What a difference a month makes. My rec league team won the league championship. OTOH, Live365 is using the CARP/Library of Congress rulings as an excuse to put the screws to the microbroadcasters on their server. Already they are restricting access to our show to "Preferred Listeners" of their service, and they plan to delete our account unless we agree to pay a "royalty administration fee." Not being pleased with the idea of paying royalties on our own intellectual property, Pattie and I are going to record only one more episode, the 30th, of "Coffee Shop." After uploading that one (each of the previous 29 episodes has already been uploaded at some point), the show will be out of production. Live365 lowers the boom in mid-September: our Internet station will be off the air at that point. So if you want to hear more "Coffee Shop" episodes than you have heard to date, you will need to purchase "Preferred Listener" status from L365, or you can just hang around the CCC site and wait for the series to reemerge in a modified format, hint hint.

Our terrestrial radio show, "First Person, Plural," is ticking along nicely. We have thirteen episodes sewn up and are airing our first rerun this Thursday. We will be rebroadcasting Episode Five. Tune in if you can.

My brother-in-law Deeve (don't ask) bought Pattie a webcam for her birthday. We have been using it to explore the world of digital video. More about that as we become more experienced in the field, but early returns indicate that an Internet-based TV show or similar project may well be the next step for Cultural Construction Company.