Before I dive in to the topics Chris and I discussed on this week’s episodes of TechStuff, I thought I’d give our listeners a little behind-the-scenes information. We’re often asked how we go about choosing topics for a podcast, how we prepare and why it takes few weeks from the moment we receive an e-mail to the time when we actually read it on the show.

First, Chris and I have a remarkable amount of freedom to choose our topics. This is both a good and a bad thing — we get to pick our targets but there’s a danger that we’ll ignore or avoid topics that we aren’t already interested in. Fortunately, listeners like to write in with suggestions. That helps us in two ways: We avoid talking about our own favorite subjects too much and we don’t have to think to come up with a show idea. That gets two thumbs up!