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Hello all!

The end of year round up is here. You can listen to the nearly hour-long special podcast with some of the interviews and topics we covered. 2010 has been a great year for arts, makers, technology, blogging, podcasting and everything in between.
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to talk to me for Outriders and all the amazing work that has appeared on our segment.

The good news for the coming year is that the podcast should now be available indefinitely. So if you miss an episode from now on, you can find it right here waiting for you to listen to at your leisure.

If you keep doing wonderful things online, we'll keep talking about it. So drop a line and let me know if you see something internet related that floats your boat or if you are making something we should know about.

As usual, you can email me at Outriders at bbc dot co dot uk, talk to me on or join the Facebook group by searching for Outriders. We have a short break next week, but Outriders will be back the following week at the usual time on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5Live.

I'm looking forward to another digital year - so have a good one, wherever you are logged in.

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

Hello Outriders,

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This week on the Outriders podcast Chris Vallance drops in. He's been keeping an eye on the ongoing Wikileaks stories and together we pulled some clarity out of the mix.

Three main topics emerge ranging from what might happen to Julian Assange, whether the term "Cyber War" is strictly accurate when it comes to referencing the recent DDOS attacks and whether people are reading the leaks themselves.

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I had a chat with Dr Jose Nazario who is a senior network analyst with . He's been watching the increase and changes for politically motivated DDOS attacks and brought some light to the recent actions of Anonymous and their followers.

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Chris took a look at future leaks by chatting with former Wikileaker Daniel Domscheit-Berg, also known as Daniel Schmitt. Daniel has started which was not designed to run in competition with Wikileaks. Daniel explains his reasons for starting this platform.

As more and more activists and main names throw their hat into the arena the complexity of the tale increases. No doubt we will be watching this one for a long time to come.

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To round off the podcast, I caught up with a 14 year old who has come up with a catchy translation of a pop song, rewritten for the love of mathematics. told me why blogging suits him and how he gets along with Algebra.

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That's all for this week, I'll be hunkered down cutting our choicest morsels into an end of year round up, but if you would like to get in touch and let me know what's happening in your web-life, the usual avenues are open.

You can email me at Outriders at bbc dot co dot uk, send me a to say hi, or join in discussions on Facebook by searching for Outriders.

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Until next week! ~ Jamillah

Hi all!

This week on the Outriders podcast I found out more about the cartoon characters that accompany operating systems, explored in text and listened to other people's voicemail. All in a week's work.

First the world of the OS-Tans. An OS-Tan is a character usually drawn in the manga style that represents an operating system. A personification if you like.

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Rumour had it that the Window's 7 release had it's own official character, Nanami Madobe but Microsoft Japan put me right. She's not official, but the Microsoft Silverlight character was indeed designed by the development team in order to raise awareness. Blogger and anime reporter for the website , kindly explained the online fan art dedicated to our Chrome, Windows and Ubuntu systems.

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Also this week, I had a chat with the trending site, . The owner collects voicemail that is called in to his number online from around the world. He then sets these messages to music, creating a stunning atmospheric soundtrack to various strangers' lives.

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Last but by no means least, Jason Scott, the man behind and owner of , told me about his latest documentary 'Get Lamp'. The film explores the origins and development of text based gaming and brings to life those times when we were not so influenced by graphics but lost many hours trying to work out the puzzles designed by early games writers and coders.

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This week we are still calling out for your favourites, so take a look back at our blog archives and I will do my best to round up interviews you may have missed or people you would like to hear from again at the end of the year.

You can email me at Outriders at bbc dot co dot uk, come and say hello on or join in on Facebook where you can find us by searching the site for Outriders.

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Until next week!

~ Jamillah

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