[lit-ideas] NerdTV
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:36:50 -0700 (PDT)
By The Associated Press Wed Sep 7, 8:51 PM ET
BOSTON - NerdTV identifies its target audience with
its very name and with its format: It's not available
over the air but rather via a free Internet download.
ADVERTISEMENT
The tech-focused interview show, created by pundit and
PBS host Robert X. Cringely, is meant to be unlike
anything on regular TV or elsewhere on the Internet,
where video tends to come in short clips.
Instead, this is a "Charlie Rose"-style chat, about an
hour, with "some incredibly smart person you always
wanted to meet," Cringely says.
Among the names lined up for coming weeks are former
Sun Microsystems Inc. guru Bill Joy, Apple Computer
Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, computing pioneer Doug
Engelbart and Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt.
This week's debut offering was a talk with Andy
Hertzfeld, who is described with a sort of nerdish
breathlessness as "the first
Macintosh programmer ... ever."
At one point, Hertzfeld recalls his amazement at
discovering how Wozniak had designed the Apple II's
display screen: "He used a very clever trick of
clocking the basic machine synchronous with color
microburst, so effectively you could micro-program the
NTSC signal."
You can't say you weren't warned.
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On the Net:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv
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