Hey - forget watching the ball drop in Times Square tonight. Listen to Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte on the Talkshoe client at 6 p.m. Pacific for a special all call-in year-end edition of net@nite. [Amber's post].
WindowsWeekly's Paul Thurrott has finished his eighth and final installation of his Windows Vista Review.
PsygnisFive's Devblog talks about The Alex Lindsay Social Content Recommendation System. Lindsay is the host of MacBreak Weekly.
The Podcast Pundit says "Daily Giz Wiz" is the podcast of the year. He particularly recommends the July 4, 2006 episode, Flag Waver, as the best of the year. Holiday wishes from Daily Giz Wiz host Dick DeBartolo:
http://www.whatthehellisthenameofthatwebsite.com (yes, this is the real URL).
Pluggd blog ranks TWiT as the top tech podcast of 2006.
PaulJ of the UK favorably reviews Steve Gibson, GRC and Security Now.
Scott Bourne of iLifeZone writes about some possible solutions to the podcast advertising problem.
Values of n's Rael Dornfest talks about his appearance on net@nite.
Blogger Eric Speer digs Diggnation, CommandN, as well as TWiT, net@night, and MacBreak.
535 York Podcast gives their Top 10 TechTV post hoc events of 2006.
Blogger Miguel Jacob recommends TWiT.
Net@Night's Amber MacArthur was in several Canadian papers talking about VOIP and Skype.
FLOSS Weekly's Chris DiBona was mentioned in the article "Allison moves on to Google (wondering why?)"
iLifeZone's Derrick Story was mentioned in the article Photoshop CS3 tips and tutorials.
TWiT John C. Dvorak says "Time Magazine Insults Nation" with making "You" the Person of the Year. And on MarketWatch, "Real trends in technology 2007."
Gizmodo comments on Leo's Zune piece.
MacBreak's Merlin Mann blogs about un-distract-ifying your Mac.
Tech.Blorge.com favors WindowsWeekly's Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows.
Robert Heron says that CES will be a HDTV tease.
Mike Brantley of the Mobile, Ala. Register was unhappy about G4's Christmas Day offerings, but refers people to twit.tv.
Paul Thurrott's short takes for this week.
This video apparently became an instant hit when it was posted on YouTube 12 hours ago. It has received more than 20,000 views and 80 comments so far.
Leo will be on commandN with Amber on Monday. Check it out.
Alex Lindsay was mentioned in a DailyIndia.com blog by Michael Swanberg about iTunes "What Is Wrong With iTunes?"
Scott Bourne has announced the release of PodcastGearGuy.com in a press release. Scott will be partnering with Podango - press release. There's also a very nice article about Scott By Julio Ojeda-Zapata of the St. Paul Pioneer Press "Online-media pioneer back on the Web."
Derrick Story tells how to "Create Stunning Slide Shows" in his latest MacWorld article.
Chris DiBona was interviewed by CNET's Joris Evers in "Newsmaker: A look inside Google's open-source kitchen."
"Re-inventing Tijuana Yahoo," says Dvorak.
Could Kevin Rose have already been a millionaire by now? Blogherald quotes Leo as saying yes, he could.
The Globe and Mail talks about PikSpot and UndoTV in the context of social networking.
Cali, Robert and Patrick are in this article in the Syndey Morning Herald, "Action on the small screen."
Paul Thurrott: Let us Prey.
One loyal fan believes he has spotted a cameo by Leo in "Spy Kids." Is this really Leo, or a look-alike?
Ok, "The Lost Episodes" is a bit dramatic. They were only "lost" because I didn't upload these two episodes of "60 seconds with Leo Laporte" a week ago when we recorded them. The first is "Vista Installed," where Leo talks about his installation of Vista, and the second is "No James TWiT," where Leo mentioned why there wasn't a TWiT last week and a little about net@night.
