Somebody in Vancouver is looking for an Amanda Congdon clone.

The are advertising an acting opportunity at vlog that will feature a daily 2-minute segments featuring the best of cultural and social events and activities in Vancouver.

From the ad:

Rocketboom is a New York based daily video podcasting show which features arts and technology stories.

The host, Amanda Congdon, has used the high visibility of her daily broadcast to over 100,000 people per day, to launch her acting career. She has since appeared on television shows such as CSI.

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Coming to Amsterdam:

Vlog europe! invites you to Amsterdam
where video bloggers are presenting,
learning and networking.

Be part of Vlog europe!, meet other
vloggers, become a vlogger.

Get ready for Vlog europe! and the
future of video on the web. We’re talking
content, technology and business.

You are invited, no registration fees!
16th through to the 18th of September.
See below for more details.

Too bad it’s for last year’s event and nothing’s been announced for this year yet - thanks to the commenters for catching this! Our bad!
via: Vlogeurope.com

This isn’t new information - but we missed it the first time around - Internet video content services will become a leading-edge portion of all premium subscription services offered via the Internet, according to In-Stat.

By 2009, non-adult video content delivered as subscription or pay-per-download over the Internet will have a worldwide retail value of US$ 2.6 billion, the high-tech market research firm predicts. (more…)

Last Wednesday, BBC1 sank to its lowest peak-time rating. ITV revealed that its audience for ITV1 had slumped by 8 per cent and its advertising revenue was down by £50 million, ‘principally due to the rapid take-up of digital multi-channel television’. And a survey by Google found that the average Briton now spends around 164 minutes online every day, compared with 148 minutes watching television.
According to the Guardian Unlimited, “there is an elephant in the living room. It has been a ‘disruptive technology’ for newspapers, advertisers and the music industry, and its consequences for television are only just beginning to emerge. It is the internet.” (more…)

It looks like Google is planning to make a more significant move into Internet video.

Google has posted job listings for an Interactive TV Product Manager in Mountain View, and for Software Engineers with experience coding for TV standards in the UK. (more…)