I had no idea what a storm my little sentence would generate. Hey, I was tired, dispirited, and trying to figure out how to do a show without any contributors. I really didn’t mean to scare you!

Well, Leo, scare us you did, but the news that the TWiT will keeping going is just what I needed to hear on a grey, windy morning like this.

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Paul O’Flaherty and Rob Hyndman are among the scores who share their disbelief, while Jon Emmon quotes a great comment that he himself posted to the TWit.tv comments log.

A “Save TWit” blog has already appreared, and had a comment from none other than Leo Laporte:

It’s not I who want to take a break. I’m here every week ready to record, edit, and post a show. I gladly put in more time on the show than all the other TWiTs put together, but if the other TWiTs decide not to show there’s not much I can do about it.

At this point I have a couple of choices. I could re-cast the show with people who will actually show up, but is it a TWiT without Patrick and John?

Or I could put TWiT to rest and come up with something to replace it. Neither choice is desirable, especially since we have a sponsor who is paying to be on this show in particular, but frankly it’s more than I can handle trying to keep this cast together.

As I said, I’m going to defer a decision until I come back fromt the cruise.

– Leo Laporte, Chief TWiT

So, it sounds like Leo is having a hard time putting together the cast each week, which is a pity but understandable, given the pressure on everyones time.

I would hate to see TWit “put to rest”, as Leo puts it, so perhaps the solution is make it a monthly show, or a fortnightly show but keep the name. Maybe more TWiTs should be inducted, meaning that there was a larger of pool to choose from each week. Either way, I hope this isn’t the end of TWiT because on each episode, without fail, I hear

• Something I agree with
• Something I disagree with
• Something I didn’t know
• Something that makes me laugh out loud

And that, to me, is the sign of a great panel of people delivering great media content.

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His enthusiasm, energy and thirst for gaining and sharing knowledge were inspirational. It really sucks when this happens to one of the “good guys”. R.I.P, mate.

My friend, Ian, has a shiny new Land Rover Discovery and while we were on a bit of a driving tour round the area, I noticed something on his dash board which seems to be designed purely for receiving Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code at the press of a button!

Having listened to the Podfather for over a year now, I now that Adam is never backwards in coming forward when it comes to announcing his plans for world domination and I can’t understand why he’s kept this quiet; he has single-handedly boosted sales of the Phillips Senseo machine, so Land Rover must be licking their lips at the thought of increased sales thanks to fans of the Charlie…Perhaps it’s just a prototype.