NerdTV has a real live GIRL!!
NerdTV is a new multimedia interview series by Robert Cringely (of i, cringely "fame" -- he's a PBS technology columnist, and far from the worst one out there. Yes, I mean you, John Dvorak. *grin*)
i, cringely is standard web stuff; a weekly column/blogpost, in effect. NerdTV is a (per the website) "weekly online TV show ... essentially Charlie Rose for geeks - a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology". It's not bad; I've seen the standard folks like Tim O'Reilly and Bill Joy, but Cringely has also roped in some slightly less well-known (but interesting) folks, like Max Levchin (29-year old co-founder of PayPal), and Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive). Good stuff, overall, and they put it out as video, MP3, AAC, OGG...about any way you want it. They've got RSS feeds and Bittorrent seeds as well, so they're using all the buzzwords.
I...umm...didn't have high hopes for this week. The guest was Anina; a 23-year old European fashion model who "represents the new European tradition in mobile Internet development", and whose voice sounds like, well, a 23-year European fashion model. I'm thinking...WTF? But hey, I trust ol' Bob...so I drop the MP3 on my player for my run yesterday. And it wasn't bad!! At all! Here's Anina, talking about the classic hacker's "scratching the itch" (nothing pervy there...I really do mean the hacker sense of it!) when she wants to tweak apps that her phone uses. Downloading the developer's kit and hacking around until 3am before she goes out for a shoot. I laughed out loud! This interview rocks! Hackerdom is alive and well in places (like European nightclubs) far beyond the purview of MakeZine! Things are maybe looking a little better.
Great podcast. Recommended.
posted by Ken Kennedy at Nov 13th 2005 11:17 p.m.
