Iran creates fake blogs in smear campaign against journalists in exile

BBC Persian staff victims of online identity theft designed to discredit them, with family in Iran facing harassment as well

Classic Dickens or Boz with a twist: it’s all online

The internet isn't only a great way of reinterpreting the classics, it's also a great way of accessing them, writes James Bridle

The award-winning writer takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman says she is 'absolutely confident' that Swartz killed himself because of court case with MIT

He amassed 2.5 million followers within a month. Now he will communicate in the most concise language of them all

Movie PRs are increasingly avoiding quotes from critics in favour of lines from filmgoers

The 25-year-old US whizz kid is one of just three accounts the communist state is following. But why?

Internet activist and crusader in the open data movement

Internet activist killed himself a month before going on trial for what family calls 'an alleged crime that had no victims'

Katie Rogers: Users of the social media forum spent Saturday paying tribute to a man who helped build the website

Quinn Norton, Aaron Swartz's former partner, published this tribute to the internet activist on her blog, quinnnorton.com

Technology bloggers including Cory Doctorow, Joey deVilla and Larry Lessig responded to the death of Aaron Swartz by publishing lengthy tributes

The novelist and poet takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer

French government joins debate after spate of homophobic, racist and anti-semitic hashtags trended in recent months

Staff among 116 to face disciplinary action at Iain Duncan Smith's department for blogging and social networking since 2009. By Josh Halliday