The official opening ceremonies for Helsinki’s new Aalto University are being held today at Finlanditalo, and they are being broadcast in Second Life.

Polly Toynbee discussed the fact that, despite strong indications that crime is steadily dropping in Britain, fear of lawlessness is a major factor in the then-current general election campaign.

A page of notable or useful quotations.

Research firm Screen Digest forecasts that mobile TV will put gaming and music in the shade. It predicted that there will be 140 million global subscribers generating revenue of £3.1bn by 2011.

I have just been to see Don Slater give a lecture at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. It was based on a section of his forthcoming book New Media, Development and Globalization, and was intentionally anecdotal rather than analytical – although the anecdotes could have fairly been said to add up to an analysis.

Giving out your email address and work details as part of an attempt to solicit sex from a stranger is not necessarily a good idea.

has got his Media Ecology Association starting pack, complete with 3D glasses and decoder ring

Once upon a time Tim Bell dismissed the idea of 24-hour news channels. Now I dig up the quotation.

Virtual Worlds 2007 is a conference in New York at the end of March that is billed as the future of marketing and media. The keynotes speakers are from MTV, IBM and Nickelodeon.

Having succumbed to an ipod, even though I have huge reservations about the installed DRM, I have begun to look for applications that will help me do the kind of things I feel that I ought to be able to do.