Internet’Media - Don’t Bother

I was tired of seeing the TV ads for IM.com I decided to go take a look, download and install it. Take my word for it - don't waste your time and hard drive space. Installed easily as well as hung easily - three times - while selecting video channels. They also don't tell you that they autosubscribe you to one of their premier channels which is half-a-gig of informercials. It is just another glitzed up podcast player with an optional sidebar that takes up farr too much screen real estate. and, of course, it is only for Windows. I have Democracy Player which I like. Very simple interface with enough sex appeal for those who choose software by the glitter. The good folks at Participatory Culture also realize that people do use Macs and run Linux, too, and DP is available for them as well. The problem I do have with DP as well as most of the turnkey podcast products is that they decide where the files are going and you have no opinion in the matter. Personally, I would rather they not use the My Documents structure but allow me to fly them out to a larger, network device. So I have to farm out stuff I want to keep. DP does have an auto-expire feature that helps with disk clutter, too.