So I note that one of my local TV stations offers a podcast stream . . .
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KOMO 1000 News is pleased to now offer our listeners a Podcast stream.
Interesting: if I was still a bus commuter, I could see a real use for this. 
So I check out the iPodder website, and note an endorsement by Robert Scoble.
So why is he, a very public employee of a company that hates the GPL (the terms of which cover iPodder’s release) and that loves DRM (how is this different from using TiVo or similar device to time-shift or repurpose TV shows? Isn’t MSFT in the forefront of limiting end-users/viewers capability to consume media in favor of enforcing how media companies sell it?) touting this?
I realize the Scobleizer is part of a charm offensive, an attempt to put a human face on the company everyone loves to hate. (What, you thought all the eager bloggers were just doing it for fun? I won’t say they aren’t having fun but there is an underlying reason that has little to do with the joy of self-expression.) And perhaps I’m venting my spleen at the wrong guy but his comments seem disconnected from reality sometimes. I’m aware that people are not the company, but if there are so many people who are so engaging and sincere, why has the company’s attitude and execution changed so little?
When you have someone like Bruce Schneier saying that “it’s just foolish to use IE”, yet there are no plans to make the necessary improvements, how serious can take all that sincerity? Considering how little time it took to get IE out the door, in the wake of the Internet Tidal Wave memo, why is it taking so long to relaunch it properly? When there was so much press about the re-design and attention to detail in Windows XP, what is there to convince us that it isn’t just a big ball of mud?
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