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For those of us tracking open access and its wider import, it's pretty clear that scientific publishing has changed for ever. But for s...

Belatedly, I'm writing about this very cool idea : It’s called MediaBugs.org. And the idea is to create a web site, a web service, that ...

It seems an unfair fight. On the one hand, you have some of the biggest, most powerful multinationals, intent on defending their turf and e...

I read with interest this morning the following : “Snitchtown” is an essay by Cory Doctorow that first appeared in Forbes.com in June 2007. ...

I've written before about the curious case of South Korea, where the use of Internet Explorer and ActiveX is almost mandatory. I rathe...

Ardour is a fine open source music program; but like many fine open source programs, it has a problem: money - lack of it. In order to con...

Even though I keep signing the wretched things, e-petitions have not generated much action from the UK government. Which makes the followin...

Here 's a new printer from HP: Last June 22, HP announced its new all-in-one printer, the Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web. Aside ...

...ain't easy in the open source world, as David Ascher points out in this post : However, for regular folks, life is not rosy yet in th...

This was inevitable: a friend in Iran that I have been in touch with via Skype (which seems to work very well)” told him that a specific We...

...and it's £2.2 trillion : The gap between what the Government expects to spend and what it actually brings in has risen five-fold, fro...

As you may have noticed, I'm writing more about open government these days, simply because there's more to write about - and that...

Although I've been sceptical of the OLPC project, not least because of its ridiculous decision to offer a Windows XP version - putting t...

The Guardian 's crowd-sourcing of the initial analysis of hundreds of thousands of PDFs of MPs' expenses is fast becoming mythic. I...

Curious stuff coming out of France: “By defending copyright I do not just defend artistic creation, I also defend my idea of a free society...

Kudos to Computer Weekly : The information commissioner has ordered the opening of confidential files on a wide range of high-risk IT proje...

The fact that GNU/Linux totally dominates the top 500 supercomputing list is hardly news, but the fact that it has managed to *increase* its...

How could I resist this story ? Aside from the great headline, it's about old-style closed-source science being challenge by open scien...

They just don't get it, do they ? Parliament is planning to block the future release of expenses receipts after the humiliation endured ...

Well, with a name like "Ogg" that's what it should be called; instead someone has put together what they term more prosaically...

I've always been slightly conflicted about Jerry Fishenden. He obviously knew what he was talking about, but he was, you know, one of t...

Nice one , Elsevier: A multinational journal giant is understood to be courting vice- chancellors in an effort to win their support for an a...

Is there no domain in which open source is not storming ahead? What about this : OpenMI stands for Open Modelling Interface and Environment...

Vancouver may have promised that it will do it, the New York Senate is actually opening up completely now : Welcome to the Open NYSenate To...

Russia is emerging as a real open source power-house, especially in the eduction sector. Here's some more good news , this time from Si...