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Technology writer Joel Johnson was invited to talk about gadgets on The Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored by AT&T for distribution on AT&T's Tech Channel. Instead of discussing gadgets right away, Joel felt compelled to first discuss AT&T's recent and unprecedented proposal to filter Internet traffic. http://www.slate.com/id/2182152/fr/rss/
The interview was halted once Joel began questioning AT&T's moral and legal rights on this matter. Anticipating this might happen, a friend was present to tape the interview with a hand held camera. Here's a more complete description of events from Joel Johnson himself: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/talking-about-atts-i.html
The interview was halted once Joel began questioning AT&T's moral and legal rights on this matter. Anticipating this might happen, a friend was present to tape the interview with a hand held camera. Here's a more complete description of events from Joel Johnson himself: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/talking-about-atts-i.html
How did this schlub get a show? Every time he says dude I wanna punch him. Does get some decent guests but the host is just awful.
Seriously. Even if you wrote the highest archetypal part of "complete dork" and got a seriously dorky comedic genious to play him, you still couldn't get what this guy delivers.
And don't get me wrong: if he answered the "how would they actually do it" question with anything approaching technical aplomb or with even a whiff of insight, instead of the canned, half-witted corporate marketingspeak he sputtered out, his complete lack of *any social skills whatsofuckingever* might be lightly excused. Instead, like winkler, I feel an inescapable urge to smack him repeatedly.
Anyway, good for Joel.