PRI's The World: Technology Podcast 208

OK, last week's podcast was a little skimpy, so hopefully this one (WTP 208) will make up for it.

We lead with the recent brouhaha over iTunes in China. Turns out that Apple's popular music service went dark in China for a few days. Then it reappeared, but without a certain album, called Songs for Tibet. And then, the album seemed to be back on iTunes in China as well. Hmmm...curious. We have a report that tries to sort out exactly what's going on here, and why.

Then to South Korea, a truly amazing place to be a citizen journalist these days. Recent polling suggests that the Internet has surpassed newspapers as the people's choice for their daily news. Portals such as OhmyNews (english version here) have tapped into this, proclaiming that "every citizen is a journalist." But South Korea's leader, Lee Myung Bak, thinks Internet news has gone too far, calling it irresponsible. He's contemplating a number of measures to reign in outlets like OhmyNews. We take you to South Korea to hear more.