Quick note: I’ll be guesting with Tom Merritt on Tech News Today (the daily news show from the TWiT folks) this afternoon at 2:30pm PT. What are we going to discuss? I’m not sure, but there’s no lack of stuff!

If you’re in the mood to watch us live, visit live.twit.tv at 2:30; it’ll also be available for later playback and download.

I’ve had fun watching the (mostly political) “diavlogs” on Bloggingheads.tv for years. Late last week, I had fun making one with Bloggingheads impressario Robert Wright. This time the topic was tech–we discussed the iPad, Facebook, Android fragmentation, and the Palm Pre (Bob is smitten, and I told him he could go ahead and buy one).

Here are the results, which in normal Bloggingheads fashion go on for close to an hour (you can go here to jump from topic to topic):

What are you up to at 1pm PT today? If you’re not otherwise occupied, check out the live stream of John C. Dvorak’s CrankyGeeks at Justin.tv. I’ll be guesting on the show, which will also be available for viewing at the CrankyGeeks site and as an iTunes download.

I’ll do my best to be cranky, or at least mildly vexed…

I had a blast guesting on Leo Leporte’s This Week in Tech today and gabbing with Leo, Scott Rosenberg (who I’ve long admired), and CNET’s Tom Merrit. We talked about…well, what didn’t we talk about? Off the top of my head, I remember discussing Apple’s notebook event next Tuesday, Apple rumors in general, RealDVD’s legal mess, Richard “Lord British” Garriott’s trip into space, Google’s spy satellite, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, T-Mobile’s G1 phone, two BlackBerries (the Storm and the Bold), the Turing Test, Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Mail account, and whether the economic meltdown will destroy Web startups. We talked about Technologizer, too. And I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff.

Did I mention that the episode is titled “Release the McCracken?” Listen to the podcast version, which is now available, and you’ll find out why. More or less.

WARNING! Shameless self-serving plug ahead…

I’m going to be a guest on the next episode of Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech podcast. It’ll be available for download on Monday, but will also be streamed at 3pm PT this Sunday, if you’re in the mood to catch it live.

I had loads of fun the first time I did TWiT–back in June, before Technologizer was live–and am looking forward to my return. I suspect that many of the people reading these words are already TWiT listeners, but if you’ve never checked it out, there’s no better time than this coming episode.

(Okay, was that shameless enough?)

I had fun this afternoon being a podcast guest for the guys at MyMac Magazine. We talked about my past, present, and future–and, of course, about Macs. You can check it out here.