If you have not heard about RocketBoom yet, you should check it out it is fun and goes well with morning coffee. It is most popular video blog on the web, publishing 3,4 min video clips at 9am ET daily excluding weekends. Clips usually cover some particular news item or a story suggested by viewers. Host of the show is Joanne Colan, who is not just funny and interesting but also quite hot.
Rocketboom is very different from anything you see on TV, it is very simple, informal, bidirectional letting you to leave comments and recommend stories. All clips are recorded using only consumer level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a map. Clips are distributed online, and freely available to anyone with internet connection. Site also provides RSS feeds can so you can get videos delivered to you via feedreader.
Check out recent clips here, and complete archive here
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