Future:Media:Change

The Internet has surpassed TV and radio as the most essential medium for Americans, a new study finds, and roughly as many people would choose to live without TV as the Internet if forced to choose. Given the usage metrics reported in the rest of the study, it’s no wonder. Here are highlights of its findings.

The Green Market has assembled a great list of some of the funniest and innovative videos produced for the environment movement.



One of my favorites is a Steven Colbert piece where he makes fun of climate change deniers who claim that Washington’s recent snowfalls repudiate global warming.

No need for a TV to follow today’s marathon health care summit as video sites across the web featured Obama’s conversation with Republicans and Democrats. From the White House Live, to YouTube, to Ustream and LiveStream, each site offered their own tools for viewer participation.

See3 Communications announced a partnership deal with YouTube for the 4th Annual DoGooder NonProfit Video Awards. The contest will give away $10,000 in grands funded by the Case Foundation to the best video of the year in the YouTube NonProfit Program – a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions.

SynchTube allows you to watch YouTube videos with a selected group in real-time.

Let’s say you agree with the conspiracy theorists and think that scientists have been making up environmental data for years to scare the public into action. We’re going to cast aside the fact that thousands of scientists agree that climate change is a man made issue and work on the premise that it could be a hoax. Even if on the small chance it’s fake, it is still more practical to do something about the environment today.

Let’s say you agree with the conspiracy theorists and think that scientists have been making up data for years just to scare the public. Even if on the small change you’re right, it’s still smarter to do something about climate change today.

YouTube launched YouTube Direct today, a tool that let’s website administrators collect and display YouTube videos on their own site. Did you want a tool to collect videos from your supporters for a day of action? Looking your way Stand Up and 350! Well, this is the tool for you. Website administrators can use YouTube Direct to run a contest or video petition right on their own site.