[Commons-Law] NERD TV is Online Now...

[Hasit seth]

    As a huge fan of Robert X Cringely, I feel it's my duty to promote
his new venture: NERD TV. Bob is one of the best writers on tech
industry around. His PBS column, "I, Cringely" is very popular. He has
been trying since some time to create a Internet based broadcast like
show that interviews tech people. Obviously, the audience for such a
show would be thin and scattered. A cable show will not do. Net has to
be the medium for such niche programming. Podcasts are the new thing
around but most by their very nature lack quality of a real TV show.
The technology for such a show was a problem. Open Source group Media
Frame helped him out. I find it intriguing that the player applet for
this show is also downloadable and can be upgraded. This is a major
step in internet broadcasting, at least in the non-commerical side of
the world.

    NERD TV is a PBS supported internet broadcast (download) licensed
under Creative Commons. The first episode interviews Andy Hertzfield,
the man who created the heart of Mac. You can download it yourself
here: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/ .

A little snippet of the interview is below:

NerdTV #1: Andy Hertzfeld

Bob: Andy, it's great to see you. Welcome to NerdTV.

Andy: Thanks, good to see you.

Bob: What do you think NerdTV is?

Andy: Well you described it to me as Charlie Rose for nerds, an
interview show focusing on technical issues of the day, maybe a little
bit of history.

Bob: We couldn't afford the table, but otherwise it is the same.

Bob: You are best known for doing system software for the Macintosh.
For the viewers who don't know you can you give us a short resume of
where you came from and what you do?

Andy: I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II
and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school. I started
focusing all my time on being an Apple II hobbyist, dropped out of
grad school to go to work for Apple in August of '79. I did some
products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost
thermal printer, the Silent Type. I started on the Mac team in
February of 1981, wrote a lot of the original system software for the
Mac including the User Interface Toolbox, the Window Manager, Menu
Manager, Control Manager. I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon
after the introduction of the Mac. I helped my friend Burrell Smith
who did the digital hardware for the Mac start a company called Radius
in 1986 that made peripherals for the Mac. I did a lot of stuff as a
third-party developer, sold system software back to Apple. In 1990,
along with Bill Atkinson, who was sort of my mentor on the Mac
project, we started a company called General Magic that made some of
the first handheld computers - what they call a PDA, though I always
thought that was not such a good name.
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