PodGuide.tv doesn't have comments enabled, so I'm addressing the review of Backstaging here on my own blog.

"Mesmerizing like a car wreck" is the best shit EVER, I'm so stealing that. Thanks.

And yes, Backstaging is very much about the obvious, and that is exciting to me. Except it's not focused around the building of our studio, it's about damn near everything that surrounds the tools of this trade, whatever 'trade' is.... citizen media, home production, devices, software, and what not. And as we learn something, we'll share it. And if we need help, we'll ask for it.

Not everyone who wants to make media is the demographic of affluent blogger, hence duct-taping the shit out of something and make it look reasonably good might be some very useful information. And more importantly, we need to make content that people can take with them, on their iPods, to hardware stores, so they can get in on the action.

Flip on HGTV sometime, there's plenty of shows about the obvious (stapling felt to a board to dress it up? see the point?). I want Backstaging to ultimately be some twisted hybrid of MTV and HGTV, that's short, portable, useful, and if it's entertaining, well then score! It's also a living case study of, "Hey I want my own show. I don't want to pitch it. I'm just gonna do it." If it lands in traditional media, then so be it. The point is, I'm doing it my way. And that's what I believe to be one of the four types of media making.

(Now if I can get over the irony of the dollars we're investing to make a video podcast about how to do cool shit for seven bucks... welcome to DIY, I guess. Heh)

Thanks for the love. I'll go film some car wrecks for under 500 dollars. /me falls over. ;-)