| By Lowell Thing, Editor
;) Better than Captain Midnight?
Some of you may not remember Captain Midnight, the mysterious pilot who zoomed in over the airwaves every weekday afternoon during the 1940s. An old friend sent me a tape of Captain Midnight episodes a while back and I tried to listen to one while writing a definition for whatis.com, and somehow I found my definition getting suspenseful and dramatic. I was reminded of that last week while listening to my first episode of a more modern-day yet rather homey and chatty radio that we're offering right here on TechTarget.
Called Win2000Talk Radio, it may remind you a little bit of an Arthur Godfrey Show or of Don McNeill's Breakfast Club except that the host is Laura DiDio, a principal in Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC), a former senior editor at Computerworld and other publications, and an expert on Windows desktop and server systems. Instead of people from Peoria sitting right out there in the radio audience, there is us, users from everywhere, all different except for one thing: we use Windows.
Laura sets the stage with a weekly topic of great interest to professional Windows users, gets a chatty summary of the latest Windows news from reporter Ed Parry, hosts guests who arrive with their various portfolios of expertise, answers questions that users send in, and offers a brief trivia quiz with Dave Gabel. Occasionally, there is an old-fashioned radio commercial to pep things up and I actually enjoyed them on the episode I just listened to.
On Win2000Talk Radio, you don't have to buy any Ovaltine to get the magic Microsoft Windows decoder ring; all the secrets are built into the news, chats, experts, and quizzes in every new episode. And, unlike Captain Midnight, if you had to stay after school and missed an episode, all the past episodes have been archived and you can play them by just pressing a magic hyperlink button. Nor do you have to sit and look at the Web site. After you start the program, you can get back to your regular work while you listen.
By the way, this is not necessarily a pro-Microsoft show. The show's motto is: The Bottom Line...Not the Party Line.
The Web site is http://win2000talk.techtarget.com/
This coming Thursday's live program is about Windows certification.
Visit the Web site to see the list of programs that have been archived as well as those that are coming up.
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