Gore's Current TV: Electron Burn

See if you have any more luck than I do getting Al Gore's Current TV site to load. We're on cable, and it's just cranking away, getting nowhere.

Hmmm... that sounds Gore-ishly familiar.

Maybe the technical staff has experience similar to Current's reporting staff, as summarized by WaPo:

The roster of on-air reporters and producers includes Shauntay Hinton, a former Miss USA who studied broadcast journalism at Howard University and has been active in women's charities; Gotham Chopra, president of development for the largest comic book studio in India and co-creator of K lounge, described as a "Kama Sutra bar and lounge" in New York; Johnny Bell, a surfer who graduated from UCLA and has no TV experience but has worked on a banana farm in Central America; and Laura Ling, a former producer for the Channel One Network, the commercial educational channel broadcast in secondary schools.

Gore is trying to extend the Web's dynamics to television. If he can accomplish that, Current will become a force -- but with limited distribution and a tough battle for attention in the 100+ channel world of television, Current might just be another Gore also-ran.