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Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show
Quantum Jim writes "Kevin Rose, one of the famous contributors and co-hosts of The Screen Savers, is leaving this week to concentrate on a new technology howto show called Systm. The Systm will be an internet-only show distributed free (as in beer AND speech) in a number of formats: Theora, Xvid, WMV, H.264, and PSP (what's that?). There will be bittorrent trackers available too! If only I had broadband..."
Its due time for the web to get a real TV show! We all know that it's the media of the future!
He knows how bad things have gotten (as if they could get any worse...) and is leaving to pursue bigger and better things that everyone knows he can. If only he could call up Leo and Patrick and have them help out...that would be excellent.
To give up a job to publish free (as in everything) show on the web, that means he's either got cajones the size of bowling balls or his job absolutely sucked.
I'll give this show a shot, and may even not block the ads (if there are any)
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If you like the old Screensavers, you'll love the "This Week In Tech" podcast. It's all the old TSS folk talking about what they like to talk about. No more lame "which broadband router is the best blah blah" crap. Just good ol' fashioned geeks talkin about cool shit.
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Java fanboys notwithstanding, I don't know a single person who likes running Java apps on their system. Slow load times and a huge VM size aren't desirable to most people.
If it's already available in Theora and Xvid, why on Earth would anybody want to choose a format like Fluendo that is hardly known? A *lot* of people disable Java because along with Javascript it's likely to become the next big attack vector to target browsers cross platform. Unlike Javascript, Java malware is more likely to work cross-browser because VMs don't differ as much as browser Javascript vulnerabilities.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
Here's also hoping that the new show is actually is actually any good...the last few months of The ScreenSavers/Attack of the Crappy Show have had about 3 minutes of actual computer related stuff covered in them. Thanks to all of the geniuses at G4...good job on getting rid of Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton, they obviously were too good so you replaced them with the obviously "better" (NOT!) younger hosts that did nothing but waste my hour!
Your insightful argument is very intresting with all the sources you cited to prove your point...
However let me try if I can rebut your claim anyway. You say that Kevin Rose is a "tool". The defention of tool as an insult is used when describing someone who is being manipulated without their knowledge - implying they are naïve and ignorant. Now I don't think that Kevin Rose matches any of those points. He knows what he is doing and is neither being exploited or manipulated. In fact he is rather taking the bull by the horns at it were and attempting to start a Online Television company producing shows reminiscent of the old TechTV days.
Now that I gave you the smart ass answer I will go alittle more into what I think you really mean by calling him a tool, which is he is a "poser" and does not possess the true elite computer hacker skills that you think are important.
Now don't get me wrong I am not Kevin Rose fanboy although I am defending him here. I do think he does a pretty good job with production value and quality of the shows he is on, either it be thebroken or the old Screen Savers. Does that mean that anyone who wants to have a tech show has to be one of the most elite computer users on the planet before they get your approval? I hope not because I have been following around online telvision shows for a while and I got to say that the ones with the most elite people as the stars suck. And the reason that is because the most elite people for the most part do not know how to be a good television host. Their camera angles are all off, the lighting always sucks and I get better sound listening to AM radio. I don't want an "elite computer hacker" running the shows I watch. I want those people in the background comming up with the content and handing it off to people like Kevin Rose who can actually present the information in a worth while format.
just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you
For some reason I always got the impression of him trying to hard to push some type of "1337 hacker" image that was laughable and down right stupid. If it wasn't for his little short-lived thebroken show I would have thought it was the producers of TSS that advised him to be that way, but I guess not.
I guess he really wanted to look like a some uber-hacker god for all the script kiddies that viewed the show. But alas I stopped watching TSS over a year ago and G4 as well.
TSS's decline started when Kevin Rose came aboard. He might not have been the cause of it but I've always associated him with the decline. Just give me Leo, Patrick, and Meagan's download of the week with an occasional bit with Martin Sargent and I'll be happy.
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Gee, thanks for posting about this on the front page of Slashdot. Whereas before, those of us who cared enough to be on the mailing list were going to download the first episode tonight. Now that it's slashdotted, nobody is going to get the first episode tonight.
Slashdot didn't even have the courtesy to run their links through the Coral CDN. Nice.
I could agree with you, but he only did stuff like this once there was some oh-so-1337 script-kiddie approach to it. Once the "real" security and hacking (hacking as in modding) scenes laid the groundwork and then made some nice t001z to use, then he'd be on the screen showing how 133t he was by typing a URL into a text box and then hitting a button. That's not interesting to me-- maybe mildly so, if I didn't know how to use TCPdump, or nmap already.
Many have stated this before, but he's nothing more than a script kiddie. If he's doing it, someone else is doing it, or has done it, and they're doing it with far more skill and insight.
I don't moderate anymore. Karma penalty for 90% fair mods? Can I mod that unfair?
War spying is not a new topic for them. Do not regurgitate the same old stories in a new format. Myself having a 2 year associate's degree in electronics and working as a network engineer for the last 8 years I am not impressed. (not that I have bragging rights for that!)
Shoot higher. Intelligent leaders surround themselves with those that are smarter than themselves. As journalists, use your talents to search out people with skills higher than your own in the topics you are covering and use your journalist skills as a rosetta stone for the rest of us. Pardon the reference, but hosts of cooking shows pretend they do not know what they are doing when they have guests on to facilitate the knowledge transfer from the presenter to the viewer.
Why lock yourself into one topic (war spying) that so many people may not find an interest in? That is the content of the whole episode? Nobody cares f you do not have a set. This was your coming out party, seek a large audience. Make it look like more than a college project. At this point you are actually an experienced journalist. Use your skills and do not just report, Produce! I think this could take off, but only with hard work and dedication.