What is Current TV?

I was channel surfing today and came across a new channel I had never heard of: Current TV. Initially, I thought this might be another tech channel, and I guess I was close. The guy was talking about how you can send content in to the channel…but we’re not talking public access here. For more information, he said visit the website. So I did. The first thing I noticed was the real-time TV listings on the left: "On Now", "In 3 mins", "In 6 mins," etc. The second thing I noticed was that I could edit the title of the website. Cool. Still, I wasn’t sure what Current TV was. So I followed the "About" link and got this explanation:

Current is a new, independent cable and satellite TV network, available in 20 million homes around the United States — and growing.We follow the global pulse via Google Current, a real-time view of what the world’s searching for, presented every half-hour around the clock. We slice the rest of the schedule into short pods — each just a few minutes long — that range far and wide, from international dispatches to profiles of cool people to intelligence on new trends. This is not a traditional TV network; watching Current, you’ll see more, on more topics, from more points of view. And much of it comes straight from you. We call it viewer-created content, or VC2, and it’s created in the Current Studio, an online extension of our real studios in San Francisco and LA. Anybody can join in to produce VC2 (and get paid for it) or watch and vote for what goes on TV.

How cool is that? Viewer-created TV! And not public-access stuff. You can actually upload your submissions from the Current TV website and hope for the greenlight. Top that off with a real-time view of what the world is Googling every half hour? I think I’ve found my new favorite channel!