I was listening to this panel on IT Conversations, and I heard Mena Trott repeat a canard that I've heard her say umpteen times on various ITC panels. Pretty much every time I ever hear her on a panel, she makes the statement "You can skim blogs but you can't skim podcasts." I'm just sick of this because it's silly and it's wrong and it's annoying to hear this person that people pay attention to consistently spout this untruth.

For a little meta-irony I decided to skim the podcast by skipping the rest of her statement. Yes, friends, I did the impossible with the miracle of the -- gasp -- fast-forward button! That actually made the listening experience better, so for the rest of the panel every time she started to talk I fast forwarded until she was done. Yep, it sure does suck that you can't skim podcasts. All you need to do is repeat that a few hundred more times, Mena, although I won't hear it because I'll be skimming you.