5 posts tagged “techtv”

While Amber is gearing up for her new job at Citytv she's going to take four weeks off from our podcast, Inside the Net. That's the bad news. The good news is that Megan Morrone has agreed to fill in!

Many of you will remember Megan from her stint on The Screen Savers and as co-author of my 2004 Technology Almanac. She left TechTV in 2003 to have a baby (the lovely Annabella) and around a year ago had twin boys: Huck and Milo. As you might imagine, she's been pretty busy with the mommy duties, but she's kept her hand in by writing for microsoft.com and her blog, Jumping Monkeys. Until now, she's been too busy to show up on any of my podcasts (despite the fact that she lives less than a mile from the TWiT offices), but starting next week, Megan's back baby.

She'll start Tuesday when we interview John Buckman of Magnatune and Bookmooch on Inside the Net. And now that I've got her I don't plan to let her get away. Once Amber returns to the show (if all goes well that will be October 10) I'm hoping to create a podcast just for Megan.

So welcome back yet another TechTV veteran. We've missed her, and we're so glad she's back. And Annabella, Milo, and Huck, you can have your mommy back soon. But not too soon!

The discussion of a TechTV reunion has spawned something else. The reunion is still in the works, but this might be even more exciting, and long term.

Naturally we got a lot of interest from companies wanting to host the reunion. We're still sifting through the offers. But one company came up with something really surprising that they've been developing behind the scenes for some time.

Chris Pirillo and I think this new platform just might make it possible to create an Internet-based TechTV.

It's kind of hard to describe the site. It's sort of a dedicated YouTube which would make it easy for all the old TechTV contributors (and fans) to create and distribute text, audio, and video. It would be a centralized place to get all the content that TechTV folks have been creating. Chris has committed his stuff. I'll put everything from TWiT there (and a lot more). And we're hoping to get all the former TechTV people, and friends and relations like Command-N, Lab Rats, and Hak.5, to use the site as a hub. We're not talking about a place to post old TechTV clips. We're really thinking about creating a new, web-based, TechTV. And making it easy for old TechTV-ers to create and post new stuff.

We just need a name. The site is almost ready to go. We have a bandwidth committment. I think by the end of the year we might be able to go public with something really amazing. Chris and I would love to kick it off with a Helpathon. What do you think?

I recently came upon a cache of old Tech TV promos. Ah memories.

I don't want to be a tease, but there's some interest in putting together a TechTV reunion show for the net. Many of the TechTV hosts have said they'd participate, including Kate Botello. Kris Kosach, Chris Pirillo, and Jim Louderback. Martin Sargent has offered to host it. I know we could get all the TWiTs involved.

There are quite a few more people I'd love to see again. And I think there are a few people who would watch. I'm thinking that May 7, 2007, the ninth anniversary of the channel, would be a nice date.

We need to find a sponsor and a host. Is there someone with deep pockets out there who would like to help us put this together?

I almost hate to say it but the best people to do this would be G4 - they own the rights to all the clips, and frankly I think it would get better ratings than anything they've run in the last two years. Hmm. There goes that idea.

I was going through some old photos and stumbled across this picture.  That's Scott Herriott and Michaela Pereira of the old Internet Tonight show on ZDTV (which later became TechTV) mugging with their shiny new Emmy.

The picture was taken on May 22, 2000. That's sometime before ZDTV fired all the makeup artists and made us do it ourselves. It was a magic time.

Gosh I miss those days.