This sounds like an interesting project:

The OKCon 2010 has come and gone - it was a great event and I really enjoyed attending and talking at it. The organisers have posted a resource page with links to presentations, images and more: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2010/after

. So this is me (below) talking at the event...

Hi - the content for this talk has move to my now blog.  Click here or on the link below to see it.  Thanks.

http://agreatbecoming.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/talk-notes-technology-and-evolution/

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I am giving a short talk at the Wikimedia foundation event, OKCon 2010 - there is loads of great looking talks there including Daniela Silva & Pedro Markun from Brazil on, "how social action can take over information and open up the government (or simply hack it)" and Peter Murray-Rust from the University of Cambridge on 'Open Science' - the full programme is here.

I read this story and was a little baffled by it's premiss. I think is misreads the situation to suggest a problem for Google that simply does not exist;

I have just been reading an interesting article on vestigial organs - structures within the body that now have a different or indeed no remaining function.  Examples might include the appendix in humans - which is the remains of an organ that would have, in the distant past, been used to digest cellulose foods such as grass or the little nub-like wings of the kiwi.  The theory of evolution predicts that one will find vestigial DNA - and so we have;

I thought that I would revisit an old (Aug 2003!!) article by Clay Shirky.  This article lays out the central idea that started me on this path of research; about how networks respond to an attack;