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 AngelaHayden rated 4 months ago -
Bloggingheads.tv was started in the fall of 2005 by Robert Wright, Mickey Kaus, and Greg Dingle. Wright and Kaus, both journalists, had long been attracted to the idea of pontificating on TV, but so far few if any TV producers had seen merit in this aspiration. Wright and Kaus wondered wheth...
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- AngelaHayden rated 4 months ago
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Bloggingheads.tv was started in the fall of 2005 by Robert Wright, Mickey Kaus, and Greg Dingle. Wright and Kaus, both journalists, had long been attracted to the idea of pontificating on TV, but so far few if any TV producers had seen merit in this aspiration. Wright and Kaus wondered whether the new economics of the Internet--which had already turned thousands of not-very-good writers into print pundits--could turn two not-very-telegenic people into video pundits.
They turned to Dingle, a Canadian tech-guy who had already collaborated with Wright to build the Meaningoflife.tv web site. Dingle came up with a cost-effective system for creating split-screen streaming videos featuring two people in remote locations and--voilá!--on November 1, 2005, Kaus and Wright aired their first "diavlog". Soon they were being watched in literally scores of households.
- Kristee rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "Bloggingheads is in some ways a classic expression of the Internet: the ever-dropping cost of information-processing allows people to interact in new ways, and a whole new tribeâ€"the Bloggingheads tribeâ€"is formed. But we hope to be in one sense an unusual expression of the Internet. Almost all blogs have a dominant ideology and a fairly homogeneous comments section to match. We pride ourselves on having a diversity of views in our diavlogs and an accordingly diverse comments section, where thoughtful disagreement is expressed in civil terms. (OK, usually thoughtful, and usually civil.) We thank our commentersâ€"and for that matter our less-vocal viewers, and of course all the bloggingheadsâ€"for making this website a place where great minds don't think alike."
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