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This Week In Tech [TWIT] // Episode 18

This week’s TWiT looks good, very good! Our fine hosts this run around are of course Leo and Patrick, Dvorak, Steve Gibson, Robert Heron, David Prager, and of course Roger Chang. I tend to like the TWiTs with more people, adds some life to the podcast. This week is the first in what will hopefully be a regular trend; having special guests on the show, including Bob Young, former CEO of Red Hat, founder of Lulu.com, Mike Lazazzera (also known as The Man Lazazz over at Command-N) of Call For Help. Definitely looks like fun!

I’ve heard more than a few people bemoaning the presence of John C Dvorak on the podcasts, pining for the days when he couldn’t get a stable voice connection to everyone else so they didn’t have to listen to him. The fact that the first “topic” in the episode notes for this week is “Dvorak and Gibson nearly come to blows over HTML email” isn’t really exciting in that regard. I can’t imagine anyone arguing FOR HTML email, but maybe Dvorak is that guy. Or maybe it’s Gibson. Who knows, I haven’t listened to the podcast yet, but I’ll get back to you.

Also on topic this week are issues like the hacking of OS X to make it run on any PC, AOL giving away the loot of a spammer who settled a legal battle with them out to their users, Apple’s woes patenting the iPod interface, what happened to DiggNation (you’ll have to listen to both podcasts to find out!), more updates on the new live TWiT recordings, and much much more! Enjoy!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 18 // August 14, 2005 – [ episode notes | download ]

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DiggNation // Episode 7

Another lovely episode of DiggNation is up and ready to go! This week’s topics include the infamous TPS reports, Pirates of Silicon Valley being released on DVD, Google getting into the IM business, sex tips for geeks, the passing of Peter Jennings, MS giving up on the whole Genuine Advantage program, and more. Looks like a good good show, so don’t hesitate to download it now.

I realized that since I do the podcast roundup on Mondays, I post the direct download link for the DiggNation mp3s, but later in the week they manage to post the link and torrent for the videos, so I’ll go ahead and start linking the media download page, so those of you who come back later in the week can click on the same link and grab the video. I usually wind up downloading the podcast early in the week, and come back for the video later. Sound good?

DiggNation Episode 7 // August 11, 2005 – [ episode notes | download links ]

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Command-N // Episode 10

10 episodes and going strong! This week’s Command-N marks the 10 episode mark, and personally I think Amber and Mikey have come a long way in the past 10 episodes and are delivering some real solid (but still entertaining) technology content and news. Definitely good stuff. Apparently shot during the big TechTV meetup in Toronto, this week’s video is full of hilarity and at least one notable cameo appearance, so it should definitely be good watching. Use the mirrors, bu the way, they’re getting slammed right now.

Command-N Episode 10 // August 15, 2005 – [ episode notes and download links ]