When technology focused video blog WebbAlert, hosted by the lovely Morgan Webb, launched in August 2007, we said it could be a winner. Almost a year and half further down the road, we have to come back on that now that Webb is shutting the vlog down.
Webb will be focusing her efforts on her TV show X-Play, which has expanded to five weekly episodes instead of three, and “make a little time for life itself”.
I really appreciate all the support you’ve shown me over the past year and a half, and I’ve had a great time making WebbAlert and sharing my love of technology. When I started WebbAlert, my TV show X-Play only taped three episodes a week so I had the time to dedicate my video blog. At the beginning of the year, X-Play expanded to five episodes, and the last year has been a lot of work trying to keep up with both projects. I finally decided that I need to make a little time for other opportunities, as well as make a little time for life itself. Thanks for understanding and I hope to bring you a number of new projects in the future!
I’ve embedded the very first and last WebbAlert video below for your nostalgic viewing pleasure.
WebbAlert was one of the few podcasts I ever subscribed too, although I didn’t watch every episode religiously and it would be a stretch to say I’ll actually miss it.
How about you?
Its said companies are dying..Earlier Google shut 6 services and now this..We seriously need a bail out in IT sector across the world..
Bailout?! As opposed to a successful business model?
I will miss her. Morgan rulls!
I subscribed to this for a hot minute after Ars stopped putting it on their site, but her vocalization quickly began to annoy me
Good Luck Morgan {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/nAumCL2HyF_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Good Luck Morgan ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/dPszSnRGWH”}}}
May God bless his/her soul.
And don’t get confused..I mean website.
Skeletor Face!!!
I watched every episode and enjoyed her perspective on the tech industry. It’s easy to get caught in the “Gadget of the day” weeds of many shows. I enjoyed her content and delivery. My daily commute will suffer without her. Her show will be missed.
Why don’t do episode a week if don’t have times.
I’ll miss her show quite a bit. It’s the only vlog that I actually watched regularly.
At least you provided a link to her other show which I may take a look at now.
G-Man
Love the WebbAlert. But I tend to listen to Geekbrief more!
Yeah, great call by TC.
A video blog about… tech news! As if the 3 million other tech news focused video blogs weren’t doing the niche justice.
Before you comment, get some facts. WebbAlert was one of the best and most watched video blogs of the tech community.
I hope I speak for more than myself when I say, “FINALLY.” Jugs ain’t enough.
That’s a ridiculous and demeaning comment. The show never played up Morgan’s considerable attractiveness in any way.
I’ll miss it. She was a master of the well-turned phrase at times, and I laughed or smiled while watching every episode. There’s nothing else really as good out there.
Nice run, Morgan!
Oh man…geeks. She’s decent looking I agree, but no “hottie” for those of us lucky to have been around some women in their lives.
Those photos…the bags under her eyes. Looks like she hasn’t slept in two days.
In the second posted Webbalert video Webb talks about TED.com, which I checked out and it’s very similar to a show we have in Portland OR called Ignite Portland. Presenters have a short amount of time to talk about a subject of their choice. These short presentation shows make complex subjects bite-sized.
Sad. Morgan is a great spokesperson for tech. But you can indeed see the decline in excitement and enthusiasm from the first to the last podcast.
I have to say I was sad to see this post today come across the WebbAlert rss. I really enojyed her daily wrap ups and it was a nice way to keep up to speed without having to manage a million blogs.
Another one bites the dust… hopefull Morgan will be back.
I tried to watch but she was clearly shooting with the camera mic giving it a very hollow sound.
Good ridden…yet another web 2 zero implosion that didn’t know how to make money.
I liked her occasional witty and ironic comments. Usually I had already read most of the news in WebAlert, but I can imagine how some people without so many RSS feeds subscriptions might miss the show.
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