Meeja hoor. NewsTalk Dublin, 6:20pm today.

I'm on NewsTalk Dublin at 6:20pm today, on George Hook again, about the WikiScanner thing. Pat Rabbitte has resigned as Labour leader, so it may get bumped (again).

In other news, have a photo of and interview with me, from the Honda public relations magazine Dream. I came into work to be greeted with an A3 colour photocopy on my desk.

Update: Quick 4 min segment. He mentioned his own entry, which presently speaks of him as a dog-lover — he can't stand dogs! I said "click on the history tab, you'll see everyone that ever changed it listed there - the WikiScanner basically indexes all that stuff, so you can look it up." He liked that. I also mentioned there'd be a lot of employees whose bosses might be a little annoyed at what they'd been doing at work ...

Update 2: 11:30pm call from the Daily Mail. Apparently the Sun is running a piece on vandalism of Gordon Brown from Whitehall IP addresses. She asked a cheeringly clueful question: how long was it up there? I couldn't find the edits, but did introduce her to the history tab, which she was most excited by. Hear that? That's a journalistic instinct sniffing out a new source of information.

I also got to note something that's surprised me: the public's opinion of what constitutes a conflict of interest is far harsher than even Wikipedia's.