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rickman, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: rickman from Los Angeles, California

The hosts and guests of this show are affectionately known as "twits" on this very popular technology program. Each week the twits gather to editorialize on the events of the past few days and to take kind-hearted jabs at one another. It's a live, unedited round table, with occasional audio glitches, only made worse by guests calling in on mobile phones. The comments are amusing but not always informative, and the program is usually too long. But none of these things will detract from the show's popularity, which I think is due to the honesty of the opinions and the surprisingly dissonant views from a group of technology gurus.

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TWiT 222: 3 Dollah Coffee Pot

leo@leoville.com (Leo Laporte) Author: Leo Laporte and the TWiTs
Sun, Nov 22, 2009

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Becky Worley, and John C. Dvorak

The trouble with advertising tweets, web loyalty ripoffs, and the problem with popcorn...

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For two free audio books, sign up for an Audible Platinum account at http://audible.com/twit2, and if you're not already a member, get a free book without a credit card during Audible's Big Listen Thanksgiving Giveaway at audible.com/Thanksgiving. Our pick this week: Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. (Jerry will join us on the show next week!)

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Running time: 2:01:03

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Baratunde Thurston, and John C. Dvorak

Modern Warfare 2 is the biggest media launch of all time but PC gamers are hopping mad, how come usability expert Jakob Nielsen's site looks so bad, and so long Geocities...

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For two free audio books, sign up for an Audible Platinum account at http://audible.com/twit2, and don't forget The Copper Bracelet for just $9.95 at audible.com/twitcopper. This week's recommendations: Under the Dome by Stephen King and What Would Google Do by Jeff Jarvis

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Running time: 1:17:26

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Tom Merritt, Wil Harris, Frank Barnako, Mark Milian

Why bandwidth shaping is like potato salad, how the Higgs Boson protects itself, and AT&T vs. Verizon...

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Running time: 1:39:13

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Natali Del Conte, and Jason Calacanis

Natali Del Conte shows off her Droid, Jason Calacanis says tech IPOs are just around the corner, and Patrick Norton fights for a free Internet.

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Running time: 1:44:20

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, and Dwight Silverman

John C. Dvorak weighs the case for and against net neutrality, Dwight Silverman rates Windows 7 a winner, Leo kicks his Farmville addiction, and more.

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Running time: 1:44:26

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Jim Louderback, David Spark, and Baratunde Thurston

Twitter lists, Google ramps up, tech journalism ethics, Windows 7, TSA vs. mommy blogger, and more.

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Running time: 1:33:44

Hosts: Molly Wood, Patrick Norton, Brian Brushwood, and Gina Trapani

Sidekick sideswiped, FCC/Google, Facebookers shut out, NASA bombs the moon, FTC regulates bloggers, and more.

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Running time: 1:19:12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Wil Harris, and Frank Barnako

Comcast-NBC, podcasting money, Windows 7, Newegg IPO, 2 billion iPhone apps, and more.

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Running time: 1:41:39

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and John C. Dvorak

Google turns 11, Facebook browser, Twitter funding, Google Sidewiki, Photoshop disclosure, and more.

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Running time: 1:40:00

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Beja, John Graham-Cumming, and David Pogue

Turing apology, Google books, Medicare Macs, WIPO, Twitter verification, editorial ethics, and more.

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Audible pick of the week: The Mote in God's Eye and
Lucifer's Hammer. For two free audio books sign up for your Audible Platinum account at http://audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 2:05:51

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jason Calacanis, Ryan Block, and Loren Feldman

TechCrunch50, Dr. Horrible's Emmy, gadget theft, iPod Nano, Facebook, Skype, and more.

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Audible pick of the week: How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In, Unabridged, By Jim Collins, Narrated by Jim Collins. For two free audio books sign up for your Audible Platinum account at http://audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:58:16

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Nicole Lee, and Dwight Silverman

Google Os, Apple Store heist, Gmail crashes, Snow Leopard Flash, feature phones, and more.

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Audible pick of the week: Lucifer's Hammer, Unabridged, By Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Narrated by Marc Vietor. For two free audio books sign up for your Audible Platinum account at http://audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:34:37

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Tom Merritt, and Roger Chang

Snow Leopard, Do Not Call list, adult tweeting, cybersecurity, driving while texting, and more.

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Audible pick of the week: Raise Your Social I.Q.: How to Do the Right Thing in Any Situation, Unabridged, By Michael Levine, Narrated by Mary Woods. For two free audio books sign up for your Audible Platinum account at http://audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:32:52

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Om Malik, and Kirk Harnack

The Apple-Google-ATT conspiracy, the US CIO babbles, and TWiT goes digital...

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Audible picks of the week: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers. For two free audio books sign up for your Audible Platinum account at http://audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:40:37

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jay Adelson, Brian Brushwood, Patrick Norton, and John C. Dvorak

Dvorak's US CIO dustup, Fred Figglehorn, Samsung TL225, XML patents, and more.

• John C. Dvorak's article -- Special Report: Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony? and "No Agenda" piece The Vivek Kundra "Hollow" Deck
• Om Malik's article on Kundra: Dvorak Raises Doubts About U.S. CIO Kundra. White House Calls the Report "Highly Inaccurate" & "a Lie." Kundra Speaks up
• The Top 100 Search Terms Queried by Kids
• Fred Figglehorn
• Samsung TL225 Camera Sports 2 LCDs

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Audible picks of the week: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, Unabridged, By Thomas L. Friedman, Narrated by Oliver Wyman. To get audiobooks on your BlackBerry, visit Audible.com/twitbb.

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Running time: 1:29:52

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Scott Johnson, Veronica Belmont, and Molly Wood

DDoS of Twitter, Google Voice, Facebook goes ginormous, pay-per-post, cyber czar, and more.

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Audible picks of the week: Julie & Julia and The Beekeeper's Apprentice. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:36:14

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jason Calacanis, and Peter Rojas

Microsoft-Yahoo, Apple/AT&T and Google Voice, Pogue's beeps, Palm Pre iTunes, and more.

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Audible pick of the week: The Road, Abridged, By Cormac McCarthy, Narrated by Rupert Degas. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:51:20

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Pete Cashmore, and Jason Hiner.

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Audible pick of the week: The Course of Human Events Abridged, By David McCullough, Narrated by David MuCullough. To get two free audiobooks, visit Audible.com/twit2.

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Running time: 1:48:48

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, and Dwight Silverman

Chrome OS, Firefox 3.5 flaw, Amazon + NetFlix, Google Design, Twitter hacked, and more.

• Leo reports via on AudioBoo from China
• Laporte wins TechRepublic's mock election for 'President of the Internet">
• Going to China, Language Reactivation, and Other Mischief
• TweetReel
• Insane that 20+ people are at our tweetup in Beijing, all used proxies to access Twitter http://bit.ly/3sYqAi
• Ethnic Riots Spread in China's West; 156 Killed
• AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
• US State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox
• Zero-day flaw found in Firefox 3.5
• Microsoft patches 9 bugs, leaves one open for hackers
• Google Chrome for Mac Developer Release
• Google Chrome OS
• Android
• Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS
• Google's Lead Designer Doug Bowman Leaves for Twitter, Cites "Paralyzing" Lack of Design Focus
• Netflix Rises on Speculation of Amazon.com Buyout
• Amazon-Netflix? Let’s Make It Happen, Please
• Facebook Movie is An Adaptation of The Accidental Billionaires
• Pirates of Silicon Valley
• WarGames
• King of Kong
• Amazon: We Won’t Remotely Delete Books Again
• From 2007: Fifteen geek movies to see before you die
• From 2008: iPhone 3G tethering App pulled by Apple (updated)
• The official Kindle 2 case is cracking the Kindle 2, $5 million lawsuit filed
• Kindle DX
• The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)
• The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback)
• Digg
• FriendFeed
• DiggBar Commits Career Suicide, Starts Redirecting Users To Digg Homepage
• DaringFireball April 2008: How to Block the DiggBar
• Cronkite Remembered
• We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
• Dwight interviews Craig Nelson, author of Rocket Men, on the Technology Bytes podcast
• Dell, HP neck and neck in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race; Apple slips, Acer surges
• Twitter hack raises questions about 'cloud computing'

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Running time: 1:43:55

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Ryan Block, Veronica Belmont, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton, and Robert Llewellyn

Chrome OS, outlet and laser data theft, $98 Blu-ray player, flat panel growth, memristors, and more.

• Chrome OS for the clueless: What it means for real people Google Chrome OS
• Microsoft's "Gazelle" browser detailed -- it's more of a research project
• O M G I G P Internet Explorer 8 Puke Vomit Girl
• You can upgrade to Windows 7 from the Release Candidate
• How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data
• Beware the Airport Wireless
• Walmart Rolls Back Blu-ray Player To $98
• Netflix on Xbox
• Quadraphonic Sound
• Flat panel revenue growth forecast as anemic
• Beware the Airport Wireless
• Palm Pre hacked and running on Verizon
• Mario Marathon
• UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User
• Apple iPhone MMS Delayed, Coming Sept, Tethering $55 Extra
• Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence

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Running time: 1:13:31

Hosts: John C. Dvorak, Becky Worley, Natali Del Conte, and Carlos Rodela

Sony Ericsson goes Android, Teledildonics, Compuserve, ringtone concerts, shoes, GDGT and more.

• Leaked: Sony Ericsson's Upcoming Android Phone
• Billshrink
• CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet
• Haptic Feedback, Fingerprint Identification, and RFID Tag Readers in Future iPhones?
• Teledildonics NSFW
• Apple Pulls iPhone App That Allowed for Child Pornography Uploads NSFW
• Michael Jackson sales surge expected to last months
• Lenovo increases the size of the delete key
• Compuserve
• Judge throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit
• Ringtones Are Not Concerts, Groups Tell Judge
• Keyboard Cat
• Bing Gains Market Share and Searches Tweets Too
• A simpler Yahoo! from 1996
• Kindle getting ads
• Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley
• Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits
• Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome
• Is everyone on board with a tech turnaround?
• Endless.com, Amazon's shoe page
• Pirate Bay Sold, Reportedly Going Legit
• Apple Blames Global Warming for its Overheating iPhone 3GS
• It's EGM, But Not As You Know It
• Gizmodo, Engadget, and Now GDGT
• Pirate Bay Sold, Reportedly Going Legit

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Running time: 1:20:39

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