The social web trend is more or less complete. Oprah's gone Twitter, your co-worker has a MySpace problem, and if your parents aren't bugging you with Facebook movie quiz invites, they probably will be by the time you're done reading this.

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Well it depends who you follow, but Stephen Fry, the British TV personality who is No 1 on Twitter, is certainly blacked out along with prominent names such as Leo Laporte. Even I am blacked out!

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It's time to get to know Leo, because over the last year he has single-handedly created a brand-new paradigm for how TV is going to be viewed on the net ... kinda.

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Twitter makeover in the offing?

Could Twitter be about to unveil a new look? At the time of writing Twitter is down for maintenance.

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This article discusses the recent acquisition of CNET by CBS and the future of CBS.

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Touched by the Zune

Paul Thurrott made two interesting observations in this week's episode of Windows Weekly, which got me thinking.

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This Week in Tedium

For the first time in a long time I listened to an episode of This Week in Media, the podcast hosted by Pixel Corps head honcho Alex Lindsay, and rapidly regretted it.

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inaudible.com

audible.com is the main sponsor on the TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast network, the mainstay of my podcast listening schedule, so I've been getting audible ads and Leo Laporte's audible book picks in my ears several times a day.

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What if you bought a computer that you couldnt install any of your own applications on? (Stupid, I know, but what if?)

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Don Reisinger is a TWiT!

Don Reisinger is the freelance technology writer who caused a stir last week by suggesting, on his CNet blog, that Microsoft should abandon Vista to save themselves.

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Future episode of "Security Now!" to be dedicated to Viner's wifi query

Wow! My recent posting about wifi security looks set to be the subject of a future episode of "Security Now!"

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Noisy Universe

I listen to podcasts to keep me sane on the commute to work, but lately found myself running out of stuff to listen to.

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John Chow at it again, this time with Leo Laporte

It seems like you can't surf anywhere on the net these days without hearing about John Chow and how he has consitently made over $10,000/month every month now, or perhaps it's people bashing him. Either way he keeps managing to get press.

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Anyone who is familiar with A. A. Milne's classic rhythmic poem The King's Breakfast will be seriously tickled by this parody.

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I can't live without this: allSnap

allSnap is an almost trivially simple free application which you cannot be without once you have used it.

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Amber & Leo Mention Newsvine

Newsvine has got a mention on Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur's new live podcast, net@nite. This is the podcast that has replaced there previous "Inside the Net" podcasts that they used to do.

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TWiL – This Week In Law Podcast - In REVIEW

I was excited at the announcement when mentioned at the PPME last September of a new show on the TWiT Network called, This Week in Law or TWiL. Finally a new podcast of the quality found on the TWiT network that would talk about issues with law in technology.

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Leo Laporte calling time on TWiT?

From twit.tv, the website for the "This Week in Tech" netcast network:

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It looks as if the flagship podcast of the twit.tv line of podcasts may be done for, just when it was getting good to, Jerry Pournelle is great on twit. The "In side the Net" podcast is the reason I ended up on newsvine, late in it's beta.

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Just 10 months ago, Leo LaPorte stood before attendees of the first-ever Podcast and Portable Media Expo and said he didn't ever want to take advertising on his wildly popular programs. Sell your air, he said, and you sell at least a part of your soul.

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According to Wired News's Listening Post blog, Apple has sent a cease and desist letter to Podcast Ready claiming that the terms "Podcast Ready" and "myPodder" infringe on Apple's trademarks, and that they cause confusion among consumers.

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Podcast & Portable Media Expo today announced that Grape Radio and Leo Laporte are the 2006 recipients of the conference's "Podcast of the Year" and "Person of the Year in Podcasting" awards, respectively.

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TechTV is back. Sort of.

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TechTV is back. Sort of.

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