Cancer, Oil and Art

You can listen to the segment here. Thanks to all who suggested stories, this week we featured.

• A brief note about the Lulu-blookers. You can hear Colby Buzzel talk about My War here


• Brian Richmond spoke about blogging and getting the most out of life. Brian has pancreatic cancer and the prognosis isn't good.


• An Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal is offering net users the opportunity to target him with a paintball gun via the net as part of an exhibition the Chicago Tribune describes as, "One of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time"


• A second art themed interview as we speak to the creator of Spam Trap


• Matt Burden spoke about restrictions on YouTube and MySpace for serving soldiers


• Vincent Salafia of Tara Watch joined us to talk about onilne activism (thanks to Al Iguana for the suggestion)


• Sex workers use blogging to get their point of view across


• Jane McGonigal spoke to us about the "alternate reality game" World Without Oil

Next week British podcasts surveyed, other suggestions very welcome