I want my NerdTV
Can't get enough nerdiness on Slashdot and G4? Starting Sept. 6, PBS will broadcast a Web-exclusive downloadable series featuring the best of the nerd lot. Dubbed NerdTV, the series of 13 one-hour shows will be hosted by technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely.
Cringely, author of "Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date," will interview such nerd notables as Pay-Pal co-founder Max Levchin, original Macintosh programmer Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Joy, father of Berkeley UNIX.
In a column on pbs.org last week, Cringely offered a bunch of nerd-friendly production and format specs for the series and stressed that NerdTV will be distributed under a Creative Commons license, which means viewers can redistribute the shows at will. Nerds, start your swaps.