Who here loves some geeky television? I see you raising your hand (well, let’s pretend, anyway). So you probably already love G4 TV’s AOTS, right? If you haven’t heard of it, you should, but even if you have, did you know about their web presence?
Attack of the Show is a visual geekfest in motion, hosted by gorgeous Olivia Munn and charismatic Kevin Pereira with a whole cast of correspondents and others who help bring it all together. The show is loaded with various segments, including a couple of my favorites, Gadget Pr0n and Around the Net. But enough about the show… I really want to talk about the site. They do a pretty good job of bringing the whole experience to the web, and I expect that from such a show. After all, they’re a show about technology and the web. If it’s techie and online, they’ll probably talk about it.
The AOTS web site has a blog to keep you up to date, episode and segment clips you can stream online, photos and forums. There’s also an “Interact” portion of the site to help get you involved, I mean a little closer than just the forums. In this section, you can send emails and tweets to the hosts. The tweets is the part that interests me a lot. More and more, we’re seeing smarter media integrating twitter and engaging their audience. Here’s a great example plucked right from the Interact section of the site:
Send your questions for Battlestar Galactica’s Edward James Olmos to @AOTS and we’ll try to have him answer them on today’s show!
The only thing that had me wagging my finger at AOTS was that I couldn’t find links to the staff twitter accounts. I could read their feeds on the site, but wanted to follow them. Still, between the vast amount of cheeky content, reviews, and obscure web finds and the chat, email, forums and Twitter integration the site has to offer, anyone who missed the show on cable doesn’t have to look far to get brought up to speed and then some.
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