CFR’s #1 Beltway-based listener, Christiana B., braved the hordes of tourists near the White House to get this one. Thanks, Christiana!

Taran Rampersad has posted a valuable listing of Caribbean blogs on his Knowprose.com blog.

July was a month of shortish shows and #27 is no exception. This episode includes musings on yesterday’s power outage | a thank you to new listeners | a reminder to buy t-shirts | thoughts on subscribing via Odeo | congratulations to the Trinidad & Tobago Computer Society on being the producers of the Caribbean’s second podcast (site|feed) | CFR has a drunken fan (or at least a fan who writes emails while inebriated) | Delphine’s blog | a special message from 3Canal re: their Emancipation Concert.

You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways:
MP3 | Online Player | RSS

Links:
Vote for Caribbean Free Radio at Podcast Alley. Help us make the Top 50 this month! | Tortuga Rum Company – makers of the world-famous Tortuga Rum Cakes. Order yours online today! | Caribbean Free Photo – CFR’s photoblog | Treat yourself to a CFR t-shirt!

Music played in this podcast:
“Old Lady Walk a Mile” by Élan Parlé, from Élan Parlé 5 – The Ming-Toy Project | “Now Is The Time (ronaldinho remix)” by 3Canal (remixed by Robbie Styles) from The Now Is The Time Is Now Remixes

Technorati Tags: caribbean, music, trinidad+tobago, rapso, 3canal, podcast, odeo, blog

New York resident John Batson models his CFR Stencil Tee during a visit to the Motherland this past weekend.

You too can be the proud owner of a CFR t-shirt (PodFrog or Stencil design) by clicking here.

One of CFR’s most active listeners, Donald Turnbull , and his wife Diana, have started the Faithworks Podcast, “a nondenominational podcast radio show ministry, whose purpose is to inspire, motivate, and encourage others in the hope of Christ through inspirational sermonettes, interviews, and Caribbean Christian music.”

Donald is originally from St. Thomas and Diana is from Puerto Rico. The premier edition of the show was produced in Chicago, where they live, but Donald tells me they will occasionally be doing shows from the Caribbean as well.

Back in May I circulated this BBC news report among a few interested friends. It concerns Guyanese adventurer Duane de Freitas, who lives in the Guyanese interior and uses a satellite internet connection to communicate with the outside world.

As Skype was one of the tools de Freitas mentioned using, one of Skype’s bloggers tracked him down and did this interview.

Technorati Tags: skype, guyana, rainforest, internet, satellite, blogging, caribbean, ICT

Dev Anand Teelucksingh sent this link to MegaTrack, “an OSS application that tracks Atlantic and eastern Pacific tropical storms on a map. Requires Java to run and installs available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. Gets the storm locations from NOAA’s NHC website.”

Download MegaTrack here.

Caribbean Free Photo has some interesting new stuff as well, including a photo of a West Indian Travel Permit from the 1960s.

Technorati Tags: hurricane, hurricane+tracking, storm+tracking, photoblog, caribbean, weather

All the explosions and galeforce winds we’ve been having around here lately seem to have distracted me from the fact that Odeo, which I said in CFR #26 wasn’t yet open to the general public, went live several days ago–check it out.

They’re still technically in beta and seem to be quite responsive to suggestions, so by all means tell them what you think. And here’s CFR’s Odeo page, which you can use to subscribe or listen.

Take a look as well at the comments for CFR #23 for Dev Anand Teelucksingh’s correction to my statement that the local press’s online editions were slow to report the news of the explosion (though I did retract my comment re: The Trinidad Express in the podcast itself).

Technorati Tags: odeo, podcast, caribbeanfreeradio, podcatcher, Trinidad, explosion, caribbean

Another Emily update (with apologies to the nation of Grenada for omitting to mention that they had also taken a bit of a beating), plus musings on Trinidad and Tobago’s being featured on the Wikipedia front page | CFR’s scandalous omission from the iTunes podcast directory | Bicyclemark’s much-appreciated support | CFR’s alleged appearance on Sirius Satellite Radio | my trip to the Blood Bank, and more.

You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways:
MP3 | Online Player | RSS

Links:
WeatherCarib | National Hurricane Center – and their Emily RSS feed | Weather Underground | Taran Rampersad’s blog | Wikipedia | CFR’s Odeo page | Bicyclemark’s Audiocommuniqué | Digital Flotsam – P W Fenton’s podcast

Music played in this podcast:
“Keep Trying” by Eldon Blackman from the album Spirit of Love

Other links:
Nominate your favourite podcast/s for a Podcast Award! (Be sure to read the rules, however) | Vote for Caribbean Free Radio at Podcast Alley. Help us make the Top 50 this month! | Tortuga Rum Company – makers of the world-famous Tortuga Rum Cakes. Order yours online today! | Caribbean Free Photo – CFR’s photoblog | Treat yourself to a CFR t-shirt!

Technorati Tags: hurricane, tropical+storm, hurricane+emily, caribbean, podcast, weather, odeo, itunes, podcasting, podcast+directory, caribbeanmusic

Update recorded at 1:22pm(ish): I get on Skype with Janine Mendes-Franco and discuss the upgrading of Emily (hurricane warning for Tobago; hurricane watch for Trinidad), the calm in Tobago and that the Prime Minister had advised everybody to be home by 12:30pm.

Weather sites:
WeatherCarib
National Hurricane Center

You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways:
MP3 | Online Player | RSS

Technorati Tags: hurricane, weather, caribbean+weather, hurricane+emily, trinidad, podcast,tropical+storm, tropical+storm+emily

Seems it’s all about Skype these days on CFR. With Tropical Storm Emily headed our way this morning, I get on the phone with my buddy (and favourite armchair weatherman/surfer) Walt Lovelace to discuss the weather.

Walt recommends the WeatherCarib web site for all your hurricane info. The Pod Weather podcast is also carrying updates.

You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways:
MP3 | Online Player | RSS

Technorati Tags: hurricane, weather, caribbean+weather, hurricane+emily, trinidad, podcast,tropical+storm, tropical+storm+emily

CFR’s first Skype hookup, in which I discuss this afternoon’s explosion in Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city, the hurricane season, the London bombings and more with my friend Janine Mendes-Franco.

You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways:
MP3 | Online Player | RSS Feed

Links mentioned in this podcast:
Consumerwrites.com – consumer rights web site recently launched in Trinidad & Tobago | Flickr group on the Trinidad explosion started by Christopher Yee Mon

Other links:
Nominate your favourite podcast/s for a Podcast Award! (Be sure to read the rules, however) | Vote for Caribbean Free Radio at Podcast Alley. Help us make the Top 50 this month! | Tortuga Rum Company – makers of the world-famous Tortuga Rum Cakes. Order yours online today! | Caribbean Free Photo – CFR’s photoblog

Music played in this podcast:
“New Vision” by Eldon Blackman and The Love Circle from the album Home Grown | “Kite Juda Yo Pale” by RAM from the album Kite Yo Pale

Technorati Tags: bombing, bombings, explosion, Trinidad, Trinidad+Tobago, London+bombing, caribbean, caribbeanmusic, podcast,

See a CFR t-shirt on the body of a real, live human at James Slusher’s Chair and Automan weblog! Thanks, James!

And feel free to purchase your own CFR t-shirts by clicking here and here.

Seems new podcasts have been added to iTunes, because I just did a search in the podcast directory for the word “caribbean”, and for the first time got a result. The result, however, was Dead Pirates’ Society, a podcast of far more recent vintage than CFR.

Can anyone blame me for feeling a bit just a bit paranoid?

UPDATE – 8:49pm: Minutes after posting this I did another search for “caribbean” in the iTunes directory just to make sure I wasn’t being too paranoid. Now Dead Pirates’ Society is no longer coming up, though they are still listed in the directory. So it’s either that DPS removed the keyword “caribbean” from their feed within the last few minutes, or Apple is screwing around with something as we speak. Or I could simply be going insane. . . . Which do you think? Email me with your votes.

And speaking of votes, it’s a new month, so the votes return to zero at Podcast Alley. I’ve now made it even easier by putting a direct voting link in the sidebar–just enter your e-mail address and hit the button.

UPDATE – 8:56pm: Oh, oh, now DPS is back. . . .

Technorati Tags: itunes, itunes4.9, caribbeanfreeradio, podcast, directory