Well let me jump on the Microsoft iPod reporting bandwagon. Our sister sites engadget and PVR Wire have posts on the Microsoft Argo Personal Media Player including a scoop on the first look on the device.

Now to add the Droxy angle to the discussion, with the WiFi connection it is rumored to have, will it come with some kind of podcast aggregator built-in? I think it would be a great advantage for them to have that built right int the device. Anytime you go to a feed on the wifi connection it check to see if it has any enclosures in it, and then ask if you want to subscribe to it, if you are not already.

Of course this is all just my dreams for the device. It would require a little more of an interface to allow browsing of feeds. But I would guess they will be having some kind of interface to whatever music (or should we say media) service that you can buy / download stuff from. So if they add some kind of Podcast (Argocast, or maybe just Gocasts, or in the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, Arrrrgcasts) directory like in the iTunes store, it could work.

Microsoft, if you are listening, this would clinch me as a convert from my iPod.

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Dave Winer, the man responsible for adding the enclosure tag to RSS (and RSS itself) is not too happy either that Podshow is doing the same with his Morning Coffee Notes podcast feed. He also cites some other examples. There are others weighing in which you can see in an update at the bottom of Todd's post

Today Todd added a second post explaining more why he is so upset with this. He shows with screen shots some of the changes being made to his RSS by Podshow. He makes mention of the fact that the programmers behind Podcast Alley, which had an uproar against them and the way they reused RSS for podcasts are part of Podshow, and that they should have known the outcome of doing the same thing again.

Update: According to Todd's post Podshow has fixed what they claim was a bug, but he still stands by his original posts.

XM said it added 398,000 net new subscribers, a 38 percent drop in net subscriber growth compared to last year's period curbed by new product availability. XM shares were flat in Nasdaq trade after falling as much as 5 percent before the market opened."

Blubrry.com a new podcasting social network aimed at the listener's user experience had it's big debut at Gnomedex. Blubrry is another product offered by RawVoice, Inc. who is also responsible for Podcasternews.com (where I am a podcaster hosting two shows). The new site offers the typical social networking features, podcast directory, and tagging podcasts by users.

Podcasters can join the network for free as long as they agree to promote the network on their podcasts. For this the podcasters get another presence for their podcast on the web, and the chance to be involved in network ad buys setup by the blubrry team. According to the CFO of RawVoice, Inc.,  Jeevan Padiyar, "We've taken the model that is already making money for podcasters on the PodcasterNews Network, and are using it on this site." He went on to mention that there is no lock in of content producers with RawVoice.

Everybody's a critic when it comes to start-ups. USA Today's Matt Krantz says he's bearish on SIRIUS, due to lackluster returns and the failure to turn a profit as of yet (You mean they're trying to make money?)

A new HD Radio AM station has gone online, something that's becoming a regular occurance in the U.S. The catch is, this time the station is in Surabaya, Indonesia.

"Broadcast Electronics said the use of a new HD Radio system in Surabaya, Indonesia, marks the return of private AM radio to that nation.

The medium-wave system on 1062 kHz was installed on Radio Sangkakala in April, some 15 years after private AM stations in Indonesia migrated to FM, virtually abandoning the medium-wave band."

WAMU pulled the same stunt a couple of weeks later, silencing its second channel."