CTV National News Unboxing Interview
Last Friday afternoon the Alberta Bureau Chief for CTV News, Janet Dirks, came with a cameraman to shoot a story about the unboxing videos that I do. Here’s how it turned out…
The interview aired on Sunday night on the CTV National News, but I managed to bungle the recording settings and didn’t snag it. It aired again today at noon, so that’s the one I recorded. So how did I feel about this interview? All in all, quite good – especially since I was able to explain that the term “geek porn” is an inside geek joke. I appreciated the fact that the piece was well-researched; they even found one of the instances when I was genuinely shocked at what I found inside a box (the 1:15 mark). I think this should pretty much wrap up this media storm about unboxing videos – it’s been quite a ride! Ironically, I’ve been so focused on all this media coverage of my unboxing videos that I haven’t done an unboxing video in about three weeks. Time to get back to it!
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January 26th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Much better than the CBC interview!
Thank you CTV for taking the time to do your research and doing a much more professional piece.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Geek Porn could also easily describe your table of tech goodies over there! And on a side note, the term “calgarian”, while being a normal pluralization, sounds really creepy (i.e. “Captain, the Calgarians are decloaking and powering up weapons”).
January 27th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Jon,
And no, long underwear doesn’t count…
If Calgarians had awesome alien technology, it would be some form of self-powered underwear that kept us warm in the cold winter months.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
So I finally registered (some time back) and my first post isn’t anything special, except to say that you meant “three months” in the last paragraph, right?
January 28th, 2009 at 12:17 am
yslee,
I meant to write three weeks actually – thanks for catching that!
April 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am
[...] and they’ve finally gotten so big that the mainstream press has taken notice. Unlike the previous TV interview, this wasn’t a story about me, so I’m the tech expert weighing in with a few quotes. [...]