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The world and their dog seems to be talking about Windows 7 at the moment. Ironically, in part that's because it's proving almost im...

James McGovern has a question (and another brilliant pic - where *does* he find them?): Why do people outsource when they can open source? ...

One of the themes of this blog is the relationship between scarcity and abundance. Here's a good example of how you make something arti...

One of the seminal publications of recent years was the Whole Earth Catalog, which has attained almost mythic status in hacker circles. Now...

There's a nasty rash of congruent memes going around government circles: they're all coming up with fiendish new ways to wage the no...

TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher has had enough : From March this year all ISPs will by law have to keep information about every e-mail sent...

Insightful point from Clay Shirky: the thing that people say about young people is just that they understand the technology so well. Well, ...

Last year I wrote about an insidious little agreement called SECURE - Standards to be Employed by Customs for Uniform Rights Enforcement. A...

I've written quite a lot about Microsoft's ill-fated Vista in Open Enterprise, but nothing so far about another VistA: Electronic He...

Kudos to Kaspersky Labs and Sophos: they understand that once you compromise a computer's security, there *is* no security: The Home Of...

One of the hot areas in 2008 was cloud computing, and 2009 looks likely to be a year that is equally occupied with the subject. But cloud co...

...big-name manufacturers start making hardware to support you: Netgear has just announced its Internet TV Player, a set-top box that allow...

We need more trees. This is what they did 500 years ago: The massive depopulation of the Americas via smallpox, hepatitis and other diseas...

Surprisingly spot-on piece in FT today about netbooks. Key bit: The netbook category is posing a challenge for Microsoft, the biggest sof...

This blog post explains in painful detail how OLPC was "turned" by Microsoft - and hence why I have personally given up on the pr...

When the going gets tough, the tough...go to the library : Fewer people bought books, CD’s, and DVD’s in 2008 than in the year before. The n...

This is something that has often struck me, too: that installing/updating programs under GNU/Linux is hugely easier than under Windows. Thi...

Not my words, but the subtitle of a book that apparently has wise words on the harm inflicted on society by intellectual monopolies: It is ...

This is clearly getting serious : Katherine Aull's laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, lacks a few mod cons. "Down here I have ...

If ultraportables were last year's big surprise success for GNU/Linux, one of the potentially exciting technologies for this year is the...

As I've just written on Open Enterprise, the rise of the ultraportable/netbook was one of free software's biggest successes - and su...

One of the surprises of 2008 was the runaway success of the ultaportable/netbook form factor. Now that systems running Windows XP are availa...

One of the answers to What Will Change Everything? is - reasonably enough - climate change. But interestingly it focuses on the way that ...

Impressive how far and fast Vietnam has moved on the government open source front: Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers of IT div...

In the long run, what drives the wealth and success of an economy is productivity and efficiency. In my opinion, many of the principles of w...