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
Conservative journalist Peter Oborne has demanded that David Cameron severs himself from Andy Coulson, who represents the interests of Murdoch at the pinnacle of the Tory party
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
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
The Scottish Blog awards gave their verdict on the best journalist and mainstream blogs in Scotland yesterday, putting me in an honourable third place, behind Alex Massie of The Spectator
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.
