Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane are shown outside the Austin Convention Center during SXSW 2011 with their LiveView rig doing a live netcast. Tom and Sarah anchor the twit.tv daily production of Tech News Today or TNT and are main components of Leo Laportes expansion of his netcasting network out of Petaluma, CA. Like me, Tom is a U of I Urbana grad and once lived in Austin and worked at Half Price Books across the street from Wheatsville Coop. He now commutes to Petaluma, CA to the Twit Cottage, the same town where my son Shey works at Whole Foods.