{"id":785,"date":"2006-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:57:44","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew301\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Informed with the News While Cruising"},"content":{"rendered":"
We asked all the SetSailors how (or if) they stay informed with the news while cruising.<\/div>\n

Staying up with the news?<\/p>\n

It would be nice if we could just ignore the outside world, and the news that comes along with it. Most of the news is depressing, and hasn’t changed a lot month to month, year to year, or generation to generation.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, there is something to be said for keeping one’s finger on the pulse of the world economy, which by extension means geopolitical news.<\/p>\n

In the olden days we used a short-wave radio receiver, tied to a long wire or dipole antenna. We used this to listen to BBC, VOA, AFRTS, and more local broadcasts. Surprisingly, things have not changed that much. Short wave is still a really good way of getting a feel for the "real" (or maybe unreal) world. Except now we can do it with easy-to-operate pre-programmed receivers (although we still use our SSB for this purpose).<\/p>\n

Of course there is the Internet – and if we are somewhere with a high-speed connection we’ll check in on our favorite online news sources. This past summer, with a Verizon broadband card installed in our laptop, we were able to stay up with things while cruising in the wilds of British Columbia and Alaska. In particular we like to know how our Arizona Wildcats are doing in their various sporting endeavors.<\/p>\n

Our best source of data is a an intelligence service (via e-mail) to which we subscribe, offered by a company called STRATFOR (www.stratfor.com)<\/a> . The daily output is too much to keep up with when we are on the boat, so we look at the critical items on the web from time to time. They do offer a free minimized version of the subscription-based service via e-mail. Over the two years that we’ve been watching their take on the world, we have found their reporting and analysis to be very, very good (much better than any of the news organizations).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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