Podcast Notes: DRM, Iraqi Asylum Campaign and Trucking Podcasts

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This week's Pods and Blogs is available for download or as a feed here. On the podcast we featured:

• India and Pakistan celebrate 60 years since independence this week. We spoke to Kamla Bhatt of the Kamla Bhatt show and Adil Najam of All Things Pakistan aka Pakistaniat


• NASA revises it's view of America's hottest year - it's 1934 not 1998. Differening opinions as to the significance of this here (the 8th most linked to blog post on Aug 11th according to Blog Pulse) and here . We asked Up All Night's resident weatherman and a vice president of the Royal Meteorological Society Philip Eden to tell us what it all meant


• Trucker Tom tells us about his award nominated podcast (thanks to CJ for the idea)


• Bloggers take the lead in a campaign to grant asylum to Iraqi translators and others who work with British forces. It's an issue that affects the US too. We spoke to former translator Mohammed of Moulton and Mohammed about his experiences and then to blogger Dan Hardie who started the campaign


• The Britblog Roundup 130 with Tim Worstall


• The Cernettes were the first band with a webpage way back in 1992, InkyCircus has more


• Later today there'll be protests outside the BBC against the DRM in the iPlayer. As an exlusive podcast offering you can hear Ben Lavender who came up with the idea for the iPlayer - though he's no longer with the BBC - talked to Peter Brown of the Free Software Foundation one of the groups behind the protestUPDATE The BBC Backstage blog has a podcast and pictures of the protest itself

Thanks also to Linda Mills for the great and very husky ident. We need more. Please do send them in. The info on how to do it is here.

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