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Raph Koster has an interesting meditation on another interesting meditation on, er, ganking: Ganking is defined as “someone powerful attac...

Impressive line-up here: Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo ...

A worryingly sensible viewpoint espoused here by Steve Jobs: Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open ...

Yesterday I posted a story about ODF on the Linux Journal blog. The basic gist is that things are really starting to come together for OD...

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I've touched on the subject of lifelogging - recording every moment of your waking day - before, but this feature is by far the best ex...

Lawyers thrive on complication and ambiguity. Things don't get more complicated or ambiguous than in cyberspace - it's no coinciden...

Brighton is famous for many things , but cutting edge virtual world software development is not one of them. Until now : Title: Software ...

Another Bruce Perens production : Many hardware designers wish to engage in collaborative development, just as Open Source programmers do to...

Great quote here : The most concerning issue is the growth of bandwidth as piracy has shifted from stealing an individual song on Napster to...

Charlie Demerjian on Vista's high points : 4) Mahjong Titans: If you don't have anything real to talk about, why not tout fluff. (Re...

Once a mathematician, always a mathematician. I've been one since the age of 8, so when I came across FuzzyMath , a fuzzy logic add-in ...

I'm such a sucker for a good bit of meta : A meta-guild -- i.e., a guild with a presence across a number of virtual worlds and/or MMOs -...

A la rentrée 2007, le conseil régional d'Ile-de-France distribuera près de 200 000 clés USB équipées de logiciels libres. [For the retur...

This may sound like a dull bit of code: Open XML Translator provides tools to build a technical bridge between the Open XML Formats and Ope...

I seem to be writing lots of posts asking people for help with petitions and wotnot: sorry, here's another one. This time its about the ...

This may be ancient history now, but it's important that people remember that Microsoft does not fight fair, as these old documents abou...

Because of this : (1) Deciphering the sequence of the human genome and other advances in genetics open major new opportunities ...

First, we had the hugely-important, but horribly-named "Economic impact of FLOSS on innovation and competitiveness of the EU ICT sector...

Of course, the situation is serious , but at least we're not as desperate as this lot: Scientists and economists have been offered $10,...

Well, it had to happen : So is the novel immune from being swept up into the fashion for collaborative activity? Well, this is what we are g...

Here's an entertaining piece of a biotech writer grappling with and finally grokking Second Life via biological metaphors: I’m trying t...

Community effort to design and construct an extremely functional electric guitar powered by Linux. Great ; er, exactly how will it be powere...

There's a great feature in Inc . about Firefox and its boss, the self-styled Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mitchell Baker, whom I interviewed ...

Hm, now here's a thought : Martin Sims, of the UK organisation Policy Tracker, asked the regulators and ministers in attendance to ponde...