Viral Christian Vlogger Couple Announce Another Pregnancy With Another Vlog
After his last public meltdown, Christian vlogger Sam Rader announced that he was taking a “small break” from YouTube. That break, it appears, is over.
A Guide to the Christian Vlog Community Where the Biggest Blessing Is a Baby
Last week, the popular Christian vlogging couple Sam and Nia posted what’s become their second most viral video ever: a pregnancy announcement where—twist—Sam “surprised” his wife Nia with her own positive pregnancy test after stealing some of her urine from the toilet. The video has garnered 13 million views and…
Vlogger Couple Grieves Miscarriage Three Days After Announcing Pregnancy in Viral Video
Last Wednesday, the popular vlogger couple Sam and Nia Rader posted a video announcing to the world that they were pregnant with their third child. The twist: In the video, Sam “surprised” Nia with her own positive pregnancy test after stealing some of her urine from the toilet. Thanks to its insane premise, “HUSBAND…
Vlogger Kid Vlogs To Prove He Is Not Fat
This young man wants his vlog commenters to cease and desist from calling him fat. No longer is our attention on his weight but the awkward manner in which he quells his naysayers. Video inside.
Join Masked Kid's Interracial Army of Vengeance
*Which means it's probably a marketing ploy for something.
A Museum-Ready Collection of Videobloggers
Remember when Amanda Congdon was rocketing to the top? Yeah, me neither. Videoblogging's forgotten stars.
Shira Lazar, Kevin Rose's Latest Fling
Having famously "plowed through" San Francisco's eligible bachelorettes, Digg founder Kevin Rose went L.A. for his most recent paramour, Shira Lazar. Who is this Web-video wannabe with links to Dov Charney and Julia Allison?
Fred Baron, father of Rocketboom, clicks "stop"
Fred Baron, a Texas trial lawyer, died last Thursday of cancer. Fellow litigators remember him for the "toxic tort" lawsuits he filed; politicos know him as the man who relocated former presidential candidate John Edwards's mistress, Rielle Hunter, to Santa Barbara, in the hopes of keeping her away from the public…
Since when do Japanese pornographers pay tech podcasters six figures?
Video-sharing site Stickam — owned and operated by a Japanese porn company — wants to pay some guy named Leo Laporte $100,000 to stream his podcast called This Week in Tech, or TWiT, exclusively for one year. Confused? So are we. And when we did the math, our bewilderment grew.
Sarah Atwood has my vote for Mahalo Daily Idol
The clock is ticking down to Saturday's open casting call to fill the role of Mahalo Daily host. The job, formerly held by Veronica Belmont, is to serve as the pretty face for Jason Calacanis's site that's trying to cash in on top search terms. I'll go ahead and endorse Nerdtainment's Sarah Atwood. Am I just…
Live nude bloggers at Fast Company
How intimate are Robert Scoble and Shel Israel? The pair wrote Naked Conversations together and now they'll both be videoblogging for Fast Company. Also, they appear to have been nude, hairy and within close proximity of each other in at least one instance. Here's hoping it was memorable. And that they'll videoblog…
Y Combinator's webcam can't touch MC Hammer
The Y Combinator guys may be acting starstruck, but maybe its MC Hammer who's playing the fanboy here. Y Combinator's coterie of entrpreneurs could easily return the favor by providing the rapper with real video services. Everyone, including MC Hammer, knows they can. Why would the startuppers reduce the Hammer to…
Ze Frank's social networking ditty
Add another song to the geek karaoke repertoire. Ze Frank, best known for his year-long videoblog The Show, has released a cute little tune about romance in the age of social networks. "Let's start a social network built just for two," it starts off, and, from there, references networking cliches from hacker-speak…
He's just a camboy. So why can't I stop watching?
NICK DOUGLAS — When I first heard that young San Franciscan Justin Kan started broadcasting his life on video 24 hours a day at Justin.tv, I thought, "so what?" Like many others, I just assumed someone had already been doing this. I was half-right; camgirls and bugged homes date back to the 90s. But by strapping the…
The new conference elite
The variety of stars at tech conferences used to be limited to bloggers, startup innovators, designers and programmers identifiable only after a glimpse at a name badge. But a new class of celeb is rising with more recognizable star power: videobloggers, often good-looking and engaging, practiced at being…
The 12 Funniest People On The Internet
NICK DOUGLAS — Some of them you recognize, some of them you don't. Here are the twelve funniest people on the Internet today, including Ze Frank, Brad Neely, Worker #3116, and that crazy lady at Violent Acres.
The Vloggies: Kung-fu dubbing, Iraqi interviews, and a duck
By Megan McCarthy
Hey! Technorati's new video blog is cute today!
Leading blog search site Technorati has already come a long way from its first awkward, two-talking-heads-in-a-kitchen episodes (which we viciously reviewed here and here). Today's show ain't perfect, but unlike the old shows, it's up to date, tells us something we didn't know (That German Gizmondo game exec won't…
Technorati watching: Can't...tear...eyes...from...vloggers
After ripping apart Technorati's first video blog, I avoided watching for two, maybe three episodes of this attempt at a news show by staffers at the leading blog search engine. Then someone sent another clip. Damn it, here we go with:
