The cost of moving data over broadband seems to
be rather high in northeast Ohio's rural areas. This can be a
problem when a program like LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast
wants to seek content submissions. A shift to physical carriers of
digital content, though, removes some of the cost woes.
As to the matter of cost, it seems to be most cost-effective to
just throw a CD in a #0 bubble mailer and send it using the United
States Postal service. While FedEx and UPS both provide shipping
options, both would be only feasible if you had money to burn.
Unless it is burning material on the level of Deepthroat, it should
not be necessary to deal with FedEx or UPS.
There is a shipping address available to send things to the eastern
operations on The Farm. That address is:
2348 Dewey Road
Ashtabula, OH 44004-9656
United States of America
Segments submitted should be within 5-10 minutes. To ensure
favorable handling, a heads-up warning that something is coming
should be sent to erielookingproductions@gmail.com which will then
be re-rerouted as appropriate. Ideally, discussion and coordination
prior to a guest submitting material should take place via e-mail.
Encrypted mail should use PGP key DC5A625B and the sending party
must have a public key on file at pgp.mit.edu or else
their message will be unreadable.
Submissions become the property of Erie Looking Productions.
Keeping it simple, direct, and compelling is the best guidance as
to what is sought.