{"id":1493,"date":"2011-09-15T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2011-09-15T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T18:52:36","slug":"listening-post-talk-around-the-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/09\/15\/listening-post-talk-around-the-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: talk around the station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I spend most of my workday peering into dual computer monitors and typing and clicking furiously, NCPR is in fact a great social network&#8211;one where it is hard to spend a day without learning, or learning of, something interesting and new. This being<em> Listening Post<\/em> day, Barb Heller dropped by to fill me in on a guest on this afternoon\u2019s<em> String Fever<\/em> who will talk about the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/upnorth\/comcal\/index.php?id=56087\">Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville<\/a>. (I know, I\u2019m excited, too.) According to Barb we should be\u2014it\u2019s a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>But as an aside she mentioned a thing I\u2019d never heard of\u2014that the Lowville public school has a community service requirement to graduate. Student labor, in part, makes the festival possible. I turned to our new news intern, Roger Miller, and asked if his high school had a community service requirement. To my surprise, he said yes: 120 hours. In his case he spent it as a volunteer tour guide on a Cold War-era submarine, but other classmates worked soup kitchens and food pantries, neighborhood clean-up, etc. What a great idea, particularly in cash-strapped communities trying to hold it all together in hard times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1494\" title=\"crow_150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/09\/crow_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A little later, Nora Flaherty sent around her promo for a news item on controlling the annual crow infestation in Watertown. I sent her back a poem I\u2019d written shortly after the fall of the USSR about solving a crow infestation in Moscow. She passed that on to her man John, who sent back a truly creepy demo recording of his new song observed through the baleful eye of a crow. Which brought to mind other crow poems I had written and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Rocco then chimed in from the West Coast where she is spending a week in my world, at a Knight Foundation &#8220;boot camp&#8221; learning about using new media to cover old beats.\u00a0 She says, in part, &#8220;I am buried alive in drupal, buzzdata, scraperwiki, and other stuff I think an old lady like me is probably crazy trying to understand!&#8221; I know the feeling. Then I met Radio Bob on his way out the door, balancing a transmitter and a toolbox, on his way home to tune a new radio antenna in his garage. Didn&#8217;t know you needed to&#8211;didn&#8217;t know you could.<\/p>\n<p>New information, new correspondents, new day. Pretty nice. Turn to your co-worker and ask what\u2019s new. Pass it on in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I spend most of my workday peering into dual computer monitors and typing and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}