Recently there seems to be a growing movement against some of the more popular social networks, evidenced by several amusing videos and a reasonably coherent rant from cranky geek John C. Dvorak.

Earth Hour went global this week with cities around the world (including Chicago) turning off their lights for one hour in order to "clearly demonstrate in participating cities, the connection between energy usage and climate change". Sadly one enterprising blogger (via the Freakonomics blog) has found that the reported drop in energy usage during the earth hour was preceeded by a large power spike as people prepared for the event. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."