Comment Feed for Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9! (Charles on Channel 9)

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Charles — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:27:24 GMT

Well, Erica and Robert had nothing to do with the advent of Channel 9, specifically. Robert and Erica should be celebrated for helping to bring Microsoft and its people to the web. That is for certain.

Erik Meijer was one of the first Microsoft talking heads to be seen in video frame iteration. In fact, he was the very first and I mean this literally (remember VBTV's Head in the Box?) But, you get credit for sure! In fact, every single Niner deserves credit for the success of Channel 9. Many of you provided feedback right off the bat and continue to today. We listened and listen. You have truly helped fly the plane, Niners!!!

Keep on posting,
C

Re: Re: Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

William Stacey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:50:52 GMT

IIRC, I sent Erica and Robert a comment requesting something that sounded a lot like c9. So I will share some credit too. :-)
In the video comments, I also requested Don start using VS instead of notepad and VI - which he seems to have done (in public anyway) :-)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Charles — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:09:41 GMT

You got it! :) Erica should be credited as one of the first people to conduct interviews in people's offices and post them to the Internet. The difference is that she was more of a director/camera opeartor than a conversationalist. Channel 9 really invented the unscripted conversational style and I'll give most of the credit to Scoble for that. We all had a say in what turned out to be the default Channel 9 approach to interviewing, but Scoble was the leader in this regard. He was the self-proclaimed video guy for good reason. Bryn and I wrote code, I interviewed fellow devs and architects, Lenn and Jeff calmed down concerned execs and provided a great working environment for all of us. I credit Lenn with the core idea, Jeff and the rest of us with refining it and executing it. Lenn was a great leader. He was ahead of his time. We all miss him. That said, with Dan at the helm of 9 now, we're in very good shape and you'll see great things in the future. Jeff is a big shot now :) and deservedly so! He's got Directors working for him, man. Fun to watch it all happen.

C

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

JonnyRocks — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:59:13 GMT

I think this video shows that Chris and Don need their own show on channel 9. Not everyone is good in front of the camera but these guys own it.

Also What is Erica doing now. I have seen Robert every now and then on a video.

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Niner — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:46:45 GMT

That's Cool ! Happy Birthday Channel9 Guy and Channel9 Team !!
Now this is one more reason to have a Channel9 Guy, I should mail now to get one.

I remember downloading all .NET shows hosted by Robert and Erica, I think it was on Channel9 only and I have lots of burnt DVDs with these shows and other channel9 videos.

Congrats Channel9 !! Many Happy returns of the Day !!

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Joe Chung — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:26:06 GMT

Erica as in Erica Wiechers? Co-host of the .NET Show with Robert Hess? Or some other Erica?

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

RoyalSchrubber — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:10:01 GMT

Happy bday Channel 9 and congrats for making this site so super great and fun as it is. :)

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Ytterbium — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:10:28 GMT

I love the picture of Dan as a woman on the left, who's the woman on the top right? Tina?

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Judah — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:59:54 GMT

I love C9. Charles and team, you guys are great. Here's to another 5 years. :cheers:

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

daniel70 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:00:31 GMT

Erica is somebody at Microsoft aL.

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Rimon Tadros — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:41:47 GMT

Happy birthday channel9
you are great guys

Re: Re: Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Allan Lindqvist — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:25:09 GMT

cool, im totally not getting it though ;) looking forward to some c9 history :)
again ,happy birthday nineGuy (and team) :D

Re: Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Charles — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:01:15 GMT

The Erica reference is a bit of historic trivia that may or may not be directly related to Channel 9. We leave it to the viewer to put the pieces together! :) You will learn more about the C9 team over the coming weeks and months. Today, it's about YOU.

Happy Birthday, Niners!!
C

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Allan Lindqvist — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:55:11 GMT

happy birthday indeed!
it would be really cool to see some inside stuff on channel9, to honor the occation :)
i dont even know who erica is.. :O and what does charles office look like? how many people work on channel9? what do they do?

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

figuerres — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:36:34 GMT

congrats! seems like a lot less than 5 ... or maby not.

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

juliankay — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:26:45 GMT

Happy birthday guys, you are doing a great job.

I agree that Brian Beckman videos are always great. Erik Meijer, Don Syme, Jeffry Snover, and you guys (Chris and Don) are also at teh top of my list of videos to watch.

Really looking forward to some more Oslo, F# and IronPython.

Thanks!

Jules

Re: Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Bas — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:07:47 GMT

Awesome! Congratulations, guys!

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

rhm — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:26:06 GMT

Is it really 5 years? wow.

I remember predicting early on that Channel 9 would be closed down within the year. Turns out Microsoft's management are a lot cooler than anyone expected them to be :)

Just watched the video : you owe Disney now !

Re: Don Box and Chris Anderson: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

PaoloM — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:13:11 GMT

Happy birthday! See ya later! :)