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"Thou shalt post at least once a day": that's the golden rule of blogging. Not according to this interesting post from Eric ...

Another excuse for not moving to open source on the desktop disappears .

LXer sent me to this story called "Brainstorming ways to push open source". I can't really see that it has much to do with ...

Social networks, mobile video and "Googlism" will continue to transform the Net in years ahead, Piper Jaffray analysts said Monday...

It's sad to see the generally solid BBC news reporting on the latest mega-patch from Microsoft with a real lack of context. It's a...

...to communicate your hints and tips about OpenOffice.org.

...because there are far worse problems that it is sidelining, and that are largely driving it in the first place. That's what this well...

Imagine being able to change your PC into a dedicated music machine, or into a tool for investigating networks. Imagine being able to swap ...

Hmm, there's clearly something blowing around the blogosphere at the moment. First Scoble leaves Microsoft, and now Om Malik of GigaOM...

The UK Patent Office is conducting a consultation into its proposals on supporting innovation in the UK. The purpose of the consultation ...

I am getting seriously interested in enterprise open source currently (sad, I know), and it is extraordinary the efflorescence of software i...

Yesterday, I was making a presentation about open source. It was to a team of IT professionals, from the CIO down. They were a very succes...

It was bound to happen: Digg is branching out into non-nerddom. This will be an interesting test of whether all the trendy social software...

I don't normally write about personnel moves, but the news that Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to join the start-up Podtech.net is...

As you would expect, Richard Stallman has some wise words on "intellectual property" and the trap that these words represent. He...

Lots of people are thinking about moving to OpenOffice.org. Some people have done it. And now one of them is blogging about it. (Via Ope...

Doc Searls has a long - very long - ramble around the idea of the commons, especially the Internet commons. I didn't quite emerge with...

Middleware: not really the most engaging of subjects, perhaps. But what amounts to the enterprise software glue that holds together everyth...

Wikipedia must be doing something right that it has so many eminences ranged against it. First Carr , then Lanier (with multiple comments ...

La La is a clever enough idea: trading your old CDs. But it's also perfectly nuts that this should be legal - which it is - but tradin...

Well, that's what the OSCar takes its name from, apparently. But more interesting is the thinking behind the move: Hitherto we have en...

The World Trade Organisation's TRIPS - Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - is one of the most powerful tools of the...

Good to see that someone else gets it: the office market is all about formats. Which is why the absence of ODF support from the Google spre...

There's an interesting article in the New York Times about the complex realities that lie behind the cuddly concept of "organic...

I'm a big fan of the Creative Commons project (not surprisingly ). But the point of the sister project, the Science Commons , has al...