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In a sense, turning blog posts into a book - a blook - misses the point, which is that blogs are living, interactive things. Equally, if bl...

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How could I resist a blog entitled " From Sink Estates to SQL ", with the subtitle "Thoughts on Housing, IT, FOSS and Politic...

If online games and virtual worlds are becoming realistic to the point of blurring the boundary with the real world, it is perhaps inevitabl...

This sounds wonderfully cloak-and-daggerish : Serbian minister of science Aleksandar Popović and Red Hat Corporation vice-president Werner K...

A few weeks back I wrote about how that nice Mr. Google was sending me around 50% of my traffic to these 'umble pages. I have a confess...

More signs that the fabbers are marching towards us from the future - this time, building houses as they go: It involves computer-controlle...

After sock mobs , Jamais Cascio warns us about sock bots : as politics and political figures move into the virtual worlds such as Second Lif...

Barely a week after Linden Lab freed the code of the Second Life viewer, we have a fork: Open SL . Not much there , yet, but this is going...

As you have probably noticed, there are no images on this page. This is largely to speed the loading: with pix, it would take much longer, ...

How's this for a confluence : Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth interne...

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The European Union is commissioning some seriously serious research these days. Yesterday I wrote about the impressively named and indeed ...

Behold the Virtual Citizenship Association , a move from the people who tried to buy Ryzom: We spend more and more time in online universes,...

Ayo, this brings back too many memories of punched cards at midnight: Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the...

Interesting use of heat maps for data representation. This shows how Google Earth and similar could become a really useful mesh for showin...

You don't usually think of cities as being a commons, but here's an interesting perspective that proposes precisely that: Community...

More evidence of the convergence of PCs and gaming - and from a rather surprising source: In what may prove to be a controversial statement...

Whether we like it or not, this is something of a milestone : Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft, its subsc...

It's been hard to say until now, when Firefox 3 was more a hope than a project. But behold the Product Planning Doc for: Firefox 3, co...

With my previous caveat , this report from Rishab Aiyer Ghosh into the state of free software in Europe looks to contain important material...

As a Brit, my childhood summers always had the Wimbledon tennis championship as a kind of vague backdrop; this seems to have inoculated me a...

...I am, if this "sea-change" turns out to be true (a sceptic of the UK Government writes): The way the government makes its vast...

It's coming : These drawings and architectural plans would actually be an amazing resource for a virtual reconstruction of historic Stoc...

After open source radio management , here's a piece by Richard Poynder about open radio itself: I realised that KRUU is more than just ...