Archives for November 2008

This week the podcast is taking you around the world online, in real life, through the habits of young folk and through a series of beeps and blips. If you would like to follow up and visit the sites you heard in the show, here's where you can find them:

• Solana Larsen, managing editor of Global Voices online takes us through some of the news that bloggers are discussing.


• Toby Moores of Amplified08 tells us about the importance of bringing online social networks together.


• Mimi Ito is one of the authors and researchers on the Digital Youth Project and can tell us why your kids should be allowed time online.


• Mike Rosenthal is one of the organisers of the forthcoming Blip festival in New York where 8bit is best for music and fun.

If you have seen a blog or heard a podcast that you think we should know about, drop me a line at podsandblog -at- bbc.co.uk I'd love to hear from you.

This week the podcast is mixed bag of treats. If you would like to follow up and visit the sites you heard in the show, here's where you can find them:

• Cathy Brooks is best known for her work at Seesmic but also takes time to get involved in activism online. She talks about how the internet is changing political decision making.


• Always happy to have him visit - Chris Vallance talks to Dan Jellineck of the E-Government Bulletin about getting things done locally.


• Rupert Howe explains Vlomo to the uninitiated.


• John and Jon of the RAF Rissington podcast talk about the art of conversation and well, using adult language. This pod cast is not for children and maybe not the best of you are sensitive to strong language.

If you have seen a blog or heard a podcast that you think we should know about, drop me a line at podsandblog -at- bbc.co.uk I'd love to hear from you.

This week the podcast is all about reading online. Freebooks, Ebooks, podcasts and tweets.

Rhod and Jamillah talk about reading and writing on screens and in this bumper issue we have a cast of great names who explain how the internet is shaping publishing.

Here's a cast-list of experts on the podcast, just in case you want to visit them yourself:

• George Walkley of Little Brown talks about big publishing houses addressing new issues online.


• James Bridle of Bookkake prints adult books on demand and discusses the future in this medium.


• Joshua Rothass of 140Story makes things that are small and beautiful.


• Alex Millway is the Mouse Hunter.


• Stephen Ely, editor of The Escape Pod tells us about making great stories into a great podcast.


• Award winning author and podcaster JC Hutchins talks about spinning grippng yarns on the web.

Plenty there for relaxing with a great story or fiction podcast, though don't forget to come back to us next week for more news!

If you have seen a blog or heard a podcast that you think we should know about, drop me a line at podsandblog -at- bbc.co.uk I'd love to hear from you.

The podcast is dedicated to American politics. This week's edition was recorded before the US election night.

Rhod had some round table discussions about how the web is tied to politics.Here's a note on who joined in so you can visit them yourself:

• Mark Lane of Daytona Beach News-Journal on Flablog.net.


• Justin Sayfie of Sayfie Review.


• Michael Froomkin of Discourse.net.


• Andrew Rasiej of Tech President

Jamillah finds out more about how organised citizen journalists are over the election period with Jason Barnett of The Uptake.

More than enough there to keep your ears entertained and your online political appetite sated as the world looks to America and it's new President.

If you have seen a blog or heard a podcast that you think we should know about, drop me a line at podsandblog -at- bbc.co.uk I'd love to hear from you.