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Chris Vallance | 03:31 UK time, Tuesday, 19 June 2007

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This week's segment can be heard here. On the show we featured:


  • The factional conflict in Gaza reached the roof of one bloggers home.. It's a great blog which I encourage you to read. Thanks to and for their help. The net really does bring people together

  • David Axe in Afghanistan (see pic), with a report of a suicide bombing and fighting in Tarin Kowt, an area important to efforts to control the heroin trade. More at his excellent blog

  • tournament that can't be rained off

  • . Well done to the boys at Backstage and Yahoo who organised it

  • on and how setting up a citizen journalism site is getting less and less expensive

  • Alexa of Adaptivepath offers us some more on this with Mike from MyDeathSpace.com next week

Photo's from hackday will be uploaded as soon as I can muster the energy to crop the snaps. Also feedback from listener Paul (in Shropshire) who writes of the visibility of the International Space Station and web efforts to track it:

...The ISS (space station) is not very location-specific - there is no 'mirror' effect - you can see it easily whenever it's above the horizon. Iridium flares are *very* location-specific - they do show the mirror effect and being in the wrong place by a mile or two can make all the difference between a hugely bright flare and almost invisible.Better to stick to the horse's mouth at https://www.heavens-above.com/ ..

.As Billy Bragg once sang, "I saw two shooting stars last night...I wished on them but they were only satellites..." clearly he'd been hoping for the ISS

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