It's time for episode 247 of the Clockwise Podcast from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, June 27th, 2018.

Clockwise, Four People, Or Tech Topics, 30 Minutes.

Music Welcome back to Clockwise, the tech podcast that's just stop it in for a quick chat and can't stay long.

I am one of those people who will be running out the door after a while, Micah Sargent,

and I am joined across the internet by my fellow co-host, Dan Morin. Hi, Dan. Good show today, Micah. I'll see you next week. All right, bye. Oh, wait,

look at that. There are some people here. We've got stuff to talk about, and it starts with

the person to my left. It is senior editor at Mobile Nations

and psychotherapist Georgia Dow. Hello, Georgia. Hello, Micah. And to my left, another senior

editor, this one from The Wirecutter. Mr. Dan Frakes is here. Hi, Dan. How you doing? Good. How you

doing? I am doing well. Pleasure to have you, as always.

Ah, the person responsible for making me spend all my money. We, of course, have four topics this week, as we always do, from four great, excellent people. I guess I'm talking about myself. Let's get going here. Instagram just announced a new section of its service. It's called IGTV. It lets people post up to 60 minute videos. I hopped on there to put together this ridiculous video that's literally just me spinning in a chair for 15 minutes with like Irish music playing in the background because I think the whole thing is silly.

But in testing it, I discovered that you can only post 15 minutes. So I think that the greater

durations are only available to influencers. So I'm just curious going to to this sort of long-form video on Instagram,

what are your thoughts about this? Is this a good move for Instagram, bad move? Do you like it? Do you

hate it? Georgia, we'll start with you. So I don't use Instagram, so I'll just put that as my first

disclaimer. But when I do use certain accounts, I like them to do one thing and do it really well.

I'm used to having Instagram for pictures.

Do pictures, do them better, make it easier.

But like in the end, like it's YouTube.

Like try not to be YouTube.

You're not going to be YouTube, unfortunately, or fortunately for that.

And I think that companies that kind of like, you know, if you create something, do the best

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