It has been close to four months now that I've been conducting the Tag Series. When you put the winners together you get a pretty good idea of what type of blogger I am.

This whole TayTV project has grown so big out of such a small idea, I was sucked in by the web 2.0 early, I am a chronic bookmarker. The engine that runs TayTV is surfing the web categorizing interesting (mind blowing) links that I have run into.

This archive is not only handy for myself but it helps you waste away many hours you would have otherwise spent clicking your remote. This week is the Champions edition, I have picked 8 past winners and put them all head to head. Two politicians, Two Comedians, Two documentary makers and two subjects. Remember you can vote once every 24hrs and by all means spread the link around and encourage others to vote.

Champions Edition
	Mike Gravel - XII
	Jon Stewart - XI
	James Burke - IV
	Atheism - XIII
	Marijuana - VIII
	David Attenborough - VI
	Stephen Colbert - VII
	Ron Paul - XIV

Videos of this weeks competitors is beyond the fold.

This week is a special week, faithful TayTVers have once again made a wise choice by voting The Hunter S Thompson Tag into the Hall of Champions. After being the runner up in Tag Series XIV, the Hunter S Thompson Tag Archive has come through to win Tag Series XVI. I hunted down a good two hours worth of videos here, and my taytving friend Karen wrote the post, enjoy your lazy Sunday and if you have any HST links to share you can submit them to Netscape or post them in the comments.

Let's begin with a scene from the Movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Hunter S. Thompson began his writing career in 1956 by becoming sports editor of the Elgin Air Force base newspaper in an attempt to avoid more active duty, having signed up for the Air Force on what was basically a whim a week after serving his first (and only) time (although he was arrested, but never convicted many subsequent times in his life) in jail after being charged as an accessory to robbery for having been in a car with the person who actually committed the robbery.

Thompson is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting in which the reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figure of the story itself. Often mixing fact with fiction and using a stylized breakneck stream-of consciousness narrative, perhaps the first, and most famous example of a Gonzo novel is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was further popularized by the 1998 movie of the same name. The release of the film also introduced a new generation to Thompson's writing, and caused his long-lost novel The Rum Diary to be published, along with the first two volumes of his collected letters, which were greeted with critical acclaim.

A week ago I posted Tag Series XIV. The Beauty of Tag Series that you the reader can vote on what type of videos you want to see posted. In this edition The Ron Paul Tag won with 53% of the vote.

There is a lot to like about Paul, he writes for antiwar.com, he's against the "War on Drugs", he's Bill Maher's hero, among other things he also opts to pony up his own money when it comes to handing out Congressional Gold Medals.

I did a lot of searching and the only bad things that I could find were these bizarre comments about black children and his lack of vision on environmentalism.

But there is a "Revolution", if you don't believe me just check out the number of votes his stories are getting on Digg.com (the largest Social Network) Or check out the number of views his Youtube videos are getting, well over a million.

Personally, as a Canadian, I don't really care about Ron Paul, on AOL I have gotten messages blasting me for "being Ron Paul supporter"... but remember I'm Canadian. In these early stages of the American election I also liked Gravel, but only because he's was a quotable old coot. Ron Paul however is fascinating, his supporters have turned to the social web to get his name out, and as far as I can see it's working (geez, he beat HST in Tag Series). So have a beer for Ron Paul and give him props for making this early stage of the American 2008 campaign somewhat interesting.

So far I have collected 33 links so far and 14 videos for Paul in my archive. If you have anything to add about Ron Paul, by all means, the floor is yours.

Generally the point of Tag Series is to find rare videos, well here is Ron Paul speaking with our dear friend Bill Moyers back in October 2002 about the Iraq War. Stay Tuned, on Monday I will begin a brand new Tag Series.