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NerdTV Coming in September
Random BedHead Ed writes "After years of development, Robert X. Cringely's NerdTV is finally on its way, and will be released September 6th. The program will feature interviews with prominent nerds, such as Bill Joy and Macintosh programmer Andy Hertzfeld. But far from being a normal television show, it will be downloadable. As Cringely explained last week in his column, BitTorrent and the expansion of broadband made this the right time for such a move. The show will be available at pbs.org/nerdtv/, where there is currently an information page.
Larry Lessig points out that the show will be distributed under a Creative Commons license - the specific license is not specified, but Cringely and PBS say that noncommercial use and redistribution will be allowed."
It's going to be awesome. Bob is always fun to watch and read. And he's pro splicing. So it's going to be okay to have some fun cutting up his interviews and doing interesting things to them.
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I haven't ever heard of the host...
I'd suggest you check out his weekly column from time to time. He seems to be one of the few tech pundits out there that actually has half a clue. Although sometimes it's obvious it's only half a clue...
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It's a pen name and it isn't really ever officially abbreviated or otherwise shortened.
And as for "How many Robert Cringley's are there who write tech columns and host PBS computer shows?", there are at least 2 Robert X. Cringely's that write tech columns (though one is barred from writing them in tech publications). Mark Stephens started using the pen name when writing for InfoWorld and continued to use it after leaving, but InfoWorld had a trademark on it.
They sued and it eventually ended up that Robert X. Cringely means Mark Stephens everywhere but InfoWorld and InfoWorld continues to host a column under that name which isn't written by Stephens.
Wikipedia has more information.
....is doing at http://twit.tv
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"Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available - exclusively over the Internet - broadcast television's first entirely downloadable series"
So it won't actually be airing on PBS, just on the internet?
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Check out http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.htm There is a program called Go Open.
Their claim to fame was that it is the worlds first ever TV Program dedicated to "All things Open Source."
It includes interviews with major open-source figures such as Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Jon 'maddog' Hall, and Bruce Perens, as well as case studies and discussions of Shuttleworth's Ubuntu Linux.
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