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2. Leo Laporte is a pro, has natural talent, and does his own thing surrounded by friends. He revolves his thing around his audience with which he has deep feedback (irc/forums/twitter/blog/general openness). There is a community there. TWIT.tv is a living and very active organism. He aims at a professional artisan feel. He knows where he's going (vihart, jeri ellsworth etc) and how knowledge needs to be presented. His network has SOUL. Its a real NET which WORKS. I'll skip commenting on ThisWeekIn.com because they have people getting paid for years to get right what i (or anyone that, hint, understands how products need audiences as much as audiences need products) could type in a few lines. I dont enjoy speeding up slow trainwrecks. They have a few human pearls in that train of mediocrity. Ever wished the best for something you know wont have it?
3. Leo Laporte is not a perfect human being (shocking, i know), and thus, everytime some random crosswind, specific temperature, prelunch hunger and skype-a-saurus radiation combine in rare yet periodic event, this causes spasms of accute calcanittis. This makes awesome human Leo become less awesome human Leo, ranting to his audience as if they were lemmings (dimishing your audience is a nice way to build an audience of dumb people). Fed from his frustration they spam for years anything remotely thisweekin.com related. Almost making it look as if both networks were in same championship (something only @Jason wants to believe). Counter productive.
with this being said, if you donated to @Jason TWIST show (which existed way before thisweekin.com foundation) thinking you were giving money to Leo Laporte, then "you" are a complete imbecile.