George Soros onRocketboom – now I’ve seen everything!

The Chicago Sheraton is offering a BlackBerry Detox Programme which involves guests checking in their Blackberry on arrival where it is put under lock and key. Manager Rick Ueno says the idea grew out of his own addiction to always-on email.

A new tech breakthrough will allow robots to feel says an article in eWeek.

A column in Business Week Group M saying web advertising in Britain will outstrip national newspaper advertising this year. Another milestone. He says this is in contrast to the US and goes on, unflatteringly “when the Brits are the early adopters you begin to suspect the US might be really screwed.”

In a further example of old/new media collaboration, The Guardian reports that the International Herald Tribune has stuck a deal with Korean super-site Oh My News to take citizen journalist content for publication.

Jeff Jarvis reports on recent efforts by US newspapers to get into blogging or tap them in other ways.

“Net Neutrality” is an issue that has hardly surfaced in the British media, but which about which a debate is raging in the US. It centres around whether telcos should be allowed to charge variable prices according to the kind of content being carried, thus creating a multi-tiered service. Susan Crawford has written a very good summary of the issue if you are interested.

In another twist in the development of MMORPGs a man who was suspended from Second Life has sued the game’s creators because he wasn’t reimbursed for the real-world value of his online real estate.

It took 2000 hours and a lot of knowledge of Photoshop to create this image of the Chicago skyline. While we’re on the subject of Photoshop, a Hall of Fame has been created to honour those whose work pushes the limits of what you can do with the software.

Jeff Jarvis’ comments about Roy Greenslade’s new blog on Guardian Unlimited are worth a read. The best line: “The best indication of that is that he doesn’t turn this into a long column and he’s not too proud to do what’s really valuable onine: aggregate.”