Comments on: News and/or Background Noise?

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:37:43 +0000

Not CNN, but my custom, live filmed version of Tech TV. I’d cover Macromedia product news as well as slashdot type content. My girl would probably do that as well as web stuff.

By: Alan musselman

Alan musselman — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:22:03 +0000

That would be interesting. Are you proposing to use Flashcom as a broadcast for your TV? That would be great for an select underground group of users, BUT what about copyrights, liscensing, and what if it got so big that you had to keep restarting Flashcom because you breached your amount of users. Im all for it, question is…..how long will it last until Time Warner sends you a “cease and Desisst” letter.. :)

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:58:46 +0000

Very good info. I guess I am really fishing for potential interest at this point rather than use of the media. A lot of people just liked having the Truman Show on rather than watching it similiar to the way some people treat CNN.

Based on the current feedback (hope I get more to help refine the ideas), I’ll post some more info then, when I iron out the details. I’d love someone to just rant off to me a whole day’s summary of Slashdot and news excerpts from Full As A Goog while I was reading emails, coding, or cleaning. That’s pretty much what I am thinking, but with the same impartial attitude that most journalists try to convey the news in. Stricly information distributed to the masses. I would kill for a Daily Show segment, just like on Comedy Central, but I of course, in this case would have a higher responsibility to report things un-opinionated and objectively. Maybe I could have two?

…this is all spawned from Flashcom making it so easy to do this stuff, yo!

By: Jason Nadon

Jason Nadon — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:51:39 +0000

I think it would be a great idea. I do agree with Philip’s comments… everytime I turn on TechTV I can’t stop watching it, there is just too many topics that they talk about that I try to absorb all the information that I can.

That’s not to say that I don’t keep Tech TV on in the background, it’s just that my attention get’s pulled away from work often.

It would be very cool though, you could maybe even have a tip of the day segment.

JesterVision….? Keep us posted.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:02 +0000

Hehe, no no, more like CNN’s headline news. My girlfriend and I have been wanting to do a show on one of her websites for a long time. I just thought it would be neat to do a tech one from an independant because since it’s blog based, I am not required to report on anything specific and anyone and everyone can access it. I have no clue how I’d make a cusotm RSS, but I’d work it into my site somehow so it’d be archived, etc.

The point is, it’d be like Tech-TV, but for free. I pay for cable, but don’t get that channel. Kind of bs if you ask me. I grew up with the free internet, and even though I’m not an open source groupie, I still think there is enough content out there that could be consildated into a news program. The only issue I can think of currently, aside from RSS and blog integration, is where the heck to store all those FLV’s…