Internet Broadcasting

Mizzou: Adorable Ten-Year-Old Boy Tells College Men How to Be Gentlemen (VIDEO)

Is chivalry dead? It doesn't have to be! That is, according to an adorable ten-year-old boy who knows how to be a gentleman -- and is spreading his message of kindness at the University of Missouri. "I may be a kid, but I'm a gentleman in the making," says Cole, age ten, in a video titled "The Ext ... More >>

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

The Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup Announcement Is Here [Updated With Complete Lineup]

[UPDATE: The complete lineup is now on page two of this post.] Right now, even as I type this, Weird Al Yankovic is in the midst of a three-hour long live streaming video announcement for this year's Bonnaroo Festival, a four-day event that takes place every year in Manchester, Tennessee. As one wh ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima: As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks who contract with them battle for money and creative control

The Future Is Fine: Streaming music isn't evil, it's just different

[VIDEO] Cool Time-Lapse Video of Downtown St. Louis, Taken Yesterday

Yesterday was an incredibly gorgeous day, weather-wise. A certain YouTube user named Ryan Williams captured it by taking a six-hour time-lapse video from his apartment, which appears to lie in the northern part of downtown.  Enjoy. 

8 More Cringe-Inducing Fan-Made Songs About the St. Louis Cardinals

Every sport has its fan-written songs, but in Major League Baseball today, it seems like no community seems to write as many as St. Louis Cardinals fans. And most of them are awful. See Also: - Cardinals World Series Fan Songs: A Remix, A Rally Squirrel And A Career High Point - A Whole New Ballga ... More >>

VIDEO: Missouri Bear Joins Hunter in Tree Stand

Black bears are making a big comeback in Missouri. Over the past seven years there have been dozens of sightings of the animals in the Show-Me State, including at least one report of a curious bear trying to join a hunter in his tree stand. In this month's Missouri Conservationist, hunter Daron Wi ... More >>

VMA Awards 2012: Handicapping the Video of the Year Nominees

The 2012 VMA nominees are out, and while there are certainly plenty of big names and obvious choices, there are a few surprises buried in there. Frank Ocean gets a nod, as do A$AP Rocky, Jack White and Regina Spektor. But those are curiosities -- Rihanna, Drake, Katy Perry et. al. get the lion's sha ... More >>

The Best of Covers of Mario Paint, Unlikely Video Game Composition Forefather

Mario is a versatile video game character. In his long career in the digital world, Mario raced go-karts, fought adversaries in hand-to-hand combat and even got kidnapped to teach kids about geography. Yet Nintendo's plumber extraordinaire may have inadvertently been a trailblazer in the realm of v ... More >>

This Is A Real YouTube Genre: "Riding Turtles With Rap Music"

Here's the great and terrible thing about YouTube: If you have an intensely specific desire to see something, like, say, animals riding very slow turtles with an overdubbed hip hop soundtrack, YouTube's seedy underbelly has probably already turned it into a genre of videos with its own playlist. H ... More >>

Twelve-Year Old Youtube Commenters: Your Favorite Music Decade Sucked, Too

Yes, we had some of these in the 1990s. Some of them couldn't even hold a guitar.​I am 24 years old. When I was twelve years old, and Napster was a real thing and not a horrifying tale RIAA parents told their RIAA children to get them to clean their plate, I was briefly under the delusion that ... More >>

Rebecca Black's "My Moment": The Fleeting YouTube Glitch That Almost Saved Us

Image via the video, which we will not link to for what should be obvious reasons.​Rebecca Black (she of... you know) has debuted her second single, "My Moment." It's way better than "Friday," but still terrible: A totally anonymous Disney-pop confection with a flat hook and mind-numbingly (b ... More >>

Transformers Meets Linkin Park: The Three Best Homemade AMVs

​These are the facts on the ground, as I see them: First, if a fourteen-year-old boy has ever loved a TV or movie franchise, there will be an AMV (from "Anime Music Video") about it. Second, if there's an AMV about something, half of the fourteen-year-old boys in the universe have synched the ... More >>

Rebecca Black's "Friday" Embroiled In Viral Video Equivalent Of Label Dispute

​It's only been a few months since you got tired of Rebecca Black's "Friday" for the first time, but now the singer and her masterpiece of viral awkwardness are embroiled in what amounts to the first ever viral video label dispute. Following ARK Music Factory's botched attempt earlier this wee ... More >>

Bill to Make Streaming Content a Felony: Here's How To Understand, Track and Get Involved

​Bill S. 978 would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a felony with a penalty of up to five years in prison. Specifically, it would incriminate those who disseminate ("publicly perform" in the language of the bill) copyrighted material ten or more times in a 180 day span. The ... More >>

White Girls Rap Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now", Savagely Assault Themselves

Image via​Look at them now; look at them now; look at them now--they're subverting implicit stereotypes about race and gender! In the last month, Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" has gone from a hilarious street single by a disgraced-and-then-undisgraced ex-teen-star to the progenitor of an unli ... More >>

Watch Foodies, the Foodie-Mocking Web Series

Foodies is a new Web series that mocks...wait for it...foodies. The first episode just bowed, and while the acting is, frankly, terrible, some of the satire is spot-on. (h/t: Grub Street)

Yeah, Pomplamoose sold out to Hyundai, but this indie duo just might revolutionize the music business

YouTube Video: St. Louis Cop Shown Beating Suspect

Update 3:20 p.m. We've found another video (below) on YouTube that should still play.Update 2:44 p.m. YouTube has removed the video stating it violates the company's policy of showing "shocking and disgusting content." Never mind that if you search YouTube for terms such as "knock out, street fight, ... More >>

YouTube Removes Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Motorola Video

Two weeks ago, we told you about the local activists who busted out an anti-Motorola song-and-dance routine at the Best Buy and AT&T stores in suburban Brentwood -- and we posted a video of the performance. That video quickly drew more than 35,000 hits.Last week, however, YouTube unceremoniousl ... More >>

Samwell Gets 15 More Minutes of Fame in New Jon Hamm Mash-Up

Of course you remember Samwell. How could you not remember Samwell? The Chicago flight attendant starred in the 2007 YouTube sensation "What What (In the Butt)" -- a video in which he coyly sings, "You want to do it in my butt?"Hey! Don Draper! Want to do it in his butt?​That video was produced by ... More >>

Vintage Video: David Letterman's Special Version of the Late Show for St. Louis

Bring on the St. Louis jokes!​A video has surfaced on YouTube of David Letterman's monologue from a 1997 episode of the Late Show featuring an exclusively St. Louis audience. In the video, posted by St. Louis TV and radio personality JC Corcoran, Letterman sings praise for the city, even busting o ... More >>

Incredible 1984 Prince Rehearsal Footage Surfaces

A few weeks ago, grainy footage of full-band Prince rehearsals surfaced on YouTube. Backed by the Revolution, Prince performs songs such as "Erotic City," "When Doves Cry" and "Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden." The sound quality is pristine -- every fluid groove, guitar lick and falsetto note comes thr ... More >>

Lamborghini and The Law: Can You Prosecute a Traffic Crime Based on YouTube Videos?

A Lamborghini similar to the one John Hill drives in a YouTube video.​The story of an exotic car dealer busted by the cops for test-driving Lamborghinis and Ferraris on a St. Louis highway and posting videos of his high-speed exploits on YouTube has generated a lot of chatter about the law and cri ... More >>

St. Louis Exotic Car Dealer Busted for Going 150 m.p.h. in Lamborghini, Putting Videos on YouTube

​Okay, folks. One more time. When you're breaking the law, don't videotape yourself doing it and then upload the clips to YouTube. Why? 'Cause it always comes back to bite you in the ass. As a local auto dealer recently discovered, this rule applies even if -- like James Bond -- you have an exotic ... More >>

Boxee Announces Boxee Beta and a New Box

Boxee made an announcement this week that makes the idea of ditching cable service for Internet-distributed video a much more tempting proposition. The announcement was a twofer: a new version of their software that provides a cable-box-like interface for Internet video and new hardware that will ru ... More >>

Digital Love: Checking back in with local Internet radio station 3WK

Literal Video: Air Supply, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All"

I've blogged about these literal videos before, but YouTube user dascottjr has taken these to a new level with a bunch of really great ones. The Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart" clip was deleted off YouTube (although you can see a snippet here) and this Crowded House one for "World Where Yo ... More >>

Google Fires Back at Hulu, Announces YouTube XL

YouTube XL Hulu's launch of Hulu Desktop last week might have been the little extra kick in the pants for Google to announce the YouTube version of the ten foot interface (a ten foot interface is a screen menu system that can be viewed and manipulated from across the room like yo ... More >>

The Verdict Is In: Hulu's Desktop Client is AWESOME!

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

St. Louis Video: Left Arm, "Rock N Roll Stereo" and "Black and Bluetooth"

More YouTube fun: Left Arm at the Kemper Art Museum last Friday, playing "Rock N Roll Stereo" and "Black and Bluetooth." I love posting these local live videos I see on YouTube, so if you played a gig and filmed some -- or discovered a few random ones via searches -- send 'em my way!

Video: SpongeBob Got Back! Motley Crue, Unk and Europe Bonuses

I can't believe nobody sent this to me yet: A Spongebob Squarepants version of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back," as a Burger King commercial. Fabulously twisted. Incidentally, the SpongeBob mash-ups on YouTube are all shades of hilarious. How about "The Final SpongeDown"?

Jennifer Hudson and Robin Thicke at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Thursday, April 23

I'm just full of concert announcements today! Robin Thicke and Jennifer Hudson are playing at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Thursday, April 23. Tickets range from $39.50 to $85, and go on sale Friday, March 6. Both artists' videos aren't embeddable via YouTube (ah well), but rest assured the talent gr ... More >>

An Open Letter to MTV Regarding MTVMusic

St. Louis Video: Descendents, "Sour Grapes" at Mississippi Nights

Happy 9-9 Day!

St. Louis Video: The Descendents, "Get the Time" @ Mississippi Nights,

YouTube After Hours

Kill time outside of work

Journey Finds Its New Singer, Arnel Pineda, on YouTube

Battles, Mirrored: Hot Jam of the Year

Video Ethics

Should there be rules about who gets credit for discovering popular online video clips?

What’s in Pandora’s box? The RIAA, Journey and Karl Marx, among others.

Thursday Afternoon Random Web Links: News You Can Use, Abuse and Peruse

You Play, They Pay: Internet Radio's Demise?

Small Webcasters Dealt Death Blow

YouTube: Anyone Else Feeling Anything Right Now?

You Play, They Pay

How much should it cost Internet radio operators like Jim and Wanda Atkinson to satisfy your cravings for streaming rock & roll?

Caught in the Web

Internet-only radio stations take a beating

Air Piracy

Internet-only radio faces a shaky future thanks to the grasping hands of the Recording Industry Association of America