Let’s say you’re the star and the face of one of the most universally-praised online video campaigns in all of history.

I’ve been thinking about cutting the cable-TV cord for the last couple years, and just a couple months ago, I finally took the plunge. I had to get creative to watch some of the NHL and NBA playoff games I wanted to see, but overall, it’s been everything I hoped it would be.

After weeks of rumors , anonymous sources, and outright speculation , YouTube has finally gone public with the details of their new movie rental service . Specifically, they’ve struck deals with NBC/Universal, Sony, & Warner Brothers studios, which leaves several studios that still aren’t partners (Fox, Disney, Paramount, etc.)–the company already had deals in place with smaller studios like Lionsgate, The Weinstein Co., and Magnolia Pictures.The new arrangement doubles the size of YouTube’s movie rental library from 3,000 to 6,000

We talk about video, how to get it online, how to help people find it. But we rarely ever talk about the software for actually making, editing and putting it all together. So I got my hands on some video editing suites including the Corel Video Studio Pro X4 .

There are great new videos being created every day, by great new undiscovered talent. The more education and technology we can put in the hands of amateurs, the more likely the overall pool of video quality is to improve

The second half of the week in the online video world has been dominated by the outbreak of tornadoes Wednesday evening in the southeastern United States. The storms were huge, and the videos are incredible and frightening all at once.