Are you a TWiT?
One of my regular habits is listening to This Week in Tech, a podcast featuring techie gurus such as Leo Laporte, John Dvorak, and many others who those in the know will recognize. No, I don't understand everything they talk about, but the show is always entertaining. Okay, I mentally tune out now and then as my multitasking skill aren't what they used to be.
Episode 39 (for 22 Jan 2006) is rather above the average for this program. More so than the usual reports on hardware and software trends, fabulous in-depth of discussions of social and political impact of technology dominate this episode. Credit for this has to go to this week's guests, Greg Zachary of Business 2.0, and the President of the California ISP Association, Dane Jasper from Sonic.net.
Guests are often a highlight. Consider Episode 35 (from 19 Dec 2005) which featured a visit from Steve Wozniak, the legendary inventor of the Apple computer and all round really cool guy. Perhaps not of the same depth that impressed me in Episode 39, but a genuine hoot nonetheless.
If you have iTunes, click here to grab some episodes or, better yet, subscribe. Otherwise, click here to visit the podcast's home page. As Leo recently said, "This show is listened to in 43 nations, many of them around the world." Shouldn't you tune in?
