Afghanistan, Hack Day and Wiimbledon

This week's segment can be heard here. On the show we featured:

• The factional conflict in Gaza reached the roof of one bloggers home.We spoke to the author of this moving post. It's a great blog which I encourage you to read. Thanks to Patrick and Laila for their help. The net really does bring people together


• David Axe in Afghanistan (see pic), with a report of a suicide bombing and fighting in Tarin Kowt, an area important to efforts to control the heroin trade. More info about David's embed at his excellent blog


• Wiimbledon the tennis tournament that can't be rained off


• Hackday. A huge success in spite of lightning. Well done to the boys at Backstage and Yahoo who organised it


• Guy Kawasaki on Truemours.com and how setting up a citizen journalism site is getting less and less expensive


• Alexa of Adaptivepath offers us some personal insights into the value of online memorials more on this with Mike from MyDeathSpace.com next week

Photo's from hackday will be uploaded as soon as I can muster the energy to crop the snaps. Also feedback from listener Paul (in Shropshire) who writes of the visibility of the International Space Station and web efforts to track it:

...The ISS (space station) is not very location-specific - there is no 'mirror' effect - you can see it easily whenever it's above the horizon. Iridium flares are *very* location-specific - they do show the mirror effect and being in the wrong place by a mile or two can make all the difference between a hugely bright flare and almost invisible.Better to stick to the horse's mouth at https://www.heavens-above.com/ ..

.As Billy Bragg once sang, "I saw two shooting stars last night...I wished on them but they were only satellites..." clearly he'd been hoping for the ISS