The Network will not be Revolutionized.

At the E3 debut of Project Natal, Microsoft's Don Mattrick called the controllers we've known and loved "a barrier separating video game players from everyone else." Wait. Isn't that the point? Should video game controllers really disappear?

China has unveiled the first official rule on the use of virtual currency in the trade of real goods and services to limit its possible impact on the real financial system. http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/newsrelease/commonnews/200906/2009...

a group that includes Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and academic and human rights organizations, endorsed a code of ethics last year that commits companies to "respect, protect and advance user rights to freedom of expression and privacy". Organizers hope to recruit other companies, such as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/

"If you sell networks, you also, intrinsically, sell the capability to intercept any communication that runs over them," said Mr. Roome. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html

The Digital Britain report advocates the latest step in the war against illegal downloaders, requiring ISPs to write them notification letters and monitor persistent offenders. But what of the other side of the fight against piracy, the effort to win hearts and minds? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8106805.stm

Yet while the Twittering classes were bending over backward to find more information and connect to more people in Iran -- going so far as to provide proxy servers for Iranians being blocked from the Internet -- CNN and other cable news outlets were busy running evergreen documentaries and Larry King reruns. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/06/15/iran-twitter-and-cnn-fail

Using trackers called “web bugs,” third parties collect user data from many popular web sites, and sites often allow this, even though their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/06/01/daily22.html

A short interview with Dr. Lawrence Kutner, author of Grand Theft Childhood.

One type of censorship comes to an end, but a new is developing, writes cultural theorist Dave Boothroyd. The power that corporations such as Network Solutions or YouTube wield produces a new form of subjectivity characterized by self-censorship. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-05-26-boothroyd-en.html