Like all Great Ideas, Michael Abadi’s was a simple one: leverage the resources of existing community television against the growing reach of the Vermont blogosphere. The result was VTBlogosphereTV, and the episode we taped together has several points in its favor. First, Bill Simmon manned the cameras; second, the production values are correspondingly high; and third, we put to rest the notion that blogs are parasites feeding off traditional new outlets (except at the few buffets we’ve been able to crash). A chunk from the middle of the interview embedded below: