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Two quotations from James Murdoch's speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival: So talking about a coming digital future...

The European Commission has published a review of the Europeana digital library (remember that?). There's one critically important se...

Interesting : BT’s wifi network has reached half a million hotspots. Fon has made a major contribution toward its growth, since about 90% of...

Symbolics probably doesn't mean much to you, but it should. It was the main reason that Richard Stallman started the GNU project. You c...

This is so rich. The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) is becoming less and less useful as it produces more and more errors; these arise in par...

Yesterday I wrote a quick analysis of the insane U-turn effected by the UK government over "three strikes and you're out". B...

Yet again, Cameron Neylon is daring to ask the unasked questions that *should* be asked: Many of us have one or two papers in journals that...

An analogy I and others frequently use in discussing the media industries' refusal to consider new business models is that of the transi...

Foreign Policy has published some good features ; this isn't one of them: Although the newest oil rigs, which cost upward of $1 billio...

I'm struck by the almost unanimous chorus of indifference that has greeted the news that a court has reversed one part of an ealier rul...

It's really striking how the idea of open government has gone from nowhere a few months ago to hot meme of the moment. Here's the l...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, I insist on calling patents and copyrights "intellectual monopolies". That'...

Ha! : just unfollowed @glynmoody; not cause he's nothing interesting to say, the opposite, too much interesting stuff; will stick to his...

As someone who has been writing about open access for some years, I find myself returning again and again to the Public Library of Science ....

... surprises , that is: So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal,...

One of the perennial reasons people give for not using free software is that it is lacking some key piece of software. High on that list is...

The UK Pirate Party has published its " core beliefs ": 1. The reform of Copyright and Patent Laws 2. The protection of our Right ...

in January 2010, Spain will take over the Presidency of the European Community. Spanish Government has already announced that one of their f...

This is something I've been saying (without proof, admittedly) for a while: the UK's insane DNA database is doomed not because it d...

I was always under the impression that Lord Mandelson was dark, Machiavellian and very sharp; apparently not: Lord Mandelson launched a cra...

One of the perennial teasers in the world of computing concerns IBM. On the one hand, you have a company that has embraced open source wide...

In a decision that shows how ridiculously unclear the situation around copying DVDs is: A federal judge ruled here late Tuesday that it was...

Remember Karoo? They were the strange ISP in Hull that was going to put in place a *one* strike and you're out scheme for *alleged* co...

Interesting : it is not open access per se that is threatening Elsevier (High Energy Physics since long have had almost 100% open access upt...

Talking of DNA, another brilliant use of it - and brilliantly obvious like all great ideas - is DNA Barcoding : DNA barcoding is a new tech...