I’m a bit wary of Second Life - which I see as having the potential to eat up oodles of real as well as virtual time - but Neville Hobson is a big fan, and his blog has a great scoop (for the non-Swedish speaking world)- Sweden To Open Embassy in Second Life. This raises lots of questions. Will diplomats enjoy immunity there? Will they be bugged / hacked by rival powers? Are MI6 keeping an eye on Second Life? What about Al-Qaeda?
-
Latest Posts
Children’s books in digital era
Publishing and digital are finally coming together. I also believe that free is the way forward - and that advertisers will start to look at buying slots in digital books. From Bologna.
Read more...Podango
The future of Podango, a podcasting-start-up, is in doubt
Read more...Blind Users
I’m sitting in cafe or British Library, working on coding up Sophie’s fab new design for Storynory. I was just interrupted by a Skype user I did not know. I was a bit suspicious at first, but then delighted to find that I was chatting to a Storynory listener - born in [...]
Read more...Storynory in Korea
Storynory has been written up in one of Korea’s leading national daily newspapers.
Read more...Storynory in Afghanistan
A while ago I was contacted by Noorjahan from Afghanistan. He asked me for permission to translate and publish Storynory’s version of the Golden Goose in the Dari language.
Read more...