Semi-Celebrityness & the New Model for Media
I don’t watch TV in the traditional sense anymore. I canceled my cable subscription a few months ago to save money and I watched too much of it. Even if I knew there was not anything on that interested me, I would still sit and just channel surf.
Currently I have rabbit ears on my TV but I don’t watch broadcast TV that much. I think the writer’s strike had a lot to do with that. All the shows I had been following stopped producing new episodes. The strike is over but we are in a lull waiting for new episodes. So in the interim, I have been consuming new video podcasts. Some are produced by media companies and some are produced by a couple guys with a set in their apartment. There are thousands of audio podcasts but the cost for professionally produced video podcasts is more prohibitive. Many of the shows I watch are produced by Revision3. They are a new media company producing content and distributing it over the web. It seems like they are launching a new show every couple of weeks. I download the podcasts to an old computer connected to my TV and then I kick back and watch the shows.
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Harvey the Wonder Hamster
I was driving back from Louisiana yesterday afternoon and listened to Buzz Out Loud. This particular episode was a retrospective because one of the hosts was leaving. So during the broadcast, they played a 4 minute montage of her random and bizarre comments. One happened to be a song about Harvey the Wonder Hamster. Enjoy.
