floss logoFLOSS stands for "Free Libre Open Source Software" and is one of many regular podcasts that are part of the TWiT network produced by Leo Laporte and friends. Leo was a host on the now defunct TechTV Screen Savers show and hosts a wide variety of weekly tech orientated podcasts. My favorites are This Week In Tech, MacBreak Weekly, Jumping Monkeys (tech and kids), Windows Weekly and FLOSS. You can easily subscribe via iTunes, which is what I do and I listen either while I am working or at home doing various chores around the house with my iPod.

The shows are both informative and entertaining, although I do get annoyed sometimes with all of the talk about Twitter which I think is really only popular among the commentators and pundits on the show and not with real people trying to get real things done. Who has time to read inane chatter? But when you talk about getting things done I think wikis (may favorite is Deki Wiki) are a great tool and the inventor of the wiki is Ward Cunningham. He wrote the first wiki in Perl  to help keep track of and share ideas with is co-workers back in 1995. Since then wikis have been written in almost every computer language and have given birth to one of the most popular web sites on the planet, Wikipedia. 

Not only is Ward the father of the wiki but is heavily involved in the extreme or agile programming movement. It is a software engineering methodlogy intended to lead to a development process that is more responsive to customer needs ( "agile" ) than traditional methods, while creating software of better quality. Deki Wiki is developed with the "agile" programming approach and features an update or release almost every month.  

Besides all of that, Ward comes across as a real down-to-earth humble nice guy. 

If you are interested in technology and like to listen to hour long conversations (ala Charlie Rose style) then check out TWiT.