There is a feature on US citizen journalist
Josh Wolf who was released from prison this week. In 2005 he filmed an altercation between police and protestors at a protest in San Francisco. The police demanded he hand over the video and give testimony - Wolf refused, citing a law designed to protect journalists, but the court ruled against him.
The episode has begun a re-evaluation of the term 'Citizen Journalist' and started a battle for bloggers to claim professional status and the legal protection that goes with it.
In
newsbytes this week, global measures to reign in cyberspace - Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, presents a plan for a code of conduct amongst bloggers.
Malaysian authorities toy with the idea of blogger registration and the
Thai government takes exception to Youtube after a video is posted including images that insult their king.
Google bombing is our second feature. The phenomenon, also called link bombing, and the G bomb, is a way of skewing search engine results – its uses are varied.
The most famous Google bomb was "Miserable Failure": when typed into a search engine the top result was the biography page of George W Bush, on the White House web site.
This year
Google has tried to clamp down on the phenomenon. However, this link bomb still works on other search engines and other Google bombs still work on Google.
And Finally, Sweden's bottomless vault of musical talent continues to amaze. First
Abba and
The Hives, now Johan Soderberg.
His version of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie's Endless Love sees Bush and Blair in place of the original recording artists and this cartoon romance is our video of the week.