Well, as Brian posted in his blog yesterday, he is now on his way to Mexico to spread the Radio Free Peterborough concept to international development. Yesterday, Brian and I started with a nice greasy breakfast at the Speakeasy Pub in Peterborough and then made our way to my place here in Toronto by bus.

We enjoyed our in-flight movie Invincible Shaolin (ok, we watched it on my laptop with a headphone splitter) and then set about some last-minute shopping for a dedicated external hard drive for Brian's powerbook.

We finally found what we were looking for, and after a little frantic re-packing and a final gear tech run, I packed Brian full of a big dinner (baked chicken breast, fresh gnocci with home-made roasted red pepper sauce, and enough steamed asparagus to choke a goat) and sent him on his way.

He should be in Mexico by now (it's about 6:00 pm EST) and trying to figure out where he'll sleep. It's very very exciting to see our humble little project growing into an international development concept - but it only makes sense: people need mechanisms for their voices to be heard.

Traditional broadcasting technologies are very expensive, and resource-intensive to maintain (a radio transmitter uses a LOT of power!) - but an Internet broadcast initiative can hit the whole world with minimal technology infrastructure requirements. Witness Trent Radio: 15,000+ listeners from 62 countries in 9 months for $0.

Not too shabby. I also finally got to meet Lester Alfonso in person for the first time. We've emailed back and forth a lot, and I've gotten things in the mail from him - but I'd never met him in person until Saturday. Ahh - Internet. :)

We're hoping to hear from Brian via his blog in the next few days some time - so stay tuned!