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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..."
God knows that he and Morgan Webb were the only things worth watching on that sinking ship of a channel...
"How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)
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.
He forgot this [java] technology. I consider it a serious contender based on Java. Slashdotters, point your browsers to http://stream.fluendo.com/demo/office/audiovideo/j ava.php to see what I am talking about.
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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Only make 3 episodes before giving up, like his last attempt, The Broken?
Kevin Rose is too cool for vowels. Pretty soon he'll have his name changed to Kvn Rs. That shit's leet.
http://www.thebroken.org/ ?
Fans of the old TechTV show "The ScreenSavers" might want to check out Leo Laporte's podcasts. He makes his radio show available. He has also gotten together with some people from the old show and they do a podcast called This Week in Tech.
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http://www.leoville.com/
http://thisweekintech.com/
also see Dan Huard's take on TechTV:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/01/17252
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I'd hit it.
Kevin is also doing a pod cast along Leo and some of the other guys from the old TEchTV.
You can get it at www.thisweekintech.com
they call it TWIT, very good. Looking forward the relase of Systm tonight. systm.org
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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.
www.twit.tv
-Randy
I liked Kevin quite a bit, but Leo used to be my favorite. You can download quite a few of Call For Help episodes via bittorent over here. I'm off to download. :)
- Teja
the systm.. is down..
the systm.. is down..
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Mom: So kevin, how's your job at the Sceensavers?
K: I don't work there any more?
Mom: What?
K: I'm doing something new!
Mom: What's that?
K: I'm a PODCASTER!
Mom: A Broadcaster? That's nice.
K: NO.. POD caster.. POD as in iPod!
Mom: You sell ipods?
K: No..
Mom: What's it got to do with Ipods?
K: well, they can listen to my new show on ipods.
Mom: Oh.. that's nice.
Does it pay more?
K: It's a new venture, I expect to generate revenue from ads.
Mom: So, you have advertisers lined up?
k: Um..
Mom: Are you making any money yet?
k: Um...
Mom: what's with all the stuff you moved into my basement? You're not moving in there are you?
K: Um..
Mom: And what's with that microphone? Could you get it out of my face, I'm trying to talk to you?
k: *runs* OK peeps, stay tuned to my next podcast, brought to you buy Redbull, Vodka, and our biggest sponsor.. Mom!
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
It's not the video format that's messing you up. It's the naming format. Just change the name to whatever.mp4 and you should be able to play it on any other portable, etc.
I've always been a fan of the screen savers but some of the newer people on the show are complete idiots. I'm glad to see he is going out on his own.
My favorite segment had to be the dark tips where Kevin would show how to hack XBOX, sniff network data, ect. Now that this segment will no longer be FCC controlled, I would imagine the segments may be much more interesting.
He may not be far off by going on his own either - MSNBC has an article linked from the msn.com homepage on the proliferation of InternetTV and it's niche market capability.
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Well, actually he was fired, he just didn't up and leave. But still, even though this was not too surprising, it's really wierd what Comcast has done to the once TechTV. Damn them.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
I mean, a hot chick that's into computers... how often does that happen?
Michaela Pereira, who was the anchor on the TechTV nightly news program, seemed to be genuinely interested in tech. She is continuing with her tech interests on the KTLA Morning News...she seems to have a genuine knowledge and love of it. And yes, she's cute.
Soledad O'Brien, who was the original host of The Site on first MSNBC, then ZDTV, also seemed to be genuinely interested in technology. I seem to remember she was also on a syndicated tech program before that. She's now on CNN and apparently no longer on the tech beat. Pity. I haven't seen her show (it airs very early PDT) but I seem to remember she was fairly attractive.
Then again, I'm a hetero female and should qualify my opinions on female pulchritude accordingly.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Now that the site's apparently back up for the time being, at 8:00PM PST, the first episode of Systm will be released... the IRC channel that you may want to join is located on the irc.dslextreme.com server, in the #systm channel.
Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Bugs are good for building character in the user.
Asia Carrera is still my favorite hot geek.
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.
Just got this mail from Systm:
;)
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thebroken newsletter
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Systm release tonight!
From the creators of thebroken comes a new downloadable tech show: "Systm" (pronounced system). While Systm is a general interest HOW-TO show, thebroken will continue to have 40'z and hacking
Episode #1 will be released tonight at 8:00PM PST! To celebrate, we will be throwing a house party starting at 6:00PM. We'll fire up our live webcam of the festivities along with an IRC chat room. Chat with Kevin, Dan, Keith and Ron (systm/thebroken crew) along with other TechTV staffers (Leo, Pat, Yoshi, Martin, Alex, and others (Ramzi) have all been invited).
Visit the website now: http://systm.org/
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When is thebroken episode 4 coming out?
After several weeks of lawyer negotations with G4 (my 9-5 job), they have agreed to release me from my contract. Friday May 27th 2005 marks my last day on the G4 network. That means we are focusing on thebroken / Systm FULL TIME! We are starting to plan the next episode of thebroken now, and we'll send out another update as we get closer to the release! Now that this is our full-time job, expect to see many more video releases coming your way!
More info:
http://www.kevinrose.com/
http://systm.org/
- thebroken crew
Brian Gillis
Here are the torrents for the videos:
i ngbox--large.xvid.avi.torrent
i ngbox--large.wmv.torrent
http://www.prolexic.com/systm/systm--0001--warspy
http://www.prolexic.com/systm/systm--0001--warspy
Brian Gillis
While that might be cool to some, there are "cooler" things in my book. Why waste time on lame "Dark Tips" like setting a system's floppy drive on fire, or why a CD-ROM with some obscure 1337-h4X0r bootable distro is more "deviant" than another 1337-h4X0r on a floppy, just because it can go through a metal detector? Why not talk about how many great bootable Linux distros there are out there that could actually have you be productive, rather than just have some kind of 1337 factor? That's just an example, though.
But, he does represent to me the stripping away of what little of TechTV/ZDTV was left. Back then, every show was informative, even the shows that were somewhat silly. Never once would you have seen some dorks lighting a floppy drive on fire be labelled a "Tip", and never would you see a commercial with some chick's ass shaking to advertise the new "my ricer is pimped out" show.
I don't moderate anymore. Karma penalty for 90% fair mods? Can I mod that unfair?
For those of you not wanting to deal with torrents, Here's some links from a handful of dedicated boxes, each can push 100Mbit/sec:
l arge.xvid.avi
n gbox--large.xvid.avi
i ngbox--large.xvid.avi
i ngbox--large.xvid.avi
http://fpux.com/systm/systm--0001--warspyingbox--
http://mirror.fpux.com/systm/systm--0001--warspyi
http://mirror2.fpux.com/systm/systm--0001--warspy
http://mirror3.fpux.com/systm/systm--0001--warspy
In case I have to update these URLs, see the post on my blog: http://fpux.com/
May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my Internet epitaph.
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.