chrispirillo Alright so roughly a year ago I was huge into Justin.tv.  It was awesome watching his startup trying to make it, plus the voyeuristic appeal of watching him in his day-to-day struggles.  Eventually though it got old because most of the time I tuned in he would be at some Web 2.0 party in San Francisco where background noise would make things impossible to hear.  Since then dozens of new channels have started up on Justin.tv, so it's obvious Justin and his friends were successful in completing their "youtube of lifecasting."

Even though I'm not interested in Justin.tv anymore I still sometimes run out of things to watch or listen to while I'm working/playing on the computer.  That's where my boy Chris Pirillo comes in from the old Tech TV days.  Chris was a journalist back in the day who hosted Call for Help on the ill-fated Tech TV channel (probably my favorite channel in the history of TV - G4 just doesn't compare) and now he's doing his own sort of "lifecasting."  It's not lifecasting in the Justin.tv sense...Chris doesn't carry a camera around with him wherever he goes or anything.  Still, he has his office set up with several cameras which are streamed through UStream on his site.  Then, every night he does a nice little free tech support show where people who go to his site can call him and get some help with their tech problems.  It's basically like a one-man Call for Help in 2008.

colloquy-logo I started to get into live.pirillo.com after he was on This Week In Tech last week, and I'm sort of hooked.  You can jump into the live IRC chat which is streamed along with his video and more or less interact with Chris and his devoted fanbase.  Give it a look, or heck, give him a call some time when he's doing a show and maybe you can get some help!  I know that if I find myself on the computer anytime from 8 until I go to bed I generally have a browser open with Chris in it, plus an IRC client so I can jump into the chat if I have anything to add.

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