OWNI News, augmented

One of the most striking aspects of people’s treatment of each other online is how starkly it runs counter to early visions of what the Internet could have done to interpersonal culture.

Why are we so concerned about the effects of scientific and technological progress, when what we should fear the most is the heart of darkness of a passive and subdued society?

The eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless replacement to reality. You could not have designed Facebook better to opiate 21st Century occidentals.

Does more technology = more transparency? Is Russia becoming a more transparent place? In the past two years the Russian blogosphere has empowered itself through technology, attracting a lot of attention from both the Russian and the international media.

An insight into today's national strike in France with a special focus on 'la guerre de chiffres', a crowdsourced map of the stoppages, and differing media coverage around the world.

The campaign was ratified by 160 Italian parlamentarias - and as an Italian, I must confess, the question pops to mind: are these the same MPs who approved the infamous gag law, imposing numerous censoring barricades on blogs?

England and France, I command you to bury the hatchet. After all, what terrorist in his right mind target the public transport in London when there's a strike underway every other week?

I somehow doubt whether Tal al-Mallohi and her fellow Syrian detainees have watched many Norman Wisdom films. But if they ever do, I reckon they’d get a glimpse of what Syria is trying to suppress.

Elections are what generate increased activity of various groups interested in transparency issues. Despite my assumption that this might not be the case in more developed democracies, clearly grassroots transparency movements are present and growing all across Europe.

The more scripted a game is the less freedom of choice (FoC) it offers the player. At the other end of the spectrum are 'emergent games' whereby a set of rules governs interactions, but these are open-ended, like open worlds. The area in between scripted and emergent games is the very little explored country that Failbetter Games is aiming for.