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This is not as it's supposed to be: Secretive management at Southampton University are undermining the spirit of Freedom of Information...

It's easy to be cynical about 10 Downing Street's e-petitions (I should know). But here's a case where it might even have done...

I'm not a Kindle user. In part, because it's not available in the UK, but also because it seems too closed in terms of its overall ...

Peter Murray-Rust is one of the key figures in the world of open data and open science, and deserves a lot of the credit for making these is...

... openness : Regjeringa har vedteke at all informasjon på statlege nettsider skal vere tilgjengeleg i dei opne dokumentformata HTML, PDF e...

OpenDocument, that is : The third stage, planned for mid-2008, will be the addition of the OpenDocument format for word processors to the li...

I don't know much about the open source programming language Squeak , but it does sound rather cool: Squeak is a highly portable, open-s...

Around ten years ago I fought a fierce battle to get people to use HTML instead of PDF files, which I saw as part of a move to close the Web...

I'm as keen as the next son of Albion to support Brit high-tech startups, but it's jolly hard when they insist on wedding themselve...

One of the great trends online is to pool data to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. The Encyclopedia of Life is one...

Well, it already does with its online office suite, but now it lets you search for ODF files and displays converted online: In addition to ...

One campaign I have fought over the years has been for people to dump proprietary PDF files and use open HTML instead. Clearly, I lost that...

Here's an interesting Ars Technica story about Microsoft being forced to do the right thing - and benefitting from it - with its rival...

I know, I know, magazines are so twentieth century. This one is different - it's a PDF magazine (OK, so that's worse). But at lea...

Many in the world of free software are aware that the Spanish region of Extremadura has been installing GNU/Linux in its schools. It has ev...

I have been rather remiss in not pointing out that the World eBook Fair started last Tuesday. In celebration of the 35th anniversary of th...

I mentioned a little while back that I'd been asked to give a talk at the Open Source and Sustainability conference in Oxford. This h...

Among the many boons of Firefox and Thunderbird are the powerful keyboard shortcuts; among the banes - trying to remember them. Now you don...