:: It is another late night. I am very restless. Just finished a lovely phone call with a good friend in Florida; it's nice to visit on the phone, with someone who lives far away and talk about whatever. Tomorrow I am driving to Jasper to attend the ALC, where I am co-presenting a session on blogs with Geoff.
:: This is hilarious: Cindi posted a link to The Cowbell Project, a growing database of songs that feature a cowbell. Inspiration for this idea seems to have come from the infamous and brilliant SNL parody of Behind The Music, about the recording of Blue Öyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper, which featured Christopher Walken as a high-powered record producer encouraging Will Farrell Will Farrell to play with more passion, advising him that "I need more cowbell"
:: Last night's episode of Law & Order: SVU starred Marlee Matlin as a researcher who is put on trial for helping someone commit suicide. While being interrogated, she tells Detective Munch that she "has a blog". What fascinated me was no further explanation is offered in this scene, i.e., neither Munch nor Tutuola asks, "what's a blog?"
It's another small piece of evidence that blogs have entered the mainstream of pop culture, and the term "blog" has entered the vernacular. The episode authors decided that spending airtime having Matlin's character explain blogs to the detectives wasn't warranted - fans of the show would understand, or ignore the reference.
Speaking of Law & Order and blogs, The Ledger is a blog devoted primarily to the flagship series at the moment. The site's creator is working on writing "detailed summaries for each of the 320 (and counting) episodes of the original series." When this is completed, he'll turn his "the 170 episodes of SVU and Criminal Intent I haven't written about yet." He's written summaries of at least 170 episodes from the original series so far. Having started in December 2003, that's a lot of work in a short period of time.
Jerry Orbach is leaving the original series :-(, but he will be appearing in the third spinoff, Law & Order: Trial by Jury., hopefully as Lenny Briscoe. The Gothamist was there when he filmed his final L&O scenes. Also referenced is this amusing article on being addicted to All Things Law & Order.
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:: Today, Geoff and I completed revisions to an article we wrote, for the journal, Science & Technology Libraries. The article is about applications of blogs in an STL environment. As well, Geoff is fine-tuning a presentation on blogs, which we are co-presenting this Saturday at the Alberta Library Conference in Jasper. I was amazed as I watched a short animation that he designed and embedded into one of the powerpoint slides, which demonstrates how to create a simple blog entry using Moveable Type. The computer we use for our session will not be wired to the Internet, so the animation will suffice nicely in its place.
:: Deadwood has quickly become my favorite show on television. Sunday night, with The Sopranos and Deadwood back-to-back (at least in Canada), has become the definitive night for quality television viewing. The language on Deadwood is graphic enough so as to make comparisons with The Sopranos moot. The actors are outstanding, with Ian McShane as Al Swearengen and Robin Weigert as Calamity Jane, giving career-defining performances week after week. The colourful language (to put it mildly), combined with the actors' deliveries of their lines, provide for much "water cooler discussion" every Monday at work with my friend Debi, and the HBO website for the show has a list of the "Best Lines" from each episode to date.
HBO continues to present most of the best television on television, if you will. But in Canada, we are not permitted to subscribe to HBO, but instead to limp, lame Canadian cable stations that advertise themselves as "The First Home of HBO in Canada." Problem is, no station IS the first home of HBO in Canada. We haven't seen the third or fourth seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Real Time With Bill Maher is not broadcast in Canada on any cable station.
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:: The previous entry about graphics makes reference to a problem I am having on my home machine. My web hosting service, Blogomania, provides a very nifty control panel feature, which includes an option to prevent other web sites from linking directly to files on my site, thus using my bandwidth. The problem is, when I activate it, it works fine for all URLs assigned to my web site, on any computer I've tried, except the machine in my house, my primary computer! I've played with the settings, and Keith offered a few suggestions, but in the end, I chose to disable it, while waiting for advice from the Blogomania helpdesk.
I've had my Dell Dimension 4400 for two years, and it has given me few headaches. Like the one described above, the problems seem to be endemic to my machine, and can't be replicated elsewhere, making it hard to determine what causes them. At 2 years of age, I can sense that it has already jumped the shark, and is past its prime. Given the speed at which computers supercede themselves, its prime, most likely, was for a very short period in 2002. My Intel processor is 1.56GHz - the chips in the new Dell computers run between 2.8 and 3Ghz. However, my old 4400 is going to get a lot more use before it retires to the Home for Wayward Computers, sometime later this decade.
:: A few days ago, I was startled to learn that someone was using a link to an image of me, from this site, as part of an Out-Of-Office Assistant message. More than a little concerned, I removed the image from my site, which was the picture of me with part of my face covered by a piece of paper. It was in the right hand column on my homepage. I've also removed the contents of the Personal page from my site, for the time being.
There is much talk of identity theft these days - criminals cloning one's identity and then using it for illegal purposes. An article in today's Edmonton Journal talks about "tombstone shopping": a criminal searches for the death of a child, trying to find someone who was born in one Canadian province and died in another, because vital statistics are not shared between provinces. The criminal then applies for a birth certificate in the province in which the dead child was born. Using that documentation, a new individual can be resurrected on paper, and the information can be used to apply for credit cards, government documents, health care coverage, and so on. Our mail is also open to theft. There is credit card skimming, dumpster diving (for personal information), and social engineering.
I am not nor have ever been concerned about being located by someone trying to find me, just because I have a public web site. My home address and phone number are given on this site, and my phone number is unlisted anyway. Why am I not concerned? Even without a website, if someone wants to find me and they search my name on the web, the results will include a number of University of Alberta Libraries pages with information about me, including my name and office phone number. What's important here is that if you are someone who doesn't want to be found via a web search, don't work for a public institution.
A number of friends from my past have discovered me via a web search, and it's great to be back in touch with them again. As for my personal information page, it will be back when I have time to get to it, but scaled down somewhat from its first incarnation.
:: Out of it. I use that expression often. Betty Rollin wrote a great column about being out of it, about not being in the pop culture loop, and not caring about the consequences. It's a refreshing look at not giving a rat's ass about J-Lo, Donald Trump, or Friends:
I know who J.Lo is, but I don't want to know. In fact, she is largely responsible for my new goal because I decided that something is wrong with my life if I know who she is or isn't on the verge of marrying. And it's not just J.Lo. It's everyone in showbiz. I have nothing against them personally. I just feel my head can absorb just so much information and, now that I'm getting older, I'm pickier about what's in there.I've always been interested in All Things Pop Culture. But I have my limits. I hate the American/Canadian Idol phenomenon, the whole "star making machinery" bullshyte, and have never watched either program. I guess being a musician for 37 years makes me suspicious of people who think they can be instant rock stars. I have no use for Survivor, The Apprentice, The Bachelor, Fear Factor, and any other so-called reality show. I feel the same way about not wanting to know about the existence of these shows, as Rollin does about Jennifer Lopez's relationship problems.
What Rollin describes in her column, the desire NOT to know about crap like The Apprentice or JLo, reminds me of the Zsa Zsa Gabor moment. In 1989, she was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills policeman. When I read (or heard) about the incident, I thought, "Who gives a sh*t?" Why is this incident considered news? Why must I know this happened?
Rollin is dead on about cellphones:
I don't have a cellphone. Perhaps, if I had a car, or a child, I'd have a cell. But I have neither and I don't live in the jungle -- there are public phones everywhere -- and I don't understand the people I see crossing the street against the light, phone to their ear, arranging a business deal or having a fight with someone who, in my opinion, they should remove from their lives.I am still cell phone-challenged. This evening, while working out on a cross-training machine at the Y, I heard a voice next to me loud enough to be heard over the Pearl Jam CD in my headset. I turned to look, and the guy two machines over from me was talking on his cell while working out. Enough already. | TrackBack (0) | Comments (8)
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:: Yes, I know the graphics and pictures aren't uploading to the site. They will return soon. - Randy
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:: Recently I joined Foster Parents Plan, and information on my sponsored child arrived in the mail last week. Her name is Welalo, she lives in a village called Lama Tessi, in Togo, and is in third grade primary school. She lives with her sister and mother, in a small brick house with a straw roof.
Her village has no electricity, and her home has no plumbing. In lieu of a washroom, her family must use and open field or public area for their needs. Welalo's family gets their water from a open well approximately one kilometer from their home. To cook their food, they use an open fire, fueled with wood, and their house is lit with kerosene lamps. Despite the foregoing, the documentation sent to me indicates that the familes in Welalo's community live a rich cultural life, telling and listening to stories, talking with friends, and listening to the radio.
Needless to say, as I sit in front of my Dell computer, with lights on, drinking cold water from the fridge after eating a satisfying meal of meatloaf with fresh vegetables and bread, reading about how Welalo lives puts my life in a perspective I hadn't considered before reading about her and her village. I really, really don't know how good I have it, living in Canada.
:: I mentioned previously that my friend in Winnipeg, Tony, began a blog a couple weeks ago. Tony is in the midst of difficult times, and he is showing great courage in detailing this on his site, something I'm not sure I could do myself. I have avoided writing about Certain Things on this weblog since its inception, issues too painful for me to write about publicly. Tony is choosing to do so, and I applaud him for his effort, as I believe it can't be the easiest thing to do. However, writing can be cathartic, and whether or not one chooses to do it publicly, shouldn't change that. I'll leave it there. When a friend is in pain, one shares that pain with them - I wish him and Claire well, at all times.
:: The Harvard/UNC study on downloading, mentioned earlier, is in the news. One of the authors, Koleman Strumpf, an economics professor at UNC, thought the paper, The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis, written with Felix Oberholzer of the Harvard Business School, would be of interest to a handful of academics, and nothing more. Instead, its release, in draft form, has touched off a flurry of responses and uproar, most of it coming from the music industry. The RIAA released a six-page response (which, despite my best searching efforts, I cannot locate on their web site anywhere), saying that "The results are inconsistent with virtually every other study", and asking ""If illegal downloading is not the cause of the precipitous decline in sales of recordings, what is?" Well, duh. Where does one begin? From newsobserver.com:
There could be many causes for the decline, Strumpf said. The economy is weaker. More entertainment choices might be drawing consumer dollars. Radio consolidation has reduced variety.Translation: Strumpf and Oberholzer read the industry-sponsored studies, and realized that they were a collective crock of shyte, most likely scientifically unsound. Strumpf also notes that his paper is not complete, and the reason it was released was so that the two researchers could get feedback, which is happening in spades. Of course, one other reason that sales have dropped is that so much of what the Big Labels release these days is CRAP!He says the industry's response amounts to, " 'We have 20 studies, they have one.' If 20 or 100 or 1,000 people say the sun revolves around the earth, it doesn't make it so."
Two years ago, Strumpf and Oberholzer-Gee set out to research the matter. Strumpf's interest was piqued by the Napster trial, where the recording industry alleged copyright violations that led to the demise of the pioneering Web site in 2001. In the testimony, experts argued that music downloads had to be the cause of slumping sales.
Strumpf read the studies they cited. They were horrible, he said.
"I was like, 'Boy, this is pretty amazing,' " said Strumpf, a Philadelphia native. "Nobody has done a serious study."
:: This small, unassuming blog posting, about a tag with washing instructions in French and English, has generated at least 354 comments, and 86 trackbacks.
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:: Big Banks. They exist for one thing - to increase the profits of their shareholders. I've complained about the continuing decline in CIBC's customer service before on this site. Recently, I received the latest "Changes to Personal Deposit Accounts and Services" flyer, which lists, among other items, the usual upcoming fee hikes. It includes gems such as:
A few days later, Keith sent a note advising that CIBC is closing five of its southside branches, and consolidating their operations at one large, flagship building in a high traffic area. From the 09 April 2004 Edmonton Journal:
This move "reflects changes in the way customers do their banking and their other shopping," said CIBC communications director Rob McLeod.It is interesting to note that the one branch on the southside not being closed is in Riverbend, one of the wealthiest areas of Edmonton. Coincidence? According to McLeod, similar flagship branches were opened in eastern Canada, with a very positive response. But I think Keith has it right when he says:"We are moving out of small shopping areas where the potential for growth is limited, into areas where the customers already do much of their shopping."
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:: I remain a sports fan to this day, although my passion for following my favorite sports, baseball and hockey, began waning in the 80s. One of my daily rituals is taping SportsCentre overnight on TSN, and watching the highlights in the morning before going to work. TSN, Canada's equivalent to (and owned by) ESPN, also functions as the Toronto Sports Network - during hockey season, a SportsCentre broadcast cannot go by without some reference to the Toronto Maple Leafs. If the Leafs aren't playing that day, TSN will offer a preview of the preview of the preview of their next game, or ask coach Pat Quinn what he had for supper. Despite the bias, usually I can expect good reports and coverage as well as an entertaining broadcast.
However, over time, the SportsCentre anchors and writers have worked hard to invent new nicknames for some of the teams they cover, as well as phrases to describe things like time left in the period (1:28 remaining to be played is termed "a buck twenty-eight"), a home run ("he goes yard" or "a 2-run jack"), two home runs in a row ("back to back jacks"), and the result of a goal increasing the team's lead in the game ("up a bill").
Some of the incredibly annoying team nicknames heard on SportsCentre lately include:
"The Nucks"? It's a pure form of dumbing down the viewer, or perhaps playing to the lowest common denominator, some version of the beer-swilling, brain-dead, cheese-eating frat boy, who needs booster cables to get out of bed in the morning. I hear the broadcaster say, "the Nucks", and wonder: 1) is it too much of an expense of energy to say "the CAnucks"?, or 2) is TSN trying to save time on its broadcast?, or 3) has TSN completed market research which suggests that their viewers will think it's really cool to hear phrases like that?
With this in mind, what a pleasure it is to discover this British web site, Plain English Campaign. It is a simple, stripped down site, supporting "an independent pressure group fighting for public information to be written in plain English." My favorite section in the Examples page. It includes the complete archive of Golden Bull award winners, Plain-English translations ("before" and "after" examples), and The gobbledygook generator: "You really can't fail with facilitating administrative mobility."
Meanwhile, in hockey, The Team in Red is playing the Preds, my Habs face Beantown, the 'Nucks face off against the Matchsticks, The Buds and The Sens continue their playoff series, Josey and Bluesy continue their battle...you get the imagery - er - graphic representation - er - picture. As for TSN, bring back Jennifer Hedger on the late night editions, PLEASE!
So I'm curious. To those who watch ESPN in the States: Is the same thing happening on that network? Duh.
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:: Speaking of some of my previously mentioned friends, Derryl is close to having a collection of his short stories published in book form, and about time, too!
Tony offers a heartfelt story about a Catholic nun, who was also one of his clients. Despite struggling through a terminal illness and lack of support from her order, she had the strength, conviction and compassion to continue her ministry with the poor, and it had an lasting and positive effect on my good friend.
:: Edmonton is getting four new radio stations, including a modern rock station that promises to play actual NEW modern rock music from the 21st century, thus giving us an alternative from the other completely interchangeable, bland, dull, lifeless, classic rock stations in the city right now. Absolutely amazing and satisfying that we will be able to choose to listen to a station that plays and supports new music, indie artists, and the like. I hope they are successful.
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:: My first web site saw the light of day in 1995, and I added a counter to it in January, 1996. I became aware of blogs in 1999 or 2000, at which time I made mention of them on my both my library page and search engine page. I attended Peter Scott's presentation on blogging in Oct, 2001, and thought about starting one at that time. Blogging was still in its infancy, and foreign to most people at that time.
Geoff, meanwhile, had started his first blog in 2002, at the time known as The Anonymous Librarian (if memory serves); however, he forgot to renew the domain name, and it was snared by some, well, let's just call them non-librarian types, so he revamped and started again with The Blog Driver's Waltz. In May 2002, unbeknownst to me, my belly-dancing songstress librarian pal in Florida, Darcy, began darcysworld. In July 2002, I began The Pod Bay Door, using Blogger as the software package. I wondered if any other friends would start blogging as well. It didn't take long to find out.
Shortly after PBD appeared, Derryl jumped in with Cold Ground, and Jena was right behind with naked bootleg. Claire snuck in there somewhere with There Be Giants Here, Kim offered Bibcognito, and Keith followed with Bloggo - The Non Blog, a site that has had at least "10,937,458,548 visitors since May 1974." Kenton started blogging around that time, and Mike was next, with Toys and Cookies, although he has been quiet since last fall.
In 2003, Robert returned to writing with I'm Not Boring You, Am I?, also the title of his fanzine from the 70s-90s period. My fanzines, fwiw, were called Odds 'n' Ends (1969), and Winding Numbers (1975-78, or something...); look around my site, you may notice a reference to one of them. My cool SLA pal, Cindi, started her blog, Chronicles of Bean in 2003 as well, Bean being the pet name of her unborn child (at the time), now known as the beautiful Bethany.
OK, so now what's up? Well, my Winnipeg pals are blogging. Please let me introduce Steve and Tony: Steve, aka Stephen R George, aka Valerie Stevens, aka Jack Ellis, is one of the many friends I met while participating in sf fandom in the 1970s in Winnipeg, publishing zines and attending sf conventions. One of Steve's zines was Gleet Glort, thus the name of his web site, glort.com, and his blog, glort Web log. Steve is also a horror author, which is why he has a few pseudonyms. Tony and I met in 1971 while attending St Paul's College at the U of Manitoba. One of our first connections was when he tried to assure me that Horse With No Name wasn't sung by Neil Young, while I, like the cocksure moron I was, insisted otherwise, and would have none of it. I'm sure he thought I was a complete idiot, so much so that we've been friends ever since. Tony's new weblog is called Sea of Flowers. Both blogs are worth checking, you won't be disappointed. BTW, adding our mutual friend Mike Nichols to the equation (no, not THAT Mike Nichols), and you get Bike With Mike.
Lordy. These people are my friends. It's a blog family!
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:: Spammers, knowing no moral code or caring about anyone or anything, continue to astound and confuse. On my work-related blog, we keep receiving spam comments, which means I need to continually run Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist. The next version of Moveable Type will deal with this problem, hopefully in a permanent way.
Regardless, here is an example of the kind of bad, broken English that accompanies most of these spam comments:
Furniture, covered by the dust of ages and crumbling with the rot of honey dampness, lowered my insert spam product here. In truth, much as the owners of cats depended these unstressed folk, they hopped them more.Er, what?
:: I volunteer again tonight at one of the Juno-fest venues, The Power Plant, which happens to be two buildings over from the library in which I work on campus. It promises to be rather uneventful. I'm one of the two media contacts assigned to that venue, and as of this writing, no media have booked any time with any of the acts there tonight. I will be there from 8:00 pm - 2:30 am or so, which is really 3:30 am, as DST starts tonight.
:: Has anyone noticed that searches on Google seem to be taking longer than usual, of late?
| TrackBack (0):: Alan Kellogg is one of my favorite local newspaper columnists (and a kind soul - he agreed to return with two Steely Dan t-shirts for me, when he saw them play at Roseland in NYC last September. You see, I had neglected to buy the shirts when I saw The Dan in concert at The Gorge in August, a few weeks earlier. But I digress...) Alan's April 1st column analyzed the Federal Court ruling on downloading music in Canada. (Warning: the column will remain online for just one week, as the Edmonton Journal maintains a seven-day archive only. Very frustrating and annoying.) The point that hit home for me the hardest, however, wasn't about the impact this ruling will have on the music industry, whose sales were heading downhill before Napster came into existence three years ago. Rather, it was Alan's straightforward take on record stores:
"Many mall record stores are simply terrible, with limited stock and clueless staff".That was my emphasis on clueless staff, not Alan's. I might add that the clueless staff are not restricted to mall record stores, either. Long before downloading caught on, I began noticing, probably in the mid-90s (slightly post-grunge) that service in A&B Sound and other Canadian chain stores was riding the down escalator - staff, when they weren't busy comparing piercings and tattoos, could barely be bothered helping me find a record that wasn't in the best seller racks. Such interactions usually ended with blank stares and shoulder shrugs.
"Do you have the new Oysterband album?" "Blue Oyster Cult?" "No, sorry, Oysterband?" "Prairie Oyster?" "Er, no, Oysterband, from the UK, played the folk festival in Edmonton 2 or 3 times?" Watching the staff member "helping" me, the expected shoulder shrugs would follow at that moment, and I might as well have been staring into the eyes of a chicken. Recently, a friend shared with me this story: A&B called him to tell him a CD he'd ordered had arrived. When he went to pick it up, they told him it wasn't there. Welcome to Customer Service, 2004.
The music industry is in really, really bad shape right now. It has not come to grips with downloading, nor with the fact that is has been overpricing music for years while simultaneously releasing questionable product. Whoinhell wants to keep paying unreasonable prices for crappy music? The industry's insistence on blaming downloading as the major reason for poor sales isn't holding up under scholarly scrutiny: a study released this week by researchers at Harvard and U North Carolina indicates that file swapping and downloading has had little impact on the slide in CD sales over the past while:
"We find that file sharing has only had a limited effect on record sales," the study's authors wrote. "While downloads occur on a vast scale, most users are likely individuals who would not have bought the album even in the absence of file sharing."
My own buying patterns have slowed down. Yes, I've downloaded some songs, but after an initial flurry in 2001-02, very little in the past 12 months or so. In fact, most of what I've downloaded is old material, some "out of print", so to speak, and a lot of which I own already on vinyl, and want to either hear on my computer, or burn to CD for listening in the car. But another reason I cite for the change is the poor service offered by the chain stores like A&B. Add to that their own dwindling inventories because of declining sales. It's a bad scene, and I have no solution for the mess it's in.
April 2 update: Alan's column in today's Journal features an interview with Denise Donlon, CEO of Sony Music of Canada. Of note is the following:
"Upon leaving her old job as vice-president at MuchMusic, she declared her first priority at Sony was to aggressively promote new Canadian music.A quick check of Sony Music of Canada's site this morning reveals the following "Featured Artists": Delta Goodrem (Australia), Incubus (USA), Jessica Simpson (USA), Switchfoot (USA), Lost Prophets (UK), Harry Connick Jr (USA), John Mayer (USA), and a little-known, obscure Canadian artist named Celine Dion. Under "New Releases", we find: 1) Various - Oprah's Pop Star Challenge 2004 Cast Album (USA), 2) Nas - Nas: 10 Year Anniversary Illmatic Platinum Series (USA), and 3) Shakira - Live & Off The Record (Columbia, South America.) Aggressively promoting new Canadian music??? As for Edmonton, we haven't had a major artists in pop music emerge from this city for decades, and there is no excuse for this. I've played in bands and with individual artists in town since the mid-1980s - believe me, there is Major Talent in this city, but Big Music continues to ignore it. (PS: Remember, you have seven days to read the column here before it self-vaporizes!)'It's taken longer than I had hoped, because since the day I walked in the door it feels like we were dealing with these other pressing issues. But there are hugely talented artists everywhere you look, for every taste, smart people with a point of view. It's exciting'."
:: This is too cool. I'm a fan of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. On Eric Alterman's blog, I saw a link to FootnoteTV, which is a site that provides analysis of a very select group of television shows, including TDS, SNL, West Wing, Law & Order, and a few more. FootnoteTV is part of Newsaic. The site is written and produced by Stephen Lee, a journalist/lawyer, whose intention is to focus on issues rather than breaking news:
"My ultimate goal here is to create a kind of Internet journalism that reaches out to modern audiences in new ways. Ultimately, I want to get people more involved in the news, especially younger people, the kind of people that newspapers and television keep losing. The answer is not more channels or simpler stories; it lies in new perspectives and tools. I expound more on this at length in the Site FAQ."So to return back to the beginning, fans of Jon Stewart can read Stephen Lee's footnotes to each episode here, in which Lee provides background and information on the topics presented in each show. My question: where does he find the time and energy to maintain such a detailed site? | TrackBack (0) | Comments (5)
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:: Air America Radio, the new alternative talk radio network, debuted this week in the USA in selected markets, including NYC, Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, and SF. On-air hosts include Al Franken, Janeane Garofolo, Randi Rhodes, and Chuck D of Public Enemy. Talk radio has been dominated by the Right for so long, one wonders why it took so long for the Left to finally wake up and provide an alternative.
For those outside the broadcast areas, and outside of the USA, a live connection using RealOne Player is available here.
:: I am volunteering for the Juno Awards this week, but not at the Big Event on Sunday night. Tomorrow from 1500-1900 hrs, I'll be at City Hall, helping with an interactive electronic display. On Saturday night, I'm working 8:00 pm - 2:30 am (which means 3:30 am, because DST begins on Sunday morning at 2:00 am), at The Power Plant on campus, as a media contact. I should be significantly groggy for the rest of Sunday...
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