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• Kim Zetter of Wired updated us on the hacking of account


• of Sun Microsystems spoke about Open Source Software


• Jamillah Knowles investigated the

Suggestions for next week's programme very welcome email podsandblogs -at-bbc.co.uk

If you missed you can still celebrate free software this Saturday as . Stephen Fry has even shot a special video for the occasion. View it by clicking on the image below

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This week we spoke to:

• spoke to us after J.K.Rowling won a legal case that many had seen as an important moment in defining the rights of fans to produce derivative works. A matter of great importance to authors of fan fiction and fan communities world-wide


• (Dean-04's online manager) and (Bush-Cheney 04's online manager) spoke about how to fight the online rumour mill


• talked about the future of Google Maps. His blog is a v.good read if you like maps.


• A look at data-mining with and author of the Numerati spoke to us.

That's it for this week. All suggestions for next very welcome.

Pods and blogs is back, 0230 Tuesday. Any suggestions for items to include very welcome. We've a few stories already recorded - but there's room for more.

Almost exactly three years ago we started reporting on the impact of hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans. Archives of two of the three programmes are here, here sadly the main part of our coverage isn't written up, I guess I was just too busy to type up notes.

Now that it's interesting to visit again with some of those we spoke to back then- :

Last night we had a couple of brief thunderstorms from feeder bands, but they come through quickly. The slightly westward shift may save us from the doom and gloom we were all expecting yesterday. You never know though, we thought we dodged a bullet with Katrina until the levees breached.

George "Loki" Williams from is posting audio reports on his blog:

The Oil Drum looks at the likely damage to production. They have an analysis of likely . Doubtless the figures will mean something to those who know. The plain English summary is rather easier to follow:

All in all, my thinking is that this could have been a lot worse. Storm was disorganized crossing the OCS, so waves and storm surge will be lower than they should be for a storm of this size and intensity.

Chris Decker a priest in Baton Rouge and looking at the theological implications of all this.

quotes another blogger we spoke with,

The view of some of the bloggers we spoke to in 2005. As I write this post I'm conscious of how much social media has moved foward. Twitterlocal now provides a such as this:

Mandeville is okay. Some places still have power. No major flooding

Other tools are also being enlisted to track the storm. Google Earth has a special Gustav

In the political blogosphere, conservative bloggers, pounced on remarks by former DNC captured in a "gotcha" video of the sort we're only likely to see more of as the US election progresses. The video was of course . Fowler has apologised, and as Instapundit notes:

What's interesting is that the apology came before the story was picked up by the traditional media

Political points for Republicans. The residents of NoLa will certainly have more immediate concerns on their mind.