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Unseen TV: Grit TV with Laura Flanders (WebOnly)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:47:39 -0700

Shows are Live and On-demand at the GRITtv Site
Get Grit TV Twitter updates by following @grittv

GRITtv airs Mon-Thurs, at 8pm & 1am ET, on Free Speech TV (DISH Network ch. 9415)

Laura Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide.

She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable and Inspirational Political Change in America (Penguin, 2008) and BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."

She wrote on Hillary Clinton in The Contenders (Seven Stories Press, 2007) and edited The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, in 2004 for the Feminist Press.

Before joining Air America when it launched in March 2004, Laura hosted the award-winning " Your Call," Monday-Friday, on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco.

Flanders' TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and " Larry King Live " on CNN as well as "The O'Reilly Factor," and "Hannity and Colmes," (FOX News) "Washington Journal," "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and the CBC news discussion program, "CounterSpin."

Her writing appears in The Nation, Alternet, Ms. Magazine, and elsewhere and her op-ed pieces have appeared in papers including The San Francisco Chronicle.

Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR's nationally-syndicated radio program.

Shie is also the author of Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997) about which Susan Faludi wrote, "If only there were a hundred of her." Katha Pollitt called it "Funny, angry, factfilled and brilliant."

So You Say You Want Change: Live from Denver

UPDATE: Laura is in Denver broadcasting this week from the Democratic party convention.

Related Post: Unheard Radio: Radio Nation with Laura Flanders

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Unseen TV: Cinematic Titanic (MST3K, DvdOnly)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:22:12 -0700

Most of the brilliant minds responsible for Mystery Science Theater 3000 are back with a new project entitled Cinematic Titanic:

Cinematic Titanic Episode One Promo - The Oozing Skull

Cinematic Titanic is a feature length movie riffing show and is an artist owned and operated venture created by Joel Hodgson, the creator of the Peabody award-winning Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Cinematic Titanic features the original cast and writers of MST3K, which is Hodgson (Joel Robinson), Trace Beaulieu (Crow), and J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo). Filling out the ensemble is Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester) and Frank Conniff (TV’s Frank). Cinematic Titanic’s focus is to riff on the movies we love, which are ‘the unfathomable’, ‘the horribly great’, and the just plain ‘cheesy’ movies from the past. Our first feature length DVD Cinematic Titanic’s “The Oozing Skull” is available for purchase at EZtakes.com

Created by Joel Hodgson, creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Cinematic Titanic peppers The Oozing Skull with the kind of hilarious, rapid-fire commentary that fans of fine movie riffing have come to know and love. Joining Joel are his original Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast mates Trace Beaulieu and J. Elvis Weinstein, along with longtime MST3K writers and cast members Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl. It's gonna get ugly, but then it's gonna get funny, so strap yourself in for the skull-oozing, gut-busting ride that is Cinematic Titanic.

Episode Two preview:

Cinematic Titanic Episode Two Promo - Doomsday Machine

UPDATE: Episode Three available today. Here's the preview:

Cinematic Titanic Episode Three Promo - The Wasp Woman

Cinematic Titanic

~~Apparently, in April this will also be available as a download.~~
Available as a download from EzTakes, Here, Here and Here.

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Unseen TV: Internet Superstar with Martin Sargent (Revision3)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:53:05 -0700

Internet Superstar Site
Revision3.com

Martin Sargent is an excellent host, very engaging and funny, and produces some of the best interstitial ads I've seen (for Netflix.) ~~Gator is an excellent "straight man" for balance~~. Gator is dead, ZOMG!!!1!. He will be replaced by Jay Speiden. I hope Jim Louderback doesn't fire them anytime soon!

In the latest episode of Internet Superstar, Martin interviews Laughing Squid's "primary tentacle," Scott Beale.

Internet Superstar ep. 30 with Scott Beale

About Internet Superstar

One after the other, Martin Sargent’s shows—on television, on cell phones, and online—have been brutally cancelled. When his most recent effort, Infected by Martin Sargent, was axed by Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback, Martin finally cracked. At the show’s final taping, Martin doused himself in gasoline and threatened to light his explosive-laden body on fire in desperate protest. Fearing a lawsuit, and that his fleece vest and perfectly coifed, John Edwards-like hair might get singed, Jim Louderback talked Martin down by promising him a new show, but with a major provision: except for the bandwidth, Martin will have to finance the whole thing himself.

Martin Sargent
Internationally adored farceur Martin Sargent has been delighting audiences for decades. Sargent got his start in media as a plucky young editor at PC/Computing magazine, and it is generally accepted in publishing circles that the periodical shuttered its operations as a direct result of Sargent’s exodus to pursue television projects. At ZDTV, TechTV and G4TV he hosted shows including The Screen Savers and Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. Since then he has done several pilots for such television powerhouses as Comedy Central and USA Network, and hosted shows on the Internet as well as mobile phones. Every show he has ever hosted or been affiliated with has either been cancelled or, in the case of his pilots, not picked up to begin with. He now hosts Web Drifter on Revision3, as well as Internet Superstar, a show he shoots in a shed in his mom’s backyard with absolutely no funding or support. In a nutshell, his once promising career, which reached its zenith in 2002 when he interviewed Vin Diesel, has utterly shat the bed.
He also has his very own blog - www.sargeworld.com.

~~Gator~~ RIP Gator!
Gator was a hard-drinking drifter who was raised by an ex-con Seminole Indian named Starving Crow and lived out of his truck in an abandoned lot in South San Francisco. He knew very little about the internet and less about technology. His main job was to make sure his "Internet Superstar" pal Martin Sargent didn't act like too much of a hotshot or get beat up by a guest.
He also held state carp records in Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida and could field dress a buck with a broken beer bottle in under eight minutes. He had no knowledge of his real last name.

Jay Who?
Plus, though Gator is irreplaceable, we can take comfort in the fact that sitting alongside me now will be my longtime collaborator Jay Speiden, who also happens to be Gator’s city cousin. Small world. Jay has been my main collaborator on pretty much everything I’ve done since day one of Unscrewed (not that that’s necessarily something you’d want on your resume), and I think you’ll really like what he brings to the show.

Martin Sargent and Gator

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Unseen TV: Dr. Michael Wesch - Digital Ethnography (Kansas State University)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:09:24 -0700

Official Site
YouTube Channel

Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on human interaction (and the impact of human interaction on new media). After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology. He is also a multiple award-winning teacher whose teaching projects are frequently featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and other major media outlets worldwide. Wesch is currently serving on the Editorial Board of Advisors for Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Dr. Wesch inspires hope in me, hope that the next generation(s) will take control of the messages and media that shape our attitudes and policies.

Here are three of his more famous videos:

The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

Twitter and the World Simulation

Information R/evolution

Lastly, an in-depth presentation given at the Library of Congress, explaining YouTube, and the Numa Numa phenomenon. June 23, 2008, 55 minutes.

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

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Unheard Radio: Doc Searls on GillmorGang (TV is dead)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:38:39 -0700

Podcast Episode Link (July 15, 2008)
GillmorGang Link

Doc-searls

I twittered:

Doc Searls on (no) future of traditional broadcasting - last GillmorGang podcast. Technical and encyclopedic. TV is dead. Long live TV.

In this episode Doc Searls goes into detail on the digital transition and implications for local, public and commercial broadcasting, television and radio, and has some very interesting things to say about "live" broadcasting in the future.

A must-listen for anyone interested in staying ahead of the curve on the future of broadcasting.

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Unseen TV: Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (Joss Whedon)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:37:42 -0700

Joss Whedon is releasing a limited-availability online web video series premiering today, with three episodes available until July 20, 2008 only. DVD will be available afterward. Official Site.

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog Preview

Dr Horribles Sing Along Blog

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Unseen TV: Mobuzz TV Daily Buzz (WebOnly, en es fr)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:27:54 -0700

Update: I can no longer recommend this show. News is thin and stale, presentation is more irritating than funny. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!

Update: Olivia has left Mobuzz. Gabe Mac will present in her stead.

Gabe Mac New Mobuzz Presenter

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Mobuzz.tv YouTube Channel

Talking About Twitter

Olivia Waters (Liv), a charming lass located in Madrid, Spain, hosts a brief daily TV show in English about tech stuff. Iria nos presenta la version Española, mais la derniere version en français est du septième d'avril.

I've only recently found it myself so I'll just say today's program is a good bit of fun, all about Twitter. Yo mismo lo encontré hace poco, así que solo digo que la programa de hoy es una diversión sobre Twitter.

Mobuzz TV: Daily Buzz is an irreverent and quirky daily show about the the latest and greatest in Cyber-Culture and Technology

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Unseen TV: The Colbert Report (Hulu)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:08:37 -0700

This definitely counts as "Unseen TV" for those of us without Cable.
Apologies to my international readers; Hulu is restricted to the U.S. currently.

Hulu is also showing full episodes of the Colbert Report posted shortly after airing on cable.

The Colbert Report, Jun 9 2008 - Season 4 Episode 75

Journalist Philip Weiss tells Stephen why sex and
marriage don't always mix, as explored in his recent
"New York Magazine" article, "The Affairs of Men."

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Unseen TV: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Hulu)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:45:40 -0700

This definitely counts as "Unseen TV" for those of us without Cable.
Apologies to my international readers; Hulu is restricted to the U.S. currently.

Hulu has arrived - now showing are full episodes of the Daily Show posted shortly after airing on cable.

Daily Show June 9 2008 - Season 13 Episode 75

Sen. Jim Webb tells Jon about his ideas for restoring America's
standing around the world, as detailed in his recent book,
"A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America."

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Unseen TV: Brian Lehrer Live (New York, CUNY)

nobody@vox.com(reechard) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:37:54 -0700

Watch Wednesdays at 4:30 PM PDT, 7:30 P.M. EDT, live at the Site.

Brian Lehrer (photo: Christine Butler)

Brian Lehrer, the popular host of WNYC's Peabody Award-winning "Brian Lehrer Show," hosts a live, hour-long weekly television program web-extravaganza through CUNY TV.

The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC was cited for being true "community-building radio," a shrewd blend of news analysis, civil conversation and call-ins that brings together the city`s wildly diverse citizenry.

Just like the WNYC show, Brian Lehrer Live on CUNY TV will be trying to get at the truth about life and politics in New York City. But unlike the radio, we are focusing through the lens of the new media empire forming on the web: Bloggers, reporters and pundits forming an unprecedented level of access to information and a whole new set of news challenges. The show examines the affect that internet has had on our daily lives, from candidates fund-raising online to community groups e-organizing, and we want you to come participate in carving out a niche in how the web affects the news. The show will continue to provide the direct access to major news makers that you've come to expect from someone like Brian Lehrer. We'll also invite people to send in photos and original videos that say something meaningful about life in New York today. And, as on the radio, we'll find our ways to sneak in some fun!"

The program is cablecast in New York City on Wednesdays from 7: 30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and is simulcast live and archived online at www.cuny.tv. We want your original content! Submit an idea for a segment, a guest, or your own home grown video to us through our website at http://bllblog.org

To interact with guests and offer your opinion about topics discussed on the show, call (212) 251-0801 on Wednesday evening from 7: 30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

I listen to Brian Lehrer... Wow, I love that guy. I love the show. – Jon Stewart (in a speech at a New Yorker Magazine forum)

Usually a pretty fair and smart guy – Bill O'Reilly (on his show)

You are it. You are the man. – Thomas Friedman (on "The Brian Lehrer Show")

Unheard Radio: Brian Lehrer Series on Congestion Pricing (WNYC)
Unheard Radio: Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC, news & analysis)

Brian Lehrer Live

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Unseen TV: Grit TV with Laura Flanders (WebOnly)

Unseen TV: Cinematic Titanic (MST3K, DvdOnly)

Unseen TV: Internet Superstar with Martin Sargent (Revision3)

About Internet Superstar

Martin Sargent

Gator RIP Gator!

Jay Who?

Unseen TV: Dr. Michael Wesch - Digital Ethnography (Kansas State University)

Unheard Radio: Doc Searls on GillmorGang (TV is dead)

Unseen TV: Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (Joss Whedon)

Unseen TV: Mobuzz TV Daily Buzz (WebOnly, en es fr)

Unseen TV: The Colbert Report (Hulu)

Unseen TV: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Hulu)

Unseen TV: Brian Lehrer Live (New York, CUNY)