Known by many as the "podfather" for his pioneering of the podcast movement (probably the first celebrity to jump on the bandwagon), he is also responsible for hosting Mevio in late 2004 (a precursor in some ways to Youtube) and is also the host of a podcast by the name of No Agenda where himself and another gentleman by the name of John C. Dvorak discuss international politics, prevailing trends in technology, food, wine, and anything that comes to mind...Adam's nickname on the show is "Crackpot" due to his occasionally over the top conspiracy theories, whereas John is known as "Buzzkill" due to the fact that he's something of a calming influence on Adam.
Besides this, Adam was also the first person to set up a website for mtv and is a regular user of mevio as well as youtube as well as other websites of this ilk...
Why a radical theorist, you may ask...well, that goes without saying, websites such as mevio, youtube, and various other podcasts have been responsible for online media putting forth alternative voices, fulfilling the maxim, "don't hate the media, become the media" and due to a lot of the work that he's done both in the vodcasting/v-log and podcasting sphere of things, he has in short, inspired others to do likewise...
For instance, the next time you surf any podcast or videolog based site, be it based around the promotion of music, political debate or else opinion pieces of any kind, this man was behind such developments back in the beginning of both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
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