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Longtime news anchor Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92 after a long illness.   

As part of the 40 year commemoration of the Apollo 11 mission, the first moon landing, NASA has restored the historic videos of the flight.   The videos were released today.

Digging deep into the online video strategy of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, video producer and strategist Max Harper, 27, explains that success cannot be measured in view count, but by targeted impact.

Max Harper, a 27-year old community organizer and filmmaker was a key member of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama who created numerous campaign videos.

A cheap camera, dogged determination, and a smart video blog strategy has created a national dialogue about election form in the United States.

Twitter has gotten a lot of kudos for how it became a communications channel for the Iran election protests, especially when traditional news outlets failed, but a recent study from Zogby found that only 4% of Americans would turn to Twitter for news.

NEW YORK, NY — The White House has signed an agreement with TubeMogul, an Emeryville, California-based start-up to distribute and analyze web videos, said David Burch, a TubeMogul executive, in this video interview.

CNN's iReport popularity as a destination has surged with the Iran crisis. A CNN spokeswoman citing internal numbers told me that page views for the iReport reached 1 million on Monday. 

With western news organizations banished from covering street demonstrations in Iran, the role of "citizen journalists" has become essential.

The horrifying of the death of a young woman shot during protests in Tehran was uploaded to YouTube, sent to CNN and the BBC, and posted to Facebook by a young Iranian asylum seeker living in Holland. 

Earlier week, CBS News introduced a completely redesigned website with more videos featured and integrated into text reporting. 

Earlier this week, authorities in Iran blocked YouTube along with several other sites and mobile networks.  For YouTube, the crackdown has been highly effective, with traffic dropping by 90 percent.

SAN JOSE, Calif –  We read the today's annual report on global web traffic from Cisco and the dramatic rise in video file traffic on the Internet. Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has an analysis, as does Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch. 

NEW YORK — Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary to President George Bush, thinks that President Obama's use of online video for his weekly addresses is "great." 

The Huffington Post, long a bastion of liberal thought and discussion, is becoming a forum for number of Republican thought leaders and operatives, Politico reports.

The Wall Street Journal's web site has jumped to more that 12 million monthly unique visitors in April, an increase of 160 percent over the same period last year, according a Nielsen Online report published today in Editor & Publisher.

NEW YORK — CBS News is finding increased online video views with effective use of social media tools, Dan Farber, CBSNews.com Editor-in-Chief, told me this afternoon.

YouTube will live stream its first news event, tomorrow's (4/29) prime time press conference by President Obama at 8:00 pm ET on the White House YouTube channel, we have learned. The White House had asked YouTube to integrate its live feed from the White House site to be embedded onto its YouTube channel, a spokesperson […]

Microsoft's Chief Research at Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and 20 others have been named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House just announced.

Big trial gets underway on Friday (4.24) in San Francisco about the DVD-ripping program from RealNetworks called RealDVD.  Hollywood is not too pleased with the $30 program which allows you to rip and save unlimited number of DVD's to a PC.