Best of the blogs: Thinking about joining that weird subculture of Turkers, or Amazon’s MTurk-enabled folks? Jon Udell did just that, wherein he found a podcast to transcribe that just happened to be about Bill Clinton’s romantic past. “Celebrity dirt notwithstanding, my encounter with Turk Work wasn’t very satisfying. There was no context, no orderly progression, no sense of collaboration, no awareness of (or pride in) a finished product.” Turk work. The news beat: Now that reports are suggesting Mark Hurd was involved with Hewlett-Packard’s spying scandal, the HP chief says that on Friday he will hold a briefing on what HP’s law firm found in its analysis. Meanwhile, spam fighters are losing ground and the explosive volumes of spam could potentially bring the Internet to a crisis point. And IPv6 is coming sooner than most folks think and will bring with it a raft of new security problems companies will be forced to deal with. Podcasts: Even though IBM and Sun just unveiled new encryption technologies, it takes more than that to cover your tape assets. That leaves storage admins everywhere still searching for that data security turning point. Tune into Storage Sprawl to hear about one possible breakthrough. Columnists’ corner: Microsoft issues beta 2 of SCE (System Center Essentials) 2007. SCE, according to Oliver Rist in this week’s installment of Enterprise Windows, is more than a rehash of the low-end MOM and higher-end SMS. Instead, it’s a ground-up new tool to provide systems managers a single console from which to do their entire job. “Typically, I don’t play with these things much in the real world, but what Microsoft is promising with SCE is cool enough that I’d say to look at it early.” Technology Industry