Is there any site that's not throttling your bandwidth with a frenzy of videos (OK, you don't need to say it).

The latest is our favourite travel guide series with its Lonely Planet TV, which features vids by Planet staff, plus flicks uploaded by readers.

The selection was pretty thin when I checked out the site for its launch a couple of days back, and there was only one NZ piece. For the moment, you'll get much wider vistas searching the Travel & Places section of YouTube, or the Travel section of Google Video (question: why does Google persist with Google Video now it's bought YouTube?).

Still. Lonely Planet TV clips are filtered by editors (remember editors?) so it's a good selection, and one that'll no doubt become more populated. Plus there's some handy cross-selling (sorry, links) to Lonely Planet's various digital guides, which can now be downloaded to most species of hand-held.

Lastly, thanks to reader Stuart for pointing out this blog was featured on Radio New Zealand's April 27 instalment of Media Watch ("the PC obviously doesn't stand for politically correct"). The show's been podcast at www.radionz.co.nz. While you're there, search the site for "The Bomb That Changed The World" to hear my late, at times politically incorrect Grandfather talking about his time in Hiroshima, shortly after the close of World War II. That was extreme travel.