Category Archives: Volunteer

text filter for Needs Review

So let’s say you want to help maintain a group of stations, but not in a way that is easy to classify or the station is under the wrong category. Introducing station filtering by keyword

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The return of “Conservative” talk format

News/Talk has been where Conservative Talk was found, with liberal talk split out as Progressive “Information” (aka propaganda talking points from the DNC and AFL/CIO) My current goal is to split the huge groups into smaller categories, with probably under … Continue reading →

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Volunteer Status update

It’s been a month since I pointed out that stations were slipping back into being > 180 days since being given the cursory review I asked people to help with. With about 14,000 stations now with websites or at least … Continue reading →

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The return of Untrusted

This: means this:

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End of tracking sporting events

Last night, while “checking” to see if John Bachelor was still on WABC-AM in New York, I noticed the entry said Seaton Hall College Basketball might be on the air instead. It occurred to me that I haven’t heard live … Continue reading →

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Live by Google, Die by Google

Well, it happened today. Google sent me a notice of malware infection – it has nothing to do with StreamingRadioGuide.com, but rather with a radio station owner in Hawaii whose server was infected. Google partly suspects my web server could … Continue reading →

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New Feature – TraceRoute

This morning’s project was to add an ability to “TraceRoute” to the server hosting a radio station’s website. Particularly if you are interested in “Net Neutrality”, seeing how the Internet works behind the scenes will help you have an informed … Continue reading →

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Verification update

It has been about 6 months since I asked for help specifically to go through the 14,000 or so radio stations to confirm the web site and station format, with the target of doing this check on every station every … Continue reading →

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Whois added to station editor

For those doing station verification, a new link has been added to click to do a “Whois” query. (Note the thumbnail of the page which I added recently but didn’t tell about in the blog) Since I’m not asking you … Continue reading →

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New link to Archive.org

Hello testers, For those of you who have been brave enough to invoke the station editor (which is read only for new helpers), I’ve added a link to open up archive.org for the web page we think is the URL … Continue reading →

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