Hey, Weezer, you know when a friend tells you a joke that’s really funny, and you laugh? And then the next day, they tell that joke again, and it’s slightly less funny? And the next week, they tell the joke one more time, maybe switch up […] Read more »
Confession: when I think Pulitzer, I think hard-hitting investigations and thoroughly researched journalism. I don’t necessarily think YouTube. That’s my mistake, though, because yesterday YouTube announced the winner of its Project: Report competition, a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center to find aspiring journalists who focus on […] Read more »
Guess what, Saturday Night Live?! Ever since taking this job, which by virtue of the fates makes watching you compulsory, I’ve become increasingly familiar with your ongoing gags. Which is why, for today’s post, I have decided to make use of Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler’s […] Read more »
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The boys and girls of MTV’s faux-reality-TV universe — Laguna Beach, The Hills, etc. — are given the chance to create their on-camera identities from scratch (though, as they move from Laguna Beach to Hollywood to New York, drama from previous shows is bound to follow […] Read more »
Every year, MacWorld and CES fall on the same week in January, and every year that week causes an explosion of gadget demos and tech gossip on the blogosphere. (New Years’ Resolution #4: come up with new, less annoying term for “blogosphere.”) The Onion News Network […] Read more »
The new year means new opportunities, even for web content you’ve previously dismissed. And so in today’s Station Conversation, Jill Weinberger and Liz Shannon Miller revisit future Late Night host Jimmy Fallon’s ongoing web prelude to his on-air series — which definitely gets their vote for […] Read more »
I put off watching the video of an unarmed man being shot to death by Oakland BART police for as long as possible this week, because it seemed like Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing said all that needed to be said. A man was killed, the […] Read more »
When you hear that someone’s a “celebrity trainer,” the worst sort of Hollywood meathead stereotypes come to mind. But Eric Fleishman, otherwise known as Eric The Trainer, defies them. For one thing, he’s a bit of a good-natured goofball. And for another, he’s genuinely passionate about […] Read more »
A year after her mother’s assassination, 18-year-old Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari wrote and performed a rap ballad in memory of Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, which was packaged as a music video, aired on state television, and has since found its way to YouTube, where at least one […] Read more »
There’s a lot of online video that never manages to break out, is overshadowed by other series, or is just too weird and obscure to find an audience. But while sometimes that’s for the best, sometimes some real gems get overlooked. Here’s a list of overlooked […] Read more »
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As 2008 comes to a close, Liz Shannon Miller and Jill Weinberger look forward to improving themselves and the Internet in the New Year. Find out their New Year’s resolutions and their recommendations for others in online video in today’s Station Conversation! Liz: Happy New Year, […] Read more »
Over the past few years, the amount of time I’ve had to plop in front of the TV and channel-surf has decreased (there is a LOT of online video to watch, y’all). Even with my TiVo at the ready, I still only watch about two or […] Read more »
I didn’t know anything about the new (and relatively obscure) Exit Stage Left before watching, and it truly surprised me with the quality of its production, direction, and cast. Billing itself as “a web series of theatrical proportions,” the show mines the drama-heavy world of an […] Read more »
Given how old most web phenomena are, the folks at Rocketboom have their work cut out for them with the Know Your Meme video series and accompanying database, an attempt to track the origins of various Internet culture standards (and expand the Rocketboom brand). You might […] Read more »
As we look forward to 2009, it’s important to acknowledge what worked, creatively and otherwise, over the last 12 months. So here’s a list encapsulating what I thought were the obvious successes, the stuff that defined the online video zeitgeist as a whole in 2008. Dr. […] Read more »
The funny thing about Christmas is that when you’re hip-deep in familial celebration, the outside world rarely intrudes. Which means that when you fire up your computer on Dec. 26th, there’s a lot of catch-up to be done, especially when it comes to celebrity deaths. This […] Read more »
With the economy continuing to crumble, it’s little wonder that even Hollywood turned to e-cards this holiday season — according to Variety, such a move has saved major studios up to $40,000 on printing and mailing costs. But what these old-school production companies are doing is […] Read more »
Not surprisingly, there are some latent — and blatant — Santa issues surfacing over on the Holiday Hell channel at Atom.com. So ol’ Saint Nick is not the jolly humanitarian his publicist would have us believe? Videos of Santa trolling the mean streets for ho ho […] Read more »
Following up on our announcement last week, the Streamy Awards are now open for nominations. Feel free to submit your favorite web series (including, let’s be honest, your own) for consideration in the following categories: Overall: Best Dramatic Web Series Best Comedy Web Series Best Hosted […] Read more »
What does it take, being a good host? Being fast with the jokes? Managing to at least pretend to be interested in whatever the guest is promoting? Looking good in a suit? Not being afraid to poke a little fun at whomever they might be interviewing? […] Read more »
Chanukah Sameach, everyone! In today’s Station Conversation, Jill Weinberger gives Liz Shannon Miller a brief education on Hanukkah…through online video, of course. Liz: Hey, when is Hanukkah this year? Jill: Sundown on the 21st. Liz: That’s Sunday! We should do something to celebrate. Jill: The thing […] Read more »
According to the stats, ’tis not as much the season for giving iPods as it was last year: Apple shipped 18.6 million units this quarter, a 16 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007. That doesn’t mean that Steve Jobs and his well-branded package of […] Read more »
I’ll admit it; I’m not the biggest fan of bodily fluid-related humor. And Benny and Rafi Fine — aka the Fine Brothers — tend to hold nothing back when it comes to the gross, the inappropriate, and the completely NSFW. But you know what? I can’t […] Read more »
Imagine, if you will, a world where the Oscars and the Golden Globes said screw having separate ceremonies, let’s team up for the ultimate awards show. Well, that’s the world you live in now, at least when it comes to online video. NewTeeVee is teaming up […] Read more »
Like most Americans, I know more about Britney Spears than I’d like to — and, thanks to our tabloid culture, that information has largely come second-hand. Britney goes to rehab, Britney shaves her head, Britney hates the paparazzi, Britney dates the paparazzi… But that was Old […] Read more »
In the ever-evolving lexicon of lolspeak (the first human language to evolve from captions given to funny pictures of cats and other animals), subtlety is often lacking — things are either epic or lame, WIN or FAIL. And the capacity for failure is immense online, a […] Read more »
Former lonelygirl15 writer Mary Feuer’s With the Angels, a series exploring the diverse community of Venice, Calif., has been quietly building an audience with its offbeat subject matter, strong acting and audience-engaging interactivity. We talked with Feuer about the challenges of creating a drama for the […] Read more »
In preparation for the last half of Battlestar Galactica‘s final season, the show’s creators are once again casting a few breadcrumbs at insatiable fans. Battlestar Galactica: The Face of The Enemy is a 10-episode online sideshow revolving around Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) and two Boomers (Grace Park), […] Read more »
Updated: You can say this for our current commander-in-chief: He’s got great reflexes. During a press conference on Saturday, Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, a reporter with Cairo-based network Al Baghdadia Television, hurled his shoes at President Bush, who ducked the size-10 loafers pretty nimbly. According to […] Read more »
The holidays are more stressful than ever this year — take the panic of holiday shopping and combine it with the panic of potentially not having a job with which to pay for those presents, and no one’s happy. So perhaps you need a quick break […] Read more »
In this week’s edition of Station Conversation, Liz Shannon Miller and Jill Weinberger lock horns over the Coldplay/Joe Satriani controversy. When does musical influence become outright theft? Are online video makers the new vigilantes of injustice? And how many songs, exactly, go “do do do, do […] Read more »
This week brought the release of Episode 2 of Gorilla in the Greenhouse, an animated educational series from SustainLane. Like the Earth Day debut episode, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Turn It Up Day is a great piece of work, managing to be both genuinely entertaining and […] Read more »
Say you’re a creator pondering whether or not to enter the Webby Awards this year. After all, if you win you get a shiny trophy and you get to go to a really good party — and it’s also one of the most prestigious possible awards […] Read more »
Alleged serial killer Henry “The Overkiller” Graham sits on death row partaking of his last meal (a Hot Pocket) and awaiting his just deserts. All too soon, he’s led to the room where he’ll pay for his crimes — by being married off to his groupie-turned-fiancee […] Read more »
Video blogging, or “vlogging,” is still finding itself as a medium, exploring its artistic, didactic and philosophical potential. Arguably, the format’s greatest laureate is a now-retired vlogger by the name of Ze Frank, who ran a daily vlog for a full year, building a sizable audience […] Read more »
Let’s face it — by now, the hardcore fans of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog have watched the series more than once on Hulu, downloaded and memorized the soundtrack thanks to iTunes, and maybe even bought themselves a Captain Hammer t-shirt. Of course, that won’t stop them […] Read more »
Jimmy Fallon’s time on Saturday Night Live showcased him as a good-looking guy with no real acting ability, solid comedic timing and a tendency to mug for the camera. Thank the Lord someone noticed and decided to give him a talk show. While Fallon won’t be […] Read more »
I rarely recommend a video that’s longer than 5 minutes, but today I found myself watching the “short” film Validation on YouTube and not being able to stop. Starring TJ Thyne (from the series Bones) and directed by Kurt Kuenne (whose documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter […] Read more »
Updated 12:05 p.m. PT: The YouTube version is now back up, though embedding has been disabled. We’ve replaced the YouTube embed with the official NBC upload. Updated 10:15 a.m. PT: The video is no longer available on the Lonely Island YouTube account. It had accumulated 917,153 […] Read more »
Listening to most executives talk is a hard thing to do for more than two minutes at a time. There’s so much verbal obfuscation it starts to resemble a game of how to use the most words to say the least, leading to achievements like JetBlue […] Read more »
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