• After a week filled with news about Google's escapades in China - and a day when domain registrar GoDaddy tried to get some time in the spotlight by saying it would stop selling Chinese domains - let's start with... something different. Here's a really great, but entirely random piece by Reuters looking at the inner workings of a cybercrime ring. Worth perusing.

• How much will books cost on the iPad? Exactly the same as the Kindle. Is Apple trying to force the market on ebooks? Is it merely being competitive? The truth's not clear right now, but it's enough to major publishers like Random House.

• And a piece that's really worth taking note of from today's Guardian: this column from Naomi Alderman looking at the work of Jane McGonigal. Jane is optimistic, but inspirational: and if you take nothing else away from her fun TED talk, it's that we can all be inspired by the idea of the epic win.

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