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One of the amazing things about free software is how it has managed to succeed against all the odds - and against the combined might of s...

Although there has been some sniping about the quality of Wikipedia's entries from time to time, we generally take it for granted t...

The term "open source" was coined back in February 1998, and initially it applied only to software. But as the power of open, c...

One of the most fascinating aspects of open source is how its key ideas are being applied elsewhere. Obvious examples include open content -...

I've been following the move to open data by the UK government for some time on this blog. Major milestones include the creation of the ...

Dimdim is a Web-based collaboration platform that I signed up for ages ago, but never quite got around to using. Looks like I may have misse...

I met Matt Ridley once, when he was at The Economist , and I wrote a piece for him (I didn't repeat the experience because their fees at...

In the famous online argument between Linus and Minix creator Andrew Tanenbaum during the very early days of Linux, one of the more memorabl...

Yesterday I had an interesting chat with Paul Clarke, an advisor to government departments on digital strategy, and a man with fingers in ma...

As I've noted many a time, the UK government has been one of the most backward when it comes to adopting open source solutions. The fact...

One of the central questions this blog tries to answer is to what extent the principles behind open source software can be applied to other ...

"How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and a...

This is incredibly important: On 27 January 2009, one of us — Gowers — used his blog to announce an unusual experiment. The Polymath Projec...

I am a huge fan of Wikipedia, one of the greatest achievements of sharing; I also enjoy wandering around Flickr, although its lack of over-a...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, I rather like the concept of the commons. As well as being good in itself, it als...

I'd come across TiddlyWiki before, but never really got what it was about.... On Open Enterprise blog .

This review of "Burning the Ships" is perhaps the most clueless thing I've ever read on Ars Technica : Phelps' point thro...

Two years ago, the virtual world Second Life was everywhere, as pundits and press alike rushed to proclaim it as the Next Big Digital Thing....

It's no surprise that textbooks are being radically re-invented - after all, in the past they have been hideously expensive, which means...

It's hard enough working out what collaboration might mean with words, but even it's even worse with images. This probably explains...