Archive for August 2005

The Difference

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

The emergence of participatory journalism and the blogosphere provides further evidence to the only saying I truly believe in: Overall, things do not get better or worse…they just get different. The best in the blogosphere comes with the worst in in the blogosphere. The blogosphere has emerged and the world has changed, [...]

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Virtual Crime

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Why isn’t cyberspace a sanctuary from the real world’s problems? New Scientist reports that a man has been arrested for using unbeatable bots in an online computer game to attack and mug the virtual avatars of human players. After stealing their virtual valuables, he turned around and sold them on an online auction [...]

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