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| Sunday, 30 August 2009, 1:00 am Tags: Twitter |
- Video: “Pinball Wizard” Flash Mob in San Francisco (via ThePressDemocrat) http://tumblr.com/xxz2tcfpz #
- Up early for Convocation. Abby and Henry start school together for the first time in years. She keeps saying, "Seniors 2010!" #
- TWiT Studio http://post.ly/2oym #
- Hawaiian barbecue in Petaluma. Loco moco, mahalo! GPS location: http://?.ws/? http://yfrog.com/3op6rj #
- @MaryHodder you may Skype with a USB headset and camera. (we can send) but it's nice to come up your first time. Are u familar w/ TWiT? #
- @braddog Can you be more specific. Which version of TWiT? MP3? AAC? What exactly is wrong? I'm checking them now and so far they sound fine. #
- TWiT Studio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoville/3854203636/ #
- I hate it when I leave the curlers in too long. http://robo.to/leolaporte #
- I'm live now on Buzz Out Loud with Tom Merritt, Brian Cooley, and Jason Howell. http://cnettv.cnet.com/live/ http://ff.im/-78LLh #
- I hate it when I leave the curlers in too long.: http://robo.to/leolaporte #
- Video: Breaking Up a Traffic Jam – One person CAN make a difference. (via Metacafe) http://tumblr.com/xxz2uc569 #
- Breaking Up a Traffic Jam – One person CAN make a difference. (via Metacafe) http://bit.ly/NdC4H #
- RT @nytimeskristof "Sen. Kennedy has died. I hope his legacy will be passage this year of a health reform that provides universal care." #
- Dramatic perl monk http://robo.to/leolaporte #
- @fredrikth I scan @ replies but only reply to a few of them. It's still easier to read them than my email! in reply to fredrikth #
- The TWiT Army is ready for the .comwars Laser Tag battle & picnic in SF this Labor Day. Join us!… http://ff.im/-7eMO8 #
- The TWiT Army is ready for the .comwars Laser Tag battle & picnic in SF this Labor Day. Join us! http://bit.ly/eXszk #
- Battle the TWiT Army! http://bit.ly/2WTyIk #
- I just unlocked the "Local" badge on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/WaE3G #
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| Thursday, 27 August 2009, 6:14 am Tags: .comwars, TWiT |
The TWiT Army has finally found a battle it might be able to win. The .comwars Tech Community Outdoor Laser Tag and Picnic this Labor Day, September 7, at Junipero Serra Park in San Bruno.
We’re fielding a team commanded by General Colleen Kelly with buck privates Tony Wang, Erik Lanigan, Lisa Kentzell, Mike Kentzell, Abby Laporte, and me. (We can have up to 10 players so I’m going to recruit a few more TWiTs – preferably someone who can run through the woods without stumbling on a log or crying for his mommy.)
You can come and watch for $15 which includes a catered picnic lunch, or field a team for $52/player which includes rental of state-of-the-art radio-based Battlefieldsports outdoor lasertag equipment rented from specopsliveplay. We’re looking for a few teams we can beat play – I’m talking to you Google and Apple! Sign up at SFLaserTag.org.
Thanks to Ziggy and Funcrunch for putting this cool event together!
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| Monday, 24 August 2009, 2:56 pm Tags: |
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| Sunday, 23 August 2009, 1:00 am Tags: Twitter |
- Leo’s Twitter Updates For The Week Of 2009-08-16 http://ff.im/-6Gaka #
- Leo Scoble is deleting all 5000 of his friends here and moving everyone to his fan page. I just wish Facebook would… http://ff.im/-6H0aY #
- Link: (Image) – omg it's the GIFluv group http://tumblr.com/xxz2pzgrn #
- Photo: Wakey wakey http://tumblr.com/xxz2pzivx #
- Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle | Mother Jones http://ff.im/-6I8pM #
- Just got Verbatim's Tuff-'n'-Tiny 8GB Trident-sized flash drive. Installing the http://PortableApps.com suite on it with KeePass. Amazing! #
- State of the TWiT 2009 http://ff.im/-6LxwO #
- I just commented "Don't worry – the whole reason I started TWiT was so that no one els…" on http://bit.ly/25QaoZ #
- I just commented "I am a huge fan of Disqus but Echo seems to take it to the next step…" on http://bit.ly/25QaoZ #
- I just commented "I read them all!" on http://bit.ly/25QaoZ #
- I just commented "Oops. Thanks for the tip. I've fixed it. I think." on http://bit.ly/25QaoZ #
- Wow, whenever I say anything on Twitter about a dozen spambots repeat it. With links to their, spammy, pages. Ick. #
- Merline Mann is Back Baby on MacBreak Weekly with a big announcement. Tune in live now at http://live.twit.tv #
- Leo Merline Mann is Back Baby on MacBreak Weekly with a big announcement. Tune in live now at http://live.twit.tv http://ff.im/-6NnSc #
- One's experience of Twitter seems to depend significantly on the quality of the client. I'm liking Twitterlator Pro 3.1 a lot these days. ? #
- I made the best sausage and peppers for dinner tonight. I feel like Tony Soprano (but I look like Junior Soprano). ? #
- "Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes." – Annie Dillard #
- New Axia console is in and 5×5. Kirk and Milos are working on Skypesaurus now – NIC problems. We may be back up in time for Kiki at 3p PDT! #
- @krEp Colleen decided not to put up a live feed of the install – she thought it would be boring. Complain to @digitalkitty.
in reply to krEp # - We are streaming the remains of the install now at http://live.twit.tv – mostly debugging now. The Axia is AMAZING! #
- This is exciting. I can now automatically update my FB fan pages (http://facebook.com/leolaporte) via Twitter (http://facebook.com/twitter). #
- Testing Picposterous – the new iPhone app from Posterous. Awesomely easy. http://post.ly/2Vlw #
- The first H1N1 case at Abby's school was reported last week. Now she's sick. Mom's taking her temperature now. #
- Behind The Scenes http://post.ly/2Xaq #
- Behind The Scenes http://ff.im/-6XARn #
- Behind The Scenes http://ff.im/-6XBlZ #
- Behind The Scenes http://ff.im/-6XFc9 #
- OK stop praying for her. Abby does NOT have the swine flu. In fact, she has a 99.7% chance of living. #
- But you may pray for her to get into the colllege of her choice. #
- Dinner Party http://post.ly/2ZCa #
- Dinner Party http://ff.im/-6YtML #
- Dinner Party http://ff.im/-6YvWn #
- Dinner Party http://ff.im/-6YwIy #
- Taste of Railroad Square is tormorrow in Santa Rosa. Benefits Sixth St Playhouse. Wonderful food. Non non. http://tasteofrailroadsquare.com #
- RT @abbylaporte "SO excited to be a guest on @vocalgeekery radio show tomorrow to promote our SXSW panel, vote at bit.ly/sxsw2010panel!!" #
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| Friday, 21 August 2009, 7:01 pm Tags: |
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| Monday, 17 August 2009, 8:09 pm Tags: Audio, Axia, bit gravity, Erik, Lisa, Streamasaurus, TWiT Live |
Here’s the latest from the TWiT Cottage. We’ve been pretty busy!
First, Colleen has done it again! Introducing Streamasaurus…
Streamasaurus is a worthy successor to Skypesaurus, and in a similar vein. Skypeasaurus is the four-machine Skype setup I described here last March. This time we’ve created a six-computer setup to support our streaming video. Each computer will serve one stream: BitGravity high and low quality streams (right now that 1mbps and 350kbps), Stickam, Ustream desktop and Ustream iPhone, and a sixth (we’re looking at providers now – your input is welcome).
Streamasaurus consists of six Mac mini computers, two running OS X for our Bit Gravity streams, and the rest running Windows and Flash Media Encoder for our other providers. We use three analog-to-digital converters to convert the S-Video output from our video switcher and analog audio from our mixer (well it’s analog for a few more days – more about that in a minute) into the Firewire audio and video our Macs require. We’re using Canopus ADVC converters: one ADVC 700 and two ADVC 110, each with dual outputs for a total of six streams. The Macs are connected to our symmetric 9Mbps Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile (EFM) broadband connection from Sonic.net.
We built Streamasaurus to give us more — and more consistent — streams. For the first year TWiT Live was streamed on Stickam alone using a Dell laptop and an ADVC 300. In February we expanded to stream on Ustream.tv and Bit Gravity. More providers give you more choices, and provide us with more reliability. But they also require a more sophisticated set of streaming computers. Hence, Streamasaurus.
We are using Streamasaurus to take advantage of a special feature offered by BitGravity. When you watch the stream at live.twit.tv the player will automatically adapt to your bandwidth, giving you our highest quality stream (a whopping 1Mbps) if you can handle it, or a 400Kbps stream if you can’t. If you use VLC you can choose to play either high,
http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high, or low
http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/low, stream directly. You’ll really see the benefit of this when we upgrade our cameras and switcher to HD. We’re waiting for Newtek to release the Tricaster HD, and as soon as it does we’ll go hi-def. Expect that later this year.
And that leads me to item two: We are making a major upgrade to the studio this week. On Thursday, after Paul and I finish Windows Weekly, Colleen and a crew from Telos Systems will pull out our all our analog audio cables and lovely Onyx mixer and replace them with CAT-5 and an Axia system from Telos. This is an all-digital system consisting of a honking big dedicated computer system called the PowerStation and a control surface that looks like a mixer. All the audio comes and goes over Ethernet, though. The only analog devices remaining in the studio will be the mics, but their output will be quickly turned into bits and passed along into the PowerStation via CAN-bus. This all-digital system will sound cleaner and be much easier for us to use. We’re very grateful to Telos, and Kirk Harnack, Telos’s Executive Director for International Development for making this possible. It’s a major upgrade to the audio for all our shows.
Finally, I would like to welcome two new employees to the TWiT family. Erik Lanigan is a 2009 Florida State graduate who converted the Student Broadcast Center into a podcast production studio, edited some hilarious student videos, and has worked part-time as the IT guy for his dad’s law practice since the age of 13. He has interned for the Colbert Report, is a fantastic audio and video editor, and a great fellow all-around. Erik will be working with Tony Wang on audio and video editing, but like all the TWiT staff he’ll be pitching in everywhere, and you can expect to see him on the air from time to time, as well. We’re thrilled that he survived the arduous TWiT interview process.
We’ve also hired a business manager. Lisa Kentzell started a year ago as our part-time bookkeeper and has proven so invaluable that we’ve asked her to officially come on board. She built her previous business from five people to 150 and has already put TWiT on a much more sound financial footing. Lisa will help us manage our growth as we continue our march to become the CNN for geeks. We’re so glad to have her expertise and twisted sense of humor.
Frankly, running the business was beginning to take its toll on Dane. He’s off this week taking a well-deserved vacation. When he comes back, and dries out, he’ll be taking a larger role in content production and show development.
Thanks to all of you for making this possible. TWiT wouldn’t exist without our incredible community. Remember, before there was Twitter, there was TWiT. And before there was TWiT, there was you. Thanks for all your support!
(Incidentally – take a look at our cool new comment system, Echo from JS-Kit – let me know what you think!)
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| Sunday, 16 August 2009, 1:00 am Tags: Twitter |
- Leo’s Twitter Updates For The Week Of 2009-08-09 http://ff.im/-6lR7b #
- with @TheGizWiz and ready to board. If we can fit. http://ff.im/-6pmyY #
- @thegizwiz & @dreawinetrain on the Napa Valley Wine Train. All aboard for inebriation and fun. http://yfrog.com/6h86zj #
- Setting sail for a three hour cruise aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train. http://tweetreel.com/?at2jc #
- Napa Valley Wine Train kitchen car http://tweetreel.com/?mxrww #
- Repositioning old #72 on the Napa Valley Wine Train with @TheGizWiz. http://tweetreel.com/?t6kns #
- @thecreative we know about the problem with 207 AAC. Fixing it. Meanwhile the MP3 version is fine. Thanks! in reply to thecreative #
- RT @mashable: "BREAKING: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed – http://bit.ly/gxDFj " huge. Congrats FF! #
- Facebook shows its leadership. Combining public and private facing services is a big win. Facefeed is a winner. #
- @coldacid I think it's an admission by FF that they weren't growing. And the best way Facebook could open its platform. in reply to coldacid #
- @jcunwired Watch. This is a big step toward an open Facebook. This has been their goal all along: a distributed Facebook. in reply to jcunwired #
- It cracks me up. Whenever anything changes the vast majority of people scream and yell and gnash their teeth. Humans are a conservative lot #
- Leo is excited to learn more about how Facebook will use Friendfeed. Please don't change it, though! http://ff.im/-6qVwJ #
- I started a thread: @TheGizWiz and I will do a meetup tonight at Jillian's in San Francisco, 7p http://a.tinythread.com/qFgb0T7h9s #
- I'd like to reiterate my call for Facebook to open source the Friendfeed codebase (as AOL did when it bought… http://ff.im/-6snjz #
- I just became the mayor of Della Fattoria on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/RAYvu #
- I just became the mayor of TWiT Cottage on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/104MSH #
- Celebrate episode 900 of The Giz Wiz with Dick Debartolo, @DigitalKitty, Dane and Leo at Jillian's SF, 6:00-8:30 tonight. http://is.gd/2cqxx #
- Leo Celebrate episode 900 of The Giz Wiz with Dick Debartolo, @DigitalKitty, Dane and Leo at Jillian's SF,… http://ff.im/-6tlWU #
- I just saw a shooting star! It's a perfectly clear night in Petaluma. #perseids #
- @oscarfalcon Best Petaluma sweet treat? Della Fattoria's Ho-ho clones. They call them " Big Fat Hos" mmm in reply to oscarfalcon #
- Video: Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village (via TheOnion) http://tumblr.com/xxz2o2xq2 #
- Thanks twitter for giving us back @twit! We'll use it to update you on live shows starting and new episodes when they're posted. #
- Leo Thanks twitter for giving us back @twit! We'll use it to update you on live shows starting and new episodes… http://ff.im/-6w85j #
- Our new mixer is here! #axia http://yfrog.com/10o0qj #
- Sorry about that. My son got hold of my laptop. I think he might be a little "out of it." #
- I just signed the CASSE position on economic growth to voice my support for a sustainable economy. The purpose of… http://ff.im/-6zJeS #
- Fake Fakes [pic] http://ff.im/-6Aiim #
- Thanks to Ron Schott for this amazing Gigapan panorama of my view at the TWiT studio: http://ow.ly/k1qv #
- Domo arigato Mr. robo.to! http://robo.to/leolaporte #
- Using an old OM-1 50mm f1.4 lens with the new EP-1. Aperture priority/manual focus. Nice pix! http://robo.to/leolaporte #
- I just became the mayor of Club One Petaluma on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/sA89O #
- Leo I'm watching the 91st PGA Championship on PGA.com. Join me now at http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/2009/ http://ff.im/-6F7YX #
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| Sunday, 9 August 2009, 1:00 am Tags: Twitter |
- Leo’s Twitter Updates For The Week Of 2009-08-02 http://ff.im/-63udr #
- Leo Laporte – The Tech Guy 583 http://ff.im/-648yo #
- This Week In Google 1: In Beta http://ff.im/-65l7S #
- Munchcast 68: Lollipop http://ff.im/-65qIN #
- Daily Giz Wiz 886: Picture Keeper http://ff.im/-65vgC #
- TWiT 206: Mold Happens http://ff.im/-65AsP #
- Leo wishing we had Dave Winer and Jay Rosen's Reboot The News podcast on the TWiT Network. Great stuff. http://ff.im/-66S6b #
- Live now: Abby's Road – listener call-in edition. Call Talkshoe 724-444-7444 Call ID 59508# Watch live at http://live.twit.tv #
- (from Daring Fireball) http://douchebagname.com/ (screw you mike arrington!) (via @libuff) ha! #
- RT: Plz support free press in Venezuela using the hashtag #FreeMediaVe help spread the message! (via @juanleung) #
- Leo Abby has two standard questions. Do you have an Arabic program and is there a campus radio station. Is she… http://ff.im/-68jf5 #
- Leo is at a college fair with Abby. So many choices! I'm envious. http://ff.im/-68jfh #
- @jdlasica I could finally get that BA and live up to my earning potential. in reply to jdlasica #
- @acomputerpro not if you keep talking like a retarded kitten. in reply to acomputerpro #
- Daily Giz Wiz 887: The Eos Wireless iPod Player http://ff.im/-68oN6 #
- RT @SilkCharm: Please digg so Laughing Squid ban gets to front page. http://bit.ly/8zUgz – hey @kevinrose do you know about this? #
- RT @kevinrose "@laughingsquid i fixed it, sorry Scott" – knew it was a mistake. Crisis averted. #
- Yay! I won the auction for the "Vintage Olympus OM 1:1.4/50mm Lens Auto-S OM1" – I'm going to use it with adapter… http://ff.im/-6baSq #
- http://OpenStreetMap.org is doing Google Map one better: open source wiki-style mapping. Wow. #
- @diabolka Perfect. Create an account and fix the maps in your area. It's a collaborative effort and they need you! in reply to diabolka #
- Leo http://ping.fm/uZ71k is doing Google Map one better: open source wiki-style mapping. Wow. http://ff.im/-6dRse #
- Sponsored tweet = instant unfollow from me. That's the last thing I need in my stream. #azea #
- Pardon. Tag that last one #izea. #
- Bad news from the tax assessor: our home value has dropped $350,000. Good news: we'll save $5,000 on taxes. So in… http://ff.im/-6ea7u #
- Sign of the apocalypse #402: Our local dairy (Clover Stornetta) is now selling half-and-half by the half-gallon as… http://ff.im/-6gRrl #
- 8 Keller St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA http://ff.im/-6iG8K #
- Cammy still can't tweet. Anyone have any adventures in gelatin they'd like to share with @Munchcast? Tweet her! #
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