[Offtopic] NerdTV Is Next Week!

[Rupert Russell]

Something to look forward to.


At long last, Bob's online TV series is going to happen. And it's going
to be cool!

From: Robert X. Cringely

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050901.html


September 1, 2005
NerdTV Is Next Week!
The Bob Attempts to Build Some Buzz for His Downloadable TV Show, Which
-- Good or Bad -- Is Certainly Different

By Robert X. Cringely

Come back next Tuesday and this page will look different. That's when
we're finally launching NerdTV 
after three years of fitful starts, mistakes, and hard work. Love it or
hate it, I'm sure you'll let me know.

NerdTV, as I've written ad nauseum, is an interview show. From a
technical perspective, it is primitive, 
but beneath the surface, it is incredibly ambitious because it defies
the maxim of Internet service 
design that assumes audiences are shallow and maybe a bit stupid.

Once you reach a technical baseline, you see, good television is all
about casting. So NerdTV is based 
on the simple idea of having a lengthy discussion with some incredibly
smart person you always
wanted to meet.  ...


Who Is Robert X. Cringely?

For eight years from 1987-95, Robert X. Cringely wrote the Notes From
the Field column in InfoWorld, a 
weekly computer trade newspaper. He is also the author of the
best-selling book 
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions,
Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date.



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