I’m a big Jon Stewart fan – from his days on Fox with The Jon Stewart Show to The Daily Show.

I bring this up, because I have a friend at Comedy Central, who was quick to tell me when The Daily Show went online – with full episodes! That’s not new now, of course – they’ve had them up awhile. Colbert followed suit. Even South Park has episodes online now.

The TV is dying. Torrents reign supreme.

Roughly ten minutes after any show, it’s online in HD. South Park. Family Guy. News. Olympics. You can PVR, DVR, all you want – but someone else did you the favor of ripping out the commercials and delivering an HD copy to the masses. Sometimes they’ll brand a logo on the screen, but as more and more “groups” are doing it, it’s just a tagline on the download.

These shows – quasi-political (because they tout themselves on a comedy channel – you remember that right? He basically said “you suck” to their face, and they criticized his “news reporting” – to which he responded, in my words:

I’m a comedian, you dickheads. I’m on Comedy Central. YOU ARE ON A LEGIT NEWS CHANNEL.

View it, enjoy for yourselves.

The point of all this is – why aren’t more shows doing this?

The rough beginnings of TV online.

We’ve got Hulu.com – it’s even got movies! It’s also legit. Netflix also streams movies – if you’re on a windows PC and agree to their DRM laden player.

We’ve got SurfTheChannel.com – which I’m not sure of its legality. I think they’re basically skirting around by not hosting anything. It’s all on video hosting sites instead.

LegalMovies.Tv – I haven’t looked into this at all in terms of legality. They stream EVERYTHING – screeners, cams, rips – so my only guess is internationalization?

Enjoy last night’s Daily Show online – for free. This is the point of it all – stuff that helps inform a topic (politics) that so many people treat very disdainfully. They make it fun to know and learn.

Form your own opinions.

Never take it from one source. Never believe those idiotic emails that claim Obama is Osama, or McCain is Hitler. Whenever they say “I checked Snopes!” – check it again. Don’t believe those emails without researching it for yourself. I’ve gotten so many emails that are full of inaccuracies and “selected text” laid out of context.

I’m hoping for a record turn out. I’m not going to make the claims that it will be – I think it should be – but time will tell.

First, let me say, I do not watch project runway. However, after perusing some of Columbus’ many blogs (like the270.com) I found out one of Columbus’ one is on the show!

From Bravo!’s description of Kelli:

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, Kelli turned to retail at the age of 15 as a form of escapism and to create a unique look all her own. She fought her way through adversity receiving a full scholarship from Bob Mackie at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise in Los Angeles. Once there, she was accepted into the Advanced Design Program where she was able to design and show a small collection in 2006. Kelly went on to design a guitar for Kevan Hall during Los Angeles Fashion Week and just recently started her own empire, Black Market — a cutting edge boutique in her hometown.

Freaking awesome! I wish Kelli the best of luck, and be sure to check out Black Market in Clintonville!

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog!

This is something I have twitter to thank for – I stumbled on it from some random tweet, watched out of sheer morbid curiosity (it starts out like a vlog… Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible reading his email).

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

It was once the singing kicked in that I loved it. It’s like “The Tick” from the villain’s point of view – just trying to be recognized as a villain, and have a personal life. I can’t say too much, but if this is where the future of generated online series goes – I’m loving it.

Part tragedy, part musical – it comes together in just under 40 minutes. Great performances, great music – and the idea behind the series was that:

The idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike.

They succeeded, and I can’t wait for part two (or the DVD to come out so I can actually purchase it :D

I love that my prior work had me working with some of the stars of this video (in a totally not directly way).

Seesmic – the video twitter? Twitter – the text seesmic?

I’ve got to agree with VentureBeat – Twitter and Seesmic are quirky web applications, with increasing adoptions.
I’ve heard of Seesmic before – and I’ve clicked around a bit – and am convinced that video will kill the internet star. Or maybe Seesmic will kill that ideal, and could make webcams and the personal web identity “the next hot thing.”

I’m not sold – the whole “video response” thing kind of creeps me out (despite seeing more and more people do it). It kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it? Twitter let’s us send a line or two to people (or no one in particular). We send links. Seesmic, you… talk. You express yourself. It’s twitter with emotion. As illustrated by Robert Scoble in response to a Techcrunch article – okay – so Scoble’s job is a freaking video blogger for Fast Company, and I don’t think they could’ve picked a better person for it.

So – video is the future? Will WebCams make a come back – or have they ever really left?

As a huge fan of internet radio, it would be remiss of me not to point out this excellent, simple PandorAIR app.

Now someone needs to port pandorafm to an air app!

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

This is just… awesome.

More from flight404…

Can’t rock out without a good song to jam to, y’know? Of course, the more I listen to QotSA the more I want to jam…

I love cover songs, and this is awesome.