Nicholas Carlson, senior editor at The Business Insider, talks to Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 about what the big portals like Yahoo, Aol and Microsoft are generally doing with video strategy.

BRIGHTCOVE OFFERS LOWER-PRICED SERVICE – There’s no perfect video content management system on the market today.  As a result, many organizations have opted to build their own.  But one of the “out-of-the-box” video platform leaders, Brightcove, has announced an express service starting at $99 a month.

Can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the “graveyard of empires”?  FRONTLINE’s season premiere, Obama’s War, airing October 13, 2009 on PBS, takes a look at the administration’s new counterinsurgency plan for Afghanistan and its neighbor, Pakistan, where US troops are not allowed.  To see the new strategy at work, FRONTLINE embedded with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment in Afghanistan’s violent Helmand province.  Since the Marines’ arrival in July, Helmand has become the most lethal battlefield in Afghanistan.  But FRONTLINE found the Marines trying to act as armed diplomats, attempting to build the necessary trust for badly needed economic development.

Varanasi, India : Holy Waters – Images by Brent Foster

Multimedia journalist and publisher of Visual Journalist, Brent Foster, has a new set of images from India. 

The videojournalism staff of the Los Angeles Times has produced some really cool stories in the past few weeks.