Bitshift

If you've never seen The Show with Ze Frank, stop whatever it is you're doing and go watch a few episodes right this minute. I suggest starting with a recent one and just feeling your way around the archives. His show is idiosyncratic, sometimes including lots of in-jokes and catch phrases that at first make no sense whatsoever, but slowly become meaningful as he acculturates you into his own little online world (which happens to be richly interconnected with his sister site, The ORG.

He uses intros filmed by his audience, often fields questions from his audience, and runs competitions that encourage his viewers to break out the webcam and involve themselves in The Show in some way. His style is literate, well-spoken, sometimes self-deprecating wit. Some days, he'll riff on a cold he has. Others, he'll spend 5 minutes giving a very lucid, entertaining, and educational diatribe on the workings of short- and long-term memory and study habits. Every so often, he'll do topical shows addressing current events (these used to be called, "Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days", with segment intros by fans, but that theme seems to have come to a close, although the segments remain.

In my opinion, he's currently one of the most entertaining people producing regular live video on the web, and definitely worth a few minutes of your time. If you use a news aggregator or other form of RSS reader, there's even a The Show RSS feed, so you can catch each new episode as it's thrown out into the ether.