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Creative Commons - the non-profit that promotes legal sharing on the internet - is on Twitter, as of about 2 hours ago.  Music that is licensed using Creative Commons licenses has been hugely important to podcasting and new media - so you may want to consider subscribing to the “official Creative Commons microblog.”

Monty Python announces that it’s tired of getting ripped off for all these years, that it’s launching its own YouTube channel and that they’d really like you to buy some of their stuff, say no more.

NASA announced today that it has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the internet.  Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about [...]

i.TV has announced that it’s looking for beta-testers to try out the next version of its popular iPhone media app: We have some new features to roll out and we would love to have some help testing the next version of i.TV.  Our development team is almost finished with the next release. If you are interested and [...]

High-level talks are happening this week in Washington, D.C. this week between Big Business and government officials, focused on an emergency government bailout of the foundering financial and automotive industries. The thinking is that saving Wall Street and Detroit from further disaster will have some kind of ripple (trickle-down?) effect and buoy prospects for smaller [...]

Another one bites the dust: industry stalwart PC Magazine will print its last paper issue this coming January, according to an announcement from Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff. Increased print and delivery expenses contributed to the decision to move away from the print edition of the magazine, which has been around for 27 years. Ulanoff paints the changes [...]