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The world has been watching as the situation in Iran became grave following the elections. The amount of information being passed around online is practically at critical mass on video sites, Twitter and Facebook, not to mention the blogs and news websites world-wide.
Reporters have been arrested and expelled this week and so many people are still adding their voices online where they can. Two editors who work with user generated content from and related to Iran join the conversation this week on the show to talk about safety, politics and verification of material.

Brian Conley runs Small World News where people can upload audio files about what is happening around them.

Global Voices has been collating blog material from across the political spectrum, overseen by the regional editor, Hamid Tehrani.

The latest iPhone arrived in the UK last week and I managed to reach a couple of those odd people who pitch up in front of the Apple store in the dead of night to get there first.
Richard Lai reviews his user experience.

iFixit's Kyle Wiens opens his one up to show all the gory innards.

Not so much what's that sound but where's that sound? Michela Magas is working to create a system that matches music and sounds around the world. Amazing visualisations show that the strangest things in the oddest places can sound very similar indeed. Schubert sounds like Shakespeare?

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We're taking a break next week, but only for one week, so I'll be back with webwise wanderings soon after! - Jamillah

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Iran has been making headlines as the post election aftermath turns violent in many places. Those online have seen their networks blocked and tech savvy Iranians found ways of making sure their voices were heard. Mike Klambro is an active netizen who helped pass on news and links from Spain. He followed the notes from friends posted on twitter and helped to pass on information that had been confirmed.

As the dust settles on the European elections, one party that has online citizens talking is the Swedish Pirate Party who managed to get a seat in the European parliament. Rickard Falkvinger, the party leader chats about his hopes for the future.

The term "social media expert" appears to have created a division online. Benjamin Ellis who er, has some expertise in the field as a practitioner, discusses why that particular title is creating such a reaction.

With odd patches of good weather it must mean the UK is hitting the peak of the wedding season. Lavish and expensive usually, the price of locations, gifts and receptions can be prohibitive, unless of course you decide to go for a wedding in a virtual environment. Eddi Haskell the Second Life avatar and photographer and Second Life author Wagner James Au discuss the pitfalls, prices and pleasures of a virtual wedding.

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'Til next week!
Jamillah

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The anniversary of the Tiananmen protests brought about comprehensive internet blocking in China. Lonnie Hodge has been online working and blogging for the last four years, he shares his experience of life online, or not as the anniversary took place.

The liberalisation of URL extensions is not far off. What will this mean for citizens, consumers and businesses online? Joe White, COO of Gandi.net dropped by to tell us more.

Books that creep out of their covers? This week sees the release of Personal Effects, Dark Art a twisted tale told via a novel, many websites and more. The story was created by 7th Son podcast novelist JC Hutchins and Jordan Weisman who you may know from campaigns for Dark Knight and Nine Inch Nails' "Year Zero".

A podcast providing great family fun and a variety show to boot, fall into the Holey Void a cabaret club in space with many stellar turns. Bernie Hodge and Suzanna Van Hoylen are the co-stars, writers and producers.

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Jamillah

Cambridge University is marking it's 800th anniversary and the computer science history surrounding the halls of academia there is rich, not to mention the ways in which it forges ahead with new technologies.

Technology critic Bill Thompson gave a talk as part of the celebrations about a very important presentation that was given fifty years ago. He also gave me access to all of his extraordinary and learned friends at the university and we spent time discussing the past, the future and a possible technological divide.

If you are a member of the Twitter community, you'd be hard pressed not to notice the launch of Spymaster. I caught up with the creators as they unleashed their plots online.

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'Til next week!
Jamillah

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News media changes have been on the agenda. I popped into Media140 to talk to innovators from the Times, the The Daily Telegraph and Reuters. Thanks to those of you who joined in the discussion via Twitter and email with your thoughts on the possible future for news.

Reporting from the field is also changing. Guy Degen is a freelance journalist who uses many new media tools to add to his kit in the field.

For the well travelled - or even those with the wanderlust, Stood There could be something you want to get involved with. Where's the greatest place on earth to stand? You decide.

When starting your business online why begin with a regular web page when you can create a presence with your own social network? The National Theatre Wales is doing just that and hoping to generate ideas with their audience to tailor their art.

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'Til next week!
Jamillah

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Guatemalan social media and beyond has been somewhat surprised by the arrest of Jean Anleu. The IT worker was arrested under the law against "incitement of financial panic". How responsible should we be for our short messages online?

Congressman Mariano Rayo in Guatemala told me more about the law that brought about the arrest and Wilmar Mejia chatted with me about Twitter instead of tanks in a country that has seen plenty of social and political upheaval.

The buzz online has been loud as Wolfram Alpha finally saw it's launch. Twitterers and bloggers have been discussing how useful they think it might be. I snatched a moment with Conrad Wolfram, the managing director of Wolfram research Europe who is also Stephen Wolfram's younger brother - the man who imagined and made Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha.

Somewhere in Scotland, a 13-year-old student is running an online newspaper that rivals most professional publications. I had a chat with Scott Campbell of Net News Daily. At some point I am sure many journalists will be considering him for employment.

Another new kid on the block. Ever wanted a definitive answer as to whether your photographs are any good? Professor James Wang at the college of information sciences and technology at the Pennsylvania State University is developing a system called Acquine. With enough testing it should have a qualified opinion that will seem like aesthetic judgement.

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Jamillah

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Journalism is changing, not a new idea but one that many bright thinkers are considering. In Birmingham,JeeCamp09 brought a lot of those thinkers together to try and look at the situation and discussion solutions for creative and talented people who may be facing job cuts in the business. Paul Bradshaw is the organiser and he explained his vision of the near future.

More traditionally people think this will mainly affect photographers and writers, but there's a lot more to your local paper so I caught up with a couple of cartoonists. Matthew Buck and Alex Hughes also of theBloghorn were also kind enough to lend me a couple of their great pictures to show off on our page this week.

Chris Vallance returns this week to Pods and Blogs. He has spent some time with another web legend, Phil Zimmermann.

Had your head in a freezer lately? No, me either - but a lot of people have and can be found online showing the world. The man behind this rather odd movement is David Horvitz. Though this alone is not really his aim, he does have a lot of interesting things to do on his blog.

Thanks to FoxyCoxy on Flickr for his freezer pic.

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Jamillah

Outtakes

Much as we strive for perfection on Pods and Blogs - turns out wer're only human after all. Here's a few outtakes from last week's show.

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Can online activity affect the possibility of a pandemic? Marcel Salathe is studying epidemics at Stanford university. He explained how they hope to take the temperature of people online with a survey that should show us more about the links between online networks and real life reactions.

India has taken to the polls. The online reaction this time is revealing how the nation is developing digitally as well as making political choices. Gaurav Mishra joins us to look at the future for India online and what the electronic reaction to these elections can show us.

Chris Vallance returns this week to Pods and Blogs. He's been hanging out with online royalty and chats with crypto-legend Whitfield Diffie.

Treasures abound online from cultures afar and times long ago. The World Digital Library goes live and Matt Raymond of the Library of Congress walks us through the collections.

Robot uprising you say? How about hearing that from the mech mouth? Number 29 of the Robot Underground takes some time out from planning the end of humanity to chat to me about why the future with robots could be a bumpy ride.

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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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Jamillah

• 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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• 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 <3 Robots! So of course I am delighted that Markus Waibel wrote to me about his 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.

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This week, politics tops our agenda and the news headlines. The UK government proposes monitoring our connections on social networks. Not an entirely popular choice.

Tech journalist and commentator Bill Thompson , helps to unravel the consequences.

It's not easy to escape the news that world leaders are gathering in London for the G20 summit. Mainstream media is of course reporting, but there are also many ways in which online communities are getting involved.

Karina Brisby is leading the G20Voice project where 50 bloggers have the same media accreditation as mainstream media journalists to cover the event in their own way.

Aflie Denen of Moblog tells us about how mobile blogging can make things a bit easier for those sharing information from the summit.

Carole Edrich, known online as Dhamaka is one of the 50 bloggers granted access, she describes how she hopes to reveal the devil in the details through her photography.

The G20 is also inspiring a ground roots effort to create change. Paul Massey of We20 talks about organising groups 20 people or less in an effort to make things better locally, nationally or globally.

We take a break from the policy and the politics to marvel at the remixing skills of Kutiman who somehow hears things on the web that others may miss and creates music with surprising results.

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.

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Sometimes it's great to record bloggers and sometimes it's much better to spend some time with them and find out more about who they are. Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to catch up with some Qype bloggers on...
Jamillah Knowles Sometimes it's great to record bloggers and sometimes it's much better to spend some time with them and find out more about who they are.

Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to catch up with some Qype bloggers on an extraordinary journey.

We were whisked up the river Thames on a speeding RIB and I think I may have left some of my face out there at the speed we were travelling.

Qype guru and music blogger Laura Kidd, known as Warriorgrrl online organised the event captured the whole thing on video and you can see the river highlights here. You can also see many photos by London photographer and online reviewer Tikichris.

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The podcast lies in wait for you to feast your ears on our web meanderings this week. If we mentioned a place that you would like to visit online, or you didn't catch a URL, you can find all the...
Jamillah Knowles The podcast lies in wait for you to feast your ears on our web meanderings this week. 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:

I was allowed out of the dark studios and away from a screen to meet real live people at Webstocky, the Word Festival in the East End of London and a fun bunch they were too.

Following this we had a whip around Spanish speaking and Latin American countries. It's an active place for really interesting online activity so no doubt there will be more where these came from on Pods and Blogs.

Software engineer and programmer in Uruguay, Horatio Lopez known as Vruz online told us about the state of the web where he is.

Wilmar Mejia of Vlog Internacional shared his Spanish language video collective with us.

Matias Jaramillo took a moment to join us from Colombia and explain why his friend Pacho is travelling about the country in an eight wheeler truck, or on 8 ruedas.

I have had a great time learning a little more than my high school Spanish online this way and I hope that I have not offended everyone with my rough Spanish pronunciation in this episode!

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.

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