This is no idle dream of empire. Tom runs just such a network of online radio, TV, movie and news for a few dollars a year or, rather, it runs itself. Using social media such as OpenLearning and BigMarker, free hosting, and RSS feeds means Tom doesn’t have to feed his ‘media monster’ to keep it updated with news and shared information. This frees him to concentrate on the creative aspects, including showing others how to do it for themselves. The main course content comes from Tom’s personal hobbies and community activities: music, psychology and astronomy. Together these give a pretty broad coverage of the arts and sciences.