Show Notes: War, floods, folk and ukeleles

The archive of this week's segment is here. These show notes cover two weeks as I was in too much of a rush last week to write up proper notes.This week we featured

• Presidential speeches as a tag cloud
  
• Laura with iraq veterans and bloggers Jeff and Thomas talking about middle east policy in the UK and US
  
• David Axe talking about the fatal dangers of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway in Iraq
  
• Big Brother in the virtual world Second Life
  
• The latest podcast from NOMRF features folk musician Joe Topping who walked to New Orleans from Chicago
  
• Ben Goldacre on distributed Freedom of Information Requests
  
• Anita of Ukes for Troops. on sending soldiers ukeleles
  

• Kentucky based podcaster Chaz Rough and a friend argued about Iraq on a tape made in the world's loudest Starbucks (thanks Chaz it rocked!)
  
• Raed in The Middle, Treasure of Baghdad and Blackfive debated how Iraq was being debated in the midterms
  
• Erick of Redstate and Peach Pundit told us about blogs and politics
  
• Adam Ereli of the US State Department explained their new media strategy
  
• Irina Slutsky spoke about the vloggies
  
• Brian and Omar of Alive in Baghdad told us about their award winning site.

Thoughts comments, suggestions for next week welcome, email [email protected] or leave a note in comments. We do read them, honest.