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Billionaire Mark Cuban on video: I want one hand on the remote and the other in my pants

Nick Douglas — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:08:21 EDT

On Geek Entertainment TV, the fun video blog hosted by faux-clueless Irina Slutsky (a master at cutting through buzzwords and making tech sound dirty), dot-com billionaire Mark Cuban recaps his talk to the Consumer Electronics Association. Topics include MySpace perverts, drunk e-mail checking, advanced TV tech, and how his startup Broadcast.com was different from YouTube (sure it was: YouTube is actually worth something).

Mark wants you to watch CuTube [Geek Entertainment TV]

Bubble Threat Level: Elevated

Nick Douglas — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:03:49 EDT

Like forest fires in Colorado and tornadoes in Kansas, Silicon Valley is always alert to the national disaster that could shake it to its foundations.

That's right, I'm talking about the Bubble.

Today's Bubble Threat Level is Elevated. The causes:

The Valley's best on-camera snarkers just sold out to the bubbliest podcast company, PodTech. Blogger Robert Scoble, who just left Microsoft for PodTech, hired Eddie Codel and Irina Slutsky of Geek Entertainment TV. Some say it's their wit and experience, but everyone knows it's just because Eddie's got great tits. [Laughing Squid]
Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion, is calling the Internet overhyped. This is like Paris Hilton saying there are too many fake celebrities. [Mark Cuban]
Cartoonist Hugh MacLeod has invaded Chicago with his wine-shilling art. [Flickr]

Photo: "it was this big" [vvt on Flickr]

Vlogging going up, vlogging going down

ndouglas — Tue, 02 May 2006 22:01:03 EDT

The subjects of yesterday's SF Chron story on video blogging come from all over. Some are nearly mainstream, some known only to hundreds. But everyone in the piece falls into one of two major categories:

Vlogging will make them famous:

Jay Dedman (pictured), personal vlogger
Jerry, story vlogger
Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom vlog anchor (and that guy Andrew Baron, her producer)
J.D. Lasica, Ourmedia sharing-site owner
Susan Kirkpatrick, personal vlogger
Irina Slutsky, Geek Entertainment TV vlog anchor (and Eddie Codel, her producer)

Vlogging will make them even less famous:

Tom Green, roadkill eater

Video bloggers claim spotlight [SF Chronicle]

SXSW t-shirt watch

ndouglas — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:38:03 EST

You can tell how cool a party is by who's on the free tees. As a Rubyred Labs member told me, "You know those cool American Apparel shirts? They feel great. Well, I got one, but across the front it had a big logo, [in a broad obnoxious voice] FOLDEEEEERA. I'm never gonna wear that shirt!"

But the tees at SXSW can get pretty classy. Dogster founder Ted Rheingold handed out shirts reading "byte me," but some shirts reading "I like it ruff" are rumored, and even a "Give a dog a bone" shirt.

Everyone who used to be anyone is sporting bright-red "I was Internet famous once" tees from bubble-vloggers Geek Entertainment TV. And if you're really internet famous, GETV's Irina Slutsky might give you yours for free.

There are dozens of others, of course, but you'll have to tell us all in the comments. Pixplzkthxbai.

Photo: Laughing Squid [Flickr]

Geeking out: Geek Entertainment TV turns 1000

ndouglas — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:15:51 EST

Geek Entertainment TV celebrated its 1000th subscriber with a boozefest and gameshow at San Francisco's House of Shields. The snappy online talk show also taped another episode. Host Irina Slutsky interviewed cosmopolitan geek Jake Appelbaum (the photographer, hacker, and motorbiker with his own FBI file). Scott Beale snapped pics:

Irina Slutsky is unaware of the impending doom that is Jake. Her fate, after the jump.

Jake: "Well, Irina, after I defused the dirty bomb and saved a small African tribe from destruction, I took a photo of myself and hand-delivered it to TIME. Sorry, just a second, the Pulitzer people are calling."

Joshua Kinberg (developer for media aggregator FireAnt) replays his "home videos."

And from Kristie Wells:

Dogster's Ted Rheingold: "No, I'm pretty sure Ferretster is not a viable spin-off."

Meanwhile, at a pre-pre-Supernova dinner:

Macromedia co-founder Marc Canter: "My social network is THIS BIG."

Photos:
1-3: Scott Beale [Laughing Squid]
4: Kristie Wells [Flickr]
5: Geodog [Flickr]