One of my favorite things to do on my afternoons off is listen to tech podcasts. It’s a way of keeping up on the “next new thing”, & updates on stuff I have read about on the web. So there is a “cottage industry” run by a guy named Leo LaPorte, who’s based in Petaluma (north of SF). His business, as it were, is Twittv. That stands for This Week in Tech. There are at least ten different weekly podcasts, both audio & video, devoted to all things technology.
He hosts some of them, co-hosts others, & still others have other people doing them. For instance, Tech News Daily is hosted by a guy named Tom Merrit, who usually has a female co-host, & they talk about tech from, obviously, a daily viewpoint. This week in Science has Dr. Kiki, who talks about anything related to that area.
But the big show is TWIT. One to two hours talking about what happened the last week. LaPorte has a great sense of humor, which helps if you’re not a total nerd, which I am not. He has 2 or 3 guests for the entire show, who rotate. John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine, among various projects is on probably every other or every third week. He is the curmudgeon of tech & makes for quite an entertaining guest. But actually, most of the guests are good. Informative, but also just plain fun.
This show goes over probably 5 or 6 topics a week. Lots of time spent discussing the latest smart phone, but also, a lot of time was spent on the whole missing iphone/gizmodo debacle, the facebook privacy issue, the release of the ipad, recently the infamous Google/Verizon net neutrality bugaboo.
I love this show, much more than the others. Tech News Today is a little dry, Windows Weekly seems to cover the same ground as TWIT, although the non Microsoft stuff isn’t there. It is informative, not boring, & hey, it kills 2 hours.
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