Does anyone watchCurrent TV ? Living as a virtual Luddite — throw only elaborate - basic cable — I do n’t get that lofty channel . So I prove the next skillful matter , checking out some of the show clipping on their World Wide Web website that I stumbled across thanks to theGoogle Zeitgeist .
Current is supposed to be a channel dedicated to substance abuser - generated content . Anyone can pass on video , short clips and comment . If it rings a Alexander Bell with viewers , your clip bubbles up to the top of the heap .
I ’ve bonk about Current for a while . Their studio apartment is just down the street from our own office and I ’ve heard more than one taradiddle of an Al & Tipper sighting ( yes , Al Gore is one of the principal investors in the meshing ) . But it was n’t until Google entered the film that I find the motivation to investigate .
There ’s aGoogle - branded showon Current that purportedly showcases what mass are searching for on the Web . Being a person who hold a professional interest in such affair , I just had to view . I envisioned Google Zeitgeist in picture human body .
What was the result of my first foray ? Three longsighted minutes dealing with “ Punch - a - famous person ” World Wide Web sites , delivered by Kinga Philipps , who found it necessary to insert supposedly articulatio coxae comment around otherwise dull content . Aw snap !
At this dot my interest level get through dangerously low levels .
disregarding , I reckon I ’d cut Current some slack . Give’em a 2nd chance . I checked out another archived installment by Ms. Philipps , only to be underwhelmed again . These three minutes , even longer than the first instalment , contained an interview with a variety feller who has a web site hold in image of weenie tied to thing . Picture a mutt tether by his trinity to a parking meter .
Any previously held pursuit had now dissipated .
That ’s six plus minute of my life down the drainage without a unmarried statistic to show . Not a word about the case of hunting buzz these website are generating . Quirky ? peradventure . Entertaining ? Hardly . enlightening ? Not at all .
Third metre ’s a charm , you say ? In step Conor Knighton , another segment server . And hallelujah ! He talks about search solution . His searchdu jour ? The Great Dick Cheney Hunting Disaster .
He launches into the deluge of search issue surrounding the gunplay , basically variations on “ Cheney shoots man . ” Then he hits the meaty part of the section by highlighting remaining spinoffs of that search . A surge of involvement in Aerosmith ’s “ Janie ’s Got a Gun ” ( insert goofy first light radio slapstick here ) and a stunning revivification of Bush administration vice presidents from days proceed by : Dan Quayle .
Now that ’s informative . I do n’t really give care about matter on the Internet that are just apparently wacky . I want to know about how the average user ’s generic and sometimes obscure search - locomotive inquiry can finally lead them to my site .
take down to Current TV : I value amusement . Quirky is hunky-dory . But if you ’re going to brand a show with the biggest name on the Internet , you ’d well hand over some ( search ) resultant role .
Second short letter to Current : Oh yeah . Where ’s the Mac programming ?
I know you ’re whole focus is exploiter - make content , but there has to be someone out there talk about our niche section .
In a recent Macworld Podcast aboard the MacMania Geek Cruise , Leo Laporte — a lead broadcast journalist on technical school matters — spoke with our own Jason Snell and questioned whether the White House at the helm of now - defunct TechTV really ‘ grow it . ’ He even talked about their lack of willingness to dole out blank for a Mac - specific scheduling .
See where it bring forth them ?
Maybe some of our readers will take up the challenge and right this bully unjustness . Think you’vegot what it takes ?
