Monday, July 04, 2005

Illinois Information Service

From the collapsing-right-before-the-finish-line department: Has anyone else visited the website for IIS radio? How nice of the state to post all of their audio news releases in MP3 format for download or for streaming. Great! Now I can use their RSS feed to subscribe to the audio and automatically download the twice-daily newscasts to my computer?

No. No, you can't. There is no RSS feed.

You mean to tell me they took the time to set up the page, and to record and serve the files but didn't take an extra nanosecond to make them podcastable?

You've cracked the case, Hercule.

Fiendish state employee-in-charge whose name I cannot be bothered to search for, J'accuse!

[end of fake conversation. There was actually much more but I cut it because it became increasingly ridiculous and difficult to sustain from both a psychological and a comedic perspective]

Seriously, the state's wasting an opportunity for bandwagon behavior, and if anyone is going to jump on a bandwagon, shouldn't it be a functionary for the state? A flunky? A flunktionary?

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