Another great podcast
Once upon a time, there was a great show on TechTV called The Screen Savers. A group of guys–Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, and Yoshi–talked about technology and helped people with their computer problems. It was the golden age of specialty cable! I guess. I never watched the show, but I heard good things about it.
Unfortunately, now I’ll never be able to see it. Another network, G4, bought TechTV, then later fired half of the cast of the Screen Savers and renamed it Attack of the Show. That’s right. Attack of the Show. Darkness overshadowed the airwaves.
But there is a new hope for us peasants: A new podcast called This Week in Tech. The same guys get together every Sunday evening (more or less) and do the same thing–talk about cool tech stuff again. The shows run about an hour each. Give it a shot!
(See also: Introduction to Podcasting.)
June 16th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
The Screen Savers was a great show, but it was even better when it was on ZDTV, before they came under new management and became TechTV. Back then, Leo Laporte was the host of another good show, Call for Help. Call for Help is still around on G4, but is “but a shadow of its former self.” I used to watch ZDTV whenever I was at my grandparents house — they had cable; we didn’t. Then their cable company made the channel only available on digital cable, and that was the end of the channel for me.
June 16th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Oh, that reminds me about another cool thing: Kevin Rose has a new online TV show called Systm. The latest edition show you how to make your own digital video recorder.