Why do we review Internet entertainment websites? Because it’s fun. More importantly, because it’s time.
The Internet is quickly diverging along two paths: the Information Internet and the Entertainment Internet. While search engines like Google and Yahoo! have done well to order and monetize the Information Internet, the Entertainment Internet remains a chaotic place, booming daily with new and quality content. It is rife with possibility and creative content, but woefully under-organized.
Just as TV critics help shepherd viewers to what’s good in the “vast 500-channel wasteland”, we help shepherd Internet entertainment viewers through the ginormously boundless universe of web videos, toward quality online content. Truth be told, often the most popular online videos with the highest user ratings are not always the best ones.
Rob Owen, the TV editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the president of the TV Critics Association, thinks newspapers will have to review online content, but he’s not sure exactly who has the time to do it.
“The criticism of online is only going to grow,” says Owen. “But at some point you start to run out of hours in the day. If you’re a TV critic, you’ve already maxed out those hours because of cable. And you might also cover local television, as I do and many others do. The getting to look at anything on the Internet is difficult. I think there’s going to be more of it, but it remains to seen who will be doing that coverage.”
We are doing that coverage. We respect the quality and the potential of the content. We respect the intellect and taste of Internet entertainment site surfers. We serve so that you can see what you’re missing.
Zander Koll and his crack team of researchers, reporters and playground supervisors publish The .com Dish!…
…Come join the fun. And if not, then thanks anyway, for playing along.
