Archives for December 2007

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• Richard Clayton of Lightbluetouchpaper and FIPR spoke to us about the latest government data security breach


• Shaun Attwood who writes Jon's Jail Journal (with his mum and dad Derick and Barbara) spoke about his experiences in Maricopa County Jail


• Wikileaks.org accuses Guantanamo Bay personnel of editing wikipedia - we hear from both sides


• Matt Wardman delivered this week's Birtblog Roundup


• John D McHugh on surviving being shot in Afghanistan and returning to the country. Thanks to Graham for the suggestion

As and added bonus there's a video of John D talking about his experiences in Afghanistan in this video recorded at the Frontline Club.

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• An extraordinary blog by a couple of doctors caught up in a major Ebola outbreak


• OurStories.org a website enabling children around the world to tell their stories


• The first robotic gold digging phishing attack? Mike Greene of PC Tools talks to us about the creepy Cyber Lover


• Students organise themselves to take on the big US law firms


• We mentioned this post about superstar pay on Stumbling and Mumbling


• The Britblog Roundup hosted on Westminster Wisdom presented by Mr Euginides


• A second visit from Edward Castronova this time talking about his new book Exodus to the Virtual World


• Clark Boyd explained how a simple language game was donating rice to the developing world

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• Veronica Khokhlova on the Russian elections and the sale of Livejournal


• Adam Green of MoveOn.org on Facebook privacy battles


• Edward Castronova spoke about Arden, the Viritual World of Shakespeare


• A mention of this blog and then..The Britblog Round-up with Natalie from Philobiblon.


• Andrew Heavens spoke about the Sudan teddy-bear crisis. And how bloggers responded


• David Axe is back safe and sound from Mogadishu. Via the Nairobi bureau we learned about the conflict and the difficult role of African Union peacekeepers


• And could hacking be another martial art? We explore the zen of the hack with a Russian master - Ilya Vladimirovich Vasilyev of the aptly named Civil Hackers School

Oh and in case you missed it I've an article out about CCTV and logo recognition software out on news online.

UPDATE As mentioned in the Podcast Dan Ackerman Greenberg, the author of the hugely controversial blog post The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos, was kind enough to grant us an interview. We've mentioned the row about the post before on the show. Here Dan makes explains how in his view the context of the post was misconstrued in the ensuing row and also clarifies some of the ethical issues surrouning video marketing as he sees them. Listen to the interview on Blip.tv here

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