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According to Kevin Rose on his own blog;

[ http://www.kevinrose.com/index.php/weblog/comments/195/ ]

us fans of TheBroken, located at TheBroken.org [ http://www.thebroken.org/ ] can look forward to some deliciously new geeky techy content coming in March. If my hunch is right, it’ll essentially be everything that G4 won’t allow Kevin to put on the air on The Screen Savers, probably because it’s too intelligent or doesn’t fit the niche market of airheaded gamers (and note I say airheaded gamers, because most gamers are far too smart to fall for G4’s brand of tripe) and what they think everyone wants to see.

Well, with some luck, hopefully this’ll turn out well. It looks like Kevin really wants to turn this into a full on produced net-tv deal, so we’ll have to see where he goes from here. My only worry is that eventually he’ll go subscription-based or something like that, and people will have to pay a fee to see the goodness, keeping most of us on the outside. Here’s to hoping he’ll just keep selling TheBroken swag and other goodies and keep the main course free for those of us who really are interested.

Avi Adir, G4 employee and owner of the blog “@” [ http://aviadir.com/blog/ ] shares this morning some videos from behind the scenes at X-Play. They’re an amusing watch, go over to his blog and check em out!

[ http://aviadir.com/blog/index.php?p=118 ]

Dan Huard, who just launched his successful site a few weeks ago and is looking to be a tech writer and columnist in his own regard (best of luck Dan, we’ll keep an eye on ya) finally gets to sitting down and answering the questions that everyone’s been plaguing him with: “What was it like at G4/TechTV?” From top to bottom, Dan paints us a portrait of doing a job he loves and enjoyed getting up in the morning for, and the gradual slide and decline from the TechTV that we all knew and loved to the tripe that sits on that same channel now. He explains what was really happening behind the scenes, and to be honest, between this and Wil Wheaton’s escapades below, I’m impressed that the G4 management would be so duplicitous in decieving their viewers and audiences-tricks like using G4 staff, friends, and family only signal a network that’s not big enough to fit the britches they wish they had, and yet refuses to eat their vegetables, if you catch my drift. If not, just read: Dan’s an excellent writer.

[ http://danhuard.typepad.com/dan_huard/2004/12/life_as_techtvg.html ]

Good old Wil Wheaton, the guy that some of us were hoping would take the reins of TSS or any of the new merged G4TTV programming, explains why he left his position as head writer for Arena (they had writers? go figure!) and, like so many ex-G4 personalities, gives us a peek into the incompetency that is G4: TV for Gamers. Love it, love it, and thanks to Wil Wheaton for taking the time to write out his experiences on Slashdot; I was hoping that maybe he could breathe some sanity into the establishment, but it’s obvious that even with a chorus of sanity, not only will G4 not listen, but they’ll target the sane and lay them off.

Good to see Wil got out before they found a cheap reason to axe him. Read all about it over at his Slashdot journal.

[ http://slashdot.org/~CleverNickName/journal/20695 ]

Two people we desperately miss after The Fall are definitely Becky Worley and Roger Chang; and when we got word on the Long Live TechTV YahooGroup that the two of them would be making an appearance on Sacramento’s KMAX program “Good Day Sacramento,” we were thrilled! The program aired on Dec. 26th, and in Becky Worley’s own words:

Just wanted to let you know that Roger Chang and I are doing some computer segments on the morning of Sunday,
December 26th- It’s intended to be kinda like the old call-for-help-a-thon. We’re going to be on KMAX in Sacramento: “Good
Morning Sacramento.”

Sound completely random? you’re right! An old friend/producer from TechLive is now the E.P. at KMAX
(Brandon Mercer) and is desperate for some help and content on a slow news day. I figure it’s always good
to help someone in distress- cause then they owe you, FOR LIFE!”

Becky! Man, I miss seeing her on TV. You can watch the video of their day-after-Christmas TV appearance right here, look for “Becky Worley’s Tech Report.” Could this be a regular thing? We can only hope!

[ http://upn31.com/video/ ]

The X-Play site was recently updated with a quick interview with everyone’s favorite gamer girl and co-host of X-Play (and of course, those of us who really know our stuff remember her from her blonde days on The Screen Savers), Morgan Webb!

It’s not much to get excited about, just a quick Q and A that gives fans a peek into the mind of the mysterious Morgan Webb, who only seems to update her blog every 9 months or so (what’s up with that, Morgan? Ah well, you probably have better things to do) and has spawned such fansites as I Heart Morgan Webb, and tha rampant posting of her photo shoots that appeared in Maxim and FHM everywhere on the net. Anyway, questions include her favorite X-Play ep, and why she loves Tokyo so much:

[ http://www.g4techtv.com/xplay/features/50650/Quickie_Morgan_Webb.html ]