Update: Larue, in comments, induces me to add a link to my opening FDL post, where I introduce Virtually Speaking. I do appreciate the feedback.

Schedule for Sunday July 10 through Thursday July 14. We talk with – and you comment upon and pose questions for -  the writers you love to read. Virtually Speaking is public affairs, progressive voices, current events. Comments and questions through a digitally present studio audience. Which could include you. (see IRC below) All programs webcast and archived at BlogTalkRadio.  Available free at iTunes. See IRC below to participate. I post weekly, so you can go back to previous posts and link through to the juicy stuff.

Sunday, July 10 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific | Virtually Speaking Sundays | Avedon Carol and Correntewire‘s Lambert Strether and Vastleft in a wide ranging conversation. “Our Media Not Theirs” |  Developments of the week, highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts of traditional media. Authentic, informative and passionate. | Listen live and later on BTR

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Tuesday, July 12 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking Susie |  Susie Madrak chats with American political activist and writer Matt Stoller about current political stories. Listen live and later on BTR.

Thursday, July 14 | 8 pm eastern | 5 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking A-Z | Stuart Zechman and Culture of Truth| This week in liberalism: a continuing conversation. Tonight’s question: Ought Liberals believe that Barack Obama really believes that “solving” the deficit “problem” will allow liberals to begin getting more of our priorities enacted — starting with more federal spending to create jobs? Listen live on BTR.

Update: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Levenson/Simberg program will be rescheduled. Stuart and Culture of Truth’s hour will be extended for as much of the second hour as seems appropriate in the moment.

Thursday, July 14 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific | Virtually Speaking | “Everything you know about space policy is wrong: it ain’t rocket science.” MIT Prof and science writer Tom Levenson talks with Rand Simberg, Adjunct Scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Chairman of the Competitive Space Task Force about the politics and economics of space.| Listen live and later on BTR.

Tweet along with our guests and hosts: @stuart_zechman @bobblespeak @susiemadrak @tomlevenson @lambertstrether @correntewire @mattstoller @avedonsays (me too, please: @sherry_reson)

Be part of the conversation. Ask questions, chat live with other listeners:
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) allows you to be part of the virtual studio audience (aka chat room), sharing comments and questions while listening to Virtually Speaking live on BlogTalkRadio. Logs are shared with the show hosts and guests.

Use IRC:

1. Connect to http://webchat.freenode.net/
2. Create a log-in name
3. Enter #vspeak into the channel field.
4. NOTE: ‘Relay Rinq’ is not a person but a bridge to IRC chat.
5. Type into the text field along the bottom of the screen.
6. Begin your question with ‘QUESTION’ so it’s easy for the host (and me) to spot.

Show Notes: Listen better, listen smarter with some specific and general information.

• Virtually Speaking Sundays| Can’t bear to watch the Sunday morning talking heads that inspire VS Sundays? Let Culture of Truth boil them down for you with the Bobblespeak Translations. Warning: swallow and put down the hot tea/coffee/cocoa before reading.

The VS Sunday panel draws from Avedon Carol, Chicago Dyke, Cliff Schecter, CS Kendrick,  Culture of Truth, David Dayen, digby, Eve Gittleson,  Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman and  Susie Madrak. From time to time, the make-up of the panel shifts. Also, every 5 weeks or so, one of our regular panelists invites a guest to join them.