Show Notes: Floods, YouTube, Middle East Youth and Virals

You can listen to the audio of the last programme on the 7-day archive here. Tonights show was re-arranged a little to make room for our flood coverage:

• We ran audio of a couple of YouTube videos by people affected


• Ed Vaizey MP who blogged about getting caught in the floods spoke to us


• Trained civil-engineer and journalist Nina Lovelace of the Local Government Chronicle blog told us how in her view flood preparedness hadn't changed much since 2000


• Cheltenham Borough Council get the message out via free blogging software. Looks like a good idea to me


• The CNN Democratic Candidates debate with questions from YouTube. The Utube blog reacted


• Our look at the Britblog Round-up do take a look and click on the links. Rachel North's post can be read here. It is a tremendously brave post, and I deeply admire her spirit and courage in writing it. You have won Rachel


• Mideastyouth.org is a fascinating group blogging project that produces some great podcasts too


• And lastly a report from one of the winning teams at the Germ2 viral awards. The winning video is below. Don't try this at home.