Tech talk from Tibet to Terminal 5

Last Modified: 27 Mar 2008
By: Newsroom blogger

Inside the morning meeting...

There's a digital thread running through many of the stories on the prospects list for tonight.

Lindsey Hilsum will again be reporting the latest on the Tibet revolts. Our science unit meanwhile is exploring evidence of Chinese - though not necessarily Chinese Government - involvement in an organised cyber attack on Free Tibet groups.

According to initial reports up to 70 per cent of those attacks can be traced to servers based in China.

The broad consensus in the news meeting is that this is a potentially important story and a good way of moving coverage of the Tibet crisis on.

All this tech talk is fitting in the week that More4 News is airing its dot.com decade series.

Back home, Heathrow's Terminal 5 opens to passengers for the first time. Airport security are preparing for a 'flash mob' protest this morning by those opposed to expansion.

(The unintiated are referred to the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English which defines flash mob as "a group of people who organize on the Internet and then quickly assemble in a public place, do something bizarre, and disperse." )

More obviously, there's the publication of the Byron review which has been pitched as the first national strategy for child internet safety.

The results - a mix of calls for greater parental awareness and tighter regulation - come after a six-month study by child psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, best known for presenting Little Angels on the BBC.

All this tech talk is fitting in the week that More4 News is airing its dot.com decade series, marking 10 years since the beginning of the first internet boom.

Yesterday, technology correspondent Benjamin Cohen reported on how technology has normalised extreme forms of sexual behaviour.

Tonight he examines how the web will be controlled in the future. Are we really free on the web?

Which brings us neatly back to Tibet and a TV psychologist.