It's time for the Clockwise Podcast episode number one.

Clockwise, four guests, four topics.

30 minutes for the podcast is free, but not your pizza.

You have to pay for that.

I am Jason Snell, editorial director of Tech High, PC World, and Macworld. And let me explain

briefly what clockwise is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a reasonably sized conversation,

not a two-hour-long podcast about every single topic. Every week, we're going to try to talk to

four people about four topics and keep it under 30 minutes, like the sign says.

There is a sign you just can't see it because this is a podcast.

And we'll be inviting on people from Macworld, PC World and Tech Hive to talk about tech topics of all sorts.

My co-host sitting across the virtual table from me today is Dan Moran senior editor at Macworld. Hi, Dan.

This is a super long table. It's just the 3,000 mile table. It's really hard to see you. It's like that

scene in Batman where they're sitting at the end of the table in the very first Batman movie.

Entire forests were denuded to build this table. Well, we... It's only eight inches wide.

We're about technology.

We're not about the environment here.

Let's be honest.

It's far too narrow for me to actually put anything on.

It's just very long.

And somewhere in the middle of that are our guests, but I don't know exactly where.

Yeah, exactly right.

So, um, across from me here in San Francisco is executive editor of Tech Hive, Jason Cross.

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