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So Google has done the deed, and bought YouTube. I can't help thinking of a story by George Orwell, called Shooting an Elephant . In i...

First WIPO , and now this : Businesses based on the licensing of patented technologies could be able to sue the owners of the patents while ...

The court case against Spamhaus is outrageous on plenty of levels: A lawsuit filed in an Illinois court by David Linhardt (aka e360 Insight...

Defining industry-wide standards is usually good news - if they are open, that is. So when I heard abou the Common Cartridge Standard for d...

I like the concept of the World Overshoot Day. OK, the exact numbers are probably arguable, but the idea of living beyond our ecological me...

There's nothing like a good contrarian for rocking the boat. And with a blog posting entitled "Developers do not matter, Users ev...

The idea of open source cinema, where anyone can hack around with the final version is not new: I've written about it couple times befo...

If you needed any proof that the distinction between real and virtual is blurring hopelessly, try this : a way of displaying RSS feeds withi...

I barely dared hope that the recent events at WIPO marked a significant moment, but here 's someone rather better qualified than I am t...

One of the roots of blogs was in the lists of interesting sites for a particular field. But blogs are now so numerous that we need metablo...

It's GNU 's Firefox. (via Ian Murdock's Weblog .)

This is what happens when the genetic code of an animal matters, as here, with "the world's first scientifically-proven hypoaller...

Now there 's a surprise. (Via Techdirt .)

The OECD Information Technology Outlook 2006 is remarkable for three things. First, for the fact that you can browse it freely online . S...

Here's a perceptive thought from Alex Steffen on the dangers inherent in the success of the movement to get global warming recognised ...

Now here's a heartening tale of musicians doing all kinds of creative things with CC music and getting their just desserts - including ...

Now here's a thought: Firefox developers being invited to visit Microsoft. They went, and, yes, came back without any obvious implants...

I was pleased to see that Steven Levy, author of the definitive Hackers book on where it all started, has declared himself on the side of ...

France really seems to have something about ODF. I wrote before about one initiative to bring in ODF, and now here's another that...

I mention this for the sake of completeness, since I can't imagine many people will be interested in buying one of these high-end softw...

EPA, the better-known name of Eicosapentaenoic Acid , is associated with fish. This compromise on the EPLA (European Patent Litigation Agr...

As I may have mentioned before, I hate Flash. But this blog post about a report on the state of Web development gives me hope: Most web t...

Although it's hard to tell from this singularly unhelpful graph , Firefox continues to storm away. According to these figures, it has n...

Those pair of old Skypers, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, are at it again. But curmudgeon that I am, I won't be sad if this particul...

Now where I have heard this before? Fears that organic farming is falling victim to commercial pressures to abandon key principles have led...