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Hello there!

This week has brought about a packed edition of Pods and Blogs. If you want to listen through, you can find the download here.

If there is a page you are interested in or a character you want to follow up and find out more, this is where you will find all of the links.

was making tech headlines last week, opening up public data for programmers and developers. But what does it really mean for you and me? Chris Vallance joined us to explain what it is and introduces one of the people using public data to make something useful - developer Matthew Somerville who works with .

Something to look forward to on the goggle box later this week. The Virtual Revolution is here, well, the TV series is. Top web celebrities, big names and those who help to manufacture our daily experience online talk about their hopes for the future and more. The program came from a lot of work online asking audiences in a collaborative documentary making effort. Dan Gluckman told me more about a conversation that helped the show along.

The second half of the podcast this week is dedicated to youth online. Under 18s have been up to some impressive things and I have been lucky enough to catch a moment with some great examples.

Our youngest achiever this week is . At ten years old he has a good enough understanding of programming that he creates tutorial videos on YouTube to help out others. In a chat with Andrew and his father Oscar he reveals his favourite programming languages and how he may have plans to take over the world.

is the creator of the iSketch iPhone app. Creator as in the designer and programmer for starters. He was inspired to make the app to raise money for charity, started a company to market it online. Cameron is 11 years old. He and his dad, Jeff, told me more about getting the iSketch off the ground.

Moving up a few years this time, I had a catch up chat with Scott Campbell. You may remember him as the editor and creator of Net News Daily, the global online newspaper, launched when he was thirteen. Now, at the ripe old age of fourteen, he has taken that business, added a picture agency and refocused in a more local manner on Scotland alone to provide a tighter base for advertising revenue. Precisely what all fourteen year olds would be considering - right? Take a look at .

At the oldest end of our scale returns. Last heard on Pods and Blogs making a peace sign out of people, he has been living and studying in Swaziland. Trevor creates video online for all sorts of mainstream outlets, focusing on the good things that do happen in a place that sees a lot of hardship.

One thing that strikes me about our outstanding youth examples this week is that they are all boys. It would be great to highlight what the girls can do too. Maybe you are part of a girls' computer science club, maybe you can beat the boys at their own development games. Let us know at Pods and Blogs and I'll put together a selection to see if we can match the work that they boys do on-line.

You can email me at Podsandblogs at bbc dot co dot uk or come and say hello on Twitter where we are known as Podsandblogs. There is often a pre-show discussion there and everyone is welcome.

Until next week!
- Jamillah