Chalk, Water, Conflict and Sheep. All factors that have shaped the South Downs in Southern England. They are all Landshapers.

To find out how and why listen to, or watch, our AV guides to this beautiful landscape.

And I have to agree.  I’ve been banging on about content is king and delivery being transparent for a long time.  He says:

“I am not a podcaster. I’m a journalist, a pundit, an entertainer. I create audio and video shows and distribute them over the Internet. Maybe that’s YouTube, maybe it’s my own web site, maybe it’s via an RSS feed. The medium isn’t the message - the message is the message. It’s not a podcast, it’s a show, and I plan to call my shows by the right name from now on.”

It’s a great post, so go read it.

The guys behind Diggnation, The totally rad show and other tech/geek video podcasts have raised another $8 million, on top of the $1 million raised last year.

I love Diggnation, even though I wouldn’t class myself as a proper geek. It’s well produced, in fact it’s better than a lot of traditional content on TV. Here’s why they called the company Revision3:

The company calls itself Revision3 because they think that television is moving into its third stage:

• Revision 1: Cable, adding general interest channels, catering to “most common denominator.”
• Revision 2: PC-based Internet video, indy films, no business model, no loyalty, no audience
• Revision 3: TV and Internet converge. iPods, Tivo, mobile, broadband enable mass, loyal audience to shift to ondemand, niche content. Advertising follows them.

Via Podcasting News

40 seconds of advertising on a 90 second podcast isn’t going to engage MTV’s switched on audience.
Podcasting News - MTV Video Podcast Almost 50% Advertising

Highlights from Blue Peter, one of the longest running childrens TV shows from the BBC

and

The University Channel debate on Iran’s Nuclear ambitions

“In 1995, Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz published their seminal work, “The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate.” They staked out opposite ends of the theoretical spectrum with Waltz arguing that “more [nuclear armed states] could be better” and Sagan responding that “more will be worse.”

Thanks to Open Culture for this one.

Fast Company have a list of 12 podcasts for creative types.  They cover history podcasts from Professors Beth Harris and Steven Zucker at smARThistory, science stuff from ROM Media and one of my personal favorites, the Havard Business Review Ideacast.

The creative class — the nebulous, but much bally-hooed, demographic made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals, and artists — constitutes an increasing portion of the American workforce. Social scientist Richard Florida, who gave the group its moniker, sees the rise of the creative class as a powerful force that is shaping the economies of post-industrial cities.

Read and hear more here.

Found on The Long Tail.

Great video charting the social/web 2.0/long tail (whatever you wish to call it) movement that is changing the way we consume everything.

Update:

Just found a web 2.0 version of this video via Logic+Emotion that allows you to comment live whilst the video is playing.