TechCrunch reports that the viewing public is spending more and more time online with sites like YouTube and Crackle thus confirming trends that LAist reported on this last fall. YouTube has experienced an increase in traffic of 18% over the last two months while Crackle has doubled it's audience. An LAist interview over a month ago with StumbleUpon's VP of Marketing confirmed this trend was happening. Last year LAist had the chance to talk......

This weekend a new "show" called Quarterlife premiered and with its premiere, the realization of web-based entertainment was brought one step closer. Have there been other attempts at creating episodic (webisode) programming for the internet? Yes, but not with the calibre of participants or the level of funding that was brought to Quarterlife. The actors in Quarterlife are actors that you may have already seen in television programs like The West Wing, Ugly Betty, and......

We'd hate to think it had any connection to the death of Leo McGarry...uhh, we mean John Spencer...but it looks like when Josiah "Jed" Bartlet leaves the West Wing, so will NBC. Its true that the "Left Wing" was hitting the midpoint of a downward slide towards consistent mediocrity, ala Law & Order, though when compared to the rest of network TV it isn't all that bad. And if you think about it, the......