The Executive Office of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is taking a giant leap into 2005. Deval Patrick will podcast. Shoot he might even blog. Local leaders are already doing it. Menino is doing it. O'Malley is doing it. So why shouldn't Governor Patrick jump at the chance to bring his message directly to the people? It's a cool idea, we just wish he was going to make it a warm and fuzzy fireside vlog. The podcast is the governor's latest method of reaching out directly to the voters. He took to the airwaves state-wide with the help of NPR for an hour-long live call-in show, the podcast will launch on that appearances two week anniversary.

Patrick's office didn't release any details about the intended podcast other than it should be a regular feature on the mass.gov website and it will premiere on Friday, Jan. 26. Patrick has a history of podcasting – he used his campaign website "the source" since April '06 to feature campaign ad videos, short videos of his appearances, mp3's of speeches, and an occasional phoned in message to his supporters. Overall the production quality of his embedded files were better than average, on the entertainment scale they ranked somewhere in between Headline News and C-SPAN. It's likely that the podcast will follow suit. If you really like to hear the governor speak you'll likely pull down the file and listen, if you're a taxpayer disconnected from government, well, there's probably a picture of unicorns in cubicles or something equally as random out there you'd rather be looking at.

Mr. Governor please, please, please get yourself a new cadre of fair use photographs. We're really tired of the one here, so we stole a screen grab from this old site. We don't want to resort to turning to the sheep like we did for Mitt.