If you're interested in blogging and politics, here are a couple of radio programs that mostly focus on the Dean campaign. Unfortunately, since voters didn't buy Dean a second round, these shows seem to have lost some of their fizz. But that's not their fault.
Christopher Lydon's The Blogging of the President call-in provides an interesting overview of the Dean campaign and its use of the internet. Naturally, the show itself has its own blog. Here's the great thing: you can get a big file with all of Lydon's interviews for the show--uncut--in one massive download. [Big file for big appetites.] BTW, if you like Lydon try his Whole Wide World series on globalism; find it on the nav-bar on the left. Excellent.
WNYC's always-good "Radio Lab" has a new show entitled "Will Meetup Rebuild America?" Intro: "There is a national crisis happening right now in America. It’s not the economy, or the war, or mad cow disease. It’s picnics. According to Harvard professor Robert Putnam, America is facing a national picnic crisis. Putnam says that in 1975 the average American went on five picnics. Today, the average American only goes on two. He also says that social isolation may be as big of a risk fac tor for death as smoking—it may even be bigger. Can websites like Meetup.com help solve this problem? Can they get Howard Dean elected president?"
While we're talking radio, here's a link to a London program, Traffic Island Discs, in which the producer wonders around a particular section of the city asking people what they're listening to on their iPod. He does a brief interview, taps in, and the program's playlist comes from these chance encounters. Great idea. But the musical taste of swinging London these days is just so-so.
On the other hand, the station on which this program airs, Resonance, is one of my super-favs.
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