Tech Swarm

♦ Funeral involving real people and real emotions, but on a virtual scene

♦ Virtual reality iPod display

♦ Troublesome players in their virtual world game Second Life are thrown into a secret in-game prison called The Corn Field

♦ Sex offender supports false identity with Wikipedia bio

♦ In Web-based games, items that exist only online are bought and sold in the 'real' world - sometimes for thousands of dollars. Some people are paid to play these games all day.

♦ Chinese communist leaders see Wikipedia as threat