Walks of Life / Around the World
One of my favorite radio shows is back on the air (and the Internet!): The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon on WFMU out of New Jersey. Clay Pigeon is the broadcast name of a man who lives in Wisconsin and interviews people from all walks of life with his tape recorder, then splices the interviews up with music from many decades, sound bites, and throws in a little tape speed manipulation for good fun. The program airs once a week and is an hour long. You can listen in from anywhere in the world at this page.
Also, a promising application, Songbird, has hit a new milestone: the release candidate for their 0.3 release. Songbird is a program derived from Firefox but aimed solely at the Internet music browsing experience. It has features (and looks) from iTunes, such as the ability to maintain a large music library, play many formats (something iTunes cannot do), sync with your iPod, etc., all the while letting you bookmark web pages and browse to them from within the program. Another interesting feature is this little pane that pops up while you’re browsing any webpage that has MP3s in a link: the pane lists all the MP3s, reads their tag information, and lets you one-click download them into your library. Cool stuff! Note the current release is not a finished, stable piece of software so if you don’t know much about beta testing or haven’t used a lot of unfinished software, avoid this until a later, more polished release comes out.
change.org is a website that lets you type in what you want to change about the world, and it will link you to articles and communities to help you get started in your activism or education about that particular topic.
And finally, luckofseven.com is the blog of a man who is making his way around the world on cheap and blogging/vlogging/plugging-you-in to the experience. I haven’t followed it much but it sounds promising. He takes donations to help him out though, which is alright, but I’m weary of any website that asks for money - even if it’s just a donation. Shady Internet people …
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