Scobleizer - Latest Comments in Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Steve Wilhelm — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:26:09 -0000

If you are into food, I highly recommend this article from this weekend's NY Times Magazine by Michael Pollan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007...

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Great advice.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Guy Pelletier — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:59:20 -0000

@7, Peter,
Thats going to be the new reality show: "Living with Geeks and all thier crap"

Guy

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

obiwil — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:45:59 -0000

Hi Robert!

I had some difficulties with the whole user interaction experience with your embedded video here and on PodTech, so I sent a short summary to Maryam.

Nice job, though. Keep up the good work!

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

healthxy — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:58:12 -0000

Food is a social experience, from planting to plate. For un-conference fans, CookCamp http://barcamp.org/CookCamp is coming up in SF, I'm not going to make it but it looks like it will be fun.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

VK Narayanan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:19:45 -0000

Great thing to read. Would you like to send in those recipes that you cook in these interesting events to our group cookbook project - "You Can Cook"? We are working on this group cookbook for the Feed a Hungry Child campaign. Let me know if you folks are interested in any possible collaborations.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:18:54 -0000

Robert, check out what PodChef Neal is doing. He's done great food podcasts for quite a while now and has also started doing video on YouTube. The production quality is very low but the content is world class. With his food knowledge and your resources, you could have a killer programme on your hands.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

IWBO — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:46:20 -0000

There's lots of great food related websites around, but most of them fail in one of two ways. They're either very US centric (great if you live in the US, but most of them don't even pay lip service to the fact that you might measure ingredients by weight, not volume) or aiming at one of the "extremes" of eating. There's plenty of places for gourmet food, plenty of places for super-healthy food, but nowhere that discusses everyday food - the stuff you can eat and enjoy with minimal effort and is sensibly healthy. Or have I just given away the niche in the market I've discovered?

There's a comment I've been meaning to make for a while as well. I just don't have TIME for video blogs. A video blog post like this means I have to devote an hour of my time to getting the content. I just don't have that much unproductive time to fill, so the bar is set pretty high for me to actually watch more than a five minute video. I've no doubt there's some great creative stuff going on here, but you've got to be national media standard to get my attention for that long. And in a five minute clip, you'd better have me hooked in the first thirty seconds, or I'm outta here.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Steve Lacey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:48:32 -0000

You should get Alton Brown from the food network involved - he is the ultimate engineer's cook.

Even Raymond Chen agrees: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldne...

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

sal alvarez — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:38:07 -0000

Cool! Looks a little different than my dinner parties which make use of a rusty hibachi on the back porch (but we grill ahi too!), shorts, aloha shirts and Coors. Thanks for the view ino the inner sanctum!

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Ajay Juneja — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:17:53 -0000

> Ajay: you’d be great. Is your car ready for being on the show?

Yes, sure, except it can only tell you recipes, it's not such a good cook.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Henri Poole — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:19:53 -0000

BTW, we came up with a name for our network: http://www.mediacow.tv and we launched our Hightower Pilot series at http://www.hightowerdownloa...

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

jillmfoster — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:11:19 -0000

AWESOME! "Living with Geeks" will ping! A few of the geek couples I've interviewed were wine enthusiasts (and they'd share some vino with the ever grateful interviewer while explaining where they found 'that year' etc) but none of them cooked a meal! Love it, love it.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Peter — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:38:43 -0000

Robert,

I just noticed what you said above...

The OS X vs Vista dinner... lol

What happened? All the Mac people on one side of the table and the Windows people on the other?

I guess the Linux folks sat out on the porch with Gladware plates... :)

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Peter — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:36:13 -0000

Robert,

Thanks for the photo link...

Say, I recall you mentioning the price of your house a while back, and in one of the photos, I see you have neighbors... really close. Shouldn't you have at least a couple of hundred feet of land for that price?

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Robert Scoble — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:15:28 -0000

Peter, here's some pics that Shel Israel took in my house on Saturday evening:

http://redcouch.typepad.com...

and

http://www.web-strategist.c...

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Robert Scoble — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:59:10 -0000

Peter: nope, this one isn't in my house. The OSX vs. Vista dinner, coming tomorrow evening, was filmed in my house, though.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Peter — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:55:41 -0000

Scoble,

You should upload photos of your house so we can all see how the other half lives.

New show idea: Geek lifestyles. How geeks live.
Photocopies of bills and mortgages a bonus.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Peter — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:52:31 -0000

Who's house is this taking place in? Yours, Scoble?

I'd hate to have your fracking tax bill, dude.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Robert Scoble — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:09:01 -0000

If I had a three hour long video of geeks taking dumps it'd go straight to the top of YouTube!

You can keep THAT traffic, thank you very much!

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

PJ — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:59:35 -0000

Compelling content! I've got another great idea for you: "Geeks Taking Dumps." Just be sure to make it 3 hours long, like all your other videos. Fascinating stuff!

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Robert Scoble — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:55:18 -0000

Ajay: you'd be great. Is your car ready for being on the show?

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Ajay Juneja — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:47:01 -0000

Looks like fun! Can I come to the next one?

Ajay