Live now: This Week In Tech with John C. Dvorak... - TWiT Conversations

Sounds like a good show. Dvorak is always great, and we don't hear enough of Om Malik. - Eric Geller

Never miss a show - Ben

Any word on the rumor of a new Canon 5D Mark II coming out with a touch screen and dual card slots? - Craig Shipp

We love you Kirk! - Ben

hi every things workin now - daveccorey

First time i'm watching live - does Dvorak always smile? (sounds grumpy on Audio!) - Shriansh Shrivastava

Looks like Best Buy is trying to get a handle on their Twelpforce Tweet .@twelpforce reminder to twelpforce members to keep tweets to answering questions not soliciting them via @Agent10565 What does the panel think about Best Buy and customer service by Twitter? - Ed Coye

Do they have Wings already? - Johnny

yes - Dean V. White

"I just pointed to our contract with Apple" - Johnny

Sharp Introduces 2nd Edition of AQUOS DX Series with Built-In Blu-ray Disc Recorder http://www.japancorp.net/Article... - pcguru626

Well... Did they reject it? It was approved then pulled. Semantics I know but still... - Johnny

Google was testing what they can get away with - Johnny

"Apple is conspiring with Google to force the FCC to “force” Apple to, regrettably, open the door to VoIP and the Universal Inbox." -- Steve Gillmor, http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

AT&T's explanation was convoluted. I thought Apple's explanation was clear. (even if you don't believe it) - Myron Jones

Isn't that what all big companies slogans are? "Don't get caught" - Chris Jones

Google should block safari in all it's searches, just to see what happens! - Danny Jones

Android is sort of like Linux. Will it take off? Dvorak cites precedence, but not sure it applies. - Perry Lund

Is John writing off Palm at this point? - Ken Sheppardson

John is overreaching a lot. - Myron Jones

Android is Linux. I think it it's just like in the computer world. It's still geeky to run Linux even though I know plenty of non-tech people that do. - Chris Jones

Palm webOS is also Linux. - Ken Sheppardson

Apple has no reason to loosen up on their app store. If other phones want app stores, they should build them. There are lots of choices out there! - Myron Jones

I'm not listening, but John wrote off Palm long ago. He's an Android fan, if given the choice between all smartphone OS's out there. - JCunwired

Safari competes with chrome so google should block safari - Danny Jones

WebOS is linux too. - JCunwired

Apple need to make the app store better just for PR reason - Dean V. White

Um, I thought Bing gained market share while Google lost last quarter? - Patrick Sullivan

I'd really like someone to explain to me how Apple can remain healthy as an "underdog" in the PC vs Mac fight, with a minority market share, yet no phone manufacturer can possibly survive unless they "kill" the iPhone. - Ken Sheppardson

I agree they should improve the app store, but they need not sell any and everything anymore than walmart or target sells any and everything... - Myron Jones

I think John needs several hoop earrings in that left ear :-D - JCunwired

Patrick: That came up here yesterday. Google stayed basically the same while Bing rose. The data showed that people were just trying out Bing while still mainly using Google. - Chris Jones

"Remember Cuil? Now It’s a Real-Time Search Engine" -- http://mashable.com/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

OK, watching now, I couldn't resist :) - JCunwired

I am actually using Bing right now just to test it. It is actually a pretty good search engine. - Mister IQ

Chris Jones: Oh? Hm could've sworn. And if it raises over two quarters that seems like more then just initial "tring out" to me. - Patrick Sullivan

Ken - good point on Apple-smartphone. What people don't realize is that iPhone is a very small percentage of worldwide smartphones, yet that same argument constantly comes up. Its cool, but not great. I don't get it. - JCunwired

Search for "white shirt" on excite.com and you get nothing but sponsored results. Weird. - Ken Sheppardson

Leo, I could see you three+1 talking about this story: "Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias" http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog... - tollie williams

John, the REAL chat room is now on friendfeed :) - JCunwired

@kshep I haven't been to Excite for years. I am surprised it's still around. - Mister IQ

Not a whole lot of news this week it seems. - Victor De La Torre

So was I, IQ... just started wondering what other search engines are still out there... - Ken Sheppardson

Wow. altavista is still there. So is webcrawler! </memory lane> - JCunwired

Because only big corporation can service the infrastructure behind it... - Johnny

"bauds"? :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Once hidef video is transportable to most households the race for more bandwidth is going to slow. - JCunwired

The entertainment industry... music, theatre, etc... is going to go through a transformation once we have HD to the home and mobile broadcast capability - Ken Sheppardson

If any band can broadcast any concert worldwide in real time... - Ken Sheppardson

John sure knows a lot about crap. LOL! - Myron Jones

95% of TV is crap... depending on the person watching it - Johnny

I'm sure that Fred kid is bringing in a decent income from his crap. - Phil Maxwell

But the "low quality" audio of today blows away the quality of what mainstream users had 20 years ago. Cassettes? 8-track? - Ken Sheppardson

5 megapixel LOLcats - Johnny

3D LOLcats - Ken Sheppardson

Second Life LOLcats? - Johnny

Tricorders - Myron Jones

Isn't is still just based on communication? - Johnny

90% of my online communication is text based on FriendFeed - Johnny

with higher speed it does mean more access for media with out a lot of the middlemen and also accurate tracking of what is watched or listened to. Joss Whedon being able to put out a show without have to go through the standard channels has a lot of possibilities. - Dean V. White

TWIT 3D? - Danny Jones

No, Microsoft figured out that their code didn't have to be as clean as it once was. That's all increase in processing speed and memory did. - JCunwired

Yeah right. It'll end up being about 1mbps to your laptop. - Chris Jones

That means i can join the mile high club all on my own! - Danny Jones

The ability to flip a switch on your glasses and broadcast exactly what you're seeing to anybody else on the planet who wants to watch... in 3D and HD - Ken Sheppardson

Kinda scary Ken :) - JCunwired

Would redefine "news" yet again - Ken Sheppardson

Health care... education... - Ken Sheppardson

Leo, you need Seat Fillers like at the Oscars - Johnny

Instead of tweets we could veet. Vidder. - JCunwired

Squarespace testimonial fail ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Yeah... extending the "augmented reality" concept beyond just projecting Yelp reviews on restaurants around you via the iPhone... - Ken Sheppardson

education could have a huge benefit from increased bandwith - Dean V. White

Education could have a huge benefit from updated software. - Chris Jones

Education could have a huge benefit from people caring about it. - Ken Sheppardson

+1 Ken - JCunwired

Ha ha I agree Ken - Dean V. White

Could not agree more that people should listen to Dave Winer more often. - Eric Florenzano

Blogging is inviting my friends to my house for a dinner party. Social Media is meeting them out for dinner. I much rather go out. - Johnny

Blogging is a broadcast of individual thoughts. Social media is sharing your thoughts with others in relative realtime. - JCunwired

Which is more rewarding (from all sides)? - JCunwired

It's not either/or. - Ken Sheppardson

The fundamental flaw RE blogging is most of us aren't writers. - Ken Sheppardson

Agreed, I enjoy and benefit from both. - JCunwired

And readers... - Johnny

"Lifestreaming" and conversation are going to be much more appealing than blogging to the 99.95% of the general population who aren't tech journalists. - Ken Sheppardson

I had my url going to my friendfeed account. THAT was my blog - Johnny

I might add that conversations about a blog give me more reason to read one than it showing up in my Google Reader. - JCunwired

What's so bad about LIFO? - Eric Florenzano

The whole page-oriented nature of the Web and HTML and "browsers" is confining. We need to blow that up. - Ken Sheppardson

I suppose the number of people who at first think http://www.theonion.com is real news might be evidence supporting John's theory. - Ken Sheppardson

What was the name of the "blog format" John mentioned as an alternative to reverse-chronological layout? - Daniel Drake

Finally! Dvoark hasn't complained nearly enough this episode. - Chris Jones

This Week in Curmudgeoning - Ken Sheppardson

But hasn't that been Microsoft's heal. They have to support it which has killed innovation - Johnny

The "Windows" of the internet is HTML, CSS, Flash, Javascript. It's web standards. Not a great analogy, IMHO - Ken Sheppardson

Johnny: No platform lasts forever but they milked it for more than enough to coast for a very long time off it ;-) - Patrick Sullivan

Orphan Books: Gruel to Text Ratio - Johnny

Why do people give Dvorak grief? Everybody agrees anymore, I like someone who plays devil's advocate. - JCunwired

*snicker*... Leo said inject - Johnny

I think we need to do a complete tech company <=> Leave it to Beaver character mapping - Ken Sheppardson

Cue: Audible ad... :P - Johnny

"Google Books for Dummies" - JCunwired

............... ok... - Johnny

EPIC PLACE NAME - Johnny

I did that with the Harry Potter books. It's a good feeling, to read a book that way. - Chris Jones

Show name - Chicken Eatsa - Ken Sheppardson

Show name - Poker in the Back - Ken Sheppardson

OK, what are they drinking today? I see no wine glasses. Leo's on a drunken roll :) - JCunwired

Wow, this show might take some editing. All this talk about "rim shots", "poker in the back" - Chris Jones

"Dvorak is just flat-out wrong — or at least that was the gist of the conversation I just had with Kundra." -- http://gigaom.com/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

"Skip logic, or conditional branching as it is sometimes known, allows you to change the course that your respondents take through a survey based on answers they give to certain questions. " - Ken Sheppardson

The guy sounds like someone who knows a lot of tech terms to throw around, that's about it. - JCunwired

Kundra was using the term in the context of training/education - Ken Sheppardson

Its a political position. Of course its a battle of words to be at the top of the BS ladder. - JCunwired

Dave Winer should have been US CTO. - JCunwired

"Now, as broadband deployment, and more importantly, err, if you look at the megabits-per-second, err, how much, err, how much information can we get through the pipeline is going to be so important and, as new and new software and techologies are being introduced, what you going to see is huuuge-change from how applications are architected from skip-logic to video and much more human ways of interacting with these applications rather than, err, binary or COBOL ways of interacting.” - Ken Sheppardson

By the way, this dissection of Kundra is exactly why many smart people don't want to be part of government. - Ken Sheppardson

I've read it three times now. Outside of a headache coming on, I've gotten nothing from it. - JCunwired

I think the problem is the phrase "from skip-logic to video". How do you go from one to the other? The same with "much more human ways of interacting with these applications rather than, err, binary or COBOL ways of interacting”. How does one interact in a binary or COBOL way? And how does that relate to actual humans? - Chris Jones

Chris: The context was "but imagine a Universe where you have the Star Trek holodeck where you could literally ask the computer, err, to act or ask questions to get answers..." - Ken Sheppardson

Show Name - Jai Ho ... oh wait... this is post show - Ken Sheppardson

TWiT Meetup at the Novato Costco... heh - Ken Sheppardson

Ahh, it was bourbon. No wonder the liquor/poker remarks :D - JCunwired

Doesn't Cisco have that technology? - Ken Sheppardson

What technology Ken? - JCunwired

The sort of satellite studio video/audio IP tech Leo wants - Ken Sheppardson

They've also got WebEx... which could handle the Skype part, no? Not sure GoToMeeting folks would be too happy... ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

"Only Two Blowhards Per Session" - Johnny

A lot of news was social so it needed to be a social show :) - Johnny

Only if you get Beatles wigs - Johnny

Old time watcher of all of your shows keep it up Leo - milesg

Have a good 'weekend' Leo :) - Johnny

did anybody else catch leo say "liquor in the front and poker in the back".. leo is so dirty, i laughed. perhaps this is an old joke. yeah i'm sheltered. - Landon

"Dvorak Shrugged" was one of the best Twits I've listened to. Great job guys. - Michael Riegger

I think by "skip logic" our nation's CIO was making a generic reference to the Go To statement, which gave rise to billions of lines of legacy spaghetti Cobol code. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he has read http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users... - John Fandl

Om Malik has some good points, but he's not a good fit for the radio show. He talked way too much. - Ben