This Week in Tech: my first real podcast experience

In my early college days I discovered TechTV. It was a digital cable-only channel (in my area anyways) dedicated to bringing tech information to people like me. Sadly, I'm describing this channel in past tense.

Simpson's Law took effect. This law states that 86.54% (as of the latest study) of the products/items a Simpson family member is fond of will be cancelled, discontinued, imploded, or pillaged.

TechTV was effectively pillaged by the mongrels at G4. Early last year, as best I can remember, G4 Merged with TechTV to produce the demonic child of beelzebub that was G4TechTV. As with all other things good, G4 plundered the remains of TechTV, fired 90% of the staffers within three months and ruined The Screen Savers...but I'm not bitter or anything.

Back to the point of the post...The original TechTV network was worth a look simply for their flagship show, The Screen Savers. Well, the same folks who brought The Screen Savers to the masses are now doing a podcast called This Week In Tech. They talk about just what you think they would... from a show called This Week in Tech, the technology news of the previous week.

The show I'm listening to as I type covers E3, and google's new personalization features, along with taking a few recorded questions from callers (Star Wars/MPAA, The future of technology...etc). It's really just a good way to get tech info while I surf. It's much easier to listen to a podcast and get my nuggets of tech goodness whilst I surf than to watch a tv show I've recorded or try to multi-task and read a few different sites at once.

Give it a try if you're gonna be surfing for a while... if you're interested in gaming/technology/random tech goodness, I'm sure you'll like it.

Posted by Jordan at May 23, 2005 08:00 PM | TrackBack