Another Sunday, another rant from Henry Porter against Google. This time he tells us: “The crisis in local news is not just about “the business model”, a phrase I am coming to loathe. It is about the fabric of a Read more
Are hackers a real threat to the security of nations? The Pentagon seems to think so, which is why it is updating its computer security systems to respond to more sophisticated threats. This at the time that the U.S. Secretary Read more
If you are here, you may have noticed that the blog has moved from Blogger. While I spent a long time in Blogspot, and had a great time there, I decided that it was time to move on and host Read more
(via ORG-discuss list) Pirates, pirates, pirates. it’s all there is in the news lately. Pirates in Somalia, pirates in Sweden, pirates online, pirates in culture. We have pirates jumping out of our breakfast cereals it seems. Last week saw the Read more
Old-time favourite game City of Heroes has made a giant innovative leap by being the first massively multiplayer online game to implement user-generated gaming. While other games and virtual worlds offer user-generated content, what makes City of Heroes unique is Read more
Edited February 2012: This old entry is getting a lot of hits from Google, so I have decided to update it. There was an appeal to the sentence described below on October 2010, which reduced the sentences. On January 2012, Read more
Issue 1 2009 Editorial After Marper: Two Readings, Two Responses Roger Brownsword , pp.1-3| HTML | Reviewed Articles Virtual Worlds As A New Game Theoretic Model For International Law: The Case Of Bilateral Investment Treaties Peter S Jenkins, pp.4-32| HTML Read more
What better way to kick-start the internet after Easter break than a good old cyber-censorship row? All the ingredients are there: giant e-commerce company with large share of the market, gays, religion, porn, erotica, geeks, twitter… mix and watch the Read more
GikII Comes to Amsterdam! 17-18 September 2009 Institute for Information Law (IViR) University of Amsterdam GikII 4th Edition, a two day workshop on the intersections between law, technology and popular culture, will be held on September 17-18th, 2009 in Amsterdam, Read more
His page would look like this: Some absolute gold in there. “Bill Gates just bought Azerbaijan”. The Wall-to-Wall between Bill and Steve. And I love the gift from Linux on the bottom-left corner.