The spooks are getting down with the kids.

Spies are getting their own version of MySpace/Facebook, called A-Space. The A if for analyst, before you start guessing. But will they be able to poke each other? This networking tool will complement Intellipedia, which now apparently has 30,000 articles, and an online Library of National Intelligence. It will:

include all official intelligence reports sent out by each agency, offering Amazon.com-style suggestions: if you liked that piece on Venezuela’s oil reserves, how about this one on Russia’s?

Spy-only blogs are also proliferating. Amy Zegart, associate professor of public policy at UCLA and author of “Spying Blind: The C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the Origins of 9/11”, identified 23 moments when the CIA or FBI. might have stopped the plot. But she said she saw “almost zero chance” that the web would have made a difference, because intelligence officers didn’t recognise the significance of the information they had. “I think we overemphasise what technology can do,” Ms. Zegart said. “The most important fusion takes place inside people’s brains.”

Would that be confusion?

Speaking of Kafkaesque humour, do get along to The Pillowman if you live in Auckland. Some people were covering their face at the creepier scenes, but I found it hilarious.