"Get Joost" or "Save the Broadcaster, Save the World"

nobody@vox.com(Java Jane) — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:46:29 -0500

I'm never lucky. I can't even win $2 on a lottery scratch off. But bad luck seems to follow me like the plague. You don't know the half of it, trust me. I kinda feel like Hurley on LOST, but the bad luck happens to me, not just those around me, and at least he won the lotto!

Anyway, as I mentioned yesterday, I signed up to be a beta tester for "Joost" (pronounced "juiced"), but there is a significant wait due to the anticipation surrounding this service to even see if you will get selected. (I'm a tech and web geek at heart, so I have to be right there at the front of the line to at very least check out any new gadget or service, if not to buy/subscribe.) They did mention during the beta sign up if you knew someone who had already beta tested and had tokens available to pass along an immediate test to friends, it was probably the best avenue to explore if you wanted to be guaranteed trial access anytime soon. Of course, as luck would have it, I knew no one with a token, no less anyone who even knows or cares what "Joost" is, even though it's one of the most searched and blogged about sights on the net right now.

No one ever has knocked me for lack of resourcefulness, so just for grins I surfed over to Technorati and clicked on "Joost". I read through a bunch of blogs with posts on the topic, and low and behold, my luck changed right before my eyes. I hit the $2 scratch off so to speak. I found a most excellent blog, whose feed I subscribed to since it was that good, but he was also offering tokens to the first few people who read his post, dropped him a comment and agreed to post about their "Joost" beta experience in their blog. (I will tell you who the unknown blogger is so he can get mad props when I review the service itself, as I don't want to cause mass hysteria for him right now.) He read my comment and had me hooked up in a New York minute. Even though the invite came from "Joost" last night, as of now I still haven't entered the site. My luck went south the minute I thought I finally found some, and due to yesterday's decision by the RIAA and powers that be, independent webcasting may shortly be no more. Now I'm busy saving internet radio and my station, my passion, once again.

I was the RIAA's whipping girl as I was so vocal in my last stand against their corporate grift and attempts to snuff out independent and hobbiest webcasters. Now I'm off to mount the second crusade. I'll have plenty of time to get "Joost" when and if the music dies.

To that end, I'll keep anyone who believes in basic freedom and rights, despises wanton corporate greed and feels they don't want 'net radio to go the way of terrestrial radio - 98% full of Britney Spears and other inane and worthless programming - posted on how they can help in the next day or so. I hope that's most of you. In the meantime, I'll also satisfy my curiosity and redeem my token tomorrow. As I promised the unknown blogger, I'll let you know about that too.

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