I enjoyed the Liberal Conspiracy bloggers summit on Saturday and its useful and interesting contacts. Sunny called it blognation, and as he has just outed himself in the Guardian as
The Citizens' Campaign for Public Service Broadcasting gives its verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: its declared priorities are sound but don't close 6Music or the Asian Network and invest more in childrens' programming and contemporary drama.
Circassian communities are scattered throughout the North Caucasus and the diaspora is spread throughout the world. On the day of Circassian Genocide and Exile, Zeynel Abidin Besleney examines the role played by the internet as a lifeline linking otherwise isolated activists and communities and re
During the war with Russia in 2008, Georgians turned to online media in a big way. But with Western funding declining, the future is less certain. While social networking has taken off, Georgians show signs of preferring face-to-face communication
With little public attention the UK state has claimed quite extraordinary powers over internet connectivity. A hilarious journey to Banana Ice Cream Republic illuminates what Britain may become.
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 charact
