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Alright, I've given in and gone the whole hog with Twitter. Perhaps it's not the web 2.0 tinnitus I claimed it to be. Still unsure about the real value of it, but willing to give it a try. Follow me here.
And yes, it's already on my facebook, blog, gmail and mobile. That's pervasive technology...

I've got another article up at openDemocracy, discussing the value of reputation in the digital commons, in response to Tony Curzon Price's article discussing our Creative Commons licenced content. Go read!
And if that sounds too dry for you (!), here's a cartoon:

I've got a blog post up at ourKingdom, openDemocracy's great new section devoted to the British power struggle, constitution and so on.

Twitter, and the whole family of tumbleloging that it seems to have inaugarated, is the bane of my internet existence. The blog is about the smallest unit of content I really want to deal with: don't broadcast every inane detail of your life, because even the most interesting person in the world spends some time kicking back catching up on 24, or similarly mundane activities that I don not want to know about. For example:

• redfern - I'm just bored less than 5 seconds ago from im
• avinashsonee - Watching movie : Simhadri ( Telugu ) less than 20 seconds ago from web
• grandmasterj - listening to my coworker eat. less than 10 seconds ago from twitterrific
• netbard At work, about to start some coding less than 5 seconds ago from im

Brillian video snagged from CrunchNotes. Makes me slightly worried and a bit like I may be missing a boat somewhere.

I think a lot of the predictions are a little far fetched towards the end; I'm always wary of discussing computational power and the brain, but the demographics are fairly enlightening.

Oh, and I hope everyone is appreciating the chance to find out what I'm listening to at the moment(in the sidebar on the right: doesn't work for Internet Explorer users. GET A REAL BROWSER.

This is lifted from my last piece on the oD blog, I'm afraid, but I hope my readers here enjoy it...
Over the past few months, Google has shown that it is finding it increasingly difficult to marry its 'don't be evil', college kids having fun in California image with an increasingly massive market valuation, influence and responsibility. Firstly, we had Brin and Page squabbling over the outfitting of a corporate jet (a Boeing 767, for the detail spotters out there), which they apparently requested be outfitted with hammocks, king-size beds and, one imagines, Bond-villian-esque shark tank bars, diamond chandeliers and the like. Of course, two wildly successful geeks indulging themselves in some fairly run of the mill excess is nothing to be too upset about but Google the company - as well as Google the search engine- have started to show some signs of creeping bureaucracy.Google's job application process has been much-vaunted for its ingeniousness, but it appears that for many talented engineers, they have finally crossed a line between pushing applicants, and pushing applicants away. Tales abound of ridiculous questions, interviews with inappropriate people and bizarre one-upmanship. And now, Google has gone (at least to my psychologists eyes), algorithm crazy, introducing massive profiling of their current employees to use to evaluate potential new employees. But then, when you have so many applicants that only 5% of randomly selected unsolicited applications even get read (this may be apocryphal), perhaps some sort of automated sorting is helpful. (Disclosure: I did apply to Google for a job. I didn't hear anything back, and I am a little bitter). I'm sure, however, it's all worth it for the Google canteen!

Becky Hogge giving out some props in her most recent New Statesman article for, ah, me. And productivity tips from the 'sysadmin'. I love that. I almost feel ready for 1337.

Escalation666 is l4m3r. All hacked entries have been reversed and security tightened up, so hopefully the problem will not happen again. It seems that when Dream-Hosting, the company who provide my hosting, parceled their automatic Drupal install, they did not put a .htaccess file in the configuration folder of drupal, allowing all and sundry to peek around and get access to the database access files.
I think. Of course, I may not be so l33t, in which case expect the 7|/\|A7 to get involved again. If so expect to formulate a plan to 0wNz him.

Well, apparently some l33t script kiddie has managed to get hold of the passwords or similar for this site, and make some small changes to the code. Very odd, as I can find no evidence whatsoever of how it has been done. Some small changes in the drupal configurations: mainly the label for edit-taxonomy-tags-2 has been changed to 'hacked by escalation666'.
I'm going to be checking out my apache logs, and drupal configuration. Currently, a grep on all the drupal files for escalation666 finds nothing, which is very odd. I intend to check out the database, but if that yields nothing I shall be very confused.