Tech Brew Ride Home - Introducing the Techmeme Ride Home Podcast

Episode Date: March 1, 2018

Introducing ourselves, and letting you know what we'll be doing. First episode launches March 6 at 5PM eastern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On April 4th, 2023, around 2 in the morning, a man was found stabbed multiple times on a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco. Hey, who did this to you? What happened next turned the story into a political firestorm. Reports have identified the victim as Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App. From Bloomberg Podcasts, this is Foundering, the Killing of Bob Lee, beginning April 16. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the TechMeme Ride Home podcast. This is just a real quick introductory episode to tell you a little bit about what we're going to be doing on the show and explain why you should absolutely, immediately, subscribe to it and listen every single day. If you're anything like me, then you've been a loyal reader of TechMeme for more than a decade now, and you probably know exactly what TechMeme is so great at, letting you know minute by minute what's going to be.

on in the world of technology. That's why we go back to TechMeme 3, 4, 10 times a day. It's to catch up on the latest tech news to find out what we missed if we were, say, stuck in a meeting all afternoon. TechMeme is amazing at giving readers the vital context and conversation about the latest happenings in tech. So essentially, the TechMeme ride home is going to take everything that the website, Techmeme.com, has done.

so well and distill it down to podcast form. The TechMeme Right Home will post every weekday between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. Eastern Time. And each episode will give you a rundown of the biggest tech news stories of that day. We'll tell you what's happened, explain some of the details, give you some context, and tell you who said what about what on Twitter. In essence, this podcast will be a quick hit of information so that you can listen on your ride home from work and be fully caught up on the day's news. Each episode will be about 15 or 20 minutes long,

and the show notes will be chock full of links to every story we mention, just like the links on TechMeans' homepage. And who am I, your friendly podcast host? I'm Brian McCullough. Some of you might know me from the Internet History Podcast, which I've been hosting for a little over four years now. We're approaching 170 episodes of interviews and oral histories from the men and women who made the web and the internet happen. And a book based on the podcast will be coming out this fall.

It will be called How the Internet Happened from Netscape to the iPhone. And it will be the first single volume history of the last 25 years of the technology industry. For this podcast, Gabe Rivera, the founder of TechMeme, has plugged me into the news gathering back end of TechMeme itself, so I'll be interfacing with the more than a dozen TechMeme editors worldwide as they gather, curate, and organize the news headlines every single day. I'll be adding little bits of commentary and context, of course, and voila. Hopefully the end result will be a quick and efficient podcast

that is just as useful to your daily media diet as TechMeme has always been. If this all sounds good, please subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or whatever podcast receptacle you like to use. If you were feeling generous, give us a rating or review on iTunes, and tell a friend. I'll be speaking to you tomorrow when we launch our very first official episode. Join us. It's going to be fun.