Remember Al Gore? He was the guy who won the US Presidential Election in 2000. Well, he got the most votes, but as thousands of Iraqi morticians and waterlogged South-staters will tell you, he didn’t actually win. Regardless, he’s taken the last five years getting over it, and now that the mourning period is over, he’s launched his own TV station.

It’s called Current TV and it’s basically a bunch of 2 to 5 minute shows (called “pods”) that are produced by a plethera of individual, non-Current-affiliated producers, ranging from Jim-with-a-camcorder-down-the-street to professional production houses. If you’re reading this, you probably can’t get the station – but look for it to come soon and check out the website in the mean time.

Okay so the best part about this is that anyone who can make a decent piece of work is likely to get on the air – you get paid $250 for your first spot and then paid successively more until, beginning with the 7th production, you get $1000 per spot…think about that – a five minute spot could easily be produced in a week if you come up with the right format…living in a big city you could find oodles to produce on a weekly basis, and even if you only worked 3 weeks per month, well, I can’t imagine many people who couldn’t manage to live off of $3000/mo salary. Quite splendiferous indeed…