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This week I am out on the road in Silicon Valley, California to record the podcast. It's a beautiful area and home to many of the names in technology that we are used to seeing online and in our daily lives. This is the first post card I am sending from this US tech neighbourhood with another side to life here coming up next week.

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To get to know where things are headed, it's often best to look at how far we have come. Dag Spicer is the senior curator at the in Mountain View. Currently there is a Babbage exhibition with a difference engine on display. Dag told me about why it is important to have a collection of tech artifacts in such a fast moving environment.

The global economy is taking it's toll on employment all over America. In the Valley Kris Stadelman of has seen the trend change a little in the past month. She explains how this change may not be huge but it is certainly a reason to hope.

Silicon Valley is filled with big names that are now a part of daily life online for most of us. I dropped into the Campus to talk to Adam Lasnik, Search Evangelist who told me about life on campus and in the surrounding area.

Adam Lasnik and the dinosaur, both to be found on the Google campus in Mountain View.

The post cards from the Valley this week and next week could not have happened without the kind and thoughtful advice of resident and guide Carolyn Lutticken who knows the area inside and out for tech and especially where to find the best coffee.

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Back next week with the second post card from Mountain View's tech community and more! Jamillah

We're getting into the lunar spirit on the podcast this week. Marking the Apollo Moon landings 40 years ago we decided to revel in the glory of lunatics online.

Thanks to Kathy Jones for this beautiful moon photo.

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First up on our lunar trip joins us. An astrophysicist who can often be found at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, he shares his passion for our local celestial companion.

If you can see the moon and we've been there before, then why not return and try to sustain human life? explains why a return to the moon can help us all on Earth.

Gazing at the moon is not a new activity, so it is no surprise that the photo sharing site has many groups that share photos of the moon, telescopic, atmospheric and certainly familiar. dropped by to talk about her love of sharing lunar photography.

The Apollo landings are doubtless an event that changed things for everyone lucky enough to be around to see it happen. For the younger set, a Twitter stream has been set up that charted the journey in real time as though the short form messaging system were around back in 1969. Lucas Laursen set up the account to reflect the passing time for a journey to the moon for the Nature.com blog.

To top the show this week, I was lucky enough to track down the one and only, original - on Facebook. Of course the social networking site appears to have manged to go out to the lunar orbit and back so that "his lunacy" is able to reach loyal subjects on Earth who may be seeking citizenship within his empire.

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Back next week with more web wonders! Jamillah

Phew! Quite the role call this week on the podcast from the origins of the web and blogging right around to a vast collection of animals online.

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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ is working on a collaborative documentary about what the web has become and how it has changed us. Who better to kick off their work at an event than the man who is credited with creating the web? visited the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to talk about his creation and where it may be taking us and Chris Vallance managed to ask him a few questions for us.

Of course Sir Tim Berners Lee is an outstanding figure in our online existence, but at the same event was a man who might be dubbed the grandfather of the web. is Sir Tim Berners Lee's father and he very kindly spared a moment to tell me a little more about his involvement with the development of computing. I guess it must be in the blood with that family!

Thanks to for this lovely pic.

This week turned up the volume on their social newscasting. I was kindly invited to participate in a project where your questions were piped in via Twitter to ask the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg. Already the news organisation has developed systems to create public participatory political interviews with Labour and the Conservatives. I asked Nick Clegg about his tech life and had a chat with at Reuters about where this form of journalism could be headed.

The history and development of Blogging has been documented in one handy place this week. , writer and co-founder of has written a new book called "Say Everything. How blogging began, What it's becoming and why it matters." We had a long chat about this particular form of self expression and you can listen to all of the other interesting issues we were not able to cram into the show in the version below.

How many giraffes can you fit on a webpage? Rhod has a feeling it could be an infinite amount and he could be right. has made a bet to collect one million and we can all help him along.

If you have seen a blog or heard a podcast that you think we should know about, drop me a line at podsandblogs -at- bbc.co.uk I'd love to hear from you. Or you can follow us on .

Next week I will be getting into my web-space suit and tracking down some moon bloggers to mark the first moon landings. If you know of a page that I should be reading for this - let me know via Twitter and I'll take a look.

Back next week with more web wonders! Jamillah

We're back and we missed you!
The podcast has returned to its rightful place and is ready for you to listen.

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Leading lights from made time to drop into a studio to talk about where they come from and where they might be headed as one of the best known global blogging aggregators. Georgia Popplewell and Ivan Sigal talk networks, editorial standards and learning new tricks.

Our own Chris Vallance has been finding out more about Africa's first .

Second life reveals some very creative online activity again. Jenaia Morane and Jolie Mason talk about Max the guide dog in a virtual world. .

Writing a long tale in short segments is quite the test for a writer of any sort. Trying a novel on Twitter would be a challenge for anyone. tried his hand at the task and reported back.

The music scene in India is changing rapidly as it moves away from the Bollywood mainstream. But is the digital side keeping up? tried his hand at the task and reported back.

If you have seen a blog or heard a podcast that you think we should know about, drop me a line at podsandblogs -at- bbc.co.uk I'd love to hear from you. Or you can follow us on .

Back next week with more web wonders! Jamillah