Curry talks about new media programming and whether the ad downturn is affecting his company I caught up with Adam Curry, former MTV celebrity, president and co-founder of Mevio (formerly PodShow), a new media entertainment network, which raised a total of $38 million and is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, DAG Ventures and Crosslink Capital. Adam and I were both at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica this week for a panel on how entertainment coverage is changing. On the panel, we and the other panelists, such as Sybil Goldman, general manager at Yahoo Entertainment, David McMahon, director of digital at NBC Universal, Tyler Goldman, CEO of Buzznet, and Todd Gold, managing editor of Comcast Interactive Media’s Fancast, talked at length about how the ubiquity of content made ... [ Read more ]