122 posts tagged “leo laporte”

Leo Laporte will be present at a benefit for the Save the Tasmanian Devil at the Henry Jones Art Hotel in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 13. Those in attendance will have the opportunity to mix with world-famous photographers and purchase prints of their photos in support of efforts to save the marsupial, which is threatened by a contagious facial cancer.

Visiting North American photographers will include Mikkel Aaland, Peter Krogh, Katrin Eismann, Bruce Dale, Catherine Hall, Maki Kawakita, Charlie Cramer and Jeff Pflueger

The Henry Jones Art Hotel is located at 25 Hunter Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7000.

For more information visit http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/469801/

Here are some photos by those who met up with Leo in the Sydney Airport on April 1.

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Hey, isn't that photographer Mikkel Aaland?

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Here's video of Leo meeting up with some Australian friends at the Velocity Bar at Sydney Airport on Tuesday. Thanks to Jenna Fox for shooting the video. Here's the Pownce invite he put out a few days ago.

Greetings:

OK, while I'm on a history kick, here's Leo as Dev Null on TheSite with co-star Soledad O'Brien. This was probably around 1996 or 97 I think.

Ed Bellis, the chief information security officer for Orbitz, recently praised Security Now on his personal blog.

"The Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte is chock full of security technology goodness. Go check it out."

Note: This is his personal blog which says these are his personal views only, not his employer's.

YouTube's TheCreativeOne, aka David Di Franco, has created a video which does a good job explaining to the novice what a podcast is. But Dave is no novice. He's a great Vlogger who has created almost 200 YouTube videos chronicling his life and tech in general. He particularly discusses Macs, games, video and his family.

From this video on YouTube, Dave linked to several TWiT podcasts, directly in their iTunes locations (iTunes of course always creates a long ugly URL). TheCreativeOne likes the following podcasts

- Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy
- http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...

- MacBreak Weekly
- http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...

- net@night
- http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...

- this WEEK in TECH
- http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...

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This from the Wired Blog Network today:

GeekDad: You recently performed "Still Alive" (closing theme of the videogame Portal) at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, on the video game Rock Band. Your back-up band was comprised of additional geek-celebs Leo LaPorte [sic], Merlin Mann, and Veronica Belmont. As a foursome, if you were The Beatles, who would each member be, and why?

Jonathan Coulton: Well, based on the instruments, Leo would be Paul, I guess Veronica would be George, I'd be John, and Merlin would be Ringo. That doesn't quite feel right though, especially considering that Veronica was the only one who kept us from bombing out of that song much earlier than we did. So I have to give the Ringo award to her for that one. And in that case, let's say that Merlin is then both George and John, and I can be George Martin (please please please let me be George Martin).

Read more on the interview: You Ruined Everything: GeekDad Interviews Jonathan Coulton

And what do you know. There were one or two people with cameras at Jonathan Couton's SF concert. Who woulda thunk it?

Dave Winer was on TWiT 134 this week discussing the past present and future of RSS and its various incarnations. The original developers of iPodderX, August Trometer and Ray Slakinski, wrote rebuttals to Winer's comments about whether iTunes killed the iPodderX podcasting client.

August Trometer: Quixote

Ray Slakinski: Did iTunes Kill iPodderX?

For a look back into TWiT and iTunes history, reference TWiT 8A from June 2005, when Trometer and Slakinski joined Leo and Patrick Norton to discuss the original iTunes 4.9 release that enabled podcast subscriptions.

Leo is always saying that iTunes has been both the best and worst thing for podcasting. The best because it has helped it become pervasive, but the worst because it has squelched competition (and therefore independent innovation).

TWiT 8A is actually worth listening to purely to see how much things have changed in 33 months.

Also, here's Dave Winer's post on Twitter vs. Pownce: The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass

Hey, I'm in Canada visiting Leo on the set of "The Lab with Leo Laporte" in Vancouver. No more watching it on Google Video, I get to see it in person this week.