NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks - a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology. Guests like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak are household names if your household is nerdy enough, but as historical figures and geniuses in their own right, they have plenty to say to ALL of us. NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions. If not THE future of television, NerdTV represents A future of television for niche audiences that have deep interest in certain topics.
Some highlights from the guest list:Macintosh OS programmer Andy Hertzfeld (9/6/05)
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin (9/13)
Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy (9/20)
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle (9/27)
Internet publisher Tim O'Reilly (10/4)
Father of RSS Dave Winer (10/11)
Autodesk co-founder Dan Drake (10/19)
Intel Capital co-founder Avram Miller (10/28)
Anina High Fashion Meets High Tech (11/9)
Spreadsheet inventor Dan Bricklin (11/25)
Computer mouse inventor Doug Engelbart (12/9)
TCP/IP inventor Bob Kahn (1/30/06)
Internet entrepreneur, Judy Estrin
Former Lotus chief scientist Jerry Kaplan
Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak
Former Apple chief scientist Larry Tesler
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds
Guest list is subject to changehttp://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/Don
