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Podcast Show Notes: Wikipedia Scanned, Podcasting Radio Telescopes and Poetic Marines,

Chris Vallance
21 Aug 07, 05:26 AM

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This week's Pods and Blogs is available for download or as a feed here. On the podcast we featured:

Virgil Griffith the chap behind Wiki Scanner spoke about the controversy it's caused and his plans for future disruptive technologies

Hurricane Dean with the Hurricanecancun blog and the Rivergirl blog

Salam Adil and LastofIraqis on serious problems on the Jordanian border

We talked about World of Warcraft being used to model epidemics. More on this on Up All Nights games segment I'm sure. The disease first struck in 2005 as Terranova reports but the new study looks at what lessons can be learnt from the outbreak.

The Britblog Roundup 131 with Matt Wardman. Also take a look at the Blogpower Roundup of less well known blogs

>The New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund, producers of some excellent podcasts about the city, told us about their new charity download. The process of reconstruction and recovery from Katrina continues 2 years later.

Marine Seargant Lawrence Dean spoke to us about his hit performance poetry video that's a hit on YouTube

Stuart, Nick and Dave from Jodrell Bank's podcast, the Jodcast joined us. Dave also does this!

Finally, for the podcast only, we mentioned the Cernettes last week the first band on the web, well we finally spoke to their songwriter, and early internet pioneer,Silvanno De Gennaro

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