New technologies
The Bad Web
The Internet is a bad, bad place. I’m reading “The Cult of the Amateur”, the much maligned book by Andrew Keen, and it does not make happy reading. He has a bone to pick with the web as we know Read more…
New technologies
The technophobes strike back
So Marina Hyde at The Guardian is at it again. The UK hosts now four million blogs, and all she can say is “Oh Noes!” The article makes an interesting point about the loss of privacy awareness in the younger Read more…
Globalisation
EU asks US to remove internet gambling restrictions
The EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, is on his way to the United States to continue compensation talks with trade representatives in order to reach a settlement over the internet gambling ban. Mandelson has commented that the US should not Read more…
Litigation
Another Second Life sex toy dispute goes to court
(Via ZDNet News) Back in July we covered an incipient IP dispute involving sex toys in Second Life. The conflict involved the makers of the popular Second Life line of sex toys called SexGen, which include such items as the Read more…
Cybercrime
Crime Investigation 2.0
Three people are being held under suspicion of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia. What makes this murder investigation different to others is that it comes with a Web 2.0 angle, as investigators trawl through Facebook and Myspace Read more…
Conferences
Urban Spaces event in Glasgow
More self-promotion of speaking arrangements. Well, if I cannot have self-promotion in my own blog, then where can I have it? Anyway, here is the information: Build your own worldAndres Guadamuz, AHRC21 November 2007 10am – 12.30pm The Lighthouse, Glasgow Read more…
Conferences
Bloodspell and the raise of machinima
Bloodspell: The rise of machinimaViewing and panel 22 November 20075.15 – 8.30pmLondon Metropolitan University Graduate Centre 166-220 Holloway RoadLondon, N7 8DB Bloodspell is the world’s first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell Read more…
Games
LARP: bringing games to life
Reading about the Tower of London GPS game has got me thinking about the future of role-playing gaming, gadgets, and some potentially interesting legal issues (this is a technology law blog after all, despite my efforts to forget that fact Read more…
Cybercrime
Cybercrime under control?
Back in August we reported on a surprisingly visionary paper from the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, which requested urgent government action against cybercrime. Last Friday Blogzilla commented that the official government response was disappointing. The government’s Read more…