TWiT Livelier

TWiT Live inches closer and closer to reality. The lights are in (thanks to Pat Grosswendt of Litepanels.com). A new Tricaster should arrive tomorrow. We'll be setting cameras this week and working on the network that will allow us to show screens and callers. We've already started broadcasting live on the Internet from 11a-4p Pacific, 2-7p Eastern, 1800-2300 UTC every day except Monday and Friday. You'll see the live video on the Leoville front page, on the Tech Guy site, and TWiTLive.tv. For now, it's mostly me recording the week's podcasts, but we'll add more content bit by bit, including call-ins, interviews, and new shows. Patrick and Dvorak are skeptical, but I think I'll be able to do 25 hours of fresh, interesting, programming each week. Or die trying! For those of you who saw the hour long chat with Scott Bourne about his bird photography last Wednesday, that's exactly what I hope to do with TWiT Live. It's just a matter of getting people into my studio in Petaluma, or via Skype video. I'm confident that between viewer calls and the interesting people I can lure up, we'll have a lot of great stuff. For example, Justine is coming in this Wednesday for MacBreak Weekly and I hope to spend more time with her afterward. Don't worry if you can't see all the live stuff. I plan to offer recordings of the best of these impromptu sessions on Stickam as Flash plus create a high-quality H.264 "Best of TWiT Live" podcast which you can subscribe to in iTunes or Apple TV. The Scott session is a perfect example of that. I hope I can do several like that a week. We may also run them during non-live hours. Eventually I want to go 24-hours with TWiT Live, between me, re-runs, and with any luck, a few additional live on camera hosts. I see TWiT Live as a homegrown CNBC for Geeks within three years.