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Elevator creator Woody Tondorf’s Foursquare Cops elevates minor online infractions to crimes worthy of Judge Dredd-style justice. I invoke Judge Dredd because like Sylvester Stallone’s vigilante future cop, these cops don’t hesitate to shoot transgressors who might violate the Foursquare spirit. Read More »

Comparing a web series to a TV show isn’t something I love to do, because the playing field is pretty uneven. But in the case of the indie series Reservation, when compared to the NBC drama Heroes, I don’t mind doing so because ReservationRead More »

 
 

I knew I was going to enjoy the entertainment quiz show Red Carpet Run the moment I saw the words “on a moving treadmill.” Sure, it’s a gimmick to have contestants answer questions while running on a treadmill, but it’s a great gimmick.… Read More »

When Sony announced the premise of its first reality series for the PlayStation Network in February, I wasn’t the only one who thought that a competition to win an unglamorous entry-level position was kinda dumb. Internet mockery didn’t, however, keep The… Read More »

If I were given the power to make rules about online video advertising, here’d be one of them: No pre-roll ad can be longer than, say, 20 percent of a video’s run-time. I do not have this power, though, and thus I am sad to… Read More »

Four days following the 2010 Streamy Awards, Tubefilter Associate Editor Jenni Powell and Guild producer Kim Evey put together a “do-over” for those who thought that Sunday night’s ceremony didn’t properly represent the spirit of web video. Read More »

Watching Ghostfacers, a new WB TV series spun off from the long-running supernatural series Supernatural, I am struck, once again, by a yearning for a time machine. This parody of docu-soap reality shows like Ghost Hunters is well-made and well-written. It also feels painfully behind the… Read More »

There is something fascinating about the fact that it is still possible to make a piece of content about three or four white guys in their 20s goofing around (a genre of comedy so old that I’m sure it’s in Aristotle’s Poetics somewhere) that manages to… Read More »

Tech Fail, Taste Fail and Attitude Fail led to this year’s Streamy Awards being poorly executed and poorly received. In the aftermath, executive producer Brady Brim-Deforest said that “Last night’s show really wasn’t in the spirit of how we wanted to recognize the nominees and winners.” Read More »

The winners list for the 2010 Streamy Awards, including The Guild, The Bannen Way, Zach Galifianakis, David Wain, Zadi Diaz, Shane Dawson and “Weird Al” Yankovic. Read More »

You could call them the Oscars of the web, the Emmys of online video, or the Webbys of… webby things with moving images, I guess. Either way, the Streamy Awards, which are happening this Sunday in Los Angeles,  are indisputably… Read More »

The quality of public education in California right now is a pretty depressing topic, and as discussion of yet more cuts builds, it’s no wonder that local parents are turning to humor. It is however impressive that they’re enlisting movie stars as well — not… Read More »

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When I start watching a new web series, I do my best to be in an open-minded, accepting place, one that leaves me free to evaluate a show’s pros and cons without bias. There is the occasional instance, though, where I’ll click play only after… Read More »

It’s not hard to imagine the pitch on Date A Human.com (the dot com in the title is really unnecessary, if you ask me, and thus in protest I shall not be using it any further in this review): “Bridget Jones dates aliens!” And that’s… Read More »

The Streamy Awards announced today that comedian Paul Scheer will be hosting this year’s main awards ceremony — the first time that the show has had a host. Scheer might look familiar to you thanks to his work as a cast member of MTV’s… Read More »

Ah, April Fool’s Day. Other sites are covering the pranks pulled by the tech community extensively today — I like the fact that Techcrunch is grading them — but I’m going to take this opportunity to do what I do best: Read way too… Read More »

Spike Jonze’s I’m Here, a short film debuting online after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, is surprisingly unbeholden to its sponsor Absolut, as none of the glamourous trappings you’d expect from a vodka partnership permeate this 30 minute robot romance. Read More »

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