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There’s no question in my mind that the woes of the journalism profession today have been at least partially self-inflicted. At the very his...

I've noted several times on this blog the tension between openness and privacy, but reading the excellent Your Right to Know blog - whi...

Although not much noise has been made about it, the Russian migration of schools to free software is potentially a hugely important project....

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Fun things to do with the Internet: According to Ms Eberlein, the term “human flesh search engine”, a literal translation of the Chinese, w...

This spinelessness is just sickening in the extreme: The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowi...

A new business model: give away the game and charge avid players for extras Well, " new " aside from the fact that free software h...

This looks like a very serious attempt to bring in maximalist intellectual monopolies through an agreement called SECURE under the aegis of...

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Someone else who gets it: “It’s ok, if one person buys it, it’s totally cool, burn it up, share it with your friends, I don’t care. I don’t...

The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that mus...

I've railed frequently against the con-trick of calling intellectual monopolies "intellectual property", which tries to endow ...

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The BBC today unveils a new-look BBC iPlayer which fully integrates radio and TV in one interface, as the service records over 100 million r...

Pamela Jones has been digging through SCO stuff again, and doesn't like what she finds: We learn two primary things from Jones' tes...

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I'm a big fan of the print on demand outfit Lulu.com - and not just because it was set up by one of the founders of Red Hat. Here's...

Twenty years ago, James Hansen warned us about global warming, but few listened. With incredible patience, he has explained it all again -...

I think the Asus Eee PC is a fab - and significant - machine, but have never really liked the Xandros distro it uses. Imagine how much bett...

It has been clear since the mid 1990s that search engines are central to the Internet and its use. The rise of Google as the bellewether Ne...

First the good news : Last year, the European Patent Office (EPO) issued far fewer patents than in 2006. The Munich patent authorities have ...

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Madness : A bus-spotter says it is no longer safe to practise his hobby of 40 years after being branded a terrorist and a paedophile. Rob Mc...