Online TV?

Ever heard of Joost? I hadn’t either until last spring, when a producer I’d talked to at a meeting called to ask if we’d be interested in having one of our shows featured on Joost. “What’s a Joost?” I asked. He went on to explain that it was a startup company, formed by the inventor of Skype, to push TV content onto people’s home computers. We checked it out; rather interesting, and we figured it couldn’t hurt to put some content on there. So, we submitted our Hubble Vision fulldome video show, but remade it as a “TV” format presentation. Joost is still in Beta, but you can check out Hubble Vision on the SpaceRip channel. Give it a vote to make sure it stays up when Joost goes “live”!

The show’s about the Hubble Space Telescope and takes viewers on a tour of the loveliest and coolest pics returned by this grand old orbiting observatory. It’s the first and only spacecraft I ever had anything to do with as a grad student, and it was the topic of my first book (co-authored with John C. Brandt, of the University of New Mexico). Hubble keeps cranking out cool pics and I’ve been telling its story for more than a decade! So, go check out the show and tell me what you think!