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This week the podcast is up and ready. This week we take a look at a wired whitehouse, the middle east online and much more.
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• President Obama has set a high bar for rewiring the whitehouse to create dialogue between government and citizens. Jamillah chats with Wired contributing editor about possible ways to make this change.
• The middle east battle reflected in blogs. authors Ayesha Saldanha and Gilad Lotan discuss the atmosphere.
• 25 years since the launch of the first Apple Mac. Cult of Mac writer talks history and future.
  
• Happy Chinese year of the Ox! the prolific writer and tweeter in Beijing tells us how it's not all about the great fire wall.
  

  
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This week thepodcast takes you to Bletchley Park, provides a year of hot bloggers and 365 podcasts.
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• Bletchley Park is where British code breakers worked to intercept and decrypt messages in the WW2 war effort. Sadly has seen better days. Find out how bloggers and online citizens are working to help.
• Checking the date has to be more fun if you calendar is made up of . The women behind the calendar reveal all.
• Looking up every night, the podcast reveals the secrets of the skies through amateur and superstar astronomy voices.
  

  
  
  Captain Jerry Roberts, Bletchley Park veteran code breaker.

  
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Covering headlines and online news the podcast this week looks at fresh happenings around the world.
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• Can the events of the middle east ever be balanced online? Joshua S Fouts of discusses official organisations and social media protest.
• The photo sharing site Flickr has spurred some interesting networks and the where Anna Graf is helping to organise work to identify and discuss old images from places like the Library of Congress.
• Though we wished we could have been sashaying around the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we managed to have the next best thing. the technology blogger gave us a roundup from the press room there.
  
• Do you know a woman working in technology who could do with a boost? Suw Charman Anderson has created to help bring these women to the fore.

Ringing in the New Year, the podcast this week has voices from 2008 ushering us into 2009.
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• Zee M Kane of We Do Creative chats through some of the hits and misses of the year past.
• Sarah Perez of talks about trends and hopes for 2009.
• Erin Doland, editor of has resolution tips for the clutter-bugs among us.
  
• The man who started pods and blogs - Chris Vallance now with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's iPM talks about his online favourites of the year and his own online resolutions.

Happy holidays to all our listeners do listen out for the well wishes dotted throughout the podcast. We're taking a break next week, but we'll be back up and casting again the week after with fresh new year pods and blogs for your listening pleasure.

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