The TechTV Redo: Undo
My geekyness may be showing here, but back in High School I lived for ‘The Screensavers’. At 4:00 I would tune in to TechTV and watch a quality tech show, run by respectable tech journalists. When G4 took over the network, and ruined it there was a dearth of people friendly tech programming.
Leo (like him or not), helped bring this programming back to the mainstream with his seemingly endless podcasts. Now it seems he wants to create a TechTV like network with fellow TTV alumnus, Chris Pirillo.
TechTV is back. Sort of.
Two former show hosts at the defunct cable and satellite channel, Chris Pirillo and Leo Laporte, recently floated the idea of a TechTV Reunion that would let alumni of the popular (to geeks anyway) station post new video clips at a centralized location. The idea drew raves on the popular web news site Digg, launched by TechTV alum Kevin Rose.
Now a new website is the wings that would do just that: UndoTV. Pirillo announced late Monday that he has registered UndoTV.com and several other variations as the lynchpin of an experimental show using the web to share video clips produced by the once-thriving TechTV community.
I wish the team much success in thier new venture, and hopefully it will bring joy (and education) to the new generation of geeks that will soon be fixing your computer.
