Archives for April 2009

Another episode of the Pods and Blogs podcast is up and running.
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• Daniel Bennett a Frontline Blogger and Phd student at Kings college returns to file back to us from the Milblogging conference in Washington DC.
• Pods and Blogs founding father, Chris Vallance takes us down the rabbit hole into the world of R&DTV.
• How can syndication be fair? Jim Pitkow, Attributor CEO told me about his plans with the Fair Syndication Consortium.
• Thanks to a tip from top twitterer @onmejack, I caught up with the writer, director responsible for Mr Vista the man who reflects life with a progress bar.

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'Til next week!
Jamillah

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• Daniel Bennett a Frontline Blogger and Phd student at Kings college dropped by to talk about the events in Moldova.
• Robert Cox stopped by from the BBC Have Your Say team in the newsroom to discuss South Africans blogging their election.
• Spam. The thing we seem to live with online but most of us could do without. Richi Jennings.explains how it's not just an irritation but could mean bad things for the environment too.
• What will be the next big thing online and how could it change us? Bernd Stahl is working on the future and how we may conduct ourselves ethically online.
• When is it fun to be confronted with 1001 Rules? Probably when they have been written for an unborn son. Walker Lamond tells us about his growing list that is amusing, affectionate and entertaining.

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An expanded Pods and Blogspodcast this week takes for your listening pleasure.
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• Chris Vallance returns to the fold and chats with Bill Tancer of Hitwise about his new book Click. What Millions of People do online and Why it Matters.
• A collective visual memory online. Matthew Knight of the Disposable Memory Project talks about getting surprise images from all over the world.
• Susannah Stevens heads off globally to track down those creating the YouTube Orchestra.
• I Robots podcast out of Switzerland.
• Can journalism be improved by meeting up in a virtual space like Second Life? Rita J King and Joshua Fouts of Dancing Ink talk about how communications work in these spaces.
• Do you know when your local bakery is taking your favourite cakes from the oven? Maybe they should Baker Tweet like this restaurant in East London.
• He's naked, he's vocal and he's been called Garfield for the 21st Century. Sockington the cat has an enormous following on Twitter, his owner tells us why.

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

The podcast is up and running for your listening pleasure.
If we mentioned a place that you would like to visit online, or you didn't catch a URL, you can find all the links right here:

• This week we return to the G20 to take a look at the outside where protesters demonstrated in the financial district of London.
• Sheena Rossiter and Alex Wood reported back, using new media tools as well as traditional means. They told me how it worked.
• A new kid on the social media block arrived in the middle of the demonstrations. Mark Rock created Audioboo and told me how it was put to the test barely weeks after its official launch.
• Chis Vallance escaped the confines of our wired up dungeon but was safely returned after finding a curious radio version of Twitter.

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

Alternatively you can follow us on Twitter.