Current TV: It's the future Current TV, Al Gore's television channel, has launched in the UK. It's a British version of the American channel, which runs on user generated content - or, as they like to call it, VC2 (viewer created content).

I have to say I was expecting it to be like YouTube on the telly - videos of dogs doing funny things and teenegers miming to Britney songs etc. But it isn't at all like that, and it's actually pretty addictive stuff.

All the 'pods' are bite-size chunks rarely more than 5 minutes long - so you can dip in and out whenever you like. And the mix of stuff is so random that I've found myself watching for ages without getting bored.

In half an hour's viewing I saw a piece following journalists in a war zone, was introduced to the phenomenon of 'bouldering' (climbing rocks and buildings with just your bare hands), and caught a clever and genuinely funny cartoon set in the White House. Eclectic stuff, and well worth a watch.

It's on Sky Digital channel 229 and Virgin Media channel 155.

Labels: TV, Web 2.0

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