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You can subscribe to the podcast here. We rocked-out at the start of this week's show thanks to contributor Ewan Spence's home-brewed podcast intro, featuring the song Bleed by The Revolutions. On this week's shorter than usual edition (because of athletics coverage) of Pods and Blogs we featured:

• The resignation of US attorney general, Alberto Gonzales with , the blog that, in a powerful display of the power of collaborative journalism, kept stories about failings in his department on the news agenda


• Journalism Professor and blogger at


• The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Clark Boyd updated us on the for persecuted Chinese bloggers


• The Britblog . Some very strong stories this week I thought. I should point out that while we pick 4-5 stories to feature on the radio, the editor of the full written BBRU doesn't have the same control over the blog-posts featured, those are very much determined by the suggestions received.


• and Matthew Cashmore (see picture) explore the future of TV at the


• And our sequences of fakes and parodies, Slikstr (), News Groper (), and the infamous (myself included) a little bit wiser about the ways of he web

A shorter show, but we enjoyed playing the musical intro - our first- keep them coming in, something folky would be good for next week. Thanks also to Ian Forrester for reminding us about the TV conference, and all those who suggested stories for us to cover. I've a stack of dentistry podcasts to check-out too thanks to a listener email - do keep letting us know about your blogs/podcasts/vodcasts if you think it might interest a radio audience.

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