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Homebrew takes us to a Kentucky prison where messages from distant relatives reach inmates via the airwaves. It's one of several projects run by appalshop.com. Keith is back from vacation in Canada, and reflecting on all that has occurred since he left. Brad is one guy. One guy who makes songs to put on the internet. And he has one CD. It's called I Don't Know What I'm Doing. The song we're going to hear first is called "Making Me Nervous" and it comes to us courtesy of Podshow.com. DVDiva is on the couch watching a 12 hour epic called Broken Saints. Is it worth the investment? Tune in to find out. Online tools is back with a new online extravaganza that all you bloggers are going to love. It's called vox. One more tune from Brad before we go. This is "Look and Feel Years Younger."

Keith Gottschalk is on the road and checking out Canada wherever he goes! Toronto's Pomegranate are a band of queer women with a conscious klezmer mission. You can check them out at sonicpomegranate.com While he was recently at the Media Giraffe Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, cohost Wayne MacPhail sat down with Cho and Ilona Meagher, of E Plurbis Media. E Plurbis Media is a citizen journalism collective from across the U.S. doing rigorous investigative journalism. The group is part of a growing trend towards "by the people, for the people" media online. (http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/). DVDiva is looking back at a group of screen sirens who made it to her doorway Should a person speak up when they witness cruelty to the dog next door? Auntie has a few solutions.

Keith Gottschalk reminds us of the power of peace love and understanding. Cathi Bond, our DVDiva gets happily horrified. Co-host Wayne MacPhail and his wife, Barbara Ledger, share a sound seeing tour of their recent hike thorugh Algonquin Park, close encounter included. Jen Moore brings us a freshly perked Homebrew that looks at the digital divide through the prism of gender. Harris Newman is a noted Montreal-based finger-style guitarist, who weaves very calming, acoustic instrumental tracks http://www.indieville.com/reviews/harrisnewman.htm

Online Tools for the 21st Century - RSS Feeds RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. RSS feeds are to web browsing what ordering by catalogue is to window shopping. You can use them to make sites send you fresh info instead of you going in search of it. You can learn more about RSS at http://frl.bluehighways.com/frlarchives/000123.html Check out Bloglines, an online RSS reader at: http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs Jennifer Moore visits with Patrick Elie. A prominent Haitian human rights activist prompts Homebrew to take a second look at the life and work of Jean Dominique. The complete conversation is available on radio4all.net.

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Keith Gottschalk's been watching the campaign for the Canadian election, and mulling over the non-confidence vote that got us here. Could it ever happen in the United States? It's wine, women and song in the book lounge book segment today, or at least wine. Konrad Ejbich [http://www.winewriterscircle.ca/members/kejbich.html] talks about his new wine guide "A Pocket Guide to Ontario Wines, Wineries, Vineyards & Vines." And we discover that not all guide books are created equal. Ejbich gives us a tip for a great wine to try and tells is like it is – yes, your baby is ugly – and spares us the dreck. Find great gifts in the book lounge bookstore at www.rabble.ca/bookstore The song is called August, by a great pair of artists. Vancouver bassist Wendy Atkinson [http://www.tinforest.com/tinfr/wendyatkinson/index.html] and publisher/guitarist David Lester [http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/meccanormal/dave/]. Atkinson has produced and collaborated on several albums, most recently Trim (2003), and also plays in an all-female Vancouver-based pop band called Licorice Sea. David Lester has been active in the West Coast art and punk scene for decades; his recent projects include graphic novels, poster series, and a film collaboration with poverty activist Bud Osborn. Auntie has returned from the spa, thank goodness. She's got some advice for those of us who want to see everyone paid well for their work. DVDiva Cathi Bond loves to watch violent movies. But it's got her wondering: why oh why do we all want to see the stars take their licks to get our kicks? Homebrew gets newsy with a report back from the World Society on the Information Society, Phase 2 in Tunis. Frieda Werden, Vice President for North America of the World Association of Community Broadcasters, takes us there. Scott Deneau provides musical back-up. For more info go to wsis.amarc.org. With the Chronicles of Narnia sending kids everywhere scurrying for the walk-in closet to see what's inside, we take a look at what might happen if that fur-coat-lined cupboard took our heroes somewhere more prosaic. A little more music from the dynamic duo David Lester and Wendy Atkinson. The song is Lost Lagoon.

No indie media, and no democracy is the order of the day in Haiti, according to Nadine Dominique. She's the daughter of late Haitian journalist Jean Dominique. In this episode of Homebrew, Nadine talks about her country, and what's needed there. http://www.theagronomist.com/index2.html Rabble columnist Keith Gottschalk has a few words to speak about Jean Chretien, and how he underscores the difference between US candidates and Canadian ones - he's brash, he's craggy, and he's real. That might be why he managed to be a Canadian PM. That jive wouldn't work in the US, where candidates need a pretty and bland TV image to take home the presidency. Auntie loves you, and she wants you to stick to your principles. Tune in to find out how. Montreal's Marlowe are on the disk drive this episode - the first tune we'll hear is Roman Empire. Time was, to be you needed to avoid Toronto's Dufferin Grove Park at night. No longer. These days it's a destination for families who want to share communal meals, and has its own theater community to boot. The park has become a hub of activity for the community that surrounds it. Sharon Oosthoek has the story. http://www.dufferinpark.ca/home/dufferinpark.html Stephen Lewis joins Rabble books editor Lisa Rundle to speak about his work as the UN Secretary-General's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and how he sees an increasing interest in the principles of civil society in this feature interview. http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/ We'll hear one more number out of Marlowe. The song is called Labour Day. http://www.marlowespace.com/

If I learned anything from this weekend, it's to love the sound of my own voice - uh oh. No, I learned to love the sound of YOUR voices! It's not the most perfect podcast, but it comes from the heart and mind of a Canuck in "paradise" who's had a few too many drinks with a whole bunch of crazy techno-geeks and podcasting-junkies. And I mean that in the BEST WAY! A big shout-out to Julien Smith from Montreal (his show is In Over Your Head http://www.inoveryourhead.net/ - excellent), one of the 5 Canucks at the conference. We quit the Saturday night party to record ourselves reading In Flanders Fields for Mark Blevis of Electric Sky (http://www.electricsky.net), hard to say if we made the deadline with the time change and such. But it was pretty damn cool. Stuff I loved and people who make me proud to be a podcaster: CC Chapman - Accidental Hash Doug Kaye - IT Conversations Noah Glass - ODEO Dave Slusher - Evil Genius Chronicles (look for clips of his inspiring talk on the next episode of rabble radio) ---and I'm leaving it there or else I'd have to type 'till dawn. Let's all go out for (more) beer when I get back and I'll infect you with the same enthusiasm. Check out the portable media expo at http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/ Check out Brother Love at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/ Check out Chance at http://www.mynameischance.com/

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