Morgan Webb Does Her Own Web Show
Morgan Webb, TechTV/G4 star and FHM gaming columnist, today launches a daily video show called WebbAlert where she rattles off the big tech and gaming news of the day, pointing to relevant takes from the blogosphere.
Webb has the on-screen and off-screen chops to make a show, so she’s bootstrapping it with her husband Rob Reid, a writer and entrepreneur who formerly ran Listen.com — shooting and editing the show with a teleprompter her dad built and she coded. They have signed Federated Media to sell ads (which it also does for this and other GigaOM sites) and are using Castfire to host video. Meanwhile, Webb will continue to host gaming show X-Play for G4.
WebbAlert is short and snappy, with Webb introducing her viewers to the Techmeme-style conversation we tech bloggers all obsess over — finding the concentrations of the day’s conversations. And it doesn’t look particularly DIY either, with plenty of newscast-style animation. Webb helpfully makes her show text-friendly by providing links to all the stories she mentions, though I am disappointed it does not have comments.
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Liz, she has pretty detailed show notes with all the links though not on the homepage.
Amit Agarwal on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:40 am - Permalink
Amit, isn’t that what I said in the story?
Also FYI, Webb’s PR person said they will be adding comments soon.
Liz Gannes on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am - Permalink
[...] Coverage: TechCrunch, Fred Wilson, NewTeeVee, Gizmodo, John [...]
Castfire » Blog Archive » Welcome, WebbAlert! on August 2nd, 2007 at 1:06 pm - Permalink
[...] NewTeeVee [...]
Is this Federated Media’s new conversation? » TechAddress on August 2nd, 2007 at 7:33 pm - Permalink
Oops! reading between the lines..my bad..You are absolutely right Liz.
Amit Agarwal on August 3rd, 2007 at 3:18 am - Permalink
Not sure why she’d want comments, because she’s burned through four or five sites now, all with comments, and been chased off every last one of them into hiding by an army of ‘Morgan is hotttttt’ fanboys.
Aaron on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm - Permalink
If she does put up comments, she should get someone like NickDShultz to help moderate it because just like what Amit said, everytime she gave the public the ability to comment about something indirectly/chat directly with her, she always wound up regretting it in the end.
If she doesn’t have someone moderating comments, I’d suggest that she not even bother taking that chance again.
Frank on August 4th, 2007 at 3:26 pm - Permalink
[...] factoids. I had no idea that Morgan Webb married the founder of listen.com. I had always heard that Rob Reid was a ‘cool’ guy but I guess I never really expected [...]
gift from the gods at Kitsune’s Udon on October 9th, 2007 at 4:42 pm - Permalink