 billion acquisition of online video powerhouse YouTube. It instantly transformed Google into the dominant player in online video, an...

YouTube to YouShop? Home shopping service unveiled

YouTube unveiled its answer to the home shopping network, Tuesday, with the introduction of a shopping feature now attached to its video offerings.  The new YouTube shopping service will feature a series of...

Interview - Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty

Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, End of America and Give Me Liberty in a 1/2 hr interview on talkingsticktv. Lots of scary observations about the Bush Administration/Congress' turning America into a police state, such as Northcom stationing combat brigade troops on US...

Congressmen finally allowed on YouTube

"Congressmen finally allowed on YouTube"" Members of Congress can finally use Web sites like YouTube, after committees in both the House and Senate adopted new rules allowing members to post content outside of the .gov domain, as long as it is for official purposes. The...

YouTube to Stream Live Concert Event

YouTube is getting set to introduce its much rumoured live-streaming video service -- and they're going to do it in a big way."YouTube Live" is a massive concert event to be held in San Francisco on November 22nd...

Kindergarten Killer pulled by Finnish game site for kids

Kindergarten Killer is a flash media game geared towards tweens and teens, and in the wake of the Finland school shooting earlier this month, a Finnish children's gaming site has pulled the tasteless cyber-toy from...

YouTube Copycat High School Shootings - the New Social Statement?

MATTI Juhani Saari has one thing in common with Pekka Eric Auvinen, Jokela High School shooter, and the Virginia Tech murderer:  they were all ardent admirers of the Columbine shooters, misfits Klebold and...

Swedish Boy, 15, Arrested in YouTube School Massacre Copycat Threat

A SWEDISH boy, 15, has been arrested in Orebro, Central Sweden after posting a vdioe on YouTube threatening to emulate the Finnish school massacres.   In the meantime, Finnish police have pleaded with the...

Google's New Smartphone Wows Consumers, But Enterprises Must Wait

"Google (NSDQ: GOOG), T-Mobile, and htc launched the latest salvo in the smartphone wars as they unveiled the first handset to support Google's Android operating system. The G1 smartphone, manufactured by HTC and...

Video Story: 1st Debate Reaction from indieTV

It seemed to me that McCain was to angry, hunch over, and now he has a new YouTube video!

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