The battle for the internet

Second Life was Just the Beginning

Second Life was perhaps the first virtual world to enter mainstream discourse. Its founder thinks new virtual reality technologies are its successor, and destined for mass adoption. http://www.bit.ly/wired-secondlife

The Tortoise and the Share

Amol Rajan, BBC Media Editor and former Editor of The Independent, delivered this lecture on the future of journalism, aptly summarised in the subhead as “How to Save Journalism (from Itself)”.

The Catch 22 of Hacktivism

Hacktivists use open source technology and publicly available information to investigate political and military activity – this piece looks into the problems their activities throw up.