Julia Boorstin of is an entertainment and media reporter for CNBC.  Her job allows her to cover issues as varied as the projected opening box office for films like "Dark Knight" and "Mamma Mia," to interviewing the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.  She also writes a blog called "Media Money" for CNBC's website that covers new media, old media and everything in between.  Next week I'm going to have the pleasure of doing a podcast interview with Julia about her job, her life and above all media and money. 

As I write this post I'm watching live Olympic tennis. American James Blake is in the deciding third set against Dominic Hrbaty of Slovakia and it's tied 3-3.  I'm not watching this match on television.  I'm watching it live online.  That's right, live streaming of Olympic events have come into their own with the Beijing Games, and the first and best stop for all your action is NBC's Olympic Website. The team that put this site together deserves a medal of their own because it has just about anything an Olympics sports fan could want. As long as you stay within NBC's restrictions that is. 

Back in February on Super Tuesday I posted "Super Online Videos For Super Tuesday." Now that the primaries are over and the official presidential campaign is in full swing, I don't know about you, but I'm ready for a few laughs. What better way to get them then by checking out the latest online videos that take a humorous look at the campaign and the candidates?

Need some humor in your life? Have I got some YouTube videos for you! Recently during one of my regular YouTube forays, I uncovered a stockpile of entertaining movie trailer parodies, or recuts as they're sometimes called.  I happen to hate "Mary Poppins."  What's that got to do with movie trailer parodies?  Read on.

Should YouTube and other online video sites be held more accountable for the increase in fights being posted on their sites? After that horrible incident in Florida a few weeks ago of several girls luring another girl to a house so they could beat her up, videotape the incident and then post it on YouTube, there have been many discussions about whether YouTube bears any responsibility for monitoring what's posted on their site more closely.

When I was asked to write a post about environmentalists on YouTube and other online video sites, as part of Blogher's continuing "Every Day Is Earth Day" campaign, suddenly I had to think about the whole green movement.

In honor of the 10th Anniversary of V-Day and BlogHer's exclusive interview with the writer of "The Vagina Monologues" Eve Ensler, I was asked to focus this week's post on "The Vagina Monologues" on YouTube.

If you live in the United States and you want to get your YouTube fix, you flip on your computer, log on to the site and you're good to go. But if you happen to live in China, you're just as liable to flip on your computer, type in the YouTube address and get an error message and a blank screen.  At first you might think, oh my computer's slow today or something must be going on with the server, but you'd probably be wrong.  That's because China's been blocking YouTube to its citizens for the last several weeks in order to block the viewing of videos of anti-China protests in Tibet.  Many of those protests have become violent and depending on who you believe, they were fostered by pro-democracy pioneers who were set upon and brutalized by the Chinese government or rioting agitators determined to foster unrest and make China look bad, especially during this Olympic year.

YouTube has a slick, new competitor on it's hands and it's name is Hulu. Hulu is the new video website where you can watch classic and current TV shows and movies.  Hulu was the brain child of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and NBC Universal. Though the lineup of programming is still somewhat thin, partly because it's primarily chock full of Fox and NBC programming, that will change as other big networks and movie studios jump on board.  And believe me, they will jump because I predict viewers are going to flock to the site.  As soon as viewers get a look at the clean, easy to use interface and the absolutely gorgeous quality of the programming, the site's going to be a hit.

Odds are if you're reading this you're familiar with blogs. By now, the blogarama has become pretty much a world defined on its own terms: It is what it is. And my guess is that unless you work in the world of print journalism, live with someone who does, or just read Romanesko regularly -- if only out of curiosity -- you wouldn't think there was anything inherently wrong or odd or vaguely offensive about blogging. Would you?

Am I the only one who hasn't posted a video on YouTube yet?  It seems like everybody's there.  Even the Queen of England has her own channel.  And I don't mean Helen Mirren.  It's getting to a point where saying that you haven't posted on YouTube is like saying you've never done a Google search.  Was it just ten years ago that we were marveling at cell phones that took pictures?  Things are moving entirely too fast for me.  But part of my beat with my new gig at BlogHer is to cover the goings on over at YouTube.  So I'll make an effort to keep up.  Here's a round up of what I've been viewing lately.

An article appeared today in the Washington Post about an American University class assignment that forced the students to go on a 24-hour "media fast." This meant using no computers, video games, cell phones, mp3 players, or any other gadget for a day, for any purpose. Along with the loss of entertainment and immersion in information that accompany these tools, the students saw that it impacted their far-reaching social circles as well.