Interestingly, I got an email today from Austin Chase, the president of BlogTV.com. It seems, while searching daypop, they came across this entry where I mention that someone should put together a TV news program based on blogging. It appears they are pursuing just the same.

In the meantime, their website doesn't have much going on for it for now (check back in May), though it does refer people to blogchalking.com which appears to be an effort to add geographical relavence to blogs. Austin also mentioned a soon to be announced promotion that blogtv will be doing in conjunction with BlogShares and perhaps blogtv's intention to create an easy to use online blogging system for the masses. This is all well and good and I think there is much untapped potential in utilizing blogging on a grand scale, but I want my BlogTV! I wish them all the best, but until I can see my TV news utilizing blogging, they could just as well call themselves blogoverse.com. Oh wait, I own that.

Of course nothing happens overnight. You got that Mr. Orlowski?

By Gary at 11:38 PM in Sci/Tech | Comments (5)  

Good comments, and as we say in the TV business...STAY TUNED!

Posted by: Austin at April 8, 2003 12:44 AM

BTW, sorry if I came off as harsh. Just trying to be witty. Like I said, you can't expect things to happen over night.

Posted by: Gary Lerhaupt at April 8, 2003 10:14 AM

Please do not apologize. You did come off harsh, maybe just a little pessimistic (but that might be your personality and after all we are about "Publishing with Personality"--so good for you!). We don't expect you to share our ambition or mission. But, for the record maybe we're not blogoverse.com, but "I want my BlogTV(tm)" well that's our slogan.

Posted by: Bonnie at April 9, 2003 01:09 AM

Not pessimistic -- perhaps my angle was a bit subtle, but I think you and I want the same thing (though I have no ambition or mission). TV is all about the instant gratification and I think nothing exemplifies this more than MTV (from where your slogan obviously is derived from). I was simply drawing a parallel between that, your choice of a slogan and the fact that I can't see my blog news TV yet.

Its good that you're not blogoverse.com as there is nothing there yet nor do I have any ambitious plans for it.

Posted by: Gary Lerhaupt at April 9, 2003 11:16 AM

Don't mind me...but thank you for your thoughts...and also for the suggestions about Lindows and Linux! All good points!

Posted by: Bonnie at April 10, 2003 06:26 PM