Make no mistake: if you've not experienced
bloggingheads.tv...you're missing a real winner!
Below is a description of this creative, interactive
conversational format. Bloggingheads.tv gives busy,
intellectuals an opportunity to spend 2-6 minutes with
known and not-so-known individuals as they
pontificate on issues that actually interest us.
"Bloggingheads.tv was started in the fall of 2005 by
Robert Wright, Mickey Kaus, and Greg Dingle. Wright
and Kaus, both journalists, had long been attracted to
the idea of pontificating on TV, but so far few if any TV
producers had seen merit in this aspiration. Wright
and Kaus wondered whether the new economics of
the Internet—which had already turned thousands of
not-very-good writers into print pundits—could turn
two not-very-telegenic people into video pundits.
They turned to Dingle, a Canadian tech-guy who had
already collaborated with Wright to build the
Meaningoflife.tv web site. Dingle came up with a cost-
effective system for creating split-screen streaming
videos featuring two people in remote locations and—
voilá!—on November 1, 2005, Kaus and Wright aired
their first "diavlog". Soon they were being watched in
literally scores of household.
In early December, Bloggingheads featured its first
guest—Eric Umansky of Slate and ericumansky.com.
This triggered an insight: If Bob and Mickey recruited
two guests and put them on the same show, then
both Bob and Mickey could take the day off! The first of
these non-Bob-and-Mickey shows featured David
Corn and Matt Yglesias. "
