I can’t wait until this Sunday when the audience knows to show up. More pandering to the audience coupled with shouting and people asking pointless questions just to get free plugs in for their website or blog. How many business plans now include getting a free plug on TWIT? And you’re not even getting paid for it!

If it continues on this path, I think it’s time to drop TWIT and bring back Silicon Spin…. now that would be a decent podcast.

He enjoyed the hell out of it. He’s loaded iTunes onto his laptop, now — though, as ever, he wishes he could just set up the download and listen via Command Line!

But, his response after the program was — “Doesn’t this feel just like the family sitting around and listening to the radio 50 years ago?”

Man, is he right! You get to use your imagination along with the listening parts.

I was quite a fan of Silicon Spin and other ZDTV programs your mug would pop up on. Having just discovered TWiT, your constant self promotion did pay off for at least one listener.

As a fellow WP user, I thought I’d share a few things:

I noticed that when I registered, you have the default user level set to 1. It’s not a big deal, but if youre annoyed by people submitting drafts to be posted, I’d turn it off.

Install the wp plugin, Spam Karma 2. It is an extremely smart spam filter for your blog. Virtually no spam can get through. ‘I get no spam’.

The name escapes me right now, but there is another plugin that will encode all email addresses into the html code (&). it will keep email links clickable, but undetected by all but the smartest robots.

Lastly, try Partypoker.com (please dont blacklist me for that)

We’re more than a little aware that we’re violating all sorts of rules with 4-6 people all on at the same time. It’s not easy but it gives us such a combined knowledge that it’s hard to cut back. It’s seldom that someone doesn’t know something that nobody else knows. It’s a good balance of characters. And for the 5 blowhards and a weenie — you’ll have to guess.

Since I coined the phrase I expect to get some blowback from it. I thought it was better to say it early in the game before the WSJ said it. A defensive ploy. When we get to a half million or so subscribers I think someone is going to go after us. This is much more popular than anyone could have predicted. Leo is the brains and real techie behind the whole thing. The rest of us are just hanging on to the wagon. It all stems from “necessity is the mother of invention”. Since Leo lost his fat salary at TechTV he’s had to actually work for a living. So he got on this podcasting thing fast seeing the opportunity. It’s genius.