i was talking to him, because i gave zdtv some feedback last week,
like they weren't exactly stroking the live fantastic youth/geek demographic;

their coverage was nearly nil considering contemporary computer culture. the hosts were too blowdried. etc. etc.

so peter, what demographic are you guys shooting for?

and i guess as he explained it some, zdtv is more for beginners, maybe up to intermediate. and i guess that makes sense - most of the people i know in my life are computer beginners. a few intermediates. all my relatives. most of my college friends. my high school chums. my teachers. my zdtv coworkers.

so zdtv is more interested in speaking to them, and getting all high flying geek chiqy makes computers an alienating experience for the newbie, right:

like if all of a sudden computers and computer users appear to be some kind of weird tribe or cult

(i was actually impressed, sorta against my will, that peter mentioned "cult of the dead cow" during his examples of different demographics. you could do worse than that.)

and all of a sudden i had my wired arguments shoved like piecream in my face - i wanted computer culture to be non-elitist and wired was pushing away the peoples.

and now by proposing to profile my web community i was pushing away "ma and pa kettle" ?

after this brief doubting of my own populism, i took it in stride - i'd do a camera in kansas and a camera in copenhagen, and my commentary or just the folks onscreen themselves would make it clear that computers are omnipresent and hey everyone's weird and just like one of your cousins somewhere. duh - i was going to do that anyways.

besides, aren't we beyond the point where people think computers are only for bespecktacled satan workshippers? goddurn it, assimilate yerselves you lil' doggies!