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As I mentioned elsewhere, I did many interviews when I was writing Rebel Code . Very many. But one key person whom I just could not convi...

Because they can be cracked . So, in exactly how many ways does this scheme have to be found wanting before it is finally taken behind the ...

So Google Research is offering to send anyone a trillion words - for free. But what does the ready availability of this kind of data delug...

And talking of Wikimania, if you're short of something to listen to on the beach, there's a bunch of fine MP3s just waiting to be d...

The world of Wikipedia goes from strength to strength. At the Wikimania conference, Jimmy Wales made several interesting announcements , i...

The good news: the innovative PLoS ON is now live . This should be interesting. The bad news: its designers have gone bonkers, adopting a ...

As I wrote recently, I'm not keen on the term "pirates" being bandied about indiscriminately. That applies to things like ...

Terima kasih : Indonesia has agreed to provide open access to its avian flu data. Now all we need are for the other couple of dozen affec...

One of the first things that children learn in maths is to do a quick check of their answers. Not quite sure if your calculation of 6.95746...

There's a bit of a public ding-dong being conducted in the pages of some of the IT titles over what constitutes good open source citizen...

The Domesday Book was William the Conqueror's list of swag that he won after the Battle of Hastings. You might, therefore, expect it t...

For me Web TV is a contradiction in terms. The Web stands for intelligent interactivity, TV for dumb passivity. However, given that TV via...

One of the darkest moments in the history of free software occurred in September 1998. For perhaps the first - and one hopes the last - tim...

Open source journalism, also called citizen journalism, is nothing new, but I was intrigued to come across something called " SI journa...

I came to this extensive paper on open source and nanotechnology rather circuitously, via LXer and a posting from the Foresight Nanotech I...

Web 2.0 sites like Digg are by the people, for the people: so can this quintessentially Diggness be bought? That's what Jason Calcanis ...

I love interviewing people - which is a good job, since I did about 60 interviews when I wrote Rebel Code . Even today, I spend a lot of my...

Well, you live and learn. I'd been asking myself recently why my dinky Google ads down the right-hand side of this page had turned into ...

I have this vague feeling that I really ought to get excited about Rollyo , but for the life of me I can't think why I want to search a ...

I don't know why, but I'm a bit of sucker when it comes to wireless meshes . So my curiosity was naturally piqued by Meraki . Base...

Blackboard has announced it has been issued a U.S. patent for technology used for internet-based education support systems and methods. The...

Ian Murdock, the semi-eponymous creator of Debian, has a nicely provocative post that turns some conventional wisdom on its head. It's...

There's nothing quite like a Road to Damascus conversion when it comes to generating passionate advocates. Just as Saul the arch-oppres...

An interesting reflection on the West's habit of stealing from one commons to create another - often with the best of intentions.

You wait ages for a bus, and then three arrive at once. And so it seems for articles on Wikipedia. After I commended the piece in The New...