Archives for May 2008

Rhod writes:Jonathan Zittrain was acclaimed the other week as the "superstar" of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Study of the Internet and Society. The speaker was the Berkman's retiring executive director, John Palfrey, who should know. The Berkman's 10th anniversary conference is fated to go down as an event that inspired a good deal of early 21st century internet policy, and if you go to the conference wiki you can read even more fulsome praise of JZ, as he is known to his friends.

His book "The Future of the Internet -- and How to Stop It" sets out some of the disadvantages of what he calls the "appliancization" of computers.

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This week we featured:

• Alex Strick van Linschoten of the Frontline Club spoke about his travels to Somalia and Beruit, and living in Afghanistan
• BT futurologist Ian Neild spoke to us about changing trends in tech use 1998 - 2008
• Jamillah Knowles reported on food bloggers put to the test at nomnomnom
• Robin Hamman reported on Blogging in the Balkans at the Glocal 2.0

Here's a videoette of the Food2.0 event. You may spot lurking in the corner a certain BBC Radio journalist.

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This week we featured:

• Rhod spoke to "Jay" about blogging in Cuba. The interview was part of Berkman@10
• I spoke with Rollo Carpenter about the future of artificial intelligence. Look out for artificial celebrities and robot call centres.
• Adam Curry spoke about the business of podcasting and BTPodshow
• Matt Wardman offered some thoughts on Ask the PM and the Britblog roundup (found here)

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Thanks to Rhod and Jamillah for looking after this week, I was away on a boat looking at plankton (all will be explained in due course). This week we featured:

• Jamillah Knowles spoke toTwitterer's caught up in the earthquake in China
• Charles Malik from Lebanese Political Journal updated us on the tense situation there.
• The Burma watchers at World Wide Help spoke to Jamillah
• Bloggers around the world gave us their take on the food crisis. Thanks to: Georgia Popplewell and Janine Mendes-Franco, Last of Iraqis, Eduardo Avila, Mong Palatino and thanks also to Hanako Tokita and Scott Bonnell for helping with the broadcast
• I spoke to Matt Mason author of The Pirate's Dilemma . He explained why he thinks piracy can be good for business
• A reminder to visit the Britblog Roundup over at The Chameleon's place. Hopefully back on the podcast next week, when I should be back on base and available to do the recordings

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Here's a video interview I did with Matt Mason author of the new book The Pirate's Dilemma

More from Matt in the podcast details of which will go up shortly. It's a controversial thesis, I'd be interested to hear what you think of Matt's ideas.

We covered the Food Price Crisis briefly on the last Pods and Blogs and I'm continuing to look at it for Pods and Blogs and iPM. It seems to me there is very comprehensive coverage online that we should be drawing on.

The post below is cross-posted from iPM, but suggestions ideas etc that we get will serve both programmes.

This video of Zainab Bangura, Sierra Leone's foreign minister from Avaaz.org, eloquently looks at the problems rising food prices are causing around the world.

Websites like Global Voices are doing an excellent job of reporting the effect the rise in prices is having around the globe. From riots in Somalia and Egypt, to people resorting to eating mud in Haiti.

Here in the UK, food prices are rising and we know it's concerning many of you.

We're trying to harness the web in the reporting of food prices. If you've a personal experience, or have found some interesting commentary online, please leave a note in comments.

I've put together a small aggregation of relevant content on this Netvibes page. If you are a blogger with something to say on the issue, tag your post or youtube video foodprices08 and it will appear there too. It will also pick up Twitter posts with foodprices08 in the text.

Below is a map of some of the coverage from Global Voices, popular blogs and from the media. If there are elements you think I should add to the map (which is based on Yahoo Pipes) please let me know. (It's a little cranky as an embed so you may want the direct link here)

UPDATE: We featured a montage of blogger created pieces on the food crisis on the podcast. Thanks to: Georgia Popplewell and Janine Mendes-Franco, Last of Iraqis, Eduardo Avila, Mong Palatino who appeared in the podcast and thanks also to Hanako Tokita and Scott Bonnell for helping with the broadcast.

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This week we featured:

• A clip from Avaaz.org, and an interview with Africa Flak and Global Voices writer John Liebhardt
• Mungpi Suntak of Mizzima News spoke to us about the Cyclone in Burma
• Gilles BianRosa of Vuze on Net Neutrality. More here
• Jamillah Knowles spoke to the creator of the Big White Wall
• Podcaster Kamla Bhatt kindly let us play part of her interview with the author of the book "Spy Princess". The full podcast is a great listen
• Alex Strick spoke to us from Mogadishu - he's now back in Nairobi
• A reminder to visit the Britblog Roundup over at Jonathan Calder's place

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Tags: bbc radioBurmafoodpricespodsandblogsMogadishuNet Neutrality

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If you've an idea for the next edition of Pods and Blogs please feel free to leave a note in the comments below or email me at podsandblog [at] bbc.co.uk I do read all the emails that I get sent, and do really value your ideas for stories. Generally speaking we're looking for news stories under-reported in the traditional media, coverage of major breaking news in the blogs which throws a different light on the issue and good human interest stories. If you run a blog, vlog or podcast which you think merits coverage do please get in touch.

At the moment we'll be looking at:

• Jamillah speaks to the preson behindThe Big White Wall
• I'll be talking with Vuze about net neutrality
• And I'll talk to an Afghan based blogger currently in Mogadishu

You can see the other stories I'm looking at, which may make the programme, by checking our del.icio.us links below: