Nov 12th 2005
This Week in Tech 30
Live From the Podcast Expo
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
TWiT 30 from the floor of the Podcast Expo is now available.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
- Live from the Portable Media Expo
- Digital Bill joins us from the Wizards of Technology
- Leo's loving the Heil PR40 mic we won as the People's Choice Podcast
- There really is a digeridoo podcast
- And two knitting podcasts, including Knitcast
- Read Chris Anderson's original Wired story on the Long Tail
- Update on the Sony rootkit fiasco
- Sony seems to have used Lame code in violation of the LGPL
- There are two trojans that take advantage of it
- Sony says it will remove the rootkit copy protection from new Sony BMG CDs
- Blind podcaster Darrel Shandrow of the Blind Access Journal
- iPodder Lemon is now the Juice Receiver
- Start using audio captchas Yahoo!
- Yahoo and Tivo are going to work together - Leo says it's an IPTV play
- Chuck Tomasi of ChuckChat joins us to talk about the Friends in Technology podcast network
- Adam Curry's Podshow has funding from Kleiner-Perkins
- Don Katz CEO and founder of Audible.com introduces Wordcast
- Doug Kaye discusses the IT Conversations non-profit model
- Do newspapers have it backwards?
- Joe Klein of the Podcast Voice Guys (web site to come)
- The original voice of "you've got mail," El Edwards, will do a custom version for just $10
- Ernie Anderson was the king of voice overs
- Leo's keynote address will be posted some time this week on IT Conversations
- Sonny Portacio of the Podcacher podcasts
- The wonderful Dorothy Yamamoto, the TWiT logo designer from Tigerbright.com
- Rocker Simon Steadman of the band Steadman is leaving the labels and offering their entire catalog online for free
- Adam Christiansen of the Maccast