Something very exciting coming out of my current hometown: <a href="http://www.chinaherald.net/2005/05/internet-first-steps-of-radio-shanghai.html" title="Fons Tuinstra's China Herald">Radio Shanghai</a>.

<quote>This evening we had to move our first radio shanghai meeting from our Dongbei restaurant downstairs to a Xinjiang restaurant, because more people than expected showed up. A pleasant brainstorming session about the way we can cooperate in a local podcasting initiative.</quote>

Radio Shanghai is the brainchild of China-based Dutch journalist Fons Tuinstra.  Its founding members are being drawn mainly from the <a href="http://blog.meetup.com/216/">Shanghai Webloggers Meetup Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.fccsh.org/">Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club</a>, but members of the general public are enouraged to show support and/or get involved.

I didn't make it to the exploratory meeting but I'm interested in working with the technical group, if only to learn a little about how real radio is made.