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I often write of the way in which other domains are learning from open source and its successes. But that's not to say the traffic is a...

As I have observed recently (probably ad nauseam for some readers - apologies, but it needs saying), the openness that lies behind open sour...

One of the most exciting experiences in blogging is when a post catches fire - metaphorically, of course. Often it happens when you least e...

Despite the good-natured ding-dong he and I are currently engaged in on another matter, Peter Murray-Rust is without doubt one of the key i...

...And probably didn't want to. Thanks to that nice Mr Mark Surman, I have been not only tagged but also subjected to fiendishly-cleve...

To my shame, Peter Murray-Rust put up a reply to my post below in just a few hours, where it had taken me days to answer his original post...

A little while back I gave Peter Murray-Rust a hard time for daring to suggest that OOXML might be acceptable for archiving purposes. Here...

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...

Science is a pradigmatically open endeavour. It proceeds by sharing knowledge freely, allowing others to build on your work. If any domain...

I've written about open science and open notebook science before, but here's an excellent round-up of open chemistry: The next gene...

I wrote a piece for Linux Journal recently warning that Microsoft was beginning to hijack the meaning of the phrase "open source...

It's a truism that there are more clever people out there than in here, wherever "here" may be. So it makes sense to try to ta...

FROG - FRee Online druG 3D conformation generator - is not a program I was aware of, but it sounds pretty cool : Frog is an on-line service...

Peter Murray-Rust has been coming out with some cracking posts recently. First, there was the charming story of OUP demanding that he pay ...

Some while back I wrote a piece called " Parallel Universes " looking at the surprising similarities between the world of open sou...

Peter Murray-Rust has an interesting post on the concept of open data, its (short) history and its present status, with some good links. A...