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Been a while since Dvorak, always enjoy him - Jan Ole Peek

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Dvorak & Curry (waiting for deletion in 3, 2,1... ;-) ) - Holger Eilhard

Patrick Norton!! and PLEASE... No more Wil Harris - Jim Connolly

Only Dvorak - Charbax

With Trek out, perhaps Wil Wheaton and/or Levar Burton - Gunny Say RELAX ™

Allen Stern - Allen Stern

Patrick Norton - Bradley Goetsch

John McEnroe - Charbax

Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Veronica Belmont, Becky Worley (Techtv old school) or Justine (new school) - Harvey Birdman

I'd prefer no "social media experts" - Gunny Say RELAX ™

One of the Brits you've had on before - that nice liverpulian (can't remember his name) - Jonathan Grimes

Dvorak! - Michael Kaiser from Nambu

Veronica Belmont - Harvey Birdman

Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Calacanis - Phillip Stewart

Wil Wheaton. EDIT: Levar Burton too. - Roberto Bonini

Stephen Fry? (I KNOW he's not a scouser, BTW) - Ian May

John C. Dvorak + Lisa Bettany + Brian Brushwood - arjo

Dvorak and Calacanis are always good. - Scott Breakall

Dvorak and Becky Worley (she was awesome too on 188) - Charbax

Dvorak and Patrick - Anton Tanderup

I agree with @Charbax. Dvorak and Becky Worley were a great combination on TWiT. - arjo

Robert Heron and/or Sascha Segan, perhaps? - Christopher A Carr

<---- myself :P - Adam Jackson

All of your regulars are likable, but Dvorak and Calcanis are the only ones that drive the show into new and interesting territory. - casey wright

J C Dvorak,J Calacanis, Lisa B .Please - Ken O'Kelly

James Whatley aka @Whatleydude - Ken O'Kelly

Bwana and Dvorack. - robby

Molly Wood and John C. Dvorak - Eduardo

Norton and Dvorack would be awesome. - Ronald Bandish

Jimmy Fallon ;-) Maybe Kevin Rose can introduce you. - Mark F. Heil

Dvorak, Norton, and Rose please! - Jonas Dionisio

Star Trek cast - Robert

Bwana, and Veronica Belmont! - David Ford

MEEE!!! - Alphonso Lizcano

You can't go wrong with Dvorak - Bryan McAffee

Garnett Lee - Lou Buran

wHil wHeaton!!!! will harris, and of course dvorak - Mark

Patrick Norton and Bwana, just to get confused with their voices! - Jack Truong

Brain Brushwood, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton - Billy Shelton

Cali Lewis or Patrick Norton (no Dvorak please) - Ted Ellis

Bwana is always good. John C. - Willowdale

Peter rojas - lamont

Calacanis and Amber MacArthur - Stephen Lecheler

Dvorak and Patrick Norton. Lots of good news this week, so the less Twitter talk the better. - Jerry Voelker

Dvorak, Bwana, Sarah Lane, Becky Worley NOT LISA B she's horrible. - Charlieray

Physicist talking about quantum computers and an update on where we are with them. - Gilfeather

I would like you to do the show alone, but do voices for Dvorak, Calacanis, Will Harris, and Lisa Bettany. - Larry Roth

the guy from scam school.he's good - lamont

Ultimate worst topic: Brett Farve Twittering about Manny Ramirez. - Richard Hoskins

Dvorak. Always have him on please. You and him ARE TWiT. Wil Harris is also very enjoyable. So is Calacanis. Cory Doctorow also. - Emil Alexander Swenson

star trek twit wound be timely, will levar and veronica - Todd Proffitt

Oprah, Dr. Phil, Rachel Ray, and most important of anyone else in the world -- Tyra. - Walter Lounsbery

Ed Bott - Larry Basham - cornedbeefgents

How about a Patrick Norton and Leo twit? - Joe Dearman

Cranky twits Leo, Dvorak, Sebastian Ruplee, Calacanis - Charlieray

how about @jack to talk about his new "project" - patrick

hey Steve Jobs??? Could you pull that one off? - Dan Krivolavek

Bwana - Nolan Alston

cigars and wine - Richard Hoskins

With upcoming Hubble service mission, Bad Astronomer Phil Plait and Trek tie in with Levar Burton. - Doug Torneden

Dvorak, Norton, Rose, and Calacanis... - Gary Hise

We haven't heard Molly Wood on TWiT in a while. - Matt Chilcote

Dvorak, Curry, Calacanis, Patrick Norton, and yes cigars and wine - Aris/Theft

Has Curry ever been on TWiT? I'd love to see Worley on, Dvorak possibly, but if you get those two, maybe add some other old TechTV'ers if possible. Calacan would probably be good too. - Chris

NINaccess - Richard Hoskins

YLNT - Larry Basham - cornedbeefgents

Mitsubishi's "Download a Car" project. http://torrentfreak.com/downloa... - Nicholas Young

Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Brian Brushwood, and Molly Wood would melt my pants. - thechadster

How about Andy Walker? - Willowdale

Molly, Dvorak, WilW, Jason Howell is under exposed, Tom Green, Harry Shearer, Veronica, mix it up Alex A sans Kevin, Merlin, yes please Merlin. And a bit less wine... - Tom Hofstatter

(Buzz Out Loud + No Agenda)*GDGT Weekly/YLNT = TWiT - MacNeurotic

Dvorak please - russellcoleman

amber - Archie Maclean

DVORAK!! - Carlos Jackson

i'\ - Tad

0. for a systm geek round: patrick norton (in the house this time, no wandering around & connection issues), dave randolph, and david caulkins 1. stephen fry, conan o'brien, jimmy fallon for a talk show host round (if you can get them), 2. as gunny wallen put it 'no social media experts'. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

molly wood and brian cooley - erick

Molly Wood - Keith Hobin

How about Bwana and Patrick. They can do impersonations of each other. - Joe Dearman

Anyone related to Star Trek I guess ... wonder if you can get JJ Abrams though :p - Clarence Chiang

although very unlikely, would be funny to have george lucas & a round of star trek actors. heh :p - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

I don't like listening to people act like they know everything and yes I'm talking about Brian Cooley .. I agree with all the other choices though - John Blanton from twhirl

It's always funny how one person's favorite is another person's worst nightmare :) I always enjoy Dvorak, Patrick and Veronica. - Jeff

Molly Wood - Renee Pie

Pete Cashmore was cranky and great although probably not popular. Ryan Block and Will Harris are always good. Worley and Molly are very good. Curry would be fun since he is opinionated. Basically choose folks who are very knowledgeable or Type A. No squeeky women who start each sentence with "um" or "well". - Techboy2000

Wil W pls, he's a fan of both Twit and Star Trek... - Denverken

Check out Andrew Dubber of New Music Strategies: http://newmusicstrategies.com/ He's a New Zealander living in Birmingham, England, and he specializes in all sorts of ideas on how musicians can find a market and fans online. - Darren Landrum

Leonard Nimoy, Wil Harris, Dvorak, Molly Wood - chipster621

Patrick Norton, Lisa Bettany, and some Star Trek with new movie out so will wheaton & Levar Burton - Matt Pollari

Winer, Gilmore, Calacanis and Doctorow - that should be fun. - Geoff Schaadt

James Theodore Kirk - Richard Hoskins

Tiberius! - Michael

Seriously, Johnny C, JCal, @WilW, and Levar Burton. Ever ask Barry Sonnenfeld? - Michael

Gina Trapani, Calacanis is also always interesting. - Sung Choi

Scoble maybe. - Jason Shultz from Nambu

Robert Heron is my number one choice. Dvorak ONLY if there is no wine and young women on at the same time. - John Little

Dvorak, Burton and Rose - Mike

Dvorak , Curry, Rose - Ron Acierno

Dvorak, curry, Calacanis and Kevin - americanm

Rebert Heron also - americanm

What about that Pogue guy? Or Robert Heron, Bwana, or for the lulz, have Winer on! - Mike Lewis

Dvorak! and more Dvorak ! - John Hillestad

I agree with Dunny: Wil Wheaton and/or Levar Burton. Also, I wouldn't mind seeing Bwana! - Christopher Theberge

Patrick Norton! - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Levar and Brushwood are the best of the newest twits - Eric Marden

Molly Wood and Dvorak. Veronica, too. - Robert

I think Adam Curry might still be in town; should invite him up to the TWiT Cottage. Bwana too. - Hawklu

Dvorak, Curry, Alex Lindsay - Matt

Wil Harris, Andy Walker and some of the old gang from The Lab. Someone to talk the effects of technology in the entertainment field such as theatre and concerts - Stephen Dean

Woz? - Hawklu

Mac vs Windows: Paul and Merlin - lofti

Jon Udell, Michael Nielsen, Ben Fry and Toby Segaran. You get cool accents and über brains - Deepak Singh

alex albrecht - Mike Vail

Thurrott & Lindsay - Kurtis Land

Molly Wood, WilW or LeVar, and Calacanis - Patrick Sullivan

Want to hear Dvorak tell all, how Twitter saved his life! - Craig Anderson

Dvorak, Adam Curry and Calacanis - Adam Marsh

molly wood, dvorak, kevin rose, not curry, calacanis - Randy Klassen

John Hodgman (pc) & Justin Long (mac) - Chris Pugh

Ryan Block, Scoble and Dvorak - Mike Getz

John Davison of WhatTheyPlay.com ~ http://www.whattheylike.com/ - monkeystick

bring back udell - get rid of dvorak - mike "glemak" dunn

Dave's Winer ? ;) - americanm

IHNATKO - Richard Hoskins

Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer and Andy Ihnatko! - americanm

Robert Llewellyn is in town, isn't he? - Amac

Dvorak, Curry, Dave Winer, Scoble - Kiko Cherman

Dvorak, Norton, Wozniak, Belmont, Wood - Harold Benfield

What is it and the love for Dvorak? Let's take Dvorak out and have someone else in who is interesting. - Stephen Lecheler

Curry, Scoble and Lewis - Matt

Molly Wood. So smart. - Darrel Davis

Wil Wheaton (since Star Trek is out now and he can talk about it--Levar Burton's a good idea too) - Stevon

Dvorak & Curry & Mr Norton! - Adam Horne

Thich Nhat Hahn, the 14th Dalai Lama, and Bill O'Reilly - Richard Hoskins

Dvorak (always!), Levar Burton, Adam Curry, Amber McArthur - Steve Visscher

John C, Wil Wheaton, Sarah Lane, Veronica Belmont - Larry Vogel

Oh, and Lisa Bettany - Jan Ole Peek

Loren Brichter (Tweetie) and Craig Hockenberry (Twitterrific) - kirk

Have you ever asked Josh Topolsky - current editor of Engadget on Leo? He has a lot to say about Kindle2 and the "future" of e-ink - winston smith

Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca. - Richard Hoskins

Joel Spolsky-- no kidding. - Richard Hoskins

Steve Gillmor, Merlin Mann and Jason Calacanis. - Wo

Kevin Rose, I know you don't like having him on, but he is nice to see every once and a while. Veronica Belmont would be nice again, Patrick, Maybe John. - Dakota O'Neill

Sam Ramji, Open Source Director at MS. Talk about cognitive dissonance! Very smart guy and excellent speaker. I can introduce you if you want. - John Kordyback

Josh Topoksky, Geoff Farinha (up and coming podcaster) - Shawn Roberts

I really enjoyed Twit 188 with Becky Worley and Devorak. Calacanis is good too. Not a fan of P Norton - Allison

Wil Wheaton and Levar Burton would be awesome. - Jason Elliott

John C, Rose, Norton, and Worley. Second list is John C, Harris, Swood, and Curry. - Kacy

Patrick, Wil Wheaton, and JJ Abrams. - Matt Smith

Dvork he's always good - Annika from Nambu

Leo - I'd like to hear from Bret, et al, from FriendFeed and what they've experienced, learned from the very first major outage they have suffered (due to their colo provider losing power) - Robert J Taylor

Daniel Suarez, author of Daemon… just finished it… awesome. - Mike Meiners

I like Jerry Pournelle, if he's up to it. - doggy

Molly and Lisa--Star Trek geeks; Brian; and Patrick but, as has been stated, only if he's in the house otherwise he leaves early/gets disconnected/gets called away. No more than four - MikeNNN

I forgot. John Gruber, he's the best. - John Kordyback

Definitely could use me some Molly Wood. Also, Veronica was nice. Hell, make it an all BOL show, bring in Jason and Tom too. And I agree with John, Gruber would be sweet. - Mike Nayyar

another new suggestion considering the fate of 3d realms: 1UP.com editor Garnett Lee - friend of Patrick, frequent Cranky Geeks guest and all around smart dude on tech subjects - winston smith

I love the new product reviews like Pogoplug and sling iphone and using eye-fi for instant slide show from camera! LESS ALCOHOL! - Stephan Romeo

Jason Calocanis - Star Trek Guys are a good Idea too - Shane Burgess

How has no one said Molly Wood? She hasn't been on in a while. She definitely has a great amount of geek cred. - Chris Kourmoulakis

Chris, Molly has been all over this biz! - Mike Nayyar

Patrick Norton, Jason Calicanius, Or perhaps Bwana? Levar Burton is always awesome too. - Crystal Tillman

Trent Reznor - Baron Sekiya

For selfish purpose, I'd love to come on and talk about how we're using social networking to help America's homeless. But aside from that (and pardon the plug), I like Baron's choice, Trent Reznor would make for an interesting guest given the present circumstances with Apple. I also would love to see Molly Wood. - Brandon Mendelson

Wayne Sutton - Wayne Sutton

Well that's just sneaky, Wayne. Mike Nayyar! :P - Mike Nayyar

Norton, Dvorak, Wheaton and Burton - Howard

John C. Dvorak of COURSE, Becky Worley (who seems very insightful and is able to hold her own with John) and lots of wine. Do not under any circumstances allow Calacanis on to do any more impressions, god that's annoying. - Barry Ferg

Why doesn't Gibson ever do TWiT? - Daniel E. Renfer

Johnny Worthington - Josh Haley

Ken Ray, aka Mac OS Ken. He's great. - Dave S.

dvorak ftw! His dour outlook is always appreciated - Dantrag0

This is why FF needs ad hoc polls. i.e. user voice, skribit, etc... - Jay Cuthrell

Dvorak, Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Patrick Norton, Dr. Kiki, and Amber MacArthur - Rocky McVey

John C.Dvorak, Steve Gibson and Jerry Pournelle. You can call it Grey Haired TWiT - dewtheone

CALACANIS!!!!! Sarah Lane is cool too. - Steve Wilson

ijustine!!! - Victor Alarcon

The Real Twits John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton & Kevin Rose return to the roots! - Alan Abentrod

Dvorak, Wil Wheaton, and LeVar Burton. - Chris, Without Direction

You should do Dvorak and a roundup of your hosts from your other podcasts: Paul, Amber, ... - Steve Fumarolo

I'd like to see more of Paul Thurott, he's only done one TWit - Joe

kevin rose, Jason, and @ev :D twitter talk. ~!!! - Kar Soon

Being a ex-pat from UK, Wil Harris, obviously. Also Dvorak and Calacanis - Tony Veale

Shwood and Dvorak - Jim Garrison

Oh and iJustine. She should be on every week, and every show for that matter. - Tony Veale

Wheaton is a terrific idea too! - Jim Garrison

Steve Wozniak - Leo A. Novelli

the ffundercats!!! - (jeff)isageek

wayne sutton - (jeff)isageek

Dvorak - Charlie Wilson

Alan Watts - Thomas Cooper

Tom Merritt is always good. - Thomas Cooper

Kate Botello!!!! SS Reunion! - Brad

Love to hear Pogue if you can get him. If not, bring back Brushwood! - Joseph

Calacanis is always interesting and how about Levar Burton and Sarah Lane Wil Harris too - Shaun

FriendFeed crew, MG Siegler, Mark Spencer, Scoble, Joshua Schachter, Kevin Rose, Veronica Belmont, Lisa Bettany, Bwana, Jeff Pulver, Dvorak, Brian Brushwood, Gary Vaynerchuk ! - Jay Neff

Scott Johnson from Extra Life Radio. - Sandy

This Week in Trek? - Ken Sheppardson

Robert Schoble and Tim O'Reilly - Scott Wesson

Bill O'Reilly! - Mike Nayyar

Becky Worley and Trent Reznor hands down would be fantastic - Fragtastic

John McEnroe would be awesome. Howe about Mike Vosseller..he's an up and coming tech guy - pauldougherty

cory doctorow please! - Rodolfo Sanchez

I totally think I should be on - I could explain my new theory that explains how dinosaurs aren't actually extinct, but instead exist in a parallel dimension where, among other things, purple is a flavor. - Tad

Devorak, Shwood, Patrick Norton & Cali Lewis - Anthony

Shwood, Wil Harris, Robert Heron, and Patrick Norton! - Brandon Kester

Just get Dvorak and Jason Calacanis together again. Both are insightful, headstrong and controversial. - Dave Senior

Jason Calacanis and Kevin Rose - Arnaldo Montaner

How about Patrick Norton or Bwana, Brian Brushwood and Frederick Van Johnson just can't talk about Drobo - jackygreen

Brian Gramo from http://www.thestream.tv/ - Tony, Paradox of FF

The FFundercats. - mjc

I 2nd Michael's motion - the FFundercats. - Micah Wittman

Johnny Chung Lee (http://johnnylee.net/, http://johnnylee.net/project...). - Kris Leach

Patrick Norton - Adam Hubbs

dvorak, calacanis, veronica belmont - Brian Waters

Interesting to hear what a tech-savvy VC has to say about the state of innovation in tech - what is likely to get funding - who's under presure - where money helps innovate - where VC money offers no advantage etc etc - Ian Horley

Calacanis, Veronica, Levar and Dvorak of course - John Gardiner

Still on the VC theme, Guy Kawazaki is a great orator, but not sure how good a pundit he is, or how tech savvy he is http://www.guykawasaki.com/ - I think he s in your neck of teh woods too! - Ian Horley

James Patrick Kelly AKA StoryPod SiFi - Dutch [aka fairuse]

why not. the mythbusters vs the ghost hunters - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

I enjoy the usual suspects but I really was impressed by the recent appearance of Becky Worley. She really brought some new freshness to the show. - Mark Krynsky

Anyone that will talk about tech and not swine flu. Dvorak, Patrick, Roger, Veronica. - keith

I would like to hear Bwana again. Also Levar Burton is always good. - Dylan Newstead

Kate Russell from click in the uk to add new edgy tech? dvorak of course, and any trekkies for the new movie, steve gibson to make seriously nerdy, how about roz on her new row - Rob Williams

Bring John C. Dvorak and Jason together please! They are both great to hear in the same episode. - Pigon (Piotr Golebiowski)

Adam Curry, not that bad of a guy Leo... Less Ryan Block, More Calacanis, More Wil Harris - Jim Edwards

How about a Blast From the Past! A show on the old Computer Chronicles and maybe get Stewart Cheifet as a guest. I know it's history, and not really a new tech idea, but if not on TWiT maybe on another show. Maybe TDoT - These Decades of Tech, history of where it all started, with guests like Steve Jobs, Woz, Gates (he's retired now also) Capt. Crunch etc.. There is a lot of history there! just an idea. - HamRadioActive

Dvorak - MλTT

Dvorak. - Paul Grav

Discuss Apple's rumored acquisition of EA. Good idea/not, why/why not? With Kevin Rose (Apple Fanboy), Dvorak (Not so much of an Apple Fanboy) and Alex Albrecht (gamer, TRS etc). - Michel

Louis Gray. He should start a podcast of his own. Perhaps, you could encourage him to start one. - Michael Fidler

Leo - I would be honored and willing to discuss ANY topic you might toss in my direction. Ukiah, Sebastapol, ... all lie near and dear to my heart. any interest in interviewing a 10 year veteran of the enterprise software biz? name the time/place and i'm there. i appreciate everything you do @leo - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Jason Calacanis and Dvorak - Istvan Hoka

Doc Searls and Marshall Kirkpatrick - Brian Hendrickson

Jason Calacanis, Veronica Belmont and Kevin Rose - Anton

Cory Doc, Gina and Wil Wheaton - Dvorak is always welcome (but not sure with Cory)... - Carlos Brefe

Kate Botello - Hector Oros

More brits! - Simon Taylor

Calacanis, Dvorak and Kevin Rose - Anthony Feint

Dvorak, Roger Chang and Becky Worley - Cliff

Becky Worley, Calacanis - Antti Holvikari

In cottage guests make the show more better. Dvorak, Molly Wood, Becky Worley, and a brief appearance of the wine.... - HT

Tom Merritt for the win - Daniel Johnston

Bwana, Dvorak, Belmont, Dwight - Scott H

Regardless of who you invite, I would like to know if this list helped you decide ?? What a mess... hehe. - Brad Kligerman

WILL HARRIS - Derek

Roger Chang - Grace Adams

Calacanis and Dvorak is always gold to me. (but I also tend to like Patrick N. and Will Harris) - Eric Danker

How about Morgan Webb. I miss her cynicism on WebbAlert. She'd be a blast with John C - Edward King

Still love John C....and Molly Wood, Tom Merritt, Gina Trapani. LOVE YOUR SHOW! Carlee S - Carlee Stewner

Kevin Rose - Steve

Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, Calacanis, Patrick Norton, Martin Sargent and no Dvorak. - Michael Sarge

Hey Leo, looked at Square Space thinking about changing but have a question about my domain, i think you said it's not problem to go straight to your www but do they now take over the hosting for the domain and or email, i still would like to use my own domain and my own email extention, and i just signed up with 1and1 to have imap support, does square space have imap support, not sure how that would all work. - Charles Moore

John C Dvorak. - tommy

How about how the white house could have saved 300k and a job. To do the Air Force One Photo - hire someone to photoshop a pricture of AF1 over the SoL - why did we actually need to take the picture? - Laurence Gold

Molly. Tom Merritt, Dvorak, Veronica, ... how to choose? Good luck making sense of all the suggestions! Oh, and Jono Bacon! ;) - Bert Van Vreckem

Anyone BUT drunk girls discussing 'social media' ;p - Imran Idris

Scott Johnson of Extralife Radio/The Instance - he is holding his annual Nerdtacular today, screening StarTrek in SLC, Utah. Uber Geek. - Devin Baines

Jason Calicanis or Kevin Rose. Patrick Norton is too snarky & know-it-all-ish - Chris Doppler

Becky Worley - Shane Eaton

I can take an hour or two out of my day and help out. Tweet me @fabio26 - Fabio

oh...ohh.... I know.... OBAMA! - David Pincheira

Dvorak/Norton are the best. Molly Wood/Meritt/Veronica are always great, as is Shwood. Wild card Morgan Webb would be neat, but people have been asking for her for almost too long. - Victor Z

Me. Of course. Bon week-end à tous ; ) - Didier Lahely

Why not have an open MIC ? - johnpiercy

I'm available - Russ Broomell

Lisa Bettany and Justine Ezarik please :) - Peter Kruit

Paul thurott - Joe from BuddyFeed

Jason Calacanis - Caleb Elston

I'd really like to see you take it to the next level and turn it into the tech equivalent of the Sunday news shows, ala This Week, Meet the Press, etc. That is, try to get more of the folks who've actually made news in tech this week on the show, combined with analysis of why what's happened this week matters. Just getting a bunch of hosts from TWiT shows and other media outlets talking about who knows whom and promoting their stuff is less appealing to me. - Ken Sheppardson

Levar Burton - May I also add perhaps an iPhone/BB/C-phone app review/recommendation section of the show - I value the panels input on such things - Tyler Johnston

Jerry Pournelle, Levar B or Peter Rojas. Spare us the bubble gum ones like iJustine or Lisa Bettany. Shopping exclusively at an Apple Store and being cute != tech expert/panelist. - Adi

megan morrone - TenderLovePony

Bwana McCallm, Lisa Bettany , STEVE WOZNIAK! - Ian P

Thurrott, Shwood, Dvorak, Kevin - imperator3733 from twhirl

Always love to hear perspectives from Dvorak, Norton, Calacanis, Belmont, Wheaton & Burton, lets add Adam Curry, Economist Paul Krugman and actor Jeff Goldblum to the mix - Dan Beyer

Molly Wood, Robert Llewellyn, Sarah Lane and maybe Dvorak - Molly, Time Traveller

Becky Worley!! - RealJon

Jono Bacon - D Raydrick

Dvorak - Marcus Sasiadek

ALL WAYS TRY TO TUNE IN TO TECH TV WHEN LEO OR THE SCREAN SAVERS GANG IS ON LIVE - daveccorey

Thurrott and Dvorak :) - Vesa Kauppinen

You need some Mom's for a Mother's Day Special - Chris Pugh

Let's have that discussion about US Internet connectivity that you mentioned last week on TWiT. I'm ready if you are. - Debi Jones

Molly Wood, Cali Lewis, John Dvorak, Jason Calacanis - David Z

Cali Lewis + Adam Curry - Joseph Kelley

You should get someone connected with the online poker business, discuss the legislation on that matter. - Pedro Fonseca

More about the National Broadband Policy, please! Did you say "MobileJones" would be on this week's TWiT? - Web Pixie

Jason Calacanis - Kevin Burton

Paul Thurrott - Kevin Burton

How about all adults. Getting tired of kiddie talk. Dvorak is good for a start. - Jim Corkrum

Dvorak!! - John Sullivan

Thurrott and Calacanis - Michael

This guy: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZiW26C... - l0ckergn0me

@loic, @veronica, @ginatrapani, and @scobleizer. - Jeff Harbert

JCal, Dvorak; Wil Harris; Wil Wheaton; Becky Worley - Vickie K

Vernor Vinge. - Michael R. Bernstein

Molly Wood & Steve Gibson. It would be rant-astic! - tamahome

Jerry Pournelle, Molly Wood and John C. Dvorak - Joe Gilbert - Joe Gilbert

Dvorak's New World Symphony would do rather nicely - Antonin Dvorak - David Blumenstein

wow... thanks for the love everyone! my favorite guests to be on with are Dvorak and Kevin Rose. I feel like those shows really rock. - Jason Calacanis

Scoble, Calcanis, Gillmor, Winer and Arrington mud wrestling in pink blancmange! - Make us laugh and then they'll all be friends again! - Jan Simmonds

Dvoracanis part 2! And Miley Cyrus. Or maybe Paul Thurrott & Andy Ihnatko, plus Kevin Rose. - Thunderwing from twhirl

Or Adam Curry, Alex Jones & Michael Savage. Oh, wait, that would be a special episode of No Agenda. Sorry, my bad. - Thunderwing from twhirl

Lisa Bettany, Jason Calacanis and Dvorak. Always. It'd be nice to see Paul Thurrott on TWiT, he's always great and it was a big MS week what with the RC. - Henrik

After listening to todays Gilmore Gang, anybody that sounds more professional then that group would be better. - John Wallace

It would be an honor to be on the show... www.cyberstudies.org - Shane Tilton

Here it is the ultimate Twit Group. Leo, Patrick, Dvorak,Brian Brushwood,& Jason Calacanis - Tom Rowbotham

what about major nelson from the xbox team - Brad Reiter

Merlin Mann & Andy Ihnatko - Chris Weber

Martin Sargent and Laura Swisher - Will

Wil Harris - Fred Hamilton

A more science and tech oriented TWIT instead of social media would be nice. - Taylor Hutchison

sun 10 mothers day 219 atl time VEDIO IS UP AUDIO IS DOWN ON TWIC TV IN WINDOWS - daveccorey

WORKING NOW YEAH - daveccorey

Patrick Norton & Will Harris - Dakotah Jenkins

Want to hear Dvorak tell all, how Twitter saved his life! - Craig Anderson

we don't question you talking to yourself, we have become used to it - David Blumenstein from twhirl

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I drove my sister's Fusion down to Blogworld Expo - best road trip I've had in a long time. - Jesse Stay

We only worry when you ask yourself rhetorical questions. - Mike Lewis

Sync is installed in my car. (Mercury Milan). It is kinda fun. Plus the bluetooth connection for the phone is pretty handy. - Yolanda

don't go and get all synched up on us now! - that actually seems rather cool! pictures? blog post please! :) - Susan Beebe

I would say that's enough passwords. - Kol Tregaskes

you can never have enough passwords, especially if y ou are a DELL computer - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Nothing says, "I'm a nerd", like having a BIOS password. I would say that is sufficient. - Mike Lewis

not a d-link fan - Kipp Bodnar

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nor am I - Drew Lucas

nope, not at all - Patphelan

I've been a Netgear guy for years. Do you use D Link, Dave? - Mike Lewis from twhirl

I used to be Netgear but we've been Belkin for three years or so now. - Akiva Moskovitz

I've got a newer DLink, works just dandy-o - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

have been a long time D-Link customer, picked up some great gear in Taiwan last year - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Had so many problems with D-Link products - Jon Anderson

I use three Linksys wrt54gl routers with tomato firmware and WDS to provide complete wireless coverage in my home. Works just dandy. (WDS is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) - Jasmin Patry

After having nothing but problems with Linksys gear, I now use Dlink exclusively. This is my wireless router and it just works. - Alex Scoble

I just ordered one, to arrive tomorrow. - Dave Winer

I have a D-Link DGL-4300. The wireless part works fine and I like some of the features (port access control for one), but the UI blows and it's buggy with certain things. - LogEx

What's so bad about the UI? - Dave Winer

I've been tempted to switch to an Airport Extreme or a custom-firmware device. I'd presumably gain reliability, but lose features I use. Not a good choice to have to make. - LogEx

The UI on the DIR-625 is good...much better than what you get with a comparible Linksys. - Alex Scoble

I returned the DIR-625 in favor of the DGL-4500. It's expensive, but very stable and fast. My time is worth more than the $100 premium for something that works reliably. - Darius Dunlap

4300 UI needs lots of clicks to access commonly used functions (some of which wouldn't be so common if not for the bugs). I regularly have to reset port access control, or reboot router. - LogEx

That would make her not only the first female Vice Prez, but the first Vice Prez to enter into the the world of reality tv. I would watch! - Comickey

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I weep for the USA. - CW™

You Betcha! - Jeff P. Henderson

Maybe she'll go to Rev3? - l0ckergn0me

great, politics meets tech meets the Alaskan bush :? - Comickey

Fey and Palin are already set for life ... regardless. This isn't going away - Charlie Anzman

how would she have time to do a TV show? Does she plan to move from Alaska? - Phillip Jeffrey

I dunno, if SNL last night was any indication, it would be awkward and just bad. So very, very bad, don'cha know. - jbean

The Palins. Watch them shoot wolves from a plane, speak in tongues, and bust meth labs. - Rodfather

Yea absolutely, her presence was amazing! Too bad she's on the wrong team. It looked like she was crying inside though. I can't imagine doing what she did. - E.B.

Are you kidding me? She was HORRIBLE. She didn't do ANYTHING!!! - Jeff McCord from twhirl

Sarah Palin: Avoid The Press, each and every Sunday Morning, you guess the station/network, she's not going to tell you - David Blumenstein from twhirl

I'm not sure if the world is ready for a host with that accent. I do like her politics, though. I thought her selection was definitely responsible for getting McCain a chance in the race. - Douglas Karr from twhirl

+1 David. - Eric Geller

I can totally see that, she and John loose in November, she returns to Alaska, Fox puts her under contract to show America how government works, reality TV style. - Brian Blankenship

hahahahahaa! - Susan Beebe

it'll be reality, on Bravo. - Patricia

but isn't Maverick taken as title? - denise

the Sarah Palin Comedy Hour featuring Tina Fey ? - Adrian from twhirl

She is for less government. I like her. - Mattb4rd

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She is for less reading. I don't like her. - Steve Garfield from twhirl

No, I don't feel the same way. - ComicList

as a libertarian, its his choice as to who is his running mate...as a human being i am unashamedly embarrassed by her, she has done more the prospects of the Democratic party than one could have imagined - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Sarah Palin is on the wrong side of libertarians, traditional conservatives, traditional Republicans, traditional Americanism, traditional liberals, traditional Christians, etc. The Republican Party has been hijacked by neoconservatives, religious extremists, Judeo-Christian fascists, Dominionists, etc. who have launched an all-out assault on every basic American value. The Republican Party may not survive the experience. She is basically George W. Bush in skirts. - Sean McBride

Gotta disagree, I'm old school republican, small government-low taxes, and I'm 100% for Palin - Daltonsbriefs

Sigh. Less government I guess includes abusing your powers as governor of Alaska. Again still waiting for reality-based assessments. - Rick Powell

Jason, those of us who consider ourselves "old school" Republicans, conservatives or Libertarians have been pushed aside by the Republican Party. It may be time for Libertarians to gain a foothold. They just need to stop sounding batshite crazy! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

So tell me, Charles and Dalton, what do you think of the outcome of the Palin investigation? - Alexander Carlill

Corrections and additions welcome to the two previous comments. - Sean McBride

Palin drives liberals even more crazy than they already are. Good enough for me. - Spencer

Spencer Scott - do you agree with my profile of Sarah Palin supporters? - Sean McBride

I have some libertarian leanings (although I'm more centrist) but I'm more annoyed with Republicans talking about fiscal responsibility and smaller government and then never, ever, delivering. That includes the Gov. - mikepk

Nice work, Sean. It's like a tag cloud of ignorance. What makes you say Akiva is a Palin supporter? Never seemed like the type to me. - Alexander Carlill

Perhaps I'm mistaken about Akiva -- that's why I asked for corrections. I vaguely remember him defending Palin on several occasions. I wonder how many people on the list are religious fundamentalists, creationists, Iran War supporters, etc. Simple data mining to get a handle on this phenomenon. - Sean McBride

What if all the the religious fundamentalists and extremists in the U.S. moved to Alaska and seceded? What a lovely thought. :) Let them have their own country, and let the United States get back on track on the vision forged by the Founding Fathers. - Sean McBride

Palin = ignorance, arrogance, dishonesty = more of the same as the current administration - Rod Bauer from twhirl

The fact that Palin managed to behave like Bush without nearly as much corrupting power says a lot about her character, though. - Alexander Carlill

Alexander, I can only assume you're referring to Sean McBride. He's the only person I have blocked on FriendFeed. He's a 9/11 Troofer troll who has a rather creepy obsession with me (probably because I'm Jewish and he's anti-Israel and possibly anti-Semitic as well). He thinks he knows me better than I know myself and kept chasing me around FriendFeed trying to start fights. So, uh, good luck with that. - Akiva Moskovitz

It's always entertaining to see mental meltdowns among religious fundamentalists like Akiva. He made three false statements in his comment: I am not a 9/11 "Troofer," not anti-Israel and not remotely antisemitic -- in fact I rely heavily on Jewish pundits for my own political analysis. I have strongly opposed neoconservatives and Christian Zionists at the extremist end of the political... more... - Sean McBride

Akiva is himself a neoconservative, but he can't defend his emotional beliefs on this subject. No neocons on Friendfeed or anywhere else can -- they are essentially irrational cultists. I am still curious to know whether he unwittingly or wittingly selected the name of a famous fictional Jewish terrorist from Leon Uris's Exodus for his handle -- that would be a very Likudnik move. Akiva... more... - Sean McBride

Regarding the easy way in which Akiva throws around the antisemitism smear to try to escape real political debate -- he is very much out of touch with the majority of American Jews on both religious and political issues. A large majority of Jews opposed the Iraq War. The smear tactics are perfectly consonant with the methods used by Sarah Palin. - Sean McBride

I was a Republican before Reagan took office and my picture of Ronald Reagan is still hanging out in Silicon Valley's Republican Party. The religious wackos so turned me off to conservative principles that I could NEVER support Palin. Any libertarian who supports her and thinks she is for less government makes me really depressed. Her record already demonstrates she's for more government and, worse of all, for government that takes away people's rights. - Robert Scoble

Be warned, McBride'll keep going on and on as long as you keep feeding him. He'll say a lot of things about me that appear on the surface to have substance but they're based on empty assumptions. He will be unable to back any of it up except to suggest that because I choose not to engage him it means that he's right about all of his assessments. For the record, I'm not a Palin supporter. She's entertaining to watch but that's about it. Or is that Tina Fey? I can't remember now. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, I realise that he's prone to exaggeration. Hence the fact that I questioned your presence in that list.. - Alexander Carlill

And I thank you for it, sir. - Akiva Moskovitz

Alexander, I don't think much of it all. The trooper in question clearly has abused his power much more than Palin ever did. In the end, it sounds a lot like the "scandal" over the firing of attorneys general: much ado about nothing. But keep in mind, per Scoble and McBride, I'm one of those "religiosu whackos" that is standing in the way of true ___, whether we are talking about true conservatism or the truly golden age of Obama. - ComicList

Republican Libertarian? Does that mean you check whatever box lies between John McCain and Bob Barr on the ballot? - Ernie Oporto

This libertarian turned away from the Republicans eight years ago, and just laughs at Palin. Any Republican should feel insulted by this cynical choice. - Michael Hart

It appears that Sean McBride has fallen victim to Sara Palin syndrome. A form of the violent reaction liberals have to any conservative that doesn't fit their stereotype of ignorant white male redneck (see extreme abuse of Condi Rice). Palin energized the GOP base that viewed McCain as a RHINO. She is closer to the average American than your typical bi-coastal liberal. - Robert Hafer

Robert, that's her problem. She's too average and ordinary. She's not smart or special enough to be elected. Whereas Obama, despite a history of abuse of power, despite not being able to explain the simplest of things like how he actually was able to afford Harvard, is the smart person we have been waiting for. - ComicList

Looks like it's block time for Charles. And Robert, as a European (oh shit!) liberal, Palin definitely fits my stereotype of ignorant white female redneck. Except she's got abuse of power and weird secessionist links thrown in as well. Is it not worth having a VP who's above average? - Alexander Carlill

So what's wrong with being liberal, isn't that what libertarian's are? Live and let live... - Andy Davies

Another block, outstanding. - ComicList

As a woman AND a Libertarian, I was insulted by her the moment that she was picked, and her beliefs and shenangians were thrown out for public perusal. She is for less government in name only, and will only be for less government if she gets to stuff her cronies from Alaskan Independence Party and from her church in Federal posts. Not to mention her voiced desire to set women's rights back by about 50 years. - Hel Hel

I'm pointing out that McCain / Palin is not a dream ticket for Conservatives, but is far better than Obama / Bidden and their bashing of Middle Americans and attacks on our young people in uniform. The majority of people in "fly over country" own guns, go to church and don't want to live on the Government dole. - Robert Hafer

The attorney general's scandal was *not* much ado about nothing. The firing of Carol Lam, the U.S. attorney who busted Duke Cunningham, was *clearly* a political act that severely damages the credibility of the U.S. attorney's office. Notice that Roberto Gonzales is no longer attached to the Bush administration, in part because of his indiscretions in this regard. Are you a fan of corruption and increased crime, Charles? - Victor Ganata

Regardless of her unusual politics, Alaska's resources need to be tapped/drilled/exploited immediately. That is my main goal for her stage time. - Morgan Warstler

@LePage I have to say I've never heard anyone question how Obama could afford to go to Harvard. A new one on me, and a new low. You should be working for McCain's campaign. They need all the bs charges they can get. - Rick Powell

Wait, Calacanis is a Republican - Sweyn Venderbush from twhirl

Akiva Moskovitz has given the strong impression that he supports the McCain/Palin ticket over Obama/Biden, primarily because he shares the neoconservative agenda up and down. Without a shadow of a doubt he is extremely emotional about Israel, and he throws around the anti-Israel and antisemitism smear with abandon whenever the neoconservative agenda is challenged (including the Iraq... more... - Sean McBride

Akiva Moskovitz: "Everyone freaks out if Bush threatens an attack on another country but when Ahmadinejad regularly talks about wiping another country off the face of the Earth, all I ever hear from those same critics is a lot of silence." We get the picture about the agenda here. The good news is that the Bush 43 administration finally figured out that an American war against Iran would be a worse catastrophe for the American interest than even the Iraq War. - Sean McBride

Sarah Palin says she's for less government? But then she adds: if you have a disadvantaged child, like she does, then she is there for you. What does that mean? Money, government programs. It's the same hypocrisy from the Republican leaders for years now. Reagan claimed to cut government: it grew. GW, same thing, on steroids. You can't help but assume when they say less government, it means, unless I can spend tons of the people's money to help my friends and business partners. - brad

Jason -- I haven't seen any "arguments" from Akiva Moskovitz on issues relating to Mideast politics and religion (especially Judaism and religious Zionism) -- just emotional and irrational responses that are standard fare for neoconservatives. Regarding Iran: apparently the American government opposes an American or Israeli attack on Iran for reasons of economic self-interest. We are already on the verge of a global financial collapse without instigating violent chaos in the Middle East. - Sean McBride

why are people never called anti-Semitic when they hate on Arabs? - Victor Ganata

Global Secure Systems has said that a Russian's firm's use of the latest NVidia graphics cards to accelerate WiFi ‘password recovery' times by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent proves that WiFi's WPA and WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wireless data. David Hobson, managing director of GSS, claimed that companies can no longer view standards-based WiFi transmission as sufficiently secure against eavesdropping to be used with impunity. He also said that the use of VPNs is arguably now mandatory for companies wanting to comply with the Data Protection Act - Leo Laporte

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This is probably a stupid question, but why don't WiFi spots just block traffic to those individuals, not already connected, who try too many times to guess a connection's WPA key? And then alert the administrator that it's time to randomize the password again? - midnightgolfer

Of course they don't say how a 100x speed-up would make WPA breakable. Nor why the WPA encryptioin would be vulnerable but not the VPN encryption. I guess they are selling VPN solutions? - H Durer from twhirl

Okay, so they are still collecting packets out of the air, and so they still need to collect a huge amount of packets. So systems with more users / traffic, are more vulnerable, as they have more packets 'flying around.' How does using graphics processors make more packets? It doesn't, you still have to collect enough packets, so that they can be analyzed. New method only speeds up the analysis, not the packet collection. - midnightgolfer

was it ever truly viable, or simp[y acceptable at relative snapshots in time? - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Does that appy to all tandards like wireless standards, like WiMax and LTE? - Michael Fidler from twhirl

let's see who he has in mind for Treasury Secretary and how long before Hank really feels the heat/wrath - David Blumenstein from twhirl

He is moving along with transition plans, but it's too soon to announce cabinet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008... - Paul Rodriguez

Nah, that'd look arrogant... - Leon Green

Not a chance. It's a great middle-ground for SOME people, but not for me. I'll keep my Treo, thanks. - Bradley McSpinn

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As soon as it's released here (f** you orange), I'm gonna buy one. Here 3G coverage is perfect and I want the GPS. It's an horrible shame that it doesn't have video calling. - Jean Berniolles

Nope. Got my Unlocked Curve on T-mobile and my 30gig iPod...if anything, the new apps store and 2.0 firmware make me want to get an iPod Touch but I'm passing on the iPhone.... - Live4Emma (L4S)

At some point, probably - but for now, I adore my Treo... No reason to change horses when the one you're on is running really well. - Lucretia Pruitt

Treo massive stand up! Ok...so more like Treo Tiny Sub Culture, but whatever. - Bradley McSpinn

I like my Razor just fine! - Dieoxide

Got one. First time user, so really enjoying it. Better than any phone I've had before. It reminds me of that feeling I had with the original Palm device. Something mind changing about how you think about going about things. - John Collis

I'm in BFE so there's not even a chance I'll see one for a long long time, plus I like my blackberry for now. - Garrett

Not yet, I want to see the Omnia - Mo Kargas

As a former Treo owner I have to ask why?? Have you used the iPhone? There is no comparison. Trust me, I'm being honest, and I work for Microsoft. Well done Apple. - Ryan

Ryan - Two things, for me. First off, AT&T's service is HORRIBLE, here. Second, there are 3rd party applications for my Treo that I simply can't get for the iPhone. Oh, make it 3 things - I hold great value in mashable keys. I've used the iPhone's keyboard, and to say I dislike it would be a massive understatement. - Bradley McSpinn

I want one but will not get one i don't think still to expensive waiting for iphone Version 3 - Cecil Sandus

I'm going to get an iPod Touch so I can run the apps .. that's more exciting to me then 3G or GPS ... voice dialing would be much more useful for me at this moment - John Blanton from twhirl

not at this time. if i was a social media "expert", then i might see the need to buy into the frenzy, but reality is that I like it, but don't need it right now. tech lust is the modern version of sports. keep 'em distracted and you can get away with anything ;^) - Chris

Nah, I've never had good experiences with GSM service around here, and my Ocean has all the features I want, so I'm good. - Richard Lawler from twhirl

I already bought mine.. and had to already return it for repairs. Broken motion sensor! - Teppo Kotirinta

I would love to hget one but all my lcal stores are out and they dont know when they will get more in ... 8( I live in a little town and one store only got 3 phones.. - John Spencer from twhirl

Nope! I guess that means someone else will have to buy two. :-) - Richard Klein

Yep, once all the furore has died down and they're everywhere. 'Til then, I'll use my 'classic' iPhone :) - Brad Brooks

Not until a working haptic solution is in place - http://code.google.com/p... AND AT&T is not the service provider. I may have to wait a fair bit. :) - David Blumenstein from twhirl

I got one. I was so gonna hold out. I'm a total fan boy. I admit that now. - Mike

The thought of giving AT&T money makes me sick. - Steven (optionshiftk)

Can't shell out the bucks for the iPhone. I am looking at getting a Treo or Centro though. - Mark

I think I will stick with my blackberry for a while. - Matt from twhirl

Crackberry 8830 Curve is better than iPhone -- just ask MG Siegler! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe

I'll buy an iPhone when they pry my Blackberry from my cold, dead hands. - Jeff Jones

got it this morning. no wait, no line, no problems - for $199 it's unbeatable - Nathan Chase

Got one last night, long line even at 8:30 p.m.! It's a great phone but power management could be easier. Check out my thoughts on it : lonseidman.com/?q=node/281/ - Lon Seidman

no, the price plans in new zealand are insane... and my wife won't let me. - sergiooo

In HK also it's not so interesting...you must pay a prepayment (about 350$) which will be rebated in 2 years and you must pay 55$/month... - Jean-François Amadei from twhirl

Still trying to decide. My Dash has been having issues and T-Mobile gave me a hard time about fixing the problem. So it is about time for a new phone. My big concern is the battery. Lots of reports of the iPhone not making it through the day. - David Z

It takes 10 days to switch from sfr to orange so I can keep my phone number. Anyway, 3g iPhone meets my expectations but the battery is a concern, lack of copy-paste function as well. - yvons

I'm using TweetDeck too and it's quite nice. Not sure it's the best ever, but it certainly is sweet. - Robert Scoble

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Groups and Search are really useful to me, to filter the stream and keep an eye on important stuff I don't wanna miss - Sebastian Küpers

I think integrating URL-shortening into the app would really seal the deal - Kevin Bondelli

it would be nice if it could incorporate a friendfeed panel as well - David Blumenstein from twhirl

TweetDeck's growth since my post on Friday has been nothing short of dramatic. I love seeing the enthusiasm. - Louis Gray

TweetDeck is fantastic! Really nice UI, Groups & Search are both powerful stuff; plus the whole "offline" fail whale contingency plan! - Susan Beebe

oohh, a friendfeed panel. That's a great idea. - Kevin Bondelli

The one thing I like about TweetDeck is I'm actually seeing some traffic to my blog from it because of the Summize integration. Still waiting for Twhirl to integrate Summize though and then TweetDeck won't need to be used. - Jesse Stay

I agree with David, a friendfeed panel (with rooms support) would be killer. - Howard Keziah

He's like a fireball on fire. - Outsanity

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Gary is the most brilliant marketer on the Internet. Bar none. For people who don't know who he is, he does the http://www.winelibrary.tv -- he's also a big crowd draw. We had 500 people in DC last week at least in part because of him. - Robert Scoble

Gary is a fun guy who really gets the space. I love his wine shows and man does he know how to self-promote. - Jeff Jones

I should say he's a brilliant marketer because he doesn't try to push his product. He also knows his wine and gets respect at every winery he walks into (I know, I followed him around for a day while he went wine tasting). Of course, he has a store that sells $50 million a year. - Robert Scoble

He's brilliant. Great show. Great recognition of the tools to market his wares. Great Energy. Love him! - George Smith

i really like gary... he knos his stuff and uses it for his and everybodys benefit - Edgar Guzman

He's entertaining and always positive. - Andrew Smith

"You have to try wines -- and you have to try them with the people you love." That's a one-breath explanation of everything you'd ever need to know about wine. Or life, for that matter. - Chris Baskind

Great guy! He's funny and knows how to get people's attention! And very good at interacting with people, especially with your chat ;) - Michael Forian

he's got that goofy but charming face - Tyler Gillies

he is one of the raddest guys on the internet! THUNDER! - Bryan Garcia

Love Gary. Regardless of whether you like him or not, he will make you want to drink wine and get a little more out of it than you normally might. - Vincent Guerrero

I re-watched the first episode of his show the other night. His material, which was good then, just gets better and better. - todddoubleu

He is awesome! I love listening to him, your not greedy BTW. ;) - joey@jwvmods.com

he embodies thunder. that is all. - Andrew Feinberg

What a coincidence, I'm catching up on old WLTV episodes I missed. Glad he answered my Q about Caduceus. - Nate Prouty

Gary: inspirational - I LOVE the "I Suck" clip. Passionate. He' s a great model for what you can do online. And he answers his email. Legit. Good to see...btw, where's the interview you guys did? - j sven

Gary vaynerchuk really is a hero and an inspiration to all. Wherever he goes he brings life and exitement. Proud to have virtually met him and learn from him everyday - matt Harris

Gary is on top of his game. I like that he takes so much time to interact with anyone who pays attention to what he does. He does a great job marketing himself/WL/WLTV. - Ruben

He definitely has rock star quality. Would love to drink with him. Rock on Gary! - Larry Kless from twhirl

Gary is just awesome. He is genuine, and loving. Takes time to chat with his fans. I had a nice chat with him a few weeks ago on AIM. Then on Memorial Day, I come to my computer and he left me a message saying, "Happy Memorial Day!" Wasn't expecting that. Great guy! - Dennis Jackson from twhirl

Gary is one of THE nicest, most genuine, most dynamic people I've ever had the privilege to meet. An amazing guy, who makes this world a better place every day. The world needs more Gary Vaynerchuks! - Chris Jernigan

All of the above. I've already worn thru my wristband. Most notably, no haterz even bother with this thread... - Andy Sternberg

He knows his stuff and it shows. He's not smoke and mirrors - Ardell DellaLoggia

He's a hoot. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Overrated...or at least over-exposed. - Mike Flynn

Gary is a pure inspiration - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Like others have said, great guy, stumbled on to WLTV in January. Wish I could have caught the stream live while he was there with you, the recording was fun to watch. - Scott Ericson

I don't even drink much wine, but I love his show. He's just got an amazing energy to him. - Erik Jonasson

Lots of energy, I wonder if he's like we know only in his videos, or all the time... - Oli Kenobi

i like Gary alot, sort of curious what prompted/motivated the question? - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Gary made me realize that Chris, for all the attention and advice he gives the world, is greedy. (Sorry, I just couldn't resist). Of course, by the same token, I am even more greedy (but working on it). Some of the things Gary says jusst ring true, and make you think. He made me try this wonderful Virgil's Root Beer after all. - Jay Wiegmann

I think you get the idea, he has a lot of energy, he's positive, he's well liked, he has his priorities straight. I like him because he's starving for the bleeding edge in tech, he loves his Twitter, and he likes to know a little bit about everything. - Mike Lewis

I think he is acting too egotistical for his age. He needs to not be so over confident just because he has had some good luck. That can change in just a split second! When he isn't expounding like a know it all I find him interesting and entertaining and his descriptions of wines are superb! - Patricia Hale

Are you thinking of him for Gnomedex? - Francine Hardaway

Awesome guy. Really knows his stuff and is dedicated to his fans. I look forward to hopefully meeting him one day. He is definitely a true inspiration to young entrepreneurs everywhere. - Lance Hill

lilve blogging and streaming of conferences are killing them, you get to see the "wizard" and realize that wit the cost of travel .... - David Blumenstein from twhirl

i have never had the skill sets to live blog events very well. I prefer to absorb the information, chew on it, then wrap my perspective around it and write a blog post after it has ran through the lens that i care to share it through. - Rodney Rumford

I dont think live streaming is killing conferences, buy it will certainly change them. Most of the conferences I connect to through remotely aren't ones I would have gone to anyways. So, I am able to interact and even promote the conference. I think live streaming / blogging is the best promotion any conference could get - and should pay to have people come and do it for them. - Tony

Good luck sir. That is a bold statement. - Adam Teece from twhirl

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Good idea. Twitter has lost a lot of momentum lately. It's still good for "microblogging", but it's missing a solid feeling of discussion. That's where FF stands out -- centralizing the conversation. - Jeff Beckham

Way to go Jason. My choice too. I'll read the conclusions you'll draw on that move of yours :-) - Eric Sausse

Not a bad idea, I've found SocialThing and ping.fm have helped expand my horizon's from Twitter - David Sky

This is a smart idea. hard to focus on FF while on Twitter. (Plus Twitter will probably crash 10 times during the next week). Plus FF has a bunch of new features to toy with. I'm tempted. - phil baumann

way to go Jason, reference Robert Heinlein and NOW you are the VICEROY!! - David Blumenstein from twhirl

I really prefer twitter over friendfeed, but good luck nontheless - Mike Martin

does that include not responding to twitters via FF? - Pokai

Hey I was wondering how long it would take to get you and Steve Gillmor using FF...wow, you both must have drank the same koolaid this week! - Susan Beebe

I think it is an interesting experiment. What would happen if you just posted and shared stuff using FriendFeed? What could a big hitter do for FriendFeed by doing just this? Keep going Jason, you tend to be a bit of a maverick and really spice things up (which I like). - Paul Jacobson

Yes, I will be checking off the "send to twitter" in FriendFeed. However, 99% of activity will be FF not twitter this week. - Jason Calacanis

You didn't check it off for that one. Considering you just sent a Tweet to yourself... - Tyler (Chacha) from twhirl

Where is the "send to twitter" feature? That would be really helpful... - Marc Vermut from twhirl

Its on the website, you are using Twhirl which doesn't use the feature - Tyler (Chacha) from twhirl

Chacha, you can send to twitter from friendfeed when you reply to a comment, but not when doing a new post. Unless I have missed that option. - Daniel Robitaille

You are correct Daniel :) But the feature to send a Tweet when replying to a comment is only found on the website - Tyler (Chacha) from twhirl

I'm curious to see how long until FriendFeed starts to get as glitchy as Twitter myself. - J T. Ramsay

I just got a glitch myself. Someone comment on a Tweet, I commented back, and now both comments arn't there - Tyler (Chacha) from twhirl

Looking forward to this. Jason, interested to see the results of your efforts, and feel free to reach out to those of us who have been living here for nine months now. Taurus and Fondue will love you better for it. - Louis Gray

Nice to see more of you here. :) - Daniel Schildt

make sure you join some groups/rooms also: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... and http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Anthony Farrior

Where do most of your comments flow through these days? - l0ckergn0me

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I don't think it has anything to do with the number of contacts. I have less than 50 (I think) -- it's just been slow as molasses lately. Not *down* per se, but slooooooow. - Hillary Hartley

Mostly I post here. I like the community at pownce for posting my photos there and the larger size photos and especially being able to post and share mp3s. It's just that I can't get my page to load 90% of the time over the past week. Not sure why. - Thomas Hawk

I have like two contacts and I already find it very slow - Rutger Blom from Alert Thingy

It just returns a blank screen over and over again, not sure what I'm doing wrong. - Thomas Hawk

I quit using Pownce because of this same reason. I miss it too... :( - Tad from fftogo

It's not your # of contacts, it's Pownce, and it's been happening for the better part of a month and a half now. Between blank white pages that say they are completely loaded, and messages that disappear after you send them, it's been mostly unusable. - cmiper

I hope I dont get demoted to fan status :) - Frankie Warren from fftogo

Don't use Pownce at all - Shey, Jamaican of FF

i thought POWNCE was dead, much like flogging a dead horse, you know how like PLURK and PLAXO willl become - David Blumenstein from twhirl

I also find Pownce's performance to be unacceptable lately. I can't even check comments over there without a seriously long delay. - Bwana ☠

@David - Why do you think Plaxo will go that way? I personally think Pownce is ok, Plurk is terrible and I've just started using Plaxo and it seems ok. Keeps my address book & calendar synced between Outlook, gmail, etc. - Bob

pownce has been slow recently, but w/ most people off it has sped up. I still use it to share media, and speak in greater then 140 chars. In someways it's best community network I've ever been on. - clarke thomas

I wouldn't mind pownce being slow, it just doesn't do me any good when it loads a completely blank page. I'd rather wait 5 minutes than have it time out and serve me up a blank page of nothingness. I could go and do something else while it loads. - Thomas Hawk

this is a common occurrence that the pownce crew has acknowledged http://blog.pownce.com/2008... It has improved a bit but still aggravating. They have said that they are rebuilding some things to fix this problem but it seems to me like all these microblog services have a curse - Zach Chisholm

FriendFeed only...no need for Pownce - Susan Beebe

Really, really, really unreliable. - Mack D. Male

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I have already left for Plurk. I use Feedtweeter to send all my Plurks to twitter. - Jon

it isn't going to be a unreliable issue, it'll be a 'reliable other thing' (like friendfeed) issue. when you are certain that enough of 'the conversation' has moved away, and we can get away without twitter, we'll leave. i'm willing to wager it's already happening. the question i ponder is: can twitter regain its footing, or have they permanently lost it? i hope the money/team can make enough impact fast enough... - Jeremy Toeman

Plurk will have problems soon, too. They're already showing. - Hao Chen

The thing that bugs me is that it took some time to build an audience on Twitter. I don't want to give that up by hopping to another service. Although if everyone I Twittered with came over to FriendFeed, I'd jump. Right now it's about 33% - Rafe Needleman

I hear you, Rafe. As it is right now, I'm using both FF and Twitter, but if they have another major outage, I think a bunch more people will switch. Still, because FF is promiscuous (it reads my Twitter feed) there's no loss to continue to use Twitter while it remains useful. - David Sifry from twhirl

In your case, I'm quite sure your audience will follow you wherever you go - Bwana ☠

Rafe - same for me. I don't want to move to another app and rebuild my community. So, I guess i'll have to suffer through the Twitter growing pains. - Jim Turner

FF is a much better place for conversations Rafe. I suspect that someone like you, a prominent tech journalist, would build up an audience here just as large as your audience at Twitter. For what it's worth I haven't been on FF all that long and I've got almost as many people following me here (2,797) as I've got following me at Twitter now (3,177). The audience is growing faster over here than there as well. - Thomas Hawk

but you are thomas hawk. people follow you, - excalipoor

Bwana & Thomas are right, it won't be a problem to get audience here, You might like it even more here - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Twitter is no where near dead yet. My personal theory is they didn't expect loads of people choosing to massive amounts of others. In the past week, I've had several people with absurd numbers of follows (one with 60k, one with 90k) - that's insane. Twitter has hired some top talent to address these issues and got new rounds of funding to assist. Personally I still love twitter and find it a different and useful complement to Friendfeed. - Doug Brooks

I'm on it less than before, but use Twitter as a gateway to more reliable socnets like FriendFeed, where we can have longer discussions. The community on Twitter still merits having an account there. Can we be hopeful that now that they got another round of funding, they'll FINALLY find ways to make it more reliable? - Cathryn Hrudicka

FriendFeed is certainly a very reliable Twitter client, I'm finding. It's nice to get everything that everybody's doing -- not just what they tweet -- inside a feed as well. - Jared Smith

Twitter peaked during the early primaries, it was an incredible learning and connecting tool. It's not doing anything for me anymore. So have I moved on? Not exactly, because nothing has come along to replace it. FF is very different, and most of the people I connected with on Twitter aren't here. I've always said it's about the people. Nothing else. - Dave Winer

Compared to mobile carriers and cable companies, Twitter does quite well. It's free and works most of the time. I'm sure things will get better given all the $$$ they've raised recently. - Mike Reynolds

As long as it takes for FriendFeed to handle SMS posting. - Rubin Sfadj

I am getting there. - Steve Rubel

As wonky as Twitter is, I'm still preferring it to Plurk. FF is gaining steam with me, but it still seems more static to me somehow. Haven't pulled enough people into my circle here yet, I suppose. - abacab from twhirl

unreliable? I would say unpopular ;) I would leave twitter If I could follow ALL my friends and MORE interesting people in other place :) - Lora Lufark

still on twitter. Not sure when I will move out. - Thejesh GN

Excellent, a Twhinge (Twitter + whinge) thread! In all seriousness... I posted about this situation at Broadcasting Brain today. I am feeling fed up and having the Reply function on the Twitter Web app disabled doesn't help at all. - Mark Dykeman

I prefer Plurk's timeline and threaded comments, but the community doesn't seem to be present quite yet. Once the community exists, I'd be happy to switch. But something like FF will keep me happy in the meantime. - Jason Ziglar

Until Plurk gets more users I'm sticking with Twitter. - Oli from the-iBlog from fftogo

excalipoor, but he is Rafe Needleman, an influential and popular online tech journalist. People will follow him wherever he goes as well. - Thomas Hawk

Have you given it up? Me neither. That's 'cause we forget how much it sux when its working right. - shelisrael1

There have been plenty of opportunities for people to move off Twitter to clones. Since it hasn't happened yet, primarily because it is hard to bring your community with you, I don't expect it to happen ever. - Bob Ngu

Give up? I only just started - Phil Whelan

How expensive does gas have to get before people like me give up driving cars totally? :-) - Bassam Islam from twhirl

Twitter indeed has its limitations. It is NOT a replacement for the fluidity of IRC, it is not viable as a live conference tool, at so many junctures it introduces latency, this is all before we touch upon its infrastructure, reliability, and ability to scale. Perhaps Bezos' infusion of cash will see to thoee last points - David Blumenstein from twhirl

For me the thing the twitter offers is the ability to sms info quickly to a bunch of people. Events like Siggraph twitting about the next events or the results of events as they happen to people at the shows. Imagine if the SF Giants twittered player info at their games or things like that. I do agree that it's horrible for conversation, but one-way info is a perfect use for it. - Doug Brooks

i will never give up on you rafe - Allen Stern

Fortunately it's not too hard for me to move over here. Most of my (and yours, I'd argue) followers on Twitter are ghosts (long gone) or following for reasons other than shear interest. Twitter is still useful for ephemeral exchanges and generally telling the world how undercaffeinated I am. But for interesting links/thoughts and level of conversation this is where I'm now planting my flag. - Jim Stanger

totally agree with Jim Stanger - Giovanni De Stefano

I like FriendFeed more every day. But I miss Twitter. - Rafe Needleman

I don't rely on it for communication. To me it's like graffiti on a wall. I'll keep reading it, but if they repaint the wall, c'est la vie. - Patrick Beard

As long as there is a backup, like FriendFeed, I think Twitter can go out regularly... for me, this works. For all the good Twitter-based projects or business models, Twitter is running out of charm.... - shanebe

5 days continuous ... maybe. People have built huge followings. They're not abandoning them. - Charlie Anzman

New money and new people coming in to Twitter. Users have been through all of this and stayed so far...they will wait it out. Twitter will and must fix the architecture once and for all and conclude on a viable business model and be off to the races. I'm as sick of the flying whale as anyone else but inexplicably I haven't left...and I don't think I will. - Paul Marshall

Once the A-listers leave Twitter, it's over. - Dossy Shiobara

We're all getting tired of the hit/miss feature set and repeated, unplanned downtimes. Twitter management of their app is beyond weak, it's moved over to an untenable business and is completely unreliable at this point. I do think they are taking active steps to rectify the instability of their current app / db environments, but it may be too little, too late. - Susan Beebe

you lot have very short memories - ebay, amazon, google, world of Warcraft all had issues when they hit viral explosive growth - icq,hotmail - I could go on and on. The fact that there is this much heat about it shows that it will get through the hurdles and move on. - Ed Dale

a full week downtime 24/7 - Chris Harris

It's unreliable? Seems to break down often enough to be broken down reliably. - Jim Turner

how unreliable is unreliable is the real question - Loic Le Meur

Having been around the internet block a number of times...crap happens to the best of them at the worst of times - Renee Hendricks

Delta runs linux as well on their TV systems. - LiquidLag

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that explains their defection to Star Alliance and the rotten food they serve - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Same with Virgin: http://tinyurl.com/27f3zz - Benson Miller

As does Frontier - Deepak Singh

much better color scheme.. i had hate yellow colors all over!.. - Jigar Mehta

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the layout is tighter, keeping a noticeable perimeter around the content - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Plays nice with CBS, too. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Looks very crisp and refreshing. - Vic Podcaster

Clean, well laid out, easy to read. Couldn't ask for much more. - Tsega Dinka

yes, nice to end the reign of the saturated yellow. - edythe

Much better - Charlie Anzman

why not have breakfast AT the Apple Store, they're open 24/7 - makes sense that they should :) - David Blumenstein from twhirl

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Are they REALLY open 24/7? - Shelly Weiss

Yes, 24/7/, 365. Damn, I'm only a few blocks away. I'd meet you there but I'm heading out of the city for a few hours. The MOMA is pretty close by if you're looking to be indoors afterwards. - Dave Stanley

We're at the Apple store now. Lots of fun and free Internet for FriendFeeding. :-) - Robert Scoble

now see im confused - why did orli and steve "like" this? you are having breakfast - big deal :) (nothing against you, just trying to understand why anyone would "like" this - it dilutes the "like" - Allen Stern

I like things that I want to save for myself. Maybe they wanted to come to meet me? Or, maybe they wanted to tell their friends that there's a meetup happening. I like stuff like this too for both of these reasons. - Robert Scoble

Oh, and if people didn't like things like these no one would be on Twitter. At least 57% of the messages on Twitter are insipid little things about people's lives like this one. - Robert Scoble

thanks for the explanation - Allen Stern

If you don't agree with your friend's like, you can always hide it. And for the record, I just "liked" this out of spite. - Mark Trapp

Allen, for me, I "like" so I can find it later when it vanishes. And I follow what? 1/100th of what Robert is following. ;) - Cyndy

Nothing beats a fresh bagel breakfast at 3AM in NYC. - Bernie Goldbach

Can you eat/drink genius at the genius bar? Seems logical. - Andrew Feinberg

Andrew, yeah, but they only serve bar food like intel chips and mozzarella sticks. - Mark Trapp

how long are you all going to be there? - David Blumenstein from twhirl

*Pops in here without context* You folks "Like" things here so that you can't see past your last 300 likes? Scoble, isn't the "Like things to come back to it" line of thought useless with the 300 Likes limit? - Yuvi

We are in Times Square now. Come join us. - Robert Scoble

make sure to get a shot looking up from the elevator in the Apple store. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

Yuvi, it's probably a little different for Scoble, but for us mere mortals following less than 1,000 people, liking something to save for later isn't a long term solution: that's what bookmarks are for. But let's say I'm tied-up right now, and I see an interesting discussion developing on Friendfeed. I can "like" it for easy access to it in a few minutes/hours/forthours, which doesn't intrude on the 11-page limit. - Mark Trapp

@Mark: Point taken. I'm also trying to make as much noise(?) as possible so that this issue gets fixed. - Yuvi

You are awake in my part of the day at last. - Francine Hardaway

just spite liked - Tyler Gillies

I used to work (and live) in NYC, and was on my way shortly into the city on 9-11. Big Apple has some nice features and attractions but I prefer Maine. - Alex Hammer

sushi rec for you: ushi wakamaru (136 west houston street) - colin nagy

I love NYC. Please take me with you. :) - Daynah

may i ask what will this do? - Outsanity

http://www.color.org/version... - l0ckergn0me

ah ok. i see what it did. thanks for the heads up. - Outsanity

Why isn't this default? - Eric Hamilton

Why isn't this set by default? - Rich

Changed mine over, and also set 'gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting' to TRUE in the hope of Safari style font rendering :-P - CannonGod

Jake, I'm trying that as well but I honestly can't tell a difference. Is everything suddenly softer? Or are my eyes going bad? - Akiva Moskovitz

thanks for the tip! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Hm. What was formerly quite blue is now more of a purple. - Akiva Moskovitz

now you shall be the viceroy :) - David Blumenstein from twhirl

Akiva: the same happened to me. Do you use a custom monitor profile? I had to set gfx.color_management.display_profile to the path to my color profile, e.g. /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/My-Dell-2407-Profile (on a Mac). Firefox is supposed to use this profile automatically but didn't do it on my machine. - Ole Begemann

Oh, this might explain why my whites turned all yellow. - Andrea Sturm from Alert Thingy

I don't know what this did, but it made the pic look normal, so I will assume it was A Good Thing(TM) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Ole, thanks for the tip. I'll have to look into it. It works great on my laptop but not my desktop machine. - Akiva Moskovitz

Chris - serious here! have you tried about:about (FF3 easter egg) - DC Crowley from twhirl

duh! sorry I mean about:robots - DC Crowley from twhirl

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