It's my opinion that the song circles and concerts on PalTalk are an amazing use of the Internet and one that should continue in some formal way. The idea of a world-wide song circle in which like-minded people from many different countries and cultures can participate is revolutionary. It seems like the sort of thing for which one could find grant money somewhere. Perhaps an arts grant or the sponsorship of some university or maybe even the U.N. The idea would make a good news article in the right publication.

I'd like to see a "Mudcat Auditorium" or something like that have persistence on PalTalk and be restricted to users who have logged in here at the Cat to get the most recent password. I don't want to restrict access to the password, I just want participants to come to the Cat once in a while to find out what it is today.

I also seem to recall that the Java language and environment contains the needed multi-media support to create the kind of world-wide auditorium we need. We'd have to write it ourselves of course but when we finished we could include Macintosh, Amiga and UNIX users as well as Windows users. I doubt that much band width is required to host it for the number of participants we have. I would think that the bandwidth needed for Mudcat Radio would be more than enough although I could be wrong.

Let's find a way to keep the capability going.

      - Mark