While we engage in a lot of snark here at OnTap, I’d like to think we can recognize good things when they happen as well.

One of those good things: HotAir.com.

This looks to be the perfect blend of video and blogging that I think we all hoped Pajamas Media would be.

Marshall: Leave it to Michelle to do right what others have tried and failed to do. It’s a good site and a good destination. And of course, no one would ever accuse Michelle of being hard on the eyes.

Jim: I’ll give it two cheers. Michelle is, of course, delightful. The graphics beside her have a Weekend-Update-in-the-classic-Dennis-Miller-days feel. But the Vent is, in its current incarnation, just Michelle reciting some of the day’s headlines with a pithy comment or two. It needs either A) an “audience” reacting to her comments or B) some other figure to react to what she’s saying. A person just speaking to the camera is pretty blah, and while I’d rather watch Michelle speak to the camera than most newscasters (let’s face it, many of us would watch Michelle reading the phone book aloud), it’s not all that different than hearing someone read her blog aloud.

But this is something to watch - and something that makes me wish I were back in the U.S. - er, for a longer period -  and able to really play with this technology.