Yes! I Do Still Co-host TechTicker

With only two cities left on the (official) User Generated Book Tour, I can actually get back to things that pay me a salary. You know, like TechTicker. There's a flood of stuff here on yesterday's Nasdaq meltdown, if you want to relive it and get some investing tips. On days like yesterday, I'm glad that as a reporter I can't invest in tech stocks.

If you are sick of the doom-and-gloom here are some of my videos from the TC50 Conference that I never wound up posting on the blog, in my haste to take off for the Tour last month. Apologies if you've seen them-- I was so busy in September I actually haven't! YouTube was actually supposed to have a big press event today and canceled, so there should be more details on the stuff Chad Hurley talks about below soon.

And to keep myself humble, here's me flubbing Ashton Kutcher's name....repeatedly. Several people have complimented my artistic decision to put that in the clip. Um, that would be my crew screwing with me; I had no idea until it was live on the site!

We did several segments with Ashton, so there are more on TechTicker. I really liked this one (below). It illustrates to me why video is such a powerful medium. If I'd read the same comments, I might have thought it was just posturing. But I think you can see in Ashton's face, how insecure he really is about this new venture and that Blah Girls is a project he cares about, not just one he's lending his name to.

Also, mad, MAD props to my crew Brad Williams and Howard Kim. They did an amazing job working the live footage into the clips even with the huge connectivity problems we had that day. Per Blah Girls itself, I like the content. I like the sense of humor and the length and I find the Vitamin Water placements more organic and less "Oh, nice AD!" than the ones all over Gossip Girl. But the site seems to be having all sorts of technical problems lately, at least on Firefox. Ashton: Hire some laid-off engineers! Otherwise you'll never hear the end of the whole Hollywood-can't-do-web-sites shtick!