Column: Geek So Cool »

10 October 2013 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

Geekery may be about to shift from bits and bytes to legal codification and everyone is affected. We are talking the hottest kids on the block - namely Copyright, Piracy and Privacy. Recently Vice ... »

Gothenburg Book Fair – Digital Square »

8 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Editor Netopia

The digital wave is sweeping in over the book business, just as it has done in so many other parts of the culture industry and with similar key elements: democratisation, disrupted value chains, copyr... »

Column: Online Privacy – Fixing the Wrong Problem »

3 October 2013 | Paul Frigyes, Journalist

This summer, I received a phone call from an employee at my bank. The chap on the other end asked if I recently had bought a number of kitchen and bathroom appliances in California. Which I hadn’t. My... »

Column: Robots Will Take Your Job – Threat or Blessing? »

26 September 2013 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Fear and discontent has been turned against the machines since the dawn of the Industrial Age. The Luddites rebelled in nearly 19th century England, named after the weaver Ned Ludd who smashed the sto... »

Is Deleting Abusive Comments Stifling Freedom of Speech? »

19 September 2013 | Helienne Lindvall, Columnist The Guardian

Earlier this summer Twitter came under heavy criticism in the UK, after a number of women had been subjected to bomb and rape threats on the site. It all started with the seemingly innocuous feat a... »

Column: Minitel and the French Telecom Revolution »

12 September 2013 | Michael Streeter, Journalist

Last year France Telecom – now called Orange – finally pulled the plug on its antiquated information system called Minitel. This very French invention, which first appeared in 1981, had been very pop... »

The Follow Economy, pt. 2 »

5 September 2013 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

It was only four years ago that Ashton Kutcher and CNN Breaking News battled to become the first Twitterers to reach the 1 million followers landmark. Unsurprisingly the most followed person today is ... »

Italy’s Digital Conundrum »

29 August 2013 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

The dire issues of the Italian economy, judicial problems and political turmoil are reflected in the nation's internet policy debate. The difficult development of the Italian web, a good showcase of t... »

Interview: US Library Brings 3D Printing to the Public »

27 August 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Edtior Netopia

As information goes digital and becomes easily accessible from everywhere, many public libraries are finding themselves with existential struggles. The Chicago Public Library (CPL) may have found a w... »

Who voted for the machines? »

15 August 2013 | Peter Warren and Michael Streeter, Journalists

At some point in the next decade, probably between 2015 and 2020, an important milestone will be reached. Machine to machine communications on the internet will exceed those made by humans. The phe... »