Podcast Notes: Futurology, Economics and Smileys

You can download this week's podcast here (first broadcast Tuesday). There were a few technical glitches with Rhod's ISDN line that I've edited out.

• Futurologist Richard Watson did a bit of economic forecasting for us


• Technical problems cut short our chat with the founders of Wikinvest - we hope to hear from them again soon


• A row in Europe after a EU Parliament based press officer was warned about a blog post revealing some confidential information. The reprimanded blogger Gawain Towler of UKIP and Jon Worth of Euroblog found that this was one issue they could agree on


• The inventor of the Smiley graced us with his presence


• And Jamillah talked to the writer of a rather good song about microblogging

That's it for this week, do get in touch with comments thoughts and suggestions for next week. Posted below Richard Watson's talk to the RSA, well worth watching.