Accounts including Guardian Music, Guardian Film and Guardian Books were taken over by the activists on Sunday evening. They vowed to keep causing "problems" for Twitter, alleging that the social media service keeps suspending its own access. #Twitter_SecurityTeam Think if they suspended our accounts that they will stop us!" read a message posted to @guardianbooks.

Asked in 2009 why he didn't use Twitter, David Cameron famously responded "too many twits might make a twat" . Four years later, Number 10 is attempting to move more rapidly into the digital future with a Twitter strategy that includes handing out "Twitter exclusives" to favoured journalists for release before they are officially announced by ministers. In a tactic reminiscent of the BBC satire The Thick of It, Twitter is also being used to try to quash negative stories before they gain currency in a news cycle where every second counts.

Fade to Black launched last week at the Sundance film and music festival in the O2 and aims to embrace the convergence of photography, video and multimedia. It charted at number one in the arts and photography category in the UK and Australia after being available for just 24 hours.

The regulator's latest study into media use found that 72 per cent can't go a day without accessing sites like Twitter and Facebook to see what their friends are up to. Thedrum.co.uk claims young adults are the most frequent visitors of social media in comparison with all internet users - this according to their usage per week.

The collaboration with Digital Theatre has offered a range of live theatre performances through on-demand and the exclusive Digital Theatre Channel, including Shakespearean plays and popular stage musicals such as Wicked, Sound of Music and Les Miserables. In addition, HD content will be added to the service from theatres across the UK.

The survey, by hpi research, states that the paper is "considering charging" for the service. If so, people would need to take out a monthly subscription to view the relevant part of the paper's site. Aside from the likelihood that answer b will be favourite, and that answer a is two questions rather than one, the second clause is really interesting: "I would never pay to access a newspaper's website."

The European Commission (EC) has given Google's competitors and other interested parties a month to respond to the company's proposals in relation to online search and search advertising. Earlier this month, Google revised concessions to resolve the two-year-long antitrust investigation into its alleged misuse of its dominant position in the online search market.

The appointment of Lisa Markwell as editor of the Independent on Sunday, a move from her current role as executive editor of The Independent and the i, has been announced by the newspaper's owner via Twitter. Evgeny Lebedev informed Twitter users of the news on Friday afternoon, noting that Markwell is one of two female editors, alongside the London Evening Standard's Sarah Sands.

Google has published its latest Transparency Report and the results are not encouraging for free speech advocates: governments around the world are asking it to remove more content than ever before. In the second half of 2012, the number of government requests to remove content from services like YouTube and Blogger increased from 1,811 to 2,285, and the number of items targeted for censorship increased from 18,070 to 24,179.

The self-described anarchic clown came to power after Iceland's financial crash, promising nothing but to break his promises and procure a polar bear for the local zoo. But three years later, his zeal for direct - and digital - democracy is exciting reformers, who are looking to Iceland for a glimpse of how democracy might work for the Facebook generation. With two-thirds of its 320,000 population on Facebook, Iceland can be a petri dish for democratic ideas, according to Mayor Jon Gnarr.