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Your view of the Web is in for a change — in some cases, whether you like it or not.

This week on the podcast. An epic Challenge of Flight. Taking a journey to the sun. A profile of a blogger in Baghdad. The quandary of what to do with nuclear garbage in Serbia. And a small town in South America get Wi-Fi. And the World’s Clark Boyd. Where is he now? Tune in to find out.

Perspective: Clock is ticking on e-discovery “Dec. 1 is almost here, a significant date in the legal world when amendments…

Five years ago tomorrow, a computer company with no history of selling music devices released a portable media player that cost more and did less than much of the hardware already on sale. Naturally, this gadget and its successors sold in the millions, all but defining the entire digital-music industry in the process.

This week on the podcast… Finding a vaccine for malaria is the holy grail for medical researchers in Africa; new clinical trials. Building a new island in the Middle East, and reclaiming a very old one in France. The government in Iran announces plans to ban high-speed Internet access. When cows belch, that creates methane, a greenhouse gas: how to cut that down. And a new media bureau in the virtual world in Second Life.

For the first time in years, AOL isn’t trying to catch up to competitors with a new software release.

Mike asks, “I have a 7 second heartbeat audio track. I want to make it a 5 minute track. What is it called and how do I do it?”

What you’re describing here is what’s commonly referred to a looping an audio track. This is frequently done with a section of audio that’s either repeated for a few times throughout a musical composition or a loop might be used to create a bed for an entire segment of music. The actual implementation varies slightly depending on which audio application is used, but the basic premise is the same - you figure out how long the piece of audio you want to loop is (7 seconds in this case) and then you establish how many times you need to play a 7 second file to achieve 5 minutes of continuous playback. I’ll walk through the process of creating a 5 minute loop from a 7 second track using Audacity, which works for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Digital cameras let people edit their shots within seconds of taking them, then share the photos with the folks back home before they’ve even returned from vacation. Now digital cameras are making a different sort of trick commonplace: the ability to stand still.

Back in Boston for this week’s podcast. Stoves in Darfur that use less wood to burn are saving lives. The dark side of technology: exploitation of low-wage workers building semiconductors. A global warming conference in Mexico. The Army’s newest recruiter: an online avatar. Are Italians immune to certain diseases? And the smells of New York City Subway. An extra long podcast this week, cause there ain’t no podcast for next week.