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Interesting Turkish delight from the second OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, held in Istanbul on 27-30 June: Official ...

Here's a classic story. Hacker gets tired of missing functionality; hacker thinks "it can't be that hard"; hacker takes a ...

Hm, I'd somehow missed this before: S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run ...

Well, partly : IBM is extending this leadership role to further the adoption of open specifications for software interoperability and to sim...

Openness, privacy and surveillance are locked in an eternal, complex dance. One of the commonest ploys of the surveillance mob is to invoke...

The partnership will establish the Legal Education Commons – known as eLangdell for Harvard Law School’s first Dean and the Law Library’s na...

Sometimes the truth will out in the most surprising contexts. Like here, in this article about Microsoft's growing success in China: T...

A great piece by Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen called "Write articles, not blog postings." It's extremely long and detail...

So Samba has officially joined the GPLv3 dance. It's certainly a biggie, and I'm sure that over the coming months more and more su...

"Crowdsharing" has become rather a modish term for what is, after all, an old concept: broad-based collaborative working. It'...

If you needed proof that operating systems were really irrelevant these days, try this : When Facebook announced its platform, a set of appl...

OpenMoko, perhaps the first open source mobile phone, is out . It's sounds like geek heaven, but whether it will sell is another matter...

I predict this will become increasingly common in the future: Earlier this year, former US senator and presidential candidate Bill Bradley p...

I've been rabbiting on about this for some time; now The Economist is saying it too, so it must be true: Seven years ago musicians der...

...but didn't. Well, almost. I've said it several times: Eclipse is open source's best-kept secret. So this quick summary of ...

With the latest Copyright Act , Germany seems to be intent on waving goodbye to the 21st century, with some people wanting to take it back ...

For all its faults, lovingly detailed in this blog, Elsevier seems slowly to be getting the hang of this Internet stuff: About Google/Goog...

Even though IANAL, I rather enjoy the intricacies of copyright law. Maybe it's because copyright occupies such a central place for both...

As you may have noticed, there is a big bust-up over office file formats going on at the moment. On the one hand, we have ODF, which is a c...

One of the problems with the otherwise laudable Google Book Project is that it's not actually providing access to the texts, just adding...

Let me count the ways : David Cameron has pledged to extend copyright on music to 70 years - in exchange for an effort by music bosses to cu...

I'm amazed it's taken so long to come up with this : DKIM uses digital signatures to authenticate messages. These signatures allow y...

The journal Nature is a rather ambiguous beast. On the one hand, it represents the acme and epitome of the current science publishing syst...

How rich is this ? The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the ...

...made by representatives of law, industry, and academia, assembled in full and free convention as the first Synthetic Worlds Congress. Whe...