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Apologies for the silence, I've been a bit busy, what with TTIP, ISDS, UK open standards, data retention, EU copyright review and much ...

It's something of a truism that the courts take time to catch up with technology, especially in the fast-moving world of the Internet,...

If you go to the Italian version of Wikipedia , you will not find a gateway to 847,000 articles in that language, but (at the time of writi...

As Bessen and Meurer's book "Patent Failure" points out, one of the biggest problems with software patents is their lack o...

This is a list of my main sources of income, and of any other work-related benefits, as of 1 October 2011. I will update thi...

I'm sure all my readers know about Techdirt : Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blog...

I joined Twitter on 1st January 2010 as an experiment. I wanted to see whether this trendy thing had any real merit, or was simply the late...

I've never been one to follow the latest digital fashions immediately. I didn't start blogging until November 2005, and I only joine...

It's a red letter day here on Computerworld UK, for the open source section just gained an important new strand in the form of Simon Say...

... surprises , that is: So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal,...

Great point here from Adam Tinworth, about why traditional publishers are suffering so badly at the hands of the bloggers: the new breed of...

A question that often comes up is why people blog and twitter. I've given various answers over the years, but once again Mike Masnick s...

Non-journos probably should avert their glances, but there is a cracking set of comments on this wonderful story from Adam Tinworth, blogge...

In the last three years, I've written just under 4000 blog posts. You might think that is more than enough, but for some time I have be...

The best meditation on blogging and bloggers I have read so far: In fact, for all the intense gloom surrounding the news-paper and magazine...

Quoth Hazel Blears: "But mostly, political blogs are written by people with disdain for the political system and politicians, who see ...

In case you missed it, something of truly global importance happened last week. No, not the collapse of capitalism as we know it, something ...

An interesting perspective from Chinese blogger Isaac Mao: It's a different mindset that one can feel after blogging for a period of ti...

Whoever thinks blogging is a sad, soulless activity is clearly bananas . (Via Boing Boing .)

In the dark, twisted world of copyright, one ray of light has been William Patry's blog . No more : I have decided to end the blog, aft...