By Edward Gaug
I’ll be the first to admit that I am a giant nerd. A big enough nerd to spend nearly two hours a week listening to three or four bigger nerds talk about nerdy things like Google Wave, data loss for Sidekick users via Danger as well the ups and downs of the Windows 7 release this week.
This Week in Tech, which is streamed live on twit.tv Sunday evenings is available in the iTunes Store Monday mornings and is hosted by the self-proclaimed “president of the Internet” Leo Laporte. President Laporte has been covering tech news since the 1980s and hasn’t lost a step on covering what is important to all those tethered to their mice and keyboards.
Joined nearly every week by tech writer and general curmudgeon John C. Dvorak, the “twits” discuss important stories throughout the tech world with a side of humored insight from people within the field of technology.
For myself, each episode of TWiT has delivered a view into something new on the Internet that I wouldn’t have otherwise discovered. It may be something small like Brizzly, a website that tracks trending topics on twitter and maintains a wiki-like explanation of what they meant. That way, people can understand why their Twitter feed is filled with hash tags like “#wheniwasyoung” or “#followfriday”.
Along with getting news from laport and Dvorak, you get special guests like Patrick Norton of Revision 3, Tekzilla and formerly of “Screen Savers” on Tech TV and Kevin Rose, founder of the social networking site Digg. Guests like Norton and Rose bring a ton of credibility to an overlooked source of news.
While most people don’t see them selves as nerds, the more time you spend tweeting and playing Farmville on Facebook, the closer you are to the netbook-toting, Gizmodo-reading nerd sitting next to you in class. It also means that you just might enjoy a few things while listening to This Week in Tech.
