TWIT TV: Xeni joins Leo Laporte, with Denise Howell, and Gina Smith (all-female-guests edition!)

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I joined TWIT TV host Leo Laporte, and fellow guests Gina Smith (BYTE magazine, just re-launched) and Denise Howell (internet law expert) for the final episode from TWIT's longtime home in a cottage at Leo's house. TWIT will continue, of course, just not from that location: Leo and his team have built a swank new studio from which future editions will be webcast.

It's always a blast to join Leo for TWIT TV. And this rare "all-chicks edition" was particularly fun. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed recording it for you. Topics included...

Instantaneous Spotify, Netflix split, animated cat gifs, HTC infringement, tech and morality, and more.

Also flying uteruses.

Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twit. Show notes, wiki page, links to stories we covered (and then some), transcript, and various downloadable versions are all here on the episode #310 page.

Running time: 01:32:58.

• [Kerouac]

  Wish I had the patience to read TSDGuy’s whining.

  Nah… just kidding!

  It was a great episode for TWiT, which is starting to find its way out of the iPhone-dominated wilderness.

• [tsdguy]

  Wish I had the patience to listen to a 1 1/2 hour long podcast but you must be kidding me. What ever happened to 10 minutes episodes?

  Did anyone ask Ms Smith about Byte’s excellent first “blogitorial” on Apple and it’s weaselly “withdrawal” of same. Made me embarrassed that I have some old Byte mags in my collection.

  That name should have gone down in computer tech history as a pioneer in tech journalism but now it’s just a joke.

  • [ticstah]

    C’mon, troll much?

    As for the length of the episode, I believe that TWIT’s shows make for great conversations. Sometimes you get reliable tech news punditry, sometimes you get in depth conversations about the state of media and Internet freedoms (TWIG comes to mind), sometimes you get both. Either way, long form discussion podcasts are great ways to pass the day at work, and I have a feeling I’m not in the minority… seeing as the TWIT Network is a massive success and about to move into a new studio.

    As for being embarrassed for owning old issues of Byte, don’t you think that’s a tad bid reactionary. By the way (as I saw on Daring Fireball, a huge PRO-Apple blog) Byte retracted the original retraction, and added an editors note. Growing pains, nothing more. This new venture (which I applaud for bringing back a lot of old names) is too young to be a “joke”. Momentarily misguided, I’d say.

• [Jardine]

  Yeah, podcasts are able to do what radio could do if they weren’t restricted by timed advertisement breaks and other shows coming on. The closest thing I’ve ever heard on the radio was when Art Bell was still going. Because he had a long show in the middle of the night, he would often book a guest for an hour, then keep them around for the entire show if they were interesting enough.

  TWIT still has ad breaks, but from what I’ve seen, they don’t have to be at particular times. So if Leo and the gang get into an interesting discussion that takes a while, they don’t have to stop for an ad just because it’s the top of the hour. And they don’t have to stop for “weather and traffic on the 10′s”. Leo can wait for a lull in the conversation, do an ad, then switch topics. And the best part is that if I’m bored by the topic, I can skip that part.

  • [Anonymous]

    The only show that they do have to adhere to certain times for ads is The Tech guy, but that’s cause it airs on a radio station too, but yeah I agree with you. The long conversations are good.

• [Anonymous]

  I’m pretty sure the TWiT cottage isn’t on Leo’s property, but rather just a rented space.

• [qwiddity]

  “your vagina is a Victorian lady.”