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I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...

Long-time readers of this blog may recall that for some years I wrote for the UK Heise title "The H Open".  Sadly, that closed la...

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson , is something of an institution in the UK, famous for his blond mop of hair and outrageous opinions....

A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the London Times isn't looking like a huge success. That w...

One of the recurrent themes on this blog is the painfully slow progress in terms of getting open source deployed by the UK government. T...

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...

For the last 15 years we have been living in a Microsoft monoculture, which has had very real knock-on consequences for everyone online – no...

"UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim", so proclaimed an article in The Times earlier this year. It began [. pdf ]:...

If it weren't sad - and serious - this would be hilarious: Springer, which publishes the biggest daily in Europe, the tabloid Bild, as ...

One of the daftest URLs I've seen in a long time, but interesting to see the "open" meme here .

There’s no question in my mind that the woes of the journalism profession today have been at least partially self-inflicted. At the very his...

In the spirit of passing on vaguely useful information, I notice that LWN.net has put together a handy master index of external contributor...

As I've noted before, the Chinese position on the events in Tibet is seriously undermined by the fact that it won't allow observers ...

Antony Mayfield points to an interesting piece in the Guardian that worries about what it calls the Mmm, Yes, But culture that blogs can ...

1: A clear idea of what you are trying to do If you want to get and keep an audience for a blog, you need to have a clear idea about a coupl...