This Week in Tech

This Week in Tech (often called this WEEK in TECH, TWiT, or the TWiTcast, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers or ROTSS) is a weekly podcast (Internet radio show) hosted by several former hosts and cast members of the TechTV television program The Screen Savers (now Attack of the Show). Regular hosts include Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, Kevin Rose, Roger Chang, David Prager, and Steve Gibson. Occasional hosts include Yoshi DeHerrera and Robert Heron, and special guests have included Jessica Corbin, Jenn Cutter, Dan Huard, Doug Kaye, Alex Lindsay, Amber MacArthur, Roger McGuinn, Sarah Norton, Chris Pirillo, Arlo Rose, Sal Soghoian, Jon van Tetzner, Andy Walker, Bob Young, and Mike Lazazzera.

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In the first few episodes, the hosts talked about doing video chats through iChat and releasing both audio and video versions of the show. No mention of this idea was made again until episode 16, when Kevin Rose suggested that the Revision3 Studios camera crew could produce the video version.

Related Topics:
IChat - Revision3 Studios

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Laporte announced in episode 3 that the show will always be free, and will never include advertising. Listeners can optionally "subscribe" via Paypal, at a cost of $2 per month or $20 per year, or give a one-time donation. These funds have been used to purchase radio-quality microphones and digital audio-recording devices for the hosts.

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In episode 4, Yoshi announced that he is soon to be married, and is expecting a child. In episode 6, he announced that the child will be a boy.

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Also in episode 4, Rose announced that he would be leaving G4 to focus on his two Internet videozines, thebroken and Systm. He has since created Revision3 Studios to carry out the production of these two series.

Related Topics:
Internet - Videozine - Revision3 Studios

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Episode 9, which was supposed to have been released on 2005-06-13, was released 6 days late, due to technical issues and Laporte's busy schedule. This caused one subscribing listener to write to Laporte and complain. Leo responded with a post on the This Week in Tech website, saying that the podcast is supposed to be for fun, and that he puts a lot of work into editing the show. Leo released two versions of episode 9, edited and unedited, so that listeners could hear the difference for themselves.

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In an early podcast, the faithful listeners of This Week in Tech were dubbed "the TWiT army" (possibly a joking reference to the Unscrewed Army), and have been referred to as such ever since.

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