About

In 2005, I was listening to NPR and heard an interview with Adam Curry. Adam was talking about podcasting and a couple in Wisconsin called Dawn and Drew. Dawn and Drew were creating shows in their farm house with inexpensive gear and Adam said it was going to change the world. I’ll never forget the first time I downloaded an episode of The Dawn and Drew Show and heard Dawn Miceli for the first time. It was fresh, raw and hilarious. When Dawn and Drew announced they were going to start doing the show full time, I wanted to follow that path.

Steve Jobs had just announced the first iPod with video and there was a need for video content on the Web. We didn’t know how to make video, but we bought equipment and quickly learned. We released the first episode of GeekBrief.TV December 23, 2005. The audience started to grow right from the start and we started working harder and harder to justify the fact they were watching. We worked 16 hours a day at least 6 days a week learning how to make Web video. That thing about the 10,000 rule must be true because about the time we had been working on The Brief for about 10,000 hours, it started to get easy and it finally felt like we kind of knew what we were doing. Before that magic moment, there was a brand new crisis to solve almost every day.

May 23, 2010 will mark the fourth anniversary of when we announced we would be doing the show full time thanks to Adam Curry, Ron Bloom and Mevio (the media company formerly known as PodShow).

We learned a lot about Web TV in the four and a half years we worked on GeekBrief.TV. My gut says what we learned can be replicated and my personal dream is to build a little network of seven to ten shows and work with a team of talented people. Right now, though it’s just me so like they used to say on old TV shows, “Stay tuned for more!”