A bunch of TWiTs

One of the first podcasts I ever listened to was Go Digital (didn’t see that one coming did you) from the BBC with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

The second podcast I discovered was TWiT with Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C Dvorak and others.

I’ve played with other podcasts along the way, and enjoyed many of them but these are still the only two I listen to as soon as they’re released without fail.

Podcasts are the perfect audio format for me. Their portability means I can listen to them in just about the only free time I’ve got - my walk to work in the morning.

However. For the last few weeks I’ve been doing other things on my walk to work. Listening to music, reading books or just thinking about things.

One of the reasons I’ve been finding alternative forms of distraction from the fact that I’m actually doing excercise, isn’t because I really wanted to do other things, but because I was bored of podcasts.

I still enjoy the ramblings and tech debate of the TWiTs, the informed wonderment of Digital Planet and all the other things I get from the 20 or so podcasts I subscribe to, I’d just decided it was time for something else.

In the same way that until a few days ago I’d gone through a phase of only blogging a couple of times a week - because I was feeling a bit of blog burnout.

From the post on TWiT.tv by Leo Laporte I get the feeling a few of the regular TWiTs are suffering the same sort of burnout and as much as I love the podcast it has felt a little tired lately.

Leo suggested that he may retire TWiT and replace it with something else but after several hundred comments of complaint he said he would keep it going and just rest it for two weeks.

My suggestion to Leo would be to look for a new set of guests and vary things up more often when it returns.

Look for a sort of Question Time for Tech style approach.

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