Finding Better Tech Broadcasts? 205
BearGrylls writes "As a young lad and aspiring technologist I have found shows like Revision3's 'The Broken' and 'Systm' to be entertaining, informative, and, most importantly, thorough. As time has gone on revision3 has kept some of the tech-related shows, but dumbed them down to appeal to a larger audience. This annoyed me, but I've continued to be a loyal viewer of their tech shows anyway. However, I suspect this trend to continue and my disappointment to grow. Where can I find tech shows that dive deep into projects and discussions instead of simply skimming the surface?"
Revision 3 has new, better shows! (Score:5, Informative)
No content in Tech TV (Score:2, Informative)
GDGT.com (Score:5, Informative)
I listen to TWIT [thisweekintech.com] (This Week In Tech) regularly, mainly for Leo Laporte and any guest who isn't Dvorak. I don't find Leo to be particularly techy, but he's quite entertaining and controls the flow of the show well.
They mention Rev3 alot and also a new site called GDGT [gdgt.com] (GaDGeT) which is supposedly good - I must admit I haven't found time to check it out yet.
Okay no excuses, subsribing to an RSS feed is dead simple, so I'm going go ahead and subscribe to GDGT and check it out. - Oh and IO9 [io9.com] while I'm at it.
Re:I have seen the same (Score:3, Informative)
Greek. Although the spirit of your reply is correct; the same applies to words such as "virus": the Anglicized plural "viruses" is acceptable, even though in the original Latin there is no plural form (it's a mass noun).
Re:On TV? No. (Score:5, Informative)
Oddly, I thought your point was clearer the first time!
As it happens I do quite enjoy The Gadget Show (UK) - although it doesn't always go into as much detail as I would like, and suffers from an occasional bout of "oooh... shiney!".
Google's Tech Talks (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Google's Tech Talks (Score:3, Informative)
I stopped watching Google Tech Talks after they moved form Google Video to YouTube. Back on GV, I could download a fairly high quality AVI that I could easily play on my TV. Now that they're on YouTube, downloading isn't quite as easy and the video quality is nowhere near as good.
Re:On TV? No. (Score:2, Informative)
There was a great series shown in the UK for a while, called "Planet Mechanics". They built, from scratch or any simple materials they could lay their hands on, a high pressure water turbine for off grid electricity, a working wind turbine generator, a compressed air powered moped, a farm slurry digester to make methane for fuel, all kinds of stuff.
Re:GDGT.com (Score:1, Informative)
They're kids' programs covering Apple products (they're fanboys) and minor industry chit-chat. The poster wants real tech programming, not adverts for the latest Apple gizmo.
Where can I find tech shows that dive deep into projects and discussions instead of simply skimming the surface?
Hackermedia (Score:4, Informative)
TWiTNetwork (Score:4, Informative)
Leo Laporte's TWiT (named after the flagship show "This Week in Tech") network at twit.tv. It includes downloadable audio casts and streaming video. I listen to it on my daily commute. Two good ones are FLOSS Weekly with Randall Schwartz and Security Now with Steve Gibson. I was just listening to FLOSS weekly today -- they had a KDE developer on discussing the latest developments.
Re:I have seen the same (Score:5, Informative)
No-one says stadia.
I present myself as a counterexample.
It's not even correct to do so.
The Oxford English Dictionary and American Heritage Dictionary offer both "stadiums" and "stadia" as plurals for "stadium". Webster offers only "stadia".
English nouns (such as stadium) pluralize with an s on the end.
There are no simple criterions for determining how English nouns pluralise, whatever they may teach childs where you live. Yet somehow, in spite of the many "crisises" of which we hear so much in the mediums, the English language has survived. It seems to have more lifes than a cat.
Expand your horizons (Score:3, Informative)
Citizen Engineer [citizenengineer.com] only has one episode out so far, and looks like it's going to be mostly hardhacking, but it's definitely not dumbed-down.
On the other hand, if you're looking for a serious discussion on the future of tech with a stronger grip on reality than Popular Science, try MIT's LabCast [mit.edu] videos, with footage of working prototypes.
Eight shows and podcasts you may enjoy (Score:1, Informative)
You may enjoy these shows:
The Packet Sniffers
http://www.packetsniffers.org
HackTV
http://www.hacktv.org/
M0difyd
http://www.pracdev.org/m0diphyd/
Infonomicon TV
http://nomicon.info/infotv.php
Irongeek
http://www.irongeek.com/
Hacker Media
http://hackermedia.org/
Hacker Public Radio (Daily tech audio podcast)
http://www.hackerpublicradio.org/
Today With A Techie (Audio podcast - stopped at 300 episodes)
http://www.twatech.org/
Why not DIY? (Score:4, Informative)
In the spirit of open source, if something is making you itch, you have the opportunity to scratch it.
I used to host a tech-oriented radio show on a local community radio station. I also syndicated the show using radio4all.net.
Television is a little harder to do, but thanks to sites like YouTube, it is possible to do on the cheap, because Google will absorb the bandwidth costs if your show is a success (and reap the ad revenue).
You can also do what Kevin Rose did in the early days of the Broken: Encourage your show to be distributed far and wide by whatever means are available.
Granted, none of these are likely to produce a result with as much production value as Revision3 shows (there's nothing like geeking out in HD), but it can get you started.
. . . if you want to go that route. If not, that's okay, too
NPR Science Friday (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Educational TV (Score:3, Informative)
I refer to it as "The Ladies Channel".
Re:I have seen the same (Score:3, Informative)
I think you were on some bo-bo "Websters" site. M-W.com (i.e. the "real Websters") accepts both forms.