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If you missed a URL along the way, you're in the right place - here's a run down of the people we spoke to. It's quite the inspiration for those who might think about a little history blogging of their own.

First up, Trish Lewis tells us about her history of the area she grew up in, St Vincent Memories. Trish has collated historical fact and primary information from interviews and photographs of local families who were pioneers when the town was established. Amazing hyper local historical research.

From the early settlers of the United States to Rome! Mike Duncan reads exciting updates from the History of Rome in his podcast. More than 80 casts along, he has built a following that includes a growing group of fans on Facebook.

From ancient Rome to 20th century London. The capital city that swings with style, glamour and celebrity. Rob Baker creates Another Nickel in the Machine , a wonderful blog of curious tales of the city. Definitely a case for being an alternative guidebook for those who would rather leave the regular tourist routes.

The creme de la creme of history blogging? Well some fine examples can certainly be found via the Cliopatria awards on the history news network. Dr Ralph Luker is the founder of Cliopatria , the history group blog and award system where there are many examples of extraordinary, though provoking and imaginative historical blogs from around the world.

Sadly that's all I could cram into the segment this week. However, we are on track to be here across the festive season. So if you are looking for a half hour out of the hectic seasonal activities, you know where to find us!

Until next week! - Jamillah

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Good day to you all,

The podcast as ever, is ready and waiting for you to download or stream as you wish. If you missed a link or would like to let us know what you think, then you are in the right place.

This week I have assembled a crack team of people to help me bring web related news together. It's tricky trying to be in too many places at once! So thanks this week to LJ Rich of Click and of course Chris Vallance, one of our Pods and Blogs original founders.

The BBC's formidable minds let me in this week. I went to the R&D centre in Kingswood in Surrey to chat with Richard Salmon and Jerry Kramskoy. They told me about how their past is influencing our future.



"Privacy is not something you notice until it is gone," so says author and respected cryptographer Bruce Schneier. Our actions online today will create the online landscape for future generations. Chris Vallance and I chatted with Bruce about great responsibility and awareness.


So, that's what we did - what did you get up to online this week?

Send me an email and let me know about your latest online podcast, blog and site discoveries - podsandblogs at bbc dot co dot uk, or come and say hi to me on Twitter where you can find me as PodsandBlogs.

- More next week! Jamillah

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Hello!
Safely out of the wind and the rain of London, I've been indoors keeping up with points of interest online. These tasty morsels have been served up on the podcast which is ready for you to download or stream. If you missed anything in there - here are the links and details you might be looking for.

The first course is with Lisa Katayama of the excellent Tokyo Mango blog who is also one of the Boing Boing bloggers. Lisa has been following the strange sounding tale of the man who married his avatar. Naturally all is not what it seems to be.

Second course this week is with the lovely Martin Owens. He's a programmer and an advocate and educator for the open source community. He's also working to create the English translation of the Ubunchu manga. A comic book about an open source sys admin after school club in Japan - who can fault that?

Last but not least, Laura Mayes took time out to tell me all about Kirtsy. It's a web aggregator for women, by women but don't be fooled into thinking it falls into female stereotypes. Clean design and interesting articles, it's definitely worth taking the advice of these ladies.

More next week as usual of course. In the mean time, if you want to drop me a line about what has been lighting your fire online, then please be my online guest! You can email me at podsandblogs at bbc dot co dot uk, or if short-form is your thing, come and say hello on Twitter where we're there as PodsandBlogs.

Until next week!
Jamillah

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