Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody is reputed to be the best book ever written on Web 2.0. But why the strange silence on questions of copyright, privacy and ownership?

Ironic distance is ambiguous. It grounds both critique and detached resignation to the status quo. What becomes of it in the viral world of web 2.0?, ask Pil and Galia Kollectiv

In 1951, in his film Traité de Bave et d'Éternité, Isidore Isou announced:

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/artsdebate/

The Arts Council has got a blog on... As part of the 'first ever public value enquiry' into the arts, ACE is creating an elaborate set of feedback mechanisms, one of which is a website discussion currently well underway at Artscouncil.org.uk.

Whose round hairy silver magazine is angry? The journalistic discovery of literary value in spam emails – otherwise considered a pest – is no longer news. But if some poets endorse this view, celebrating the convention-breaching ‘wrongness’ of spam language, is this posture really as subversive as it seems? Keston Sutherland on a consumer revolt in the avant-garde’s inbox

Over the last eventful decade, the fledgling World Wide Web of the early 1990s has faded into distant memory. Jouke Kleerebezem thinks a daily session of ‘weblogging’ can keep many of its original promises alive.

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A review of Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie's hypertext journal of a tour around Scotland

A journey can be many things and the form in which it is recorded reveals the intentions of those who undertake it and their anticipation of the role of their audience.