If you stopped using one of your main social media platforms for a couple of weeks, how many people would notice? Ten, twenty – Maybe a hundred? OK, what if you were Leo Laporte, one of the best known and most respected people in your field with hundreds of thousands of followers and fans?
The answer might surprise you!
As you may have heard, Cnet’s Tom Merritt has joined Leo Laporte’s TWiT network. This move raised more than a few eyebrows when it was announced recently, as Cnet are one of the biggest technology content providers in the world and Laporte’s TWiT network is a 5 year old business, run from his home, with…
Here are a few technology related sites / blogs I highly recommend you check out.
TWiT – This week in tech
Crave – From CNET
The BBC website technology pages
Here’s why I recommend them.
Techcrunch boss Michael Arrington recently suggested on The Gilmore Gang podcast, that Leo Laporte was giving the new Palm Pre favourable reviews; simply because Leo had been loaned a unit for 7 days. Leo went CRAZY! Read on…
As a relatively new tech news blog, it was great to see both Leo Laporte’s twit.tv and the guys over at ReadWriteWeb referencing us as the news source for the recent ‘Twitter accounts hacked’ story…
Until recently, the most followed people on Twitter were generally the top tech ‘celebrities’ – people you and I know, but the average man or woman on the street would never have heard of! Kevin Rose, Leo Laporte, Veronica Belmont and Scoble etc. However, this is all starting to change; thanks to the arrival of…
I was just reading Leo Laporte’s blog and noticed something that I wanted to share with you. I recently posted about how the pro Apple bloggers / podcatsers / journalists would have a challenge in 2009; dissing Windows 7 – when the general geek population seems (mainly) to think that even the beta version is…
Three months after his friend Kevin Rose had to lay-off a number of senior staff at Revision3, is Leo Laporte in trouble over at the TWiT network? Are TWiT’s numbers cause for concern? Leo Laporte has been showing up as a guest all over the place recently, plugging the excellent twit.tv network. Leo suggested at…
OK – I am not a UFO nut and I am pretty sure Elvis is dead – so conspiracies don’t mean much to me. Sadly, it seems the USA is now being offered ‘capped broadband’ by suppliers like Comcast. We have had capped broadband in the UK for years and it sucks. You would imagine…
TWiT’s Windows Weekly – A Review OVERVIEW Windows Weekly is a podcast (or netcast) show on Leo Laporte’s TWiT Network, where Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott discuss ‘all things Microsoft’ (not Windows). Subjects covered range from Xbox and the Zune to Microsoft Office, Mesh and (of course) Windows. The shows can range in length from…
