Today we hosted our second monthly membership drive for Ex’Radio. We called it the “Spooktacular” since tomorrow is Halloween. 22 people signed-up to do their own show, so tune in frequently for new voices and content!

I was contemplating the title of Ex’Radio. You see, I’m signed up for Google alerts and every day or so I get topics on “Ex’Radio”. Although most of the time the results are literally about an ex-radio disc-jockey… as in out-of-work. It’s sad but true when it comes to the current state of radio as we have known it over the past century. Now we have the internet and all of the connectivity it brings, which is good. So… Ex’Radio. Not only does our title reference the unique name of Ex’pression College in all of it’s apostrophe glory- it is also a reference to radio that’s moved on to a new technological medium. Hence, Ex’Radio… get it?

I was at Maker Faire this year and discovered a booth with a DIY (Do It Yourself) Wireless Internet Radio Receiver by Jeff Keyzer (aka mightyohm). Check out his blog, which includes complete instructions on how-to make one of these units. http://mightohm.com/wifiradio

Sincerely,
Digital Soup

Yesterday was the first successful attempt at patching a live Skype call into the Ex’Radio stream. There’s still a little testing to be done with our signal chain, but look for this to become a standard feature over the next few weeks. So if you don’t have Skype, go download it today! Cheers to Sunny and Andy for helping to make this a reality!

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