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A couple of week ago, I discussed the awful idea of adding DRM to the official HTML5 standard, and where that would lead us. More recent...

Back in January, we reported on a truly stupid idea : making DRM an official aspect of HTML5. Things then went quiet, until a couple of...

At the beginning of the year, I wrote abut a shameful move by the BBC to support adding DRM to HTML to control the playback of video cont...

Beyond the fact that you are using it to read these words, the Web has undeniably had a major impact on a large part of the world's p...

Mike wrote how both Vint Cerf and Sir Tim Berners-Lee were concerned about the outcome of the WCIT talks currently taking place in Dubai...

Open data continues to spread around the world - here's a great recent summary of what's happening where. But simply making gove...

As I noted recently, net neutrality is back in the spotlight, so I thought it would be useful - and maybe entertaining - to look at an an...

Not content with inventing the Web and then giving it away, Tim Berners-Lee remains highly active in warning about the threats the Intern...

In striking contrast with its disappointing performance in terms of supporting open source, the UK government continues to take huge strid...

As you may have gathered, the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th birthday recently, since it was publicly announced for the first time on 6 ...

HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...

Last Friday, I went along to what I thought would be a pretty routine press conference about open data - just the latest in a continuing dri...

Yesterday I went along to the launch of the next stage of the UK government's open data initiative, which involved releasing information...

On this day , in 1937: Alan Turing’s paper entitled "On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem" appea...

I consider myself fortunate to have been around at the time of the birth of the Internet as a mass medium, which I date to the appearance of...

A little while ago, I noted that Ofcom was seeking input on the subject of Net neutrality. I also promised to post my own submission, which ...

I'll admit it: watching the debates about net neutrality in the US, I've always felt rather smug. Not for us sensible UK chappies, I...

We all knew that Sir Tim was a total star, choosing to give away the Web rather than try to make oodles of billions from it. Some of us eve...

Here's a fine piece of hagiography , with a really excellent conclusion that touches on those diabolical software patents : The founders...

This is a national disgrace : New legal powers to allow the British Library to archive millions of websites are to be fast-tracked by minist...