Geek 11 Sep 2005 07:27 pm
Nerd TV
Today I watched the first episode of Robert Cringely’s Nerd TV, featuring Andy Hertzfeld. Andy worked for Apple during the development of the Macintosh, and he is one of those folkloric Silicon Valley characters everyone seems to know about.
Nerd TV is an Internet-only TV show, featuring an one-hour interview with a single guest each week. It can be downloaded from PBS’s website or via BitTorrent. The roster of future guests has several impressive names, including Bill Joy, Steve Wozniak and Doug Engelbart. The interviewer, Cringely, is well known among geeks worldwide for his documentary “Triumph of the Nerds”, telling the history of Silicon Valley up to the mid-90s (with a follow-up a few years latter, “Nerds 2.0″).
The first interview was very interesting, with Andy talking about his upcoming book and telling several anecdotes about the early years of Apple. Recommended for evey geek.
By the way, if you just download the audio (not the video), you won’t miss anything. I just wish they had a RSS feed so that the content could be treated as a podcast and downloaded more easily.
