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I can't help feeling that P2P is so, well, you know, dotcom 1.0. And I must confess that I've never had the slightest urge to use t...

I thought I knew open access history pretty well, but to my shame I seem to overlooked Melissa Hagemann : Hagemann's strategic, behind-...

So let me get this straight: Labour, party of the left, seems locked in a loving embrace with that arch-capitalist, Bill Gates, while the Co...

Oh dear : Worried that virtual currencies from online games could undermine the country’s financial system, Beijing has taken steps to restr...

There's a fascinating post over on 3pointD.com, which exhumes some screenshots of sims as they were three years ago, and contrasts them...

I'm a sucker for anything meta, so I find these meta-analyses of data irresistible. The article is mainly about IBM's Many Eyes , ...

Sun continues its progress through the ranks of open source supporters, hurtling fast towards top-spot as Richard Stallman's Number 1 fr...

See : it's not just me.... Although Microsoft’s attempt to exploit Google’s YouTube problems is understandable, it’s also slightly repul...

Talking of guts, here's a piece about Second Life's intestines. I've written about this in various places, but there are more ...

Carl Malamud is one of the original digital pioneers, probably best-known for founding Internet Multicasting Service and Internet Talk Radi...

Now here's a real confluence : Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Exadel, the leader in providing rich ...

Apparently : The European Union is looking into entering the virtual world and opening up an office in Second Life - an increasingly popular...

Here's a mildly hopeful development : The government is about to start opening up the process of reviewing patents to the modern font of...

I've noticed an interesting new meme creeping into UK politics. When the Government is presented with a statement or facts that it does...

It's always a sign that you're winning when the opposition start getting seriously desperate in their tactics. Here's a fine ex...

One of the benefits of open courseware is that it allows developing countries to access high-quality teaching materials for no cost. But in...

Its seems the US FDA, like the equivalent European authorities before it, has decided to ignore evolution : The government is on track to ap...

Interesting not so much for what it says, but that it's Business Week that's saying it: Just as the Enlightenment ushered in a new...

This probably won't mean much if you haven't followed Italian political history for the last 15 years, but I was intrigued to learn ...

Now here's an interesting little cross-cultural spat : The European Commission has warned Microsoft that it could impose further penalti...

Why does this worry me? Denmark’s Saxo Bank plans to offer Second Life residents the ability to manage their real-life financial portfolios...

WoW - or rather World of Warcraft - real search for a virtual world: The Armory is a vast searchable database of information for World of W...

Elsewhere , I've criticised the BBC for its all-too eager embrace of Windows DRM. But in some respects, some of its top people understa...

Rather longer ago than I care to think, there was a software company called Borland, run by an ebullient Frenchman by the name of Philippe K...

An interesting meditation on green biotech hacking, and why we're not quite there yet: The bigger problem, though, is the turnaround ti...