Restoration of Monticello’s North All-Weather Passageway – Monticello Podcasting – Henry Cersley

We apologize for the recent halt in our full operation. The server that runs our site has been experiencing technical difficulties, which means the database that runs WordPress has been offline, so we’ve been waiting patiently to resume operations.

While I have your attention, I’ll share some information about what we’ve done so far, and give you a sense of what we’re all about. We created CPN back in April to provide an outlet for speeches, panel discussions and features that were recorded in our area. Since then, we’ve had over 4,000 downloads, on everything from the Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, to a preview of what’s happening at the Prism. We’re the only place where you’ll find this kind of audio programming, for use on your computer or your iPod. We’re dedicated to expanding the public square, providing a public service that has heretofore gone unfulfilled.

With a spirit of adventure, we are currently developing several more programs for your enjoyment and education, and hope to produce some interesting pilots in July and August. We see this as an experimental website that will serve as a test for citizen-driven radio. What ideas do you have? Have you ever wanted to produce radio? We’ll train you, and put you to work. There are all kinds of great things that happen in this town that most of us can’t get to.

We will also be altering the way in which we handle podcasting feeds, splitting into several different kind of feeds. We’ll have one for speeches, one for features, and one for interviews, perhaps. Maybe one for experimental music, or for poetry!

Are you interested in becoming a CPN producer? Perhaps you can develop a podcast for your interest, organization, religion, or business.

CPN’s parent company, Wordcast Productions, is now ready to offer equipment and rudimentary training to people who have an audio project in mind. Whether it be a documentary about your love of Scrabble to a feature about an upcoming play, we feel that podcasting is an excellent way to spread the word about cultural and political events in town. We can help you get your message across.

We’ll be holding an informational meeting on Tuesday, July 12 in the downstairs at Court Square Tavern, at 8:00. If it’s a bit too smoky for you, we’ll hold another one later in the month. We’ll have a basic introduction to audio recording and reporting, and maybe talk a little about the craft of audio.

Things seem back to normal at the moment, but that could change as the server company settles things down.

Contact us at seantubbs AT gmail.com if you’re interested in attending, or to ask any questions. Together we can offer an alternative voice.

We’re only two months old, so we don’t have a lot of policies, or style
guides, or anything like that. But, when we first launched the site, we
didn’t expect to be doing personal reviews, or anything like that. And
we still don’t.

But this week, I watched a great television program on FX that embodies
the kind of journalism I think we need more of in this country. The show is
called 30 Days, and it’s by Morgan Spurlock, the same guy who spent a month eating nothing but McDonalds for the movie Super Size Me . This week’s episode is about a Christian guy from West Virginia who travels to Dearborn, Michigan, to live as a Muslim for 30 days.

This is my quick review of the show, which should be watched by anyone interested in getting past this crazy us versus them mentality that we seem to have in our country these days.

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Think for a second of all the places that have experienced genocide in the last fifteen years since the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of American influence in the world. Rwanda, Kosovo, and Sudan come to mind, but there’s a whole group of countries and slaughters that never make the news. How can we stop the wholesale killing of entire cultures, races and political factions by those with more political and military power? And, how do we own up to our own history of genocide?

That’s the topic of today’s installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call. This week, Rick Moore speaks with recent Albemarle High School graduate Casey Shupe, and Pete Ronayne, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia. Pete is the author of Never Again?: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide since the Holocaust. Casey offers the perspective of a young person about to enter college to study political thought. As always, Rick begins the show with a monologue wrapping up the week’s events.

This file is now offline. If you would like to hear it, please contact us at 434-295-6609 or e-mail us at seantubbs(at)gmail.com…

Back this week! Another installment of the Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, courtesy of WNRN. The Charlottesville Podcasting Network will present each program for 7 days, so you’ve got until Saturday to stream or download this file.

This week, Rick Moore waxes poetic about Father’s Day, and then discusses a variety of children’s issues with Dr. Kent Peterson and Dr. Jack Travis of the group Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children discuss childcare with Rick Moore.

This file is now offline. If you would like to hear it, please contact us at 434-295-6609 or e-mail us at seantubbs(at)gmail.com…