Wow, it's December 3!!! --- Part One

Greetings radio children!

As you know, I try to make all my classes as practical as possible. I also try to give you opportunities which you can make use of long after the class is over. I also try to go around any difficulties we come up against. You may have noticed that we have had some technical difficulties getting some of our shows to play. Also, we STILL do not have the ability to "stream" these shows, meaning they start playing as soon as you click on them. I would like to start fixing that. Here's what I want you to do:

1) do a Google search for "free online radio" This will bring up a startlingly HUGE number of hits. Apparently, there are a lot of people doing broadcasting out there online.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+online+radio&aq=f&oq=

2) Pick out at least eight of these sites to investigate. Make sure you record somewhere the name of each site, plus the website address

3) Your sites must include at least two different "genres", meaning they play at least two different kinds of broadcast. I haven't looked at them all, not by a long shot, so I don't know everything that's out there. See if you can find stations out there that do the stuff you've been doing, whether its sports, hard rock, gossip and celeb stuff, gaming, politics, etc etc.

4) For each one of these stations, list at least two things they do that you wish we could do, if it were possible.

Please make all this information available in a PAGE called "What's Out There - Part One"

Ahhhhhh, but what the heck is a "page"? Well, its kind of like a discussion posting, only it allows you to create instant links to websites simply by typing in the address then hitting ENTER. Or, you can copy and paste, then hit Enter. Either way, please make sure that all the information I'm asking for is listed on this page.

Cheers,
Mr. L