Gillmor Gang Now Part Of TechCrunch Network
Michael Arrington
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Journalist Steve Gillmor was a podcasting pioneer - In 2004 he began recording conversations with leading tech pundits about the issues of the day and posting them on IT Conversations. The show, which he called the Gillmor Gang, was picked up by Podshow in 2005, but a legal dispute led to a breakup in 2006 and the shutting down of the show, despite its huge popularity.
Last year Steve brought the show back and simply uploaded the files to Facebook. Today, though, the ‘Gang is back for real. It now has it’s own website here at TechCrunch - See and listen to the Gillmor Gang here. In a couple of weeks we’ll also be adding transcripts for all shows.
Jason Calacanis announced the news early, and Hugh Macleod made a cartoon to celebrate the moment. We were going to announce this on today’s show, but at about the 45 minute mark, when the conversation turned to vendor sports, I bailed out. Instead, Steve writes his thoughts about the announcement here.
To be clear - we didn’t acquire the show. But we are hosting it and managing the advertising (please contact us if you’d like to sponsor the Gillmor Gang). We’ll be announcing more partners like this in the future as well.
So please head on over to the show and let us know what you think. If you’d like to subscribe via a feed reader you’ll find the feed here.
OPEN DNS isn’t taking that URL - gilmorgang.techcrunch.com
two l’s, nobosh. gillmorgang.techcrunch.com
Need to add an extra l in there http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/
It should be http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com — just add an l to the existing URL in the post (unless they fix it)
Thanks for updating…
Congratz
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Awesome news. That URL is wrong it should be http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com. You missed an ‘l’.
That’s exciting news Michael!! If BlogTalkRadio can help out in any way please let me know. BTW…Looking forward to seeing you in Menorca.
Outstanding news. Sounds like a great partnership.
Congrats on the partnership..funny image as well!
congrats, why not video? like diggnation?
actually merging calacanis cast, talkcrunch and this could become very big podcast network:D
I think partnerships is a great for TechCrunch but I hope the quality of them improves. I stopped listening to today’s show because of all the controversy and interruptions.
I kinda almost feel happy enough to cry. That’s really great news. Congrats to all.
Awesome! Now if you could just get some sort of porn partnership, then I won’t have to go anywhere else except TC ever.
I am kidding, btw.
Go Gillmor!
with this Gilmore acquisition - what is Techcrunch’s new valuation…
@lawrence
The post says:”To be clear - we didn’t acquire the show.”
hyt
@#16,
partnership =| acquisition
please re-read post
You guys should look into rich media / video stuff.
There I said it.
awesome… steve gets to use his name again! (podshow fuckers)
and yeah, the TC network/Advert thing is tits… Mike, you’re a saint. Oops… sorry… I didn’t mean to let the cat out of the bag… I won’t spread the word too much… but thanks.
I’ve tried really hard to get into the gang again but the production and content quality is very low. Definitely not worth my time especially at 93 minutes.
Is this really worthy of an audience? Or just a tech version of celebrity magazines where every time they buy a coffee people someone should take a photo.
*not trying to troll thats a serious question
@19 shouldn’t that be an =! - not a pipe or more geekmatically correct would be !=
Congrat’s on the /partnership/.
So is this a roll-over then, instead of a roll-up?
Maybe that is the wrong analogy. Maybe it’s a Rolo (one L), techcrunch surrounds the gooey center that is gillmorgang?
@14 kevan
TC is working an a partnership with AVN, just be patient
Awesome! Well deserved Steve!
Now that you have such a big name backer, time to split the show back into parts me thinks!
Molly
The podcasting does’nt seem to have taken off except for the social networking sites are we missing something?
Links are dead!
Congrats Steve
From what I can remember the Gillmor Gang was all about the “attention economy”, attention-this and attention-that, recording “gestures” or something, like they invented human-computer interation, give me a break. The buzzwords and ideas never caught on.
Buzzwords don’t make you interesting or useful. Show me something that works that people actually use, then we can talk. This moronic “attention economy” idea never caught on. Sure, more and more people post more and more of their lives online, like http://kevinludlow.com, but in the big scheme of things I doubt many TC readers will care to remember these forgotten, failed, no-longer-relevant buzzwords.