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© kpwerker

Blogging is no longer the rage it used to be! Google Insights, a trend tracking tool which tracks search terms on the Google search engine worldwide, has shown a 50% decline in blogs last year. On the other hand, micro-blogging websites such as Twitter and Facebook have seen an exponential rise in users. In 2010, blogging declined in India by 30%. Blogging gained popularity in the early 2000s, but it now appears to have hit the skids, as micro-blogging platforms offer a quicker and easier way of sharing thoughts, either as a few sentences or even mere cryptic fragments. Blogging has also become more network driven, as on shared networks like Twitter, Google Plus or Facebook; in contrast to independent domains or blogs.

© Malakh Kelevra

There's been a lot of buzz on the web so far about the website called: Can you crack it?

It's the weird site where you are supposed to figure out what a string of code means, then solve it to uncover a secret keyword. You then type in the keyword into the website and click Submit.

Well, guess what?!

I actually figured it out, solved it, and then I was taken to the next page! =)

Now, I won't tell you what's on the next page, and I won't even tell you if you actually win anything after cracking it. Maybe you win something, or maybe you don't. (I was forbidden to tell you what lays behind that "submit" button)

They did allow me, however, to rub it in the face of the whole world that I am awesome!

I started trying to crack it a few days ago. It was only yesterday that I actually solved it after late nights wrestling with my brain to come up with the answer.

Good luck to the rest of you!

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© icimasa

Russia's top blog sites were hit by a hacker attack on the blogging service LiveJournal, which was quite surprising given the unwritten rules of cyber warfare that had been in place up until now. These attacks were the equivalent of online carpet bombing, rather than the focused attacks that hackers often use to take down the websites of their ideological enemies.

Their victim was the entire world of the Russian blogosphere, and the motive is to erode the virtual infrastructure of free speech itself. The scope of the attack wasn't clear at first, and at first it seemed narrowly political in nature as it was targeting the sites of just one anti-corruption crusader and blogger, Alexei Navalny, who has long been a thorn in the government's side. There fore it was easy for Navalny and other opposition bloggers to conclude at first that the hackers were aligned with, or hired by, the government. But the second barrage against LiveJournal showed no ideological rhyme or reason.