Podcast Notes: Women Computer Operators of WWII, Kindle and Crowd Sourced Footy

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• Last of Iraqi's wrote a fascinating piece about "awakening" Salam Adil adds wider Iraqi blog perspectives.


• British WWII code breaking computer Colossus restarted last week. The majority of those working on code breaking at Bletchley Park were women. We heard from Jan Peters and Sue Black who have just completed a new study in conjunction with the British Computer Society into the role of these women. Jamillah Knowles spoke with Jean Bartik one of the women who operated the American WWII computer ENIAC


• Clark Boyd of WGBH/BBC spoke about the blog row between Venezuela and Spain (this isn't on the podcast because of music rights issues)


• Chuck Norris is the star of a political campaign video. Has the world turned upside down? We spoke with Ian Spector the godfather of the Chuck Norris Facts genre


• Amazon's Kindle e-book readerreviewed by Robert Scoble


• Ebbsfleet United try crowdsourcing - Don Tapscott offers some thoughts on the Wisdom of Crowds


• And we hear from the people who posted the 2billionth and 100millionth flickr photos

Of course I couldn't finish this write-up without posting the Chuck Norris video. Here you go:

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