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We've had more than a few questions about New Albany Now, so let's get right to them.

Your best and fastest way to keep up with the show is to subscribe using the RSS feeds in the column to the right. This page is your best portal to get the latest show, all our archived shows, or the live show during broadcast.

If you're at your computer and you have a microphone and speakers (or a mic/speaker headphone set), you can join the show as a caller by simply clicking to talk while the show is on the air. If you want to contribute or listen when you are away from your computer, call our New York switchboard at (347) 539-5928. Listen online until we bring you on live. If we have open lines, you can ask to listen live. There is no call screener.

We secure scheduled time slots, which are limited. But a show that is scheduled for one hour can go as long as two, if needed. The show is archived in its entirety, so if you miss a show you can listen later, usually within just a few minutes after we go off the air.

Our time (and our time slots) are limited, and we have any number of topics and guests to cover, but if you have a suggestion for us, please e-mail us at newalbanynow@gmail.com or just call in with your suggestion during our live shows. If you have an issue that you believe is being undercovered, and particularly if you'd like to be a guest, let us know. We can move quickly when events are breaking, and we can put a show on the air pretty quickly unless we already have a show scheduled that day.

We'll be happy to work with community groups who want to get the word out about events. We have purchased time opportunities, newsmaker guest interviews, and single-show sponsorships available.

Our commercial sponsors are elated to have a medium to reach our very motivated and local listeners. To be able to reach listeners motivated enough to log in live or later for news and information about our local community is a rare opportunity.

The show would be pretty dull if it were just me, your host, doing all the talking, so we encourage you to call us when you have something to say. Agree or disagree, we promise to treat you with the same courtesy you show us and our guests.

We have a great deal of flexibility, and this example of citizen broadcasting may be an answer to rebuilding that shared sense of community that many of us have missed in an era of media consolidation.

We plan to feature guests from the community, from businesses, and from our neighborhoods. Since it is a campaign season, we'll do our best to have all the candidates on for one-on-one discussions, and we'll expect them to take your calls. That means all candidates. If a candidate declines to speak to you potential voters, we'll just double the time for the candidate who wants to communicate to and with the people.

Later, we'll be setting up additional programming as requested by sponsors. Those may or may not be exclusively of local interest. For example, Destinations Booksellers has already committed to sponsoring six hour-long author interviews. Those should be of national interest.

Expect to see me around town with a digital recorder. If you have something to say, New Albany Now is the place to say it.

Let's hope we look back on this summer as a watershed moment for public participation in setting the agenda by sharing our collective views widely. Whether you call it broadcasting, Webcasting, or narrowcasting, no one can deny that we've needed this kind of forum for a long time.