I’m on CNN!
CNN’s Brooke Anderson interviewed me for a story about how TiVo can transform relaxing entertainment into a burdensome homework assignment, and it hit the Headline News network and CNN.com today.
You can see it here:
The interview itself was great fun and it’s wonderfully surreal both to see myself on TV and to be so gee-willickers excited about it: the new media guy on old media!
The new media twist is flavored like Facebook: friends posted the link on Facebook even before I saw it myself. People wrote on my wall. One friend sitting in SFO saw me on JFK and sent me a note via, you guessed it, Facebook.
The interview is related to this post from a while back: “Why Does On Demand Feel so Demanding?”
On an amusing side note: we get our cable TV via Time Warner, henceforth in this post to be referred to as The Evil TWC. For some unfathomable reason The Evil TWC decided NOT to show this story on Headline News. Every time we came up on minute 24 or minute 54 of the hour, they broke to local news coverage.
So even though I was on TV I couldn’t see it on MY OWN TV in the living room. Thanks to The Evil TWC Kathi and the kids and I all decamped to my brother Evan’s house on our way out to a midday hike because Evan has satellite.
A big raspberry to The Evil TWC.
Dish Network, why don’t you come up and see me sometime?
3 Responses to “I’m on CNN!”
1 Brent 28 November 2008 @ 6:32 pm
Props for being on TV, and now, quite possibly, ironically requiring me to decide if I need to watch it from my TiVo.
(Yeah, just kidding. You look good, Brad!)
But, like almost all tv news, I think “really?” I look at those people interviewed and I think that, in the 80s, it could have been spun as an advertisement for Communism: less choice is better!
Please — TiVo is particularly elegant at making it easier for you to make choices about what to watch, and the only reason why people fear deleting is because they might later feel like they still wish they had that choice that TiVo gave them.
Organization and prioritization are the survival skills of the 21st century. If too many things to choose from is your problem, that’s something to work on.
2 Josh Messinger 29 November 2008 @ 10:28 am
Great Job!!
3 Peter 30 November 2008 @ 1:32 pm
But Tivo guilt is the GOOD guilt. Not like Jewish mother “You never call!” guilt. And really… watching something LIVE? That is SO 20th century. The greatest satisfaction in watching something on television is not watching it live, it’s watching it without commercials. When I want to watch it.
Phhhhbbbbllllllttt.