In his blog, Roy Gleenslade speaks admiringly and fondly of the "old-fashioned paper" but grants that economic conditions are challenging, especially in Ireland. At a seminar this week at Limerick university on the future of journalism, he quotes the online editor of the "Irish Times" as saying, "I think print will die," adding, "It may retain a place in people's affections in the same way as vinyl does for a certain niche in the music industry."

Virgin Media has been chosen to provide wireless across 120 stations; it will install Wi-Fi in 80 stations in July in time for the games and will be free over some of the summer season. Afterward, it will be made available to Virgin Media's broadband and mobile customers and on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Thousands gathered in a dusty park in Lira, Uganda, to screen the 30-minute video about the feared and hated Joseph Kony, many coming away wondering why they had to be reminded of such brutality. Some jeered as the projection neared its end and scuffles broke out as simmering frustrations boiled over. The campaign behind the online video was met with skepticism from some. "Why make Kony famous? It baffles them," said Victor Ochen, director for African Youth Initiative Network, the charity behind the showing.

After hundreds of critical tweets about The Crypt School in Gloucestershire were posted, the administration decided to bill four people for legal fees the school incurred. The board of governors "view the use of social media to insult, abuse, bully or defame a student, a member of staff or the school with the utmost seriousness," said its chairman.

The founder of Wikipedia has been drafted to advise on a crowdsourcing approach to policymaking. Next month, he will attend Whitehall meetings to ensure new bills are being shaped by the general public and not just interest groups. Downing Street hopes that Mr Wales’s involvement will help civil servants transform online consultation documents from static PDF files to something more interactive, so the public can get involved in much the same way as Wikipedia is edited collaboratively by its readers.

The social medium has agreed not to allow non-sponsors to buy promoted Twitter ads based on Games-related tags like #London2012. Locog is concerned that digital platforms like Twitter might be used to piggy-back the event. Last year, Marketing reported Locog struck an arrangement with Foursquare to allow only official sponsors to check-in around the Olympic Park zone.

Historypin, a platform that lets people “record the story of human history”, is inviting the public to submit pictures, audio and video for “Pinning The Queen’s History”, which will bring together 60 years of the British monarch’s rule. Since 1952, The Queen has made 261 official overseas visits, covering 116 different countries. Media will be ‘pinned’ onto a Google Map on the site and overlaid onto Street View so viewers can compare past scenes with how they look today.

The backbench Conservative MP has set up a company, Menschbozier, with Luke Cholerton-Bozier, whom she encountered on a social-networking website. "As we're like-minded on the subject, we decided to register a company together as partners and see what we could come up with. We're talking about several social-media ideas, probably combined with politics. I have reached my friend limit on Facebook, so it seemed like a natural choice to try and do something more in the area."

The streaming music service's restriction on certain functionality for free users appears to have passed muster with German royalty collection agency Gema, which is known to be difficult to deal with. Earlier this year, Spotify rival Grooveshark shut down operations in Germany, citing "unreasonably high" licensing costs imposed by Gema. Cologne-based rival Simfy already has more two million users in Germany (and Austria, Belgium and Switzerland). Rdio and Deezer are available in the country, too.

The two countries were added today, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, by Reporters Without Borders because their citizens access to the Internet is repressed. India and Kazakhstan have been added to the category of "countries under surveillance" on the updated list. The Paris-based group said last year would be remembered as one of unprecedented violence against netizens. Also on the list: Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.