The TWiT empire continues to get better and better Leo. I remember the days of ROTSS and how happy I was to find that. Now whenever I am on campus (and not in class) I always have my browser on TWiT live. Keep up the amazing work everyone at the TWiT Cottage. And Thanks.

All your hard work is greatly appreciated, sir.

Very nice Leo! I wish you were still on television but i’m sure television will be in your future again. Twit is becoming a force to be reconed with.

all of this sounds awesome. however i think that Mr Leo should never let TWiT out of his control. i think that he should always have the final say. he is the only reason people listen to twit.tv and as a listener i trust that he would always keep his followers in mind. im just scared if it gets to big the corporate side might mess with the shows i follow. like has happened before.

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I’ve used Disqus on my site for comments, but Echo looks great. Love all the options for logging in. I already commented on the studio upgrades on FF so I’ll say great new comment system here ^^

Leo – nice to see your hard work paying off and the business side of TWiT expanding – we do not hear(see) the team that makes all of the great content possible.

Thank you to you and all of the team – keep up the great work.

Don’t worry – the whole reason I started TWiT was so that no one else could tell me what to do!

I am a huge fan of Disqus but Echo seems to take it to the next step. I’m sure there will be some cross pollenization as time goes by. And, by the way, in theory your Friendfeed comment should make it over here eventually.

thanks for the update, it sounds pretty cool. i thought the digital upgrade went through last week. i wasnt able to watch on thursday/friday when you said upgrading was taking place. i also just realized not you or anyone will read this comment. i probably wont even come back to see if anyone commented on it. keep up twit, i like it.

dirty soggy puppies o_0.

I read them all!

FYI I think you say Skypeasaurus a couple of times when you mean Streamasaurus.

Such exciting stuff! I look forward to video downloads.

BTW, Leo–at the end of para 5 and in para 6 you refer to “Skypesaurus” when I believe you meant “Streamasaurus.”

Keep on keepin’ on Leo. I found out about Revision3 and TWiT both at the same time a few months ago, and it was like reaching geek nirvana. I had been lost since the great TechTV debacle, now I am found.

Yes, I’ve been checking out their site and all the user options. It has a really great FF feel to it.

Spiffy.

Good! I agree with jesseww: both your direction and vision are what makes twit stand out from the other IPTV/Podcast/netcast “networks”.

Fine work good sirs and gentleladies. Fine work.

Oops. Thanks for the tip. I’ve fixed it. I think.

Why not outsource all the back end server and IT work to where it belongs… India and China? No point paying people in the west to fiddle with technology….

Because we are using hardware. I don’t see how an IT person in India could help us design and build something like Skypesaurus.

Hmm please let us know if you get Echo sorted out, this is the first time I have seen it and it looks really good. Except for the spammy re-tweets.

I like the new Echo, but I can’t help but feel it’s a little… overly complex, what with my need to log into all the services I have accounts with. Though adding following options and images is a big step forward.

Being a big broadcasting nerd (I’m majoring in Radio/TV/Film production in school) I love seeing these behind the scenes rigs, but I have to wonder: why is the Streamasaurus running on Mac Minis? What happened to the Octo Mac Pro you bought after Apple refreshed them to run on Nahalem chips? You mentioned it on TWiT when you were talking about getting set up with BitGravity, and you were questioning whether or not Nahalem was the way to go. So what happened to it?

Also, is it more energy efficient to run six Mac Minis (or four, for a closer comparison) than it is to run an Octo-core Mac Pro? Just wondering, I mean there are other good reasons to run multiple machines than power efficiency (all the eggs in one basket for example).

JSKIT Echo has got to be the easiest to implement, easiest to understand and just overall best commenting system out there.

I think the big problem with Echo, though, is that (I’m sure you’ve noticed now) your massive following ends up retweeting you (or something) and it ends up being fed into Echo, which seems to be creating a lot of feedback (the bad kind). If Echo can figure out how to clean that up, it’d be sweet.

Amazing strides in building your tech network! Congratulations!

I think he meant why not have them do it all on servers you would rent from them. However, you’re completely right. It’s impossible to do this without renting satellite time to send to them, without facing massive quality loss (and the world’s hottest compression machine). It’s just better (quality-wise) to do it all yourself. Plus you really do have a lot more control over what you do, in terms of services and features.

Slowly but surely your empire is getting bigger. BTW I really like this comment system.

I can’t wait for your regional offices to start opening.

Love your work Leo! Keep it up

I am hoping he was being sarcastic.

BTW I turned off the option to tweet my comment reply, so hopefully it will not bounce back into this comment feed. I still love the idea of Echo.

Also, I don’t think I said it before. But keep up the great work Leo. I have always listened to the podcasts, but I have recently started to listen to the live streams when at work. TWiG is my fav show since TWIT, it’s nice getting back into indepth Tech stuff. PC Per with Colleen is great too.

Does any one know if Echo is $12 a year for multiple blogs or is $12 per installation?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Leo, I’ve been listening to your really sharp podcasts, radio and TV shows for a while now, and I learn a lot every time I visit your site. With all this new equipment, you should be able to give Fox News a run for their money. Your information and explanations are so very helpful and interesting.
Best of luck with all the new equipment. I would imagine that much “tweaking” and adjusting
will be the major part of your life for the next few days. Can’t wait to see the new shows coming
out w’new upgrades.

Will look forward to hearing more about the Telos console, I myself have only been using digital consoles for a little while, and then only in live music situations. So will be interested how it works in the podcast arena

Keep up the great work!!!!!!

Very impressed with the State of Twit Leo, you and yours allow me to avoid mass media when commuting to work.  I’m also impressed with the Echo comment system.

Echo looks interesting. This is the first I’m seeing it in use. However, I can’t stand that it posts both the “I just commented…” tweet and the original comment. I don’t mind telling my twitter friends that I commented here, but it’s hard to read the thread with the messages all mixed together. Is there a way to separate Twitter from regular comments?

This looks really cool!  I’m glad to see that you’re still expanding and refreshing your setup, Leo.  Keep up the great work and know that you are a broadcasting pioneer.

I’m excited.  This all sounds very very cool.  But I do miss Megan Maroni.

The last stream that you should do is just a plain QuickTime one.  It would be nice to be able to open the stream in quicktime player, or iTunes rather that in my web browser because flash often crashes the browser.  I think that there is a way to stream in quicktime format, but maybe the uStream iPhone feed would work.

I love it when a tech site reveals its own tech!

nice to be all digital leo…. you’ve always had the best sounding audio on a podcast, and now it would be even better… more power to twit!

This is so cool!

Vote for a QuickTime Stream

Why a QuickTime stream? You should experiment with the new technologies included with Firefox 3.5… the ability to play Theora video and Vorbis audio (OGG) directly in the browser. Don’t know how successful/popular it would be… but it’d make for a nice experiment, even if it was just temporary.

Expansion of the business is always a good thing.   I may be critical of certain stuff that comes through the network (the outright dismissal/ridicule of the Zune as an example), I still love the shows and the content and they help me keep my sanity during the hour to 90 minutes I have to spend in the car each day.

Keep up the excellent work everyone.

Depends what show you listen too. Zune HD is getting generally high praise from everyone I have heard on the TWIT network.

It’s still a little early to jump on that. HTML5 has not settled on a standard yet for the compression, and Google recently bought ON2 a company which develops HD streaming codecs. So in short we have another format war coming up.

I think any HTML5 stream would be more experimental than anything right now, which might not be a bad thing either.

I kind of agree with this. I have a pretty heft system, and sometimes Flash can still clog up the system, but I can watch 1080p movies with no stuttering in Quicktime or MediaPlayer. This might get better when Adobe pulls their thumb out their ass and supports GPU acceleration for video decoding.

We as commenters can disable the ability to post our replys in Twitter, but I think it is upto the admin to say what is displayed in the comments. But I agree with all this twitter spam coming in I have to say that something is not working as planed.

Leo – I can’t say how impressed I have been with TWIT and the growth you have achieved over the last few years.  It’s hard to believe what’s happened since TWIT episode 0, but I can’t get enough.

While I’m incredibly jealous of your new employees (I’d love to work for you – hint hint), I am excited for what lies ahead given the increase in staff.

Did anyone else think Erik looks like ‘Hank’ Laporte?  I thought, jeesh Henry has grown up since China

All the best Leo.  Keep on “doing the TWIT”.

I’d love to move on from Flash but that’s how ALL our providers do it currently. I suspect that will change soon, but you’re right, Nicholas, it would be prudent to wait to see what happens with HTML 5.

I don’t think Quicktime is going to be the winner here. Once a standard emerges for HTML5 I’m sure our providers will support it. We’re at their mercy – the cost of doing a Quicktime server ourselves is prohibitive. We’d use many terabytes a day.

I keep offering Megan other shows, but for some reason she wants to be with her family more than do a show. Weird.

You can choose who the comment goes to in the To field. I deleted the Twitter part once I realized what was happening.

I turned on the Flag button – if you see spam, flag it. Three flags and it’s out.

This is great news! Listening to The Tech Guy, Windows Weekly makes my trips much more bearable. Too bad I drove trhough Petaluma this month and couldn’t even visit Leo’s  “Sahck”; .   I’m so exited that my favoite show host, Leo; is thriving.

This is great news! I’m happy that the Host of my favorite show is thriving.
Listening The Tech Guy and Windows weekly makes my trips more exiting.
Too bad I couldn’t visit Twit Studios while I drove through Petaluma earlier this month.

What I like from Leo, is the friendliness, down-to-earth, compassion for his listeners while helping troubleshooting. But mostly the ethics as journalist he has demonstrated
over the years.
I haven’t been able to make a $ contribution as I had to change job, but I hope to do so by earlier next year.

Fantastic

I’ll visit your blog more often from now on Leo. This new comment system is great.

Hey, thought you might want to know that the VLC links provided as of Aug, 18, 2009 will not work in any streaming player.  BEsides the redundant http in the addy, there is no file extension – I could guess, but I dont recall whcih I would/could use that would be good for use in VLC.  Please help!?

Sounds great.

You must be real tough on your interviews Leo. Congrats to the new hire! Good luck getting along with Dane, but Leo is a pussycat!

Very cool Leo! Glad to see the TWiT network get a boost!

This is great stuff.  I like it…a lot.

We’ve been happy with Disqus, but there is something here with Echo that looks like a step forward. The login choices are welcome. I think it might help us control spam commenters while allowing easy access.

We always listen to your programs, listening now to the lastest net@nite. We love Amber, of course, and really appreciate all that you two have brought to our attention. (Learned about Disqus from you) Thanks for this.

very interesting comment system leo, i think i’ll be using this as well

I can probably speak for most ofus when I say thank you, Mr Laporte. Thank you very much!!

I’m trying to figure out how the Echo integration works w/ the other sites, Leo — their site’s homepage is a little *too* concise.  I need pretty pictures!

I’m trying to figure out how the Echo integration works w/ the other sites, Leo — their site’s homepage is a little *too* concise. Trying is believing?

very cool stuff

What is Dane drinking?

Coo.. Thanks Leo!

I love what you and Amber talked about in the latest NaN, as far as owning your own media.  It’s super easy to setup IIS on Windows 7, sign-up for a DynDNS account, and get things going!

I like!

“running Windows and ^[7] for our other providers.”
Wirecast can stream to flash media servers and runs on both mac and windows.
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Hi Leo,

What happened to the big and expensive Mac Pro you bought to do the encoding for BitGravity now you’ve switched to Mac Minis?

Keep up the great work Leo on thje Twit Network and the Twit Cottage:) You have come a long way.

I really do like the Echo commenting system.  But the pricing has changed fron $12 a year, to $10 a month!!!  At those prices, Squarespace starts to look attractive.