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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Hi all!

This week I've been running around Richmond in Surrey, talking about games with theorists, writers, designers and more importantly - players. Also, I had a chat with one of the editors who worked on the 48hr Magazine and found out what a real deadline is like. You can hear all about this on the podcast.

If you missed a link or would like to look up details about any of our guests, then you are in the right place. Details of the events and speakers are always stashed right here on our blog.

Game Camp 2 brought together all sorts of like-minds from within and around the gaming industry. As an un-conference, it lifted off as the day progressed and people added their own topics to talk about. Cheating, strategy, gender politics, design and much more kept us all busy on a packed and fun day.

Think you have tight deadlines? Think again. 48hr Magazine does what it says, from conception to print prep in 48 hours with a great selection of ideas, top writers and hard-working editors. They made it within the time limit and one of the editors, Wired staff writer Alexis Madrigal, told me about the sleeplessness and the sense of achievement.

Onwards to next week and as usual it's much more fun to have you lot involved. So, if you see something online that excites, find out about a web-based project or blog that you cannot resist, then drop me a line.

You can email me at podsandblogs at bbc dot co dot uk, or come and say hi on Twitter where you will find us for a chat, as PodsandBlogs.

Until next week!
Jamillah

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Hello again.

This week on Pods and blogs Rhod set out to catch the LOLs at ROFLCON and I get to hang out with Geeky ladies that make me proud to be a girl.
You can hear all about this on the podcast which is raring to go.

So, Rhod unleashed at ROFLCON - and naturally I am very jealous!
To go back the the beginning, ROFLCON is a conference named after one of the many acronyms on the web - ROFL means "Rolling on the floor laughing". So that should give you an idea about the theme of the conference.

If you are intrigued by the funny people Rhod caught up with at the second ROFLCON - here's a handy list.

Joel Veitch of Rather Good has been making us laugh for years with his animated kittens and other assorted web jokes and songs.

Ethan Zuckerman is the co-founder of Global Voices - among other web changing projects, clearly chatting with Rhod here, he's also prone to LOLs.

Mahir sadly was not willing to give Rhod a kiss, despite having the amusing site I Kiss You. Apparently that sort of thing is just for the ladies.

Jessica Amason runs the site This is why you're fat. Somewhere between gross and utterly compelling, take a look at the meals you maybe won't be trying for dinner tonight.

While Rhod was out giggling with the ROFLCON crowd, I was geeking out girl-style at a talk by women comics and manga creators. The event was a part of the Sci-fi London film festival and arranged by Girl Geek Dinners London co-ordinator, Judith Lewis.

Karen Rubins is one of the comic artists who gave the talk, so I caught up with her to ask about working on-line and being a geek.

Judith Lewis kindly took time out also to describe the Girl Geek Dinners events in London and whether the girl geek label sits within the feminist remit.

Of course Girl Geek movements are not just a London phenomena. Our American cousins not only have gatherings, they also have a Girl Geek Camp for ladies who love their tech. Leslie Fishlock and Julie Roads set me straight on the issues facing women in tech and whether we're nerds or geeks...

Well, apart from being spectacularly proud to be a girl this week, I have also had fun listening to Rhod's adventures. We should send him out more often!

As usual though, it's the Pods and Blogs digerati that makes the difference. If you are making something wonderful on-line or if you have seen something you would like to share or hear more about the creators, then do let me know.

You can email me at podsandblogs @ bbc dot co dot uk or come and say hello at on Twitter where we like to hang out as @Podsandblogs

Until next week!
Jamillah

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