Powered by Castpost California steel pan tuner Dave Beery poses for a video op at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he dropped in earlier this month to tune the pans belonging to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Steel Drum Band (“the northernmost steel drum band in the world”). And who can blame him for [...]
This week my Global Voices post takes the form of a chat with Haitian-American blogger Alice Eddie Backer. And when you get a moment, do put yourself on CFR’s Frappr map.
You’ll recall I said I’d shot some bad video last Wednesday during the street celebrations in Port of Spain following Trinidad & Tobago’s qualifications. What I shot was such a pile, in fact, that I was able to salvage only one clip, which you can view by clicking here.
A thousand pardons to CFR listeners (and WNYC) for wasting your bandwidth with my indavertent inclusion of the audio file of Leonard Lopate’s Derek Walcott interview in my syndication feed. It’s fixed now. Which is not to say that the interview isn’t extremely interesting. It’s just that it had no right being in my feed.
The November 22 edition of the Leonard Lopate Show on New York public radio station WNYC features an interview with Derek Walcott, on the occasion of the exhibition of his paintings at the June Kelly Gallery in Soho. The segment is currently downloadable from the WNYC site and also available as a podcast, but you’ll [...]
Here, at last, is CFR’s new promo. (In fact, it’s part PSA-part promo). Play it using this link: Powered by Castpost Or subscribe to CFR using any of these methods: RSS | Subscribe via iTunes | Subscribe via Odeo Let me know what you think, and by all means, heed its message.
Global Voices has won a Best of the Blogs award. I’m a GV newbie, so can’t take any of the credit, but I’m extremely proud to be a part of this. Here’s a word about the award from GV co-founder Ethan Zuckerman. Technorati Tags: 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards, blog, global voices
“Who will devise a programme for the nation over the next six months which will ask every man and woman to become a person of skill (whatever your skill may be), discipline and hard work? Who will think out of the current box of money and fete and seize this once in a lifetime opportunity [...]
In prepping for my TV appearance tonight on blogging in the Caribbean, I came across this posting by Amy Gahran, which I think gives the clearest explanation of blogging I’ve seen to date. I’d read it before, but I’d forgotten how good it was.
I posted at Global Voices this afternoon, and now I’m about to prepare for a television appearance: tonight at 9:30 I’ll be on Lennox Grant‘s show on CNC TV talking about blogging in the Caribbean. The one who should really be doing this is Nicholas, who was in fact the one originally asked but who [...]
“I’m sitting outside Sunderland Uni’ on the river Wear, Northumberland” writes CFR listener Justin Benn, who lives in Alnwick (home of Harry Potter’s castle) in Northumberland and is completing his MA in Media Production, Film and Video at Sunderland University. Through CFR, Justin and I also discovered that we have mutual first cousins! And have [...]
A tiny Caribbean nation momentarily forgets its woes as it celebrates its football team’s ascension to the World Cup 2006. In episode #36 Nicholas Laughlin and I go in search of the euphoria–which, as it turns out, isn’t too hard to find. If you’re a fan of blaring car horns, rhythm sections, stream of consciousness, [...]
Cars went past with their horns blaring, headlights on in broad daylight, flags streaming from windows. People stood on the side of the road waving flags at passing cards, matador style. Little knots of people had formed outside bars or rumshops. And everywhere: smiles. From Nicholas’s very comprehensive eyewitness account of the post-match revelry in [...]
. . . but was “Tobago” not “fit to print”? Shame that the paper of record couldn’t find the space to include this nation’s actual name in the headline, especially since Dwight Yorke, the captain of the Trinidad & Tobago football team is Tobago-born (not to mention instrumental in the scoring of the only goal [...]
It’s stale news by now, but Trinidad & Tobago is going to the World Cup in Germany next year, the smallest (least populated) country ever to do so (and expect to become really tired of hearing that bit of info repeated over the next several months). We were all on tenterhooks towards the finish, especially [...]
“Trinidad & Tobago is on the fringe of history. . . ” says one of the television commentators, with only minutes to go before the end of the match. Read more about the history here. Nicholas is up to post #20! Technorati Tags: Bahrain, caribbean, football, soca warriors, soccer, sport, trinidad tobago, trinidad + tobago
Ryan Naraine has joined the Skypecast. . . Technorati Tags: Bahrain, caribbean, football, soca warriors, soccer, sport, trinidad tobago, trinidad + tobago
“did you know that nicholas’s updates are faster than ESPNs, they may try to shut him down soon” says Dylan Kerrigan via Skype IM. Technorati Tags: Bahrain, caribbean, football, soca warriors, soccer, sport, trinidad tobago, trinidad + tobago
Just had a request from my buddy Dylan Kerrigan in Washington DC to join my Skype radio broadcast conference, so now he’s on as well. Technorati Tags: Bahrain, caribbean, football, soca warriors, soccer, sport, trinidad tobago, trinidad + tobago
“. . . . offices across the country have closed so staff can watch the match, & even the Senate has adjourned early today for the sake of senatorial football fans.” writes Nicholas in a post where he also discusses some of the T&T contingent’s experiences in Bahrain. And still no sign of him on [...]