Comments on: On Live TV Today…

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lol, I challenge you to somehow find a way to squeeze the following words into sentences during the interview..

emolument
propitious
sublunary
halcyon
recumbent

I'd be rolling if you used 1.. Squeeze all 5 in and I'll not only worship you, I'll build a temple, create a new religion and devote my life to spreading the word of Mike.Or perhaps I will just send you a case of Fat Tire.Hey are you going to wear make-up this time? Maybe you should pick out a nice bra before you go on the air. :-)

By: Jemal

Jemal — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seriously: work in a goatse reference. Follow Anil’s lead and stay subtle, but maybe since it’s TV you could do the hand motions across your chest.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve just been working on some material about youth culture and blogging. It’s the case, to speak in overly broad terms, that the older generation (30s and up?) uses blogs to communicate major concepts, political ideas, etc., while the younger generation uses blogs as just another form of communication, like e-mail or the phone. This partially accounts for the popularity of sites like MySpace and Xanga, where the blogging is for conversation, not broadcast.

If that’s the case, does it make sense to talk about bloggers as “toxic” or a “threat?” I’m guessing that Blackshaw has only one type of blogger in mind: the adult political blogger. I suppose that the context of “bloggers as journalists,” that’s not a wholly unwarranted view. But in the larger context of weblogging, where youth are actually the majority shareholders and blogging is another form of chat, Blackshaw’s comments on bloggers as a “threat” doesn’t make much sense.

In the long view, “bloggers as journalists” might not end up being much of a phenomenon; to a lot of youth, bloggers are just… ermm… people talking.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anyway we will be able to check this out afterwards if we don’t have that channel?

Can someone commit to Tivo’n it and throwing up a torrent later?

(And no, not you Mike, your PVR will probably crap out in the middle.)

By: jon

jon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve noticed a trend of major news organizations starting “blogs” for their journaists. Are these really blogs, or are they simply rebranding their traditional articles to sound edgy and cool? Hell, even I have a “blog” on a local newspaper and local TV site.

By: Mike Papageorge

Mike Papageorge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can someone commit to Tivo’n it and throwing up a torrent later?

I’d be into getting/seeing that as well. And if anyone has the last show Mike was on (*ahem* to you and your inbox, davidson) I’d love to see it.

By: Rob Goodlatte

Rob Goodlatte — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Make a TechTV reference :) – that certainly pissed off the blogosphere when they were swallowed by Comcast.

On a more serious note, you could talk about the stories that Newsvine broke before mainstream news – that car bomb story that happened around when Newsvine launched for instance, or Corey Spring’s Dave Chappelle interview. That kind of content is certainly threatening to mainstream media.

Oh, and I second the hand gestures. Make a few towards Olivia Munn – she’s pretty hot :)

By: James AkaXakA

James AkaXakA — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Manage to put in the word ‘cromulent’ and I owe you a cookie :)

By: Chris Griffin

Chris Griffin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

George Bush Hates White People!

Save that after the interview is over.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Drop a “Babbaboey”
for the Howard Stern fans.

By: Chad Edge

Chad Edge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You could just list random products and domains:

ATOTS: Mike, thank you for joining us today, do you have any last words?

MD: Thanks, x. As a matter of fact: Treo, OSNAP.net, ImageKind, Sounders, Adidas, Dreamhost, Elbasha Cafe, Southwest, Newsvine, Newsvine, Newsvine, Gilette, Apple, OpenOffice, Newsvine, OSNAP.net, Techcrunch, Tekken, Paul Frank, Hargrave, Maserati, Bose, Tiffanys, Newsvine, and of course OSNAP.net

ATOTS: Uh, Mike? We wen’t to commercial an hour ago.

MD: Body massage.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Attack of the Show has a video podcast on iTunes for those who don’t get Tech… G4TV.

By: gb

gb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Please, mike, for the love of all that’s holy, interrupt some diatribe on blogging and the internet with a somewhat orgasmic noise and proclaim “I’d forgotten my Treo was on vibrate. I love my Treo 700P!” Then see if Palm will send you free stuff.

Or, possibly, just answer every question with a sports analogy. Keep announcing world cup results when they’re talking to other people.

By: Devon Shaw

Devon Shaw — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One thing of note is how the effectiveness of the blogsphere — as with all tools in general — is watered down by people who don’t take it seriously enough (LiveJournal, Xanga) to those who feed into the fad and take it too seriously (corporations, Adobe). The actual sweet spot of blog effectiveness is found by those who write with purpose and passion in their topics with intent to educate outside the mainstream masses: i.e. yourself, John Gruber of Daring Fireball, and Chris Cizilla of The Fix on the Washington Post.

Good luck on the air and have fun bro… just don’t screw up! :P

By: Gregory Jarvis

Gregory Jarvis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m an 18 year old student studying Digital Media at Full Sail in Orlando FL. Right now in our web class, we’re coding a blog in PHP/MySQL. Everyday we talk about how blogs are taking over the internet and spend a good few minutes bashing MySpace, of course.

Anyways, I just thought I’d let it be known that the young designers are being specifically taught how to make these blogging machines… I don’t see blogs going away anytime soon. I actaully plan on making my mom a blog simply so she can post her pointless e-mail jokes on there instead of sending me junk mail!