Internet

Wednesday 10th March

Virtual worlds: disappearance through pervasiveness

Remember Second Life? There was a time when everyone was moving in. But where did those worlds go? Social games – indeed, much of the social web that is not a "game", like Facebook itself – have taken on core characteristics of Virtual Worlds without needing some of their more head-turning characteristics. Raph Koster, a designer of virtual worlds, explains that Virtual Worlds only appear to have disappeared because they are now everywhere.
Tuesday 9th March

Build Internet communitarian memory

A video of Jonathan Zittrain's lecture at Duke on who owns the archive and the politics of making sure that the Web's memory will persist, with an extended comment by Tony Curzon Price
Sunday 7th March

Towards a new on-line politics: OurKingdom and Liberal Conspiracy

One of Britain's best blogs is re-organising and so is OurKingdom
Wednesday 3rd February
Tuesday 26th January

Scotland in cyberspace: new media, blogs and public conversation

Gerry Hassan examines the Scottish blogosphere
Friday 22nd January

Google vs China: capitalist model, virtual wall

The breach between a corporate behemoth of the new-media age and an emerging state superpower defines the struggle for the world’s information future, say Johnny Ryan & Stefan Halper.
Tuesday 5th January

The Kindle era

The author looks forward to the 'Kindle Era', predicting that the Kindle will facilitate self publishing online, and so break publishing houses' 'commerical' oriented grip on what can be published

Dear Mandy

A satirical video complaining about Britain's proposed Digital Economy Bill
Friday 18th December

Kremlin hand hovers over Russia's internet

So far the Russian government has resisted the temptation of controlling the Russian internet, but this may be about to change, says Mikhail Zygar
Tuesday 21st November

Democracy in America: paths to renewal

An evolving common ground of open-minded, web-savvy citizens is creating a renewed civic culture of dialogue across the United States. It needs support at the centre too, says Michael Edwards.
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