The online version of the Economist has an article on the benefits of video gaming for business. Link here
Archive for August, 2008
Economist – Playing for Profit
Posted in News on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Religion, Radicalization and the future of Terrorism
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on August 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The UK’s Guardian today published details of a report produced by Britain’s Security Service (MI5) entitled, ‘Understanding radicalization and violent extremism in the UK‘. The report is from MI5′s internal behavioral analysis unit and contains within it some interesting and surprising conclusions. The Guardian report covers many of these in depth (so no need to [...]
When do virtual threats become real?
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, tagged PN, second life, swatting, terrorism on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The threats emanating from virtual communities have traditionally fallen into distinct categories: 1. Web 1.0 style of threat, where individuals or groups would post information on the web with the express purpose of it being used to cause harm to national security. 2. Web 2.0 emergence of cyber-jihadi’s who used the availability of more sophisticated [...]
Bot Mediated Reality
Posted in News, tagged daemon on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you are in San Francisco on Friday 8 August 2008, you should try and see the seminar by the author of Daemon ( Daniel Suarez) on Bot Mediated Reality. Promises to be quite the event.
