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Season’s greetings!

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This week on the podcast you will find a further talk about hacking, 24 things to read over your holiday period and clues to wisdom on the web.

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First up a place for the over 50s to get networking. is the work of Tony Page and his team. Tony, a former director at the charity Age Concern realised long ago that a place where older people can learn web skills and keep in touch is a bonus in later years. So as part of his retirement, he decided to make it happen.

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If you have an advent calendar in the traditional sense, you may well be close to finishing all of your treats. It’s not all over though as offers some great advice in bite sized pieces. Josh Russell explains why he put it together with his colleague Dave Stone.

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Last week I read an excerpt of a statement about Wikileaks, posted on the site of the Hacker Quarterly. The editor known as Emmanuel Goldstein was seeking some clarity on the topic of the DDOS attacks enacted by supporters of Wikileaks. This week I caught up with him as he has been travelling and we discussed what hackers do today and how their curiosity may have changed since 1984 when 2600 was established as a publication.

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That’s all for now - next week we have the look back across Outriders for 2010. How much can you remember?

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~ Jamillah