While living in the UK for 8 years, I developed a taste for listening to the
BBC World Service. The BBC practices a rather old-fashioned kind of journalism: they ask difficult questions and then press the interviewee to answer the question when the scoundrel tries to squirm out of it. They also have been known to report news from far away places. Now I'm back in the USA, and I miss all that, especially when cooking dinner.
Marketplace ain't doing it for me.
My life has been enhanced this week because now I can shoot the
BBC World radio stream over to the speakers in the kitchen. I can also stream
Air America.
I have no commercial interest in any of these products, and the technology only works with Macs at the moment. I just thought that other Kossaks who use Apple's Airport Express wireless should know about a new shareware ($20) download called Airfoil. With this plug-in, I can stream wirelessly any radio or music that comes out of iTunes, Real, or WMP. Goodbye Marketplace, hello the Ticket. So, next time the SCLM NPR has you down, stream in some BBC or Air America for a reality check.