Through the magic of pod technology...

I wonder idly if NPR podcasts will boost the popularity of public radio among people in my generation. There's a bunch of us here who listen to them, even some like me who don't have an iPod-- only offbrand players for me, thank you. We get our domestic news from Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!, our in-depth radio essays from This American Life, our international updates from Foreign Dispatch...

Let's turn the tables: while we get our information about the entire universe from podcasts, the entire universe can get its information about Georgia from a podcast! This podcast was created JUST FOR YOU by a bunch of Peace Corps volunteers, some of whom have blogs and would love to hear from you about their creation. Having listened to the first episode, I can only include that it's very well produced, including interviews with Georgians and with our country director, a day in the life of a TEFL volunteer and an NGO volunteer, music, and a radio essay. I guarantee you'll love it and listen to every episode for the rest of your life. You'll lay awake at night, crying and tearing at your pillow because the next episode is still weeks away. You'll sketch pictures of the volunteers based on their voices, and you'll use clips of their speech to create greeting messages for your answering machine. More to the point, you'll learn something about Georgia; you'll form a more complete, balanced picture in your mind of this lovely little country we live in without the distracting hum of my attempts to entertain myself.




And while we're at it, you could also check out the UCSD International Relations & Pacific Studies podcast here. Maybe if they find out I linked to their page, they'll let me go to their school...