Paul L. McCord Jr.

I’m a TWiT!

As many of you know, I am a big fan of Leo Laporte and his podcast This Week in Tech, or TWiT.  As with most podcasts, this one is not only in audio but also streams video via twitlive.tv.  If you are not familiar with this program or who Leo is, I have to give you a little history.  In the early 2000’s and late 1990’s there was a satellite television channel that was called ZDTV that later became TechTV.  This channel was very popular among computer enthusiasts like myself.  This channel had several people that were on various programs and Leo Laporte was one of them.  Some of these shows were Call For Help, The Screen Savers, and Silicon Spin among others.  When TechTV was taken over by G4, a gaming company, they shut down TechTV and all its programming.  Many were devastated to lose the computer programs and were left with a void.  Leo and many other personalities from TechTV joined together and put together a podcast called Revenge of the Screen Savers.  I heard that G4 told them they were not allowed to use the name because they had the rights to The Screen Savers name.  Since many of the TechTV’s personalities are from the same location, they often do there podcasts via Skype.  After several renditions, Leo eventually settled on TWiT and that became the main podcast on the website.  Later, he and other former TechTV personalities put together other podcasts that are on the same page.

Now TWiT has nearly a quarter of a million listeners to the podcast each week.  Leo Laporte has enjoyed a tremendous success with radio shows such as The Tech Guy that syndicates nation wide on weekends.  With all the success of TWiT, Geoff Smith put together the video above.  It is a very good representation of the podcast.  I ran across it and thought it would be worth posting on my blog.  Although TWiT is supposed to be a technology related podcast, they often discuss politics with a liberal slant.  If that does not bother you, it is likely you will love listening to the podcast.  If you have never listened to it, go to http://www.twit.tv to listen or you can catch them on video during the recording on Sunday afternoons at http://www.twitlive.tv.  I think you will enjoy listening to them.