Category Archives: Internet Streaming

Podcast / Archive list v0.00001

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Art Stone

Podcast list Give it a look – now would be the time to make suggestions :) For a while, my task now is to populate the data…..

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Tracking Me, Tracking You

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Art Stone

The Wall Street Journal looked a few days ago about just how pervasive cross-site web tracking has become. They took a “clean” system and visited the top 50 web sites and then looked very carefully to see how many “beacons” … Continue reading →

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Critical Windows Patch

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Art Stone

Microsoft just “pushed” an “out of cycle” patch of a CRITICAL update that you’ll want to install ASAP. If you don’t allow Windows Update to automatically apply updates, please do a manual update now. This flaw in Windows is not … Continue reading →

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Ricochet Podcast

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Art Stone

I just had a pleasant surprise listening to a new podast on Stitcher that I subscribed to last week. It’s called Ricochet. The subject of this week’s show was a discussion about the future of the newspaper business by people … Continue reading →

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Change of focus

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Art Stone

If you’ve noticed more talk about podcasts and non-“radio” things more in the blog, it’s not your imagination. This mirrors my own personal change in interests. This web site started as an extension of my interest in seeing radio get … Continue reading →

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Bar Inflation

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Art Stone

Apple admitted today that the # of bars of signal strength is wrong. Two real bars may show up as 4 bars. There have long been reports that the “AT&T problem” isn’t a problem with the AT&T network, but rather … Continue reading →

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Winding down of FindAnISP.com

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

Back around 1996, I started working on a directory to provide unbiased information about the dialup Internet choices that were available as non-geeky people started to become aware of the Internet, and focused on information for people who decided that … Continue reading →

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Verizon iPhone coming in January

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

Bloomberg is reporting that Verizon will start selling the iPhone in January. AT&T’s phones are based on GSM, which is the global standard. Verizon uses CDMA, which is basically only used where the US Government has a military presence – … Continue reading →

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WOR/AM “goes country”

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Art Stone

Story here No, WOR/AM in New York isn’t taking off Savage and Beck to play Country Music – they’re adding a new non-radio internet stream called WORCountry.com, available on the web and on the iPhone (coming soon…) WOR is owned … Continue reading →

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The Judge unleashed

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Art Stone

Judge Andrew Napolitano (of Fox News and until recently co-host of the Brian and the Judge radio show) was on the Alex Jones show today, starting near the end of the first hour. Without Fox News overlords to worry about, … Continue reading →

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It’s IOS4 day

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Art Stone

While the iPhone 4 isn’t here for a few days, existing iPhone/iPad users have access to the new version of the iPhone Operating System (IOS). This is a big deal for streaming radio over iPhone – no longer should you … Continue reading →

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School is out for summer!… which means…

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Art Stone

School is out for summer!… which means that local radio hosts are taking vacations. Smaller stations often don’t have anyone to fill in for their one local host when they’re on vacation (often the host is the station owner), so … Continue reading →

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Starbucks to offer free wifi starting Ju…

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Art Stone

Starbucks to offer free wifi starting July 1st – in partnership with AT&T and Yahoo. This is probably at least in part to offload traffic from AT&T’s overloaded 3G network. Up until now, if you didn’t have a Starbuck’s card, … Continue reading →

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New Howie Carr streaming station in Mass…

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Art Stone

New Howie Carr streaming station in Massachusetts – and it’s a curious one. WHYN-AM in Springfield has started streaming. What is peculiar is this station is owned by Clear Channel. (Howie may have been on it for a long time, … Continue reading →

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“Local programming only” – many statio…

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Art Stone

“Local programming only” – many stations only stream local programs (usually the morning program) – because they don’t want to pay music royalties or can’t or don’t want to stream syndicated programming. I’ve modified the Station Check page to exclude … Continue reading →

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