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More sanity from the House of Lords: The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over the issue of keeping peoples' DNA and ...

The idiocy of "drill, baby, drill" was evident to anyone with a functioning synapse: it would have led to marginal production of e...

Quoth Hazel Blears: "But mostly, political blogs are written by people with disdain for the political system and politicians, who see ...

Those nice people at Free Our Bills asked me to Write to Them, so I did: I am writing to ask you to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 2141, whose...

Why do people persist in believing that DRM can ever be effective for long? A small group of dedicated researchers over on the Doom9 forum ...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, one of my favourite hobby-horses is that the whole idea of "intellectual prop...

Opencourseware grew out of the application of open source ideas to education, so it seems appropriate that education should return the favou...

This is really cool. One of the great things about Wikipedia is that you can see who has made edits: this makes the process of accumulation ...

Haven't banks learned * anything *? In 2006, the Bank of Communications Beijing Branch began offering loans to Chinese SMEs secured agai...

I've written many times about OpenStreetMap, but rarely in the context of the proprietary online mapping services. Here's a post t...

There is an irony at the heart of the open content world: that the two biggest successes there – Wikipedia and the Creative Commons movement...

I've written several times about the mysterious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ), which is currently being negotiated behin...

Here's an interesting point about a new trend in "publishing" inventions directly to YouTube: This is a very good article in ...

You've read the blog, now visit the conference : On 6 November 2008, London will host an Open Everything event, a global conversation ab...

One of the hottest buzzwords/buzzphrases over the last few years has been Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This is rather good news for ...

What on earth have the French got against the Internet? First the "three strikes and you're out", and now this : The Soviet In...

Those with good memories will recall a short post I wrote back in February about a case, generally known as “Bilski”, that was going before ...

One of the reasons the open source development methodology is so powerful is because of the modularisation that lies at its heart. This allo...

At 2pm on October 29th, 2008, ten years after the Archimedes Palimpsest was purchased by the present owner, the core data generated by the p...

... it will hang you. Maybe there's some kind of lesson here.

Eek : Measures such as ID cards are a temporary measure before biometric technology becomes ubiquitous; That was the warning from security g...

Our dear Home Secretary decides to ignore what we proles think again: His warning follows an admission yesterday by Jacqui Smith that the t...

I don't always agree with Tim O'Reilly's views, but it seems clear to me that this is his best, and potentially most important p...

The National Health Service's £12.7 billion computer system is in doubt after its managers acknowledged that there will be further delay...

One of the anomalies of the currently-fashionable cloud computing is that people tend not to talk about the underlying operating system – pr...