Today we had eight people in studio, a new record. Including Robert Scoble, second from left.
Today we had eight people in studio, a new record. Including Robert Scoble, second from left.
Here are some of my videos from a few weeks ago when I reported from Oahu and Waikiki to assist Leo in welcoming Roz Savage to land after 99 days alone at sea in her rowboat.
I shot several short bits in the days leading up to her landing, the last being her actual arrival on the dock. The conversation between her and Leo will be released as a podcast at some point, and of course there is a documentary being made about her adventure.
Friday's Bear Hug event on open microblogging was an interesting event which we filmed in a C-SPAN type of way. Here's a photo of Evan Prodromou of Laconica and identi.ca, at the Sept. 12, 2008 Bear Hug Camp at CNet in San Francisco, carried live by TWiT. Photo by
Zach Copley.
The folks at XtremeCPU had few nice words to say about the Ultimate Gaming Machine at NVISION 08
Geoff Smith performed this recently in Nashville. Video by Chris Marquardt.
Here's a very nice post from Scott Bourne of MacBreak Weekly and the Apple Phone Show from last week: I Saw A Little History Yesterday Thanks to Leo Laporte.
Scott says a number of very nice things, including this excerpt:
Leo managed to make sure things kept rolling even though the iPhone was covered non-stop for 24 hours. Again, this is not easy. I was pretty excited by the variety of topics and opinions that were presented as was the audience.
Now let’s look at what really happened. At any given second, between 7000 and 8000 people were watching LIVE. The cumulative audience for the event was just under 300,000! These are cable TV numbers folks without the Cable TV! We constantly had about 600-700 people on chat joining in as well.
The streaming part of this was amazing. The folks at Stickam did a great job. Streaming media has come a very long way since I started delivering radio with the Internet at NetRadio in the 90s. We could never support an audience that large simultaneously.Many of my listeners commented that it felt like the old TechTV days. I have to agree.
Leo’s been on the bleeding edge of technology media from day one. He’s always innovating and always trying to find new ways to serve his audience.
As far as I know, nothing has ever been done like this in the brief history of new media. To do 24-hour, live, streaming coverage of a single event in front of an audience of this size is a staggering achievement.
Randal Schwartz of FLOSS Weekly stopped by the TWiT Cottage today and will join the panel for Today's recording of TWiT.
Scott Bourne was in studio this week and shot some great photos of Leo in studio.
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