NerdTV

I've always been a fan of Robert X. Cringely's books and specials on PBS. He has a new show, called NerdTV that, in his words is the "Charlie Rose for geeks."

The NerdTV Web site provides video of the entire shows, transcripts and MP3 files of the shows, all under a Creative Commons license. Pretty neat stuff. Snippet:

NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions. If not THE future of television, NerdTV represents A future of television for niche audiences that have deep interest in certain topics.

This week's show is an interview with Andy Hertzfeld. Andy was the original Macintosh systems programmer and someone I'm a pretty big fan of. I blogged on Andy's book, Revolution in the Valley - The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made here on GumpRants.com on April 28. Take a listen to Andy's interview, and check out the book here.

Good stuff.

-aB