I got e-mail from Federated Media about a new site they're working with: WebbAlert. As in Morgan Webb. She's doing a mostly daily five-minute video wrap up of tech news. You could argue that it would be successful just because she's so ridiculously charming, but honestly, she has always been the real deal, and a real geek at heart.
I remember when she started as the pixie-like line producer on the TechTV show The Screen Savers, which I pretty much watched every single day. Over time they gave her more and more to do, and given her interest in video games, eventually put her on X-Play. That ended up being the only show that survived the acquisition and merge by Comcast to G4, and not surprisingly, the only show even remotely watchable on that awful network.
It says a lot about how Comcast threw away something special, as Kevin Rose went on to do Digg, Revision3 and now Pownce. Leo Laporte is the king of tech podcasts. Patrick Norton went on to do DL.tv for Ziff Davis. The point is that much of the talent of that former TV network has managed to lay the foundation for a great deal of the Web stuff we love, even if it can't be characterized as truly mainstream (yet). It's inspiring.