Ben Hammersley asks not what his Internet can do for him, but what he can do for the Internet, and comes up with a list of "New Year's Revolutions" for all good nerds to join:
* Use the FOAF'o'matic to build a FOAF file, and submit it to the FOAFNaut
* Join the EFF
* Validate your feeds
* Download Seti
* Apply Creative Commons licenses to all your stuff
* Properly ID3 tag all your sharable MP3s
* Warchalk your Wifi network
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