Kennedy-Spaien, Dot Com

While there are many different places to grab online media content, I tend to focus my attention on a few select outlets. Here’s a brief list:

Video Blogs and Viral Video - Miro (formerly the Democracy Player)

Miro is a great desktop aggregator and player of any video you can snag from RSS (including torrents!) or any search term for YouTube or Google Video.
Current favorite use: watching Alton Brown videos from YouTube and Healthy Helpings TV - a client of mine.

Network TV - Hulu.com

Yes, occasionally I heed the siren call of old-media, but no TIVO for me! No JOOST, either. Hulu has a big, legal archive of ad supported episodes and clips of everything from Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere up to House and Pushing Daisies. While the ads aren’t easily skipped, they are blessedly MUCH shorter than on broadcast TV, usually half a minute or so, with only one ad per break.
Current favorite use: Kitchen Nightmares, US season 1.

Movies - Netflix Streaming (paid subscription), Internet Archive (free Public Domain)

Netflix Streaming isn’t quite the cornucopia of content that Netflix DVD users are used to, but it is an awesome way of filling in those Date Nights with your significant other while you wait for your next mailing. Not only are there many major and lesser-known films, but many TV series as well.
Current favorite use: Xena Warrior Princess, The New Adventures of Hercules, Jeremiah

The Internet Archive is a large repository of Creative Commons and Public Domain content. Being a former Film Scoring major, I have a deep affection for obscure old movies (including silent and foreign films). The Internet Archive is a great source for these.
Current favorite use: Nosferatu, M, Un Chien Andalou, Any older Kurosawa film.

Audio Podcasts - Itunes, Bloglines

I have never found the perfect way to consume audio podcasts. I suspect that is because there is no single PERFECT way. I try to limit my use of iTunes, but podcast subscriptions is one way I do use it. Whenever possible, I prefer to subscribe to my favorite podcast’s RSS feed and listen in my browser.
Current favorite use: The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore - a client, natch!

Audio Books - Librivox

While my son, wife and I listen to contemporary fiction when we’re all commuting together (Terry Pratchett is a particular favorite) when the boy and I ride without mommy, we listen exclusively to the classics. Then we discuss them like a book club might.

All the classics we get from Librivox whose volunteers narrate and record these public domain text, then release the recordings to the public domain as well.
Current favorite use: Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger Jr, The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I leave you with a clip of my 8-year-old son’s current favorite artist from the Podsafe Music Network, Lord Weatherby: