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Filed under 'current'
➠ May 14, 2009
Amanda Palmer's secret show sneak peek | Current_Music
Current TV filmed a half-hour Amanda Palmer concert. She’s completely engrossing live. Enjoy! (The new Current flash video player is quite lovely too.)
➠ April 3, 2009
Current: Having its feminist cake and eating it too
On the page of the very funny Target Women segment attacking Carl's Jr's sexist advertising campaign, Current.com promotes videos called "Adult Videos", "InfoMania: Spring Break" (illustrated with a girl in a bikini) and "Taxes and BOOBS" in the hope of snaring some precious pageviews.
Updated to add some clarification:
It's not so much the *content* offending me as the salacious titling of segments with a goal of getting page views seeming hypocritical when paired with Sarah's segment.
Attempting to profit from a funny, well-argued segment attacking mindless misogyny while simultaneously pushing content by giving a video a misleading title and thumbnail just strikes me as duplicitous and makes me embarrassed to be a champion of Current.
➠ October 7, 2008
It’s like my entire life has been leading up to this moment…
The real winner of tonight's debate? ME! For managing to spread my "X loves Y like a basset hound love cheese" attempt-at-a-meme to an unsuspecting debate-viewing audience.
➠ September 26, 2008
The #Current debate viewing party
Laptops out, twittering along, hoping to get on TV! (A small handful of us managed!)
➠ September 25, 2008
Production Control Room
During a test run of Hack the Debate.
Our operators are standing by
This is either the Twitter-scanning nerve-center of the Current TV Hack the Debate coverage, or we're having a pledge drive.
➠ August 4, 2008
Deep Fried Scotland
Short video review of all that is great about Scottish cuisine: Deep-frying. Helpfully subtitled.
➠ April 2, 2008
My first appearance on Current TV
Or, more accurately, my avatar's first appearance on Current.
A comment I posted to the website was pulled into the Current News broadcast at 11pm.
More details of what's going on at TechCrunch.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.