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In the last few days, we've seen an extraordinary wave of announcements by governments in Europe, particularly its eastern part, that...

The Economist has been writing poorly-informed articles about open source for years - I dissected a particularly egregious example back in 2...

I was moaning recently about the appalling sloppiness when it comes to viruses et al.: they are practically all for Windows, and yet nobody...

Baby steps : The economics of the new commons is still in its infancy. It is too soon to be confident about its hypotheses. But it may yet p...

I continue to be gobsmacked by the egregious stupidity of The Economist : Commercial piracy may not be as horrific as the seaborne version...

A new business model: give away the game and charge avid players for extras Well, " new " aside from the fact that free software h...

One of my hobbies is to try to spot the emergence of unintended consequences of major events. The classic, perhaps, is the fall of the Comm...

Der Spiegel is the greatest news magazine in the world, bar none. It makes The Economist look superficial, and yet constantly surprises w...

I've been rabbiting on about this for some time; now The Economist is saying it too, so it must be true: Seven years ago musicians der...

If you've been holding your breath while waiting to discover what The Economist's super-duper, top-secret, Web 2.0-y, skunkworks Pro...

The Economist is a strange beast. It has a unique writing style, born of the motto "simplify, then exaggerate"; and it has an un...