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Jamillah Knowles | 10:33 UK time, Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Welcome to another week of web-wanderings,

The podcast is ready to rock and it's a bag of mixed treats made up of smart web based ideas.

Thanks to everyone who added their points about the changes to podcasting. It's important to know what you think and how you hope these weekly editions might be best presented.

alex66.gifThis week, friend of Pods and Blogs, Alex Wood finds out about a new romance. Using augmented reality to see where the local singles are is adding another dimension to the dating scene. Alex chatted with Anthon Erwin about his phone based dating service, .

ej66.gifFrom seeing new prospects for the heart, to seeing radio. Infographics are a great way of describing data in a simple and elegant visual form. of Orange County, New York is creating a series of visualisations based on episodes of the US radio show, This American Life. Having an instant visual reference can really add to the listening experience.

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kirby66.gifThere are now a multitude of ways in which we can stream information, links, feeds and other sources straight to whatever device we choose to view them on or read them. But once you have set up a hose-pipe of brilliant things - where do you find the time to read and see everything and do we managed to actually take that data in and enjoy it?
is a video blogger and producer and he is trying the Slow Media Diet and we can join him if the constant stream of info is starting to become a little overwhelming.

benjamin66.gifBeing more specific about your online consumption can be a tricky thing, especially if you decide to cut out one of the most ubiquitous players on the net. tried to get through a week without Google, not easy for a man who works online, but more surprising were the places where the big G pops up and can be harder to avoid.

That's all we have for you this week. Next week as I slide away from my new year's exercise regime and end up at a computer terminal instead of a treadmill, we're going to talk about exercise. Are you part of a community online that addresses the idea of being active in an interesting way? Then let me know about it!

As usual you can send me an email - podsandblogs at bbc dot co dot uk or come and say hi on Twitter where our screen name, oddly enough, is .

jkavatar.gif''Till next week! - Jamillah


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