What's more fun that beating a dead horse? I don't know, I'd have to stop beating this one to find out, and I have just one more shot in me.

Although I promised myself I would write more about the technical details and design patterns of good websites in these next few weeks, the XM/Sirius merger (not yet approved by government bigwigs, of course) has been one of the few radio industry stories to get a lot of play outside of our world, and I wanted to take a swing at it.

The interesting thing about the merger is that most of the articles refer to it as a "satellite radio" merger. If you've been reading my columns the past few weeks, you know that satellite is only a delivery method, and in the next few years, delivery methods will become less and less important.

What's more fun that beating a dead horse? I don't know, I'd have to stop beating this one to find out, and I have just one more shot in me.

Although I promised myself I would write more about the technical details and design patterns of good websites in these next few weeks, the XM/Sirius merger (not yet approved by government bigwigs, of course) has been one of the few radio industry stories to get a lot of play outside of our world, and I wanted to take a swing at it.

The interesting thing about the merger is that most of the articles refer to it as a "satellite radio" merger. If you've been reading my columns the past few weeks, you know that satellite is only a delivery method, and in the next few years, delivery methods will become less and less important.