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I took this week off bar a brief guest appearance as Rhod produced a superb mix from ROFLCon. Before that we heard from:

• Dennis McCauley of the blog on the political and cultural rows surrounding GTA IV


• The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Maggie


• I spoke about


• Jamillah spoke to the excellent Fred of about blogging Congo

Well now for the moment you've all been waiting for Rhod's ROFLCon report. Over to you Rhod:

"Email from Chris: "Spies inform me that this years ROFLCon is happening at MIT (starting Thursday).If you look at the line-up it's a MUST for Pods and Blogs Fark, JibJab, Tronguy! LOLcats, One Red Paper Clip, all our "and finally" stories in one big joy packed conference hall."

Do not look a lolcat in the mouth, so I went. Halfway through the afternoon a young woman confronted your correspondent, "you're like from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, this is awesome. I just saw the New York Times. This is, I mean, totally." And so it was. Judge for yourself on the podcast.--RHOD"

Well I think it lived up to the billing. The sites featured in the podcast are ,,, , , , , ,

Phew. There's more with the Lolcat guys here (an extended interview I did at SXSW) two of the smartest and most thoughtful internet people it's been my pleasure to talk to. Quote, "people say a picture tells a 1000 words, well we have the 15 that matter."

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If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here. This week we featured:

• spoke to us about using Twitter when arrested in Egypt.


• Pick the political candidate closest to


• Are safety concerns ruining childhood? Jamillah reported on raising


• Grace Berry is blogging from a


• on the protests against CNN and Carrefour in China


• Mr E brought us this week's

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I've put together a little map of our contributors for Pods and Blogs, since we started the blog back in August 2006. A couple of caveats though:

• It's only blogs outside the UK and North America - there were just too many to include from both places and I was keen just to see the extent of our coverage beyond the US/UK But we'll get there hopefully!


• The locations are only accurate to the country and sometimes city level. The markers DO NOT indicate people's addresses.


• It's a work in progress - and is pretty rough and ready at the moment - there will be errors and omissions


• With travelling types I've included where they were when we spoke to them

So with all that in mind here's the map:

Doing this I think I've learned some useful lessons. We could do I think with more coverage from Western Africa for example. The map has also reminded me of all the really great blogs we've spoken with. We should do more features just about bloggers doing "cool stuff"

Anyway it's a work in progress as I say, we have the pre-blog show archives from 2005 to include too. I'm very keen to get some extra help with it. If you'd be interested in lending a hand drop me a note to the usual email address.

Oh and I included some twitter local results just for fun!

If you've an idea for the next edition of Pods and Blogs please feel free to leave a note in the comments below or email me at podsandblog [at] bbc.co.uk I do read all the emails that I get sent, and do really value your ideas for stories. Generally speaking we're looking for news stories under-reported in the traditional media, coverage of major breaking news in the blogs which throws a different light on the issue and good human interest stories. If you run a blog, vlog or podcast which you think merits coverage do please get in touch.

You can see the other stories I'm looking at, which may make the programme, by checking our del.icio.us links below:

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• Tom Griffiths


• Jamillah Knowles took a look at Rickrolling, and we spoke to and


• on the calming affect of World of Warcraft


• Bob Couttie of the spoke to us


• Tim Hood of told us about that site


• Matt Wardman brought us this week's

As a bonus here is some video I shot of the Rickroll in Liverpool St:

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If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here. Bit of an odd show this week as I was under the weather, so if you wonder why I disappear after the start, that's why. Thanks to Rhod and Jamillah for holding the fort. This week we featured:

• Clark Boyd reports on the in aid of jailed blogger Kareem Amer


• The changing nature of sex online: Jamillah Knowles interviews


• about the future of the social web


• Writing a song, every day, in 3 hours about the news in aid of charity. It must be


• Also not on the podcast but please visit the Britblog Roundup with nominations for British blogs posts to feature to Britblog [at] gmail.com

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If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here. This week we featured:

• A Frontline blogger


• Emos attacked in Mexico from (also a Frontline contributor)


• Kyle MacRae reflects on


• (see the picture) with Morningside Analytics


• AC Milan use tech on their players (thanks to Digital Planet)


• The Britblog Roundup with

Below is the video that Deborah Bonello did for the LA Times

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