• Police in Avon and Somerset have confirmed that they arrested a man for stealing people's accounts in the online game Runescape, marking one of the first cases of its kind in Britain. Graham Cluley has some good background on the idea of virtual theft - something that can end in tragedy.
• Lots of chatter on the net about the apparent death of the CrunchPad - the touchscreen tablet web browsing device being put together under the umbrella of the TechCrunch blog empire. According to TC founder Michael Arrington, the device's future is likely to fall apart in a string of lawsuits after arguments over who was in control of the concept. The scheme drew plenty of detractors in its short history (the accusation of vapourware was often levelled, and ultimately fulfilled) but Ross Rubin asks the pertinent question: why Arrington, a lawyer by training, would leave so much of the device's crucial elements stranded in a legal grey area. Phillip Torrone at Make Magazine, meanwhile, questions whether TechCrunch will now put it out as a FOSS project.
• Each morning we try (where possible) to expand your mind, so here's today's food for thought: a talk from Harvard law prof Jonathan Zittrain (who recently published a book arguing that gadgets could stifle online freedoms) about making human brainpower purchasable over the internet. The concept of crowdsourcing has been around for a while, of course, but in this hour-long talk he runs through a wide range of approaches and areas that this is being applied to - and expresses a number of concerns about how it's developing. I find it a really interesting subject area: anybody got their own examples to put forward?
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