Thanks for all the comments and the emails I received from my previous post regarding iPodder.org. It seems a lot of people are missing the point slightly. I am not too concerned by the lack of communication, even less so now that Adam commented in my blog saying he would hand the communications over to someone with more time.

My main gripe is being trailed along by the Curry/Bloom promises on how the directory would be “given” to the node editors where they would make their own playground. Tools, abilities, anything to make the directory your own and this has never happened, nothing that makes life easier for the editors. Tools, Tools, Tools! :)

Secondly. If this is a business venture which I believe it is, then the role of the editors need to change. How many other companies have a backbone of employees in effect paying to work for them?1 Name me 5. And I am not necessarily speaking about money at all. If you’re making money from the directory or leveraging the directory for commercial uses, put something back into the “directory”2. This ties in with the request for tools, or better control over your node. Hey, I’ll gladly do this for free if I had some better support.

Adam completely missed the point in his comment. If you read this post, please can we have some word on the directory. Will anything change? Are you willing to provide us with the abilities to do the things you promised not so long ago?

I do not feel as if I stand for other editors, but the emails I have been receiving point in this direction.

Again I ask - Is this important anymore?

1. Even if the bandwidth cost is low, its still there.
2. I hesitate to use the word community because it just doesn’t fit in at all.