• battlefield-13a_01battlefield-13a_02

  • Techfluff.tv – UK Internet culture delivered with a wink

    Mike Butcher

    Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

    Sunday, December 21st, 2008

    After a couple of episodes, it’s becoming clear that Techfluff.TV is in many respects the UK’s answer to Pop17 and RocketBoom. Every week TechFluff delves into the world of web-celebrities and tech startups, particularly the London scene right now, but increasingly across Europe (if the Le Web video is anything to go by). What’s fun about TechFluff is that it doesn’t take the industry too seriously (hence “fluff”, referring to the lighter side of things – honest). And host Hermoine Way has the hutspachutzpah” to go up to any Web player and ask them anything – including asking Michael Arrington where he’d like a Gaping Void cartoon drawn. The show comes out every week and is definitely worth catching. The second episode features an interview with TechCrunch UK’s Mike Butcher (me) and the latest one features our esteemed editor at Le Web. Let’s hope it goes daily some time. And while we’re on the lighter side, check out Paul Carr, increasingly the UK’s tech satirist.

    • http://myinfomatrix.com Pavan K

      I have to admit Mike, you tricked me on a Sunday morning with that screen shot of Mike A. Kept clicking it to see the video, not clicking… on… that it was a screen shot. Love Simon WoodRoffe, great inspiration for someone who is real, and the kind of person you would love to do business with. Tech Fluff looks hilarious. Good luch Tech Fluff.

    • http://myinfomatrix.com Pavan K

      PS – You asked me to remind you about the guy who had come back to the UK from Singapore, and wanted to work with ‘startups that want to change to world’. We lost his details, but he seemed very passionate, professional and the kind of mentor we are looking for to validate some plans. Thanks Mike.

    • http://www.techfluff.tv Sam Tipper

      Good write-up Mike. Nice air guitar skills too. You can check them out in our latest episode, the Xmas special. It’s out on monday. http://www.techfluff.tv

    • http://besidethat.com besidethat

      thats fun and cool to watch..

    • http://shawnfarner.com Shawn Farner

      Hermoine Way = insta-crush.

    • Dan Berg

      Mike, it’s “chutzpah.” You get points for trying though. heh.

    • http://uk.techcrunch.com Mike Butcher

      chutzpah?! – darn!

    • Hermione

      Thanks for this!

      We LOVE making Techfluff.tv and think the European tech scene is definitely in need of/can benefit greatly from some entertaining video reportage of the rapidly growing community.

      Weekly shows in 2009 and really want to get out into Europe, means permitting;)

      http://techfluff.tv

    • http://www.bytesurgery.com Robin Blandford

      @hermione Good stuff – we’ll see you at FOWA Dublin then? Sure to be a party!

      -Robin.

    • http://www.boalt.com/blog/2008/12/monetizing-video-shows-can-create-challenges-through-syndication/ BOALT Blog » Monetizing video shows can create challenges through syndication

      [...] launched its 3rd episode on Europe’s number one Web-Tech conference in Paris, Le Web ‘08.  TechCrunch just recently covered the show explaining that “every week TechFluff delves into the world of [...]

    • http://techfluff.tv hermioneway

      Robin,

      Would LOVE to go to FOWA…can you persuade Carson to give us press passes?

      Do you think the Irish MPs will blog about us like the English ones?

      http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/11/techfluff-tv/

    • http://corporatepresenter.blogspot.com Jeremy Jacobs

      Dan

      Love your bit about chutzpah but I bet Mike Butcher can’t pronounce it.

    • lastbossoftheinternet

      damn that host is hot. The video’s pacing was great and they had fun ways to present information. I wish techcruch takes some pointers from them.

    • http://www.smibs.com Peter Urban

      That’s great fun. It’s a good mix on information and light hearted stuff. Look forward to more episodes.

    • http://www.loiclemeur.com Loic

      really really really cool

    • Art Thompson

      Paul Carr is increasingly the UK’s tech parasite, morelike. He is about as humorous as Himmler.

    • http://davidsymons.net David Symons

      Great – looking forward to what comes out of London :)

    • http://www.kurtcemuzikler.com/ Kürtçe Müzik

      Thanks for information

    • TV Star

      techfolk as celebrity? nastily incestuous. Hermione comes across a little gratingly, better production work would be good.

      The only people who will follow this are others in tech startups… no reason for this video series. Yawn.

      Only do video where there is somethig to add beyond text. No reason here. This will be deadpool within the year.

    blog comments powered by Disqus