Dogged duo find new life online

Oscar-winning animator Nick Park is to release 12 new one-minute Wallace and Gromit films free on the internet, writes Fiachra Gibbons.

Startup.com

Philip French: Gripping, funny, revealing, occasionally hair-raising, and often mystifying

Startup.com, startup.gone

This year's surprise hit in the US is a documentary charting the dramatic rise and spectacular fall of a $40 million internet company founded by two twentysomething friends. We asked five dotcom entrepreneurs whether the filmmakers got it right

Lara’s story

It's a typical starlet's career. She starts out in video, one cult success leading to a number of sequels. Then the media get hold of her - Time magazine, Newsweek. Pretty soon there's a string of lookalikes, websites with supposed 'nudie pictures', soft drink commercials, and now the biopic. Only this starlet doesn't really exist. By Steven Poole

Shoot to fame

The web is the latest showcase for Hollywood hopefuls, as two Oscar-nominated short films show, writes Matthew Ford

Web watch

Sundance Online Film Festival | Dream on

The day I became a faster woman

Roused from her dreams by a man from BT and the promise of an ADSL connection, Imogen O'Rorke experiences the joys of broadband internet access - and 24-hour South Park.

Patrolling the internet

The British government is preparing a legal framework to control what is available on the web. In an exclusive extract from his new book Bound and Gagged, the Guardian's home affairs editor Alan Travis argues that the trend is towards censorship rather than a libertarian approach.