Rod Begbie

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➠ September 1, 2009

Laura Ling And Euna Lee Make First Statement Regarding Events Leading To Capture

The story behind why they were in North Korea to begin with. Here’s hoping that the media circus behind their capture and release can help put the spotlight on the human trafficking they were there to explore.

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➠ April 3, 2009

Current: Having its feminist cake and eating it too

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.

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➠ October 23, 2008

Ten Years in My Life: My Employers

Ten Years in My Life: My Employers

On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.

It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?

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➠ October 9, 2008

South Beach, Oct 9, 2008

South Beach, Oct 9, 2008

Possibly my favourite thing Kathy Sierra has created.

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The Hallway conference room at Current

The Hallway conference room at Current

Making myself feel better by posting some Kathy Sierra graphics around work. I left a couple in the hallway conference room yesterday evening, since there's a "senior staff meeting" there first thing today. Wonder if they'll be removed prior…

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➠ October 7, 2008

It’s like my entire life has been leading up to this moment…

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.

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➠ September 26, 2008

The #Current debate viewing party

The #Current debate viewing party

Laptops out, twittering along, hoping to get on TV! (A small handful of us managed!)

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➠ September 25, 2008

Production Control Room

Production Control Room

During a test run of Hack the Debate.

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Our operators are standing by

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.

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➠ September 15, 2008

Current + Twitter = Hack the Debate

A little project that’s been going on here at Current Towers - During the presidential debates, we’ll be diving into Twitter and putting the *real* debate up on national TV in real(ish) time. (And who’s that handsome avatar halfway through the promo…?)

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Ahh good ol’ Tricky Dick. #current

Ahh good ol’ Tricky Dick. #current

Screenshot from the Current TV Hack the Debate promo. (Words put into my mouth by persons unknown).

Current will be screening the US presidential debates live on TV, with relevant tweets overlaid in real(-ish) time. It promises to be a hell of an experiment (not least for our broadcast team!) First debate: Friday September 26th.

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➠ August 22, 2008

Ice Cream Sandwiches on the rooftop. Hurrah!

Ice Cream Sandwiches on the rooftop. Hurrah!

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The Ice(cream sandwich)Man Cometh

The Ice(cream sandwich)Man Cometh

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View from the Current rooftop

View from the Current rooftop

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➠ August 12, 2008

We need a better class of conservative

Taken from a comments thread on Current.com:

I agree, this site is supposed to be in the hands of the people, but it seems to be serving as a liberal propaganda machine. I am liberal but I still think there should be some sort of equality in the way news is reported. I do realize the majority of the people on this site have liberal views and therefore the site would have more liberal stories, but I would still like to see some conservative reporting and then discussed by the rest of the viewers. Also, has anyone noticed the conservatives on this site are borderline retarded?

It’s the last sentence that really gets to the root of the problem, IMO.

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➠ July 14, 2008

Gates vs. Jobs The Game // Current

Some geek silliness on the Current site.

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➠ April 25, 2008

Social Networking Wars // Current

I hadn’t seen the “Super News” animations before starting working here, but they can be pretty good — and this one is excellently geeky.

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➠ April 11, 2008

Portishead in Portishead // Current

Portishead concert, showing on Current TV over the next few weeks. Material from their splendid new album, Third.

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➠ April 2, 2008

My first appearance on Current TV

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.

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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.

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