As a regular listener to This Week in Tech and a frequent Twitter user, the news that TWiT mastermind Leo Laporte was abandoning the service amid talk of trademark infringement rocked a small corner of my online world.

I can't see how someone would confuse a netcast network called TWiT with an online messaging service called Twitter (a perfectly good onomatopoeia), but I'm guessing that Leo's trademark attorneys certainly can.

My suggestion: the owners of Twitter should change its name to LaPorte.

French for "the door", LaPorte conveys how the service opens the way to endless possibilities for communication.

No, no, my friends, you needn't offer to pay me. I offer this solution pro bono. My only desire is to bring peace to a strife-torn Internet.

Here's Leo's blog post announcing his defection to rival/complementary service Jaiku.

Brian Solis captures the Twitter discussion surrounding Leo's switch, and compares Twitter and Jaiku.


Tags: Leo Laporte, TWiT, Twitter, Jaiku