Do not adjust your sets - soon you will see some changes headed our way and well, hopefully with some patience and time we will soon be settled into a rather nice new home.

But for now, welcome again to another and maybe the final edition of Pods and Blogs. You can hear the current podcast here.

For openers this week we take a look at the Colombian elections and the upswing in the use of social media. BBC Have Your Say journalist Ana Lucia Gonzalez joins us to describe the scene online and Jerome Sutter for Nokia via Wunderman is in Bogota to reflect the habits of social networkers on the ground.

From Colombia to Uruguay to speak to a former banker from Amsterdam. Bas Hoefman is the director of Text to Change which uses mobile phone technology to increase health awareness and economic development.

Now, with all the brouhaha about Facebook privacy, which happened not too long after the similar response to Google Buzz and its initial open settings, there is another area that the privacy conscious should keep an eye on. What does your browser say about you? The Electronic Frontier Foundation has conducted a study to show that super cookies and browser fingerprints could be giving up more than you know.

Last but not at all least, we return to visit our Steampunk friends. Innovative makers as ever, they're releasing a song by The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing as a wax cylinder.
Yes, read that again - a wax cylinder. Not only that - they'll also give you the instructions on how to make your own player. Lovely Allegra Hawksmoor of Steampunk Magazine explained how this came about and Andrew O'Neil of the band talks about having just the right song for the format.

Okay, well this should be the last week that we appear in our current form. Look out for some nice changes and more ways to interact with us as we evolve...about time really, we've been bringing web fun on the radio and the podcast to you for five years!

Hopefully we have not aged a bit!

Until next week
- Jamillah

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As heard on the last podcast, Twetches - where Tweets become sketches, is celebrating its first birthday with a book.
Very kindly in response to joining us on Pods and Blogs, one of the many talented "twetchers" drew a sketch of the interview being recorded.

Thanks to Ben Gillin of course and to @Dnobody for a great image.

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Hi all,

This week on Pods and Blogs we got a bit twittery and got to know the neighbours. If you would like to chase up a link or find out more about our guests, then you can find all the links you need right here. The full fat chat is of course on the podcast.

With a London starting point and plans for global expansion. Networked Neighbourhoods is opening a study to see how local social media movers and shakers are beneficial to local communities. Hugh Flouch is leading the project and helping councils and councillors to understand why our passion for a local tweet can turn out to be both influential as well as rather helpful.

What better example to follow a chat with Hugh than the rather successful West Hampstead blogger and Tweeter Jonathan Turton? He's been keeping the local digerati up to date on breaking news, local travel and business details via his blog and twitter stream. The added bonus has to be the neighbourly feeling, good friends and a chance to actually meet up and see what the locals are like in "Whampstead"

Sentiment tracking - the sweetheart phrase of the UK elections. Can we tell what a nation thinks by tracking key words on social media? Turns out - quite possibly.
A study out of Carnegie Mellon University compares Tweets with telephone polls and though the accuracy may not be exact - the patterns are very similar. Noah Smith, assistant professor at CMU in the language technology institute and machine learning department was equally surprised but excited to see a way in which polling data may be supplemented.

In our final Twitter-based exploration this week, we head over to visit with Ben Gillin and his Twetches site. Twitter and Sketches - get it? He and other friends of the Twetches site draw versions of tweets to make them funnier and in some cases celebrate the short messages we throw out online each day. View the site with caution though - there are some adult themed Twetches there too.

You may also note on the podcast this week that we have some news. Heavy gears are slowly turning to create a few changes here for Pods and Blogs. Don't panic - it's all good and I'll be asking you what you think when we get there. More on this as it happens.

That's about it for another week.
As usual, if there is something on the interwebs that blows your mind. Or maybe you are creating something you think we should know about, then you know what to do. Send me an email at podsandblogs at bbc dot co dot uk or come and say hi on Twitter where you can find us as PodsandBlogs.

Until next week!
- Jamillah

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