bealea, lets try to knock all these out in one shot (although in the future, separate threads for each suggestion would make it easier:-)

- Ask the Experts: in our next release, we will be making it much easier to post questions as well as see the responses. Your suggestion about letting the community at large have a shot at answering them is where we want to go. In the meantime, we hope the forums provide the best alternative for community discussion.

- Podcasting: we would like to hear more from the community about this particular feature. Can you repost that as a new thread so that others can find it easier and respond? Our experience is that podcasting is catching on because its fairly easy to do but that has led to many amatuers wasting a lot of people's time with useless drivel. The audio format itself has limitations. You should know that we do plan to extend the features of the community to embrace more multi-media options in the future.

Far East Gadgets: this is a great idea. If anyone else reads the CE mags from overseas then you no doubt share our frustration that we don't even get to have some of the coolest stuff out there. We have run across a company that imports and translates many gadgets from Pacific Rim. There is a "concept store" in Chicago called Escape that sells these, if you happen to be in the area.