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Brian Behlendorf is an interesting individual: one of those quietly-spoken but impressive people you meet sometimes. When I talked to him ...

This fellow Blogger blogger is well worth taking a look at if you're interested in science and technology (well, that's everybody, ...

As I write, Wikipedia has 997,131 articles - close to the magic, if totally arbitrary, one million (if we had eleven fingers, we'd bar...

I wondered earlier whether blogified books were bloks or blooks, and the emerging view seems to be the latter, not least because there is n...

Wandering around the Net (as one does) I came across this : certainly one of the least-attractive sites that I've seen in a long time. ...

I've written before about what seems to me the huge missed opportunity for free software in education. Of course, this is a two-way th...

Another day, another Google launch. As the official Google blog announced , the company is launching a pilot programme to digitise national...

Another great site revealed by Open Access News and the indefatigable Peter Suber: IP Watch . Intellectual property - the very term is hat...

I suppose it was inevitable that Google would go from being regarded as quite the dog's danglies to being written off as a real dog'...

In case you haven't seen this on digg.com yet: a Wikipedia page devoted to "unusual articles" in Wikipedia. What's impre...

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...

Although not quite in the same class as Open Access News in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, Slashdot does have its uses, not least as raw en...

Once more, the indispensable Open Access News takes me somewhere I didn't know I wanted to go. This time it's to a site called Ope...

Recently the blogosphere went slightly bonkers over a story that "the Korean government plans to select a city and a university late ...

I've written before about open access books; but such is my sad state of excitement when I come across good examples, I feel obliged to...

Mark Shuttleworth has finally put the ridiculous Goobuntu rumour out of its misery. The idea that Google might come out with an operatin...

Well, Becky Hogge probably wouldn't agree. She's written a useful summary of all the IP ins and outs this year, wondering whether ...

Google has acquired Measure Map , a service that tracks visitors and links to blogs. This is of double interest to me. First, because like...

One is about Microsoft joining with SugarCRM , which produces open source customer relation management software, "to enhance interoper...

One of the most interesting areas in the world of open standards is the OpenDocument format, which promises to do to Microsoft Office what ...

This story has so many interesting elements in it that it's just got to be true. According to Business Week , Oracle is poised to snap ...

Two rather large straws in the wind: Riya - which offers face recognition in pictures with automatic tagging - and Nexidia , which claims t...

An executive at one of the main US telecommunication companies, Verizon , has decried the fact that: "The network builders [i.e. telec...

Podfading describes the kind of burn-out that podcasters are prone to - when the effort of recording yet another podcast proves too much, a...

Can any fellow-countrymen (or anyone, for that matter) explain to me why the UK now sits wallowing at the bottom of the Firefox market shar...