Irina Slutsky of Geek Entertainment TV has found a way to carry on her idea of celebrating the best in video podcasting. Under PodTech, where Slutsky brought the awards last year, the event was badly mismanaged. Slutsky left Podtech, but the "Vloggies" name remained with PodTech. Former CEO John Furrier "openly"…
A failed side project, dubious funding, and an inconvenient employee gets scrubbed from the site in this story about the meltdown of one of the Bay Area's most-known tech video networks. (I'm not chronicling the death of PodTech out of glee for sticking it to the man, but because the company has broken its promises…
Remember way back in grade school, when a gaggle of girls would write a list of the boys in their class that they wanted to marry? Video network PodTech did the same thing. According to a former employee, after the podcast company ran out of statuettes for its "Vloggie" awards, the head of the company wrote a list…
Little Independence Day treat here. PodTech, the worst-run company since Boiler Room, held an award show last year called the Vloggies. On the one hand, it recognized some cool people making cool video. On the other, it have the podcast company a much-needed halo effect. Now, the principal characters dispute one story…
Update: This story's highly disputed. See below. I've found out that PodTech, the Internet's worst video network, screwed over videoblogging hero Ze Frank. In the middle of defending one of his company's screw-ups, PodTech employee Robert Scoble started complaining about how his company "lost a TON of money on…
NICK DOUGLAS — YouTube just announced its new video award show and voting starts at 2 p.m. Don't expect the winners to have much in common with the winners of last fall's Vloggie awards. How can we keep all these web award shows straight? Which is as legit as the Oscars and which is as scammy as "Who's Who in American…
The Weird America video blog already has a polished video recap of Saturday night's Vloggies (an award show that Valleywag covered here).
By Megan McCarthy
