Regarding the live stream idea - This would be ideal, and Atlas and I have discussed it (he thinks we should do it as well) - I actually have been down that road before with one of my other shows a few years back, and it was a real nightmare logistically speaking. I'm not opposed to it, but I ain't gonna be the one working the technical side this time around, so the live stuff will have to wait until we can hire someone to do our technical backend for it (which is going to take a bit of work from you guys in terms of donations lol) But once we build up a little bit of a warchest there are several things we'd like to roll into.
If you'd like, I can hook you up with streaming. Been doing this for over 5 years. The only thing you'd have to do, is get your final audio output connected to some software that records your output and streams it to the server. Server has triggers on live stream starting and stopping which means you can auto-msn (and with some extra work, auto-twitter:-)) the start and stop of your broadcast if you want to. The connected stream is also recorded so when the stream stops, it's available for download/streaming as an archive instantly. Techie short specs: output mp3/ogg/theora into Icecast2. None of that future flash and silverlight shize, just plain direct links to streams themselves, usable on all OS platforms! Just PM me if interested to read more and see live working demo.