Battling for hearts and minds

A self described mad scientist and disruptive technologist has whipped up an IP based tracker widget to trace anonymous Wikipedia edits.

Fox News and the New York Times are about even, as is the government of Cuba and Ft. Meade in Maryland. This is a curious convergence of the ‘net, the media and those who make policy. Even stranger is the prospect that groups as diverse as Diebold, the Vatican and the CIA care enough to pay someone to make anonymous postings to what is essentially a big ass web forum.

Most importantly, where does one apply for these jobs? I’ve been trolling web forums anonymously for a decade and nobody ever gave me a cent. I can be bought. Tainted baby food, not a problem. Crazy right/left – wing government, who cares, commies and fascists are one and the same on the web. Big oil, hey, I like to drive as much as the next guy. US Army, sure, somebodies gots to do my killing for me.

You guys write the checks and I’ll write the copy. Anonymously, of course, since I wouldn’t want to actually be held accountable for my words.