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
The week before was solidly midterm election material in the main:
- 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.



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