Internet Broadcasting

Rage Against the Machinima: YouTube's Stars Battle Networks

Let's All Laugh at How Terrible These St. Louis Cardinals Fan Songs Are

[Editor's note: SF Weekly's sister paper in St. Louis recently put together a list of eight rather hilariously unflattering fan-made tributes to the St. Louis Cardinals. Obviously, they originally meant it with some affection. But given that our beloved Giants are currently battling the Cards for th ... More >>

Dead Kennedys Say After 14M YouTube Streams, They've Seen Too Few Dollars

It's supposed to work like this: Artists put their music up for streaming on YouTube, the site sells (annoying) ads around the content, and then splits the revenue with the artist according to some predetermined formula. So how much does YouTube owe artists? The site says it pays tens of millions o ... More >>

Oakland Soldiers YouTube Video Guide

Type "Oakland Soldiers" into the YouTube search box and 18 pages worth of highlights and interviews load up. As suggested in last week's feature story, Swoosh Dreams, the teenage ballers on this AAU team are written about and viewed all over the internet. There are three primary genres of summer le ... More >>

He'd Die to Be Famous

Type "Oakland Soldiers" into the YouTube search box and 18 pages worth of highlights and interviews load up. As suggested in last week's feature story, Swoosh Dreams, the teenage ballers on this AAU team are written about and viewed all over the internet. There are three primary genres of summer le ... More >>

Deli Radio Streams Music Based on Who's Playing in Town

​ Here's a sensible idea: What if there was an Internet radio station or streaming service that would play music only from bands who are performing soon in your city in the next week, two weeks, or month? Now there is: It's called Deli Radio, and a cool, basic version of the site is up and wo ... More >>

Pandora Goes Public for $3 Billion. Happy Face?

Ninety million users, zero profits.​First, a word of congratulations to Pandora, the Oakland-based Internet radio service whose initial public stock offering today resulted in a nearly $235 million windfall to its investors. The company is now valued at $3 billion. You can buy its stock on the New ... More >>

Obama Speaking at Facebook: Live Stream

Watch live streaming video from facebookguests at livestream.com As you may have heard, Barack Obama has swung through the Bay Area on a money run. He has big plans while he is here, but right now he is speaking at Facebook: Check out the live stream above. The Zuck himself is putting some question ... More >>

YouTube: City Hall Petitioned to Accept Public Comment Via Video

Wants to make public hearings more unbearable​Remember in January when Phil Ting carved out a tiny, tiny place for himself in the mayoral race by protesting Muni parking tickets? We had almost started to forget about Ting again until today when he fired people up with his proposal for City Hall st ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Still ranting....On San Francisco's Ustream

Now he's just showing off​Just when you thought you had heard enough from actor Charlie Sheen and his questionable antics, he brings his new persona live... to San Francisco. After his (fill in the blank)-induced rant led producers of CBS to cancel Sheen's television series Two and a Half Men, She ... More >>

Gavin Newsom -- You Can Still Watch Him on Demand

Technologically active again​When former Mayor Gavin Newsom left City Hall, his staid YouTube addresses that people had grown accustomed to went right with him. But Newsom's hiatus from YouTube was short-lived. Just barely a month as the state Lieutenant Governor, Newsom sent out his first video a ... More >>

Chekhov at Warp Speed

Technologically active again​When former Mayor Gavin Newsom left City Hall, his staid YouTube addresses that people had grown accustomed to went right with him. But Newsom's hiatus from YouTube was short-lived. Just barely a month as the state Lieutenant Governor, Newsom sent out his first video a ... More >>

John Dennis, Republican Challenger to Nancy Pelosi, Seeks YouTube Fame

Will John Dennis be our next Congressman, or next YouTube laugh riot -- or both?​Harking to the analogies you probably last dealt with on the SAT, John Dennis is to Nancy Pelosi as squirrel is to highway-driving big rig. The Republican Congressional candidate will not beat the Speaker of the House ... More >>

Gen “Look at ME!”

Will John Dennis be our next Congressman, or next YouTube laugh riot -- or both?​Harking to the analogies you probably last dealt with on the SAT, John Dennis is to Nancy Pelosi as squirrel is to highway-driving big rig. The Republican Congressional candidate will not beat the Speaker of the House ... More >>

Video of Baby Carriage-Pushing Woman's Rough Arrest Triggers S.F. Police Probe

​A video of San Francisco Police either throwing or pushing a profanity-spewing, baby carriage-pushing woman to the pavement during her Sunday arrest has led to a probe of the officer involved. The footage was posted briefly on YouTube before being removed. You can see the video after the jump, ho ... More >>

YouTube Explains Top Secret 'News Experiment' to Local Media, But Doesn't Really

Sometimes this new media transition thing can be so, how you say, awkward. According to SFAppeal blogger Eve Batey, Google-owned video aggregator YouTube is up to some hush hush citizen journalism project here in our very own San Francisco. Apparently part of a select group of "San Francisco blogger ... More >>

American Idol Breaks Some Hearts

Were you upset that Crystal Bowersox lost to Lee DeWyze on American Idol? I did not think so, but I've heard through the internet that some people become completely invested in the show, and this defeat might have stung for some, especially for the mother of YouTube user "nyturkeyduster," who says ... More >>

Cloud technology and the future of portable music

Were you upset that Crystal Bowersox lost to Lee DeWyze on American Idol? I did not think so, but I've heard through the internet that some people become completely invested in the show, and this defeat might have stung for some, especially for the mother of YouTube user "nyturkeyduster," who says ... More >>

Too Impatient for YouTube? Follow Prop. 8 Trial on Twitter.

Now on YouTube ... and Twitter!​Since getting a pass into today's high-profile Prop. 8 trial at the city's federal courthouse essentially required getting a favor because you're Atticus Finch's kids, the rest of us will have to watch on YouTube. If you thought a Web site that vaulted to cultural u ... More >>

Ten years of music videos: A treadmill, a stanky romance, and a YouTube dream

Now on YouTube ... and Twitter!​Since getting a pass into today's high-profile Prop. 8 trial at the city's federal courthouse essentially required getting a favor because you're Atticus Finch's kids, the rest of us will have to watch on YouTube. If you thought a Web site that vaulted to cultural u ... More >>

Mistakes Were Made

Now on YouTube ... and Twitter!​Since getting a pass into today's high-profile Prop. 8 trial at the city's federal courthouse essentially required getting a favor because you're Atticus Finch's kids, the rest of us will have to watch on YouTube. If you thought a Web site that vaulted to cultural u ... More >>

Microcaster DJs get screwed under new licensing fees

Now on YouTube ... and Twitter!​Since getting a pass into today's high-profile Prop. 8 trial at the city's federal courthouse essentially required getting a favor because you're Atticus Finch's kids, the rest of us will have to watch on YouTube. If you thought a Web site that vaulted to cultural u ... More >>

Pandora Rolls Out Limit on Free Listening

Locally-based Internet radio site Pandora announced today that it's being forced to put a cap on the number of hours its users can stream free tunes from their individualized stations. Soon all that unlimited listening will be corralled into 40 free hours a month. Folks who want to spend more time o ... More >>

Cathode Love

Locally-based Internet radio site Pandora announced today that it's being forced to put a cap on the number of hours its users can stream free tunes from their individualized stations. Soon all that unlimited listening will be corralled into 40 free hours a month. Folks who want to spend more time o ... More >>

Rappers with low self-esteem: Bragging about going broke

Locally-based Internet radio site Pandora announced today that it's being forced to put a cap on the number of hours its users can stream free tunes from their individualized stations. Soon all that unlimited listening will be corralled into 40 free hours a month. Folks who want to spend more time o ... More >>

Saturday: YouTube Live

Last Night: YouTube LiveHerbst Pavilion, Fort MasonNovember 22, 2008Review by Tamara PalmerSee a full YouTube Live slideshow by Sam Heller here.Better than: Going to the dentist.Watch: The show (but don't say I didn't warn you).Remembering life without YouTube isn't easy; it has permeated our online ... More >>

Buckethead, YouTube Live! and Eddie Money: Your Weekend Hitlist

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

SF Weekly Video: St. Stupid's Day Parade

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

Google: Is Censorship "Evil" or Just "Evil-ish?"

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

Online Pandora Radio Invites You to a Get Together in Oakland February 7th

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

Fresh from controversy, Lane Hartwell to head up Tuesday night panel discussion and ask the immortal question: what's protecting artists on the web?

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

Interpol Streams Live EP

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

RIAA's purse strings clipped? Pretty please?

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

BAGel Radio Nominated for PLUG Award

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Which Assholes Are Banning the Net?

By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't s ... More >>

YouTube Cofounders Throw A Steaming Pile Of PR At Oprah

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You Tubed at The Climate Theater

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Digby and Hollywood Records: "Green" is the new "Green"

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Is YouTube Doomed? AdAge: "YouTube is the new AOL -- in all the worst possible ways."

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Net Radio Royalty EXTRA -- UPDATES: David Byrne, Cover feature

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Dark Payola Emerges

“Direct licensing” is the new threat to Webcasting´s meritocracy of music

Band Width

“Direct licensing” is the new threat to Webcasting´s meritocracy of music

The Day the Music Dies

Internet radio stations like SomaFM have launched bands and influenced what mainstream DJs play. On July 15, they could be gone forever

This Ain't Your Children's YouTube ...

Google bought YouTube for something like a bazillion dollars last week. Is this a deathknell for the popular video clip service, or the start of an even bigger, better Internet library?

Dream On

Google bought YouTube for something like a bazillion dollars last week. Is this a deathknell for the popular video clip service, or the start of an even bigger, better Internet library?

All quiet on the Webcaster front

Congress and the music industry fight over Internet radio

Paying through the nose -- and the ears

Noncommercial radio versus the capitalist urge

Stream a Little Stream

Or How to Succeed in Webcasting Without Selling Out