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...maybe somebody's listening : Today, Sequoia Voting Systems officially introduced its latest revolutionary new offering – the Frontier...

One of the things that I have felt for a while is that mainstream economics isn't really the best way to look at free software, or any o...

Here's a heart-warming tale of those kind people who make proprietary software, specifically of the piquantly-named company Freedom Scie...

If you wanted proof that the UK government is still an enemy of transparency, try this : The Government is grateful to the Public Administra...

This is staggering: Detections using the national DNA database have fallen over the past two years despite the number of profiles increasin...

One of the key figures in the open government in Australia - and indeed globally, given the paucity of such people - is Kate Lundy. She...

One of the sad things about the current mess in the music industry is that artists are too often pitted against fans, when in fact both want...

Good to see that I'm not a lone voice crying in the wilderness: The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and ani...

If this participation thing is so great, why don't we apply it to something really important, like medicine? Why not, indeed ? Welcome ...

This is droll: the European Commission is finally waking up to the copyright orphans problem - thanks to some healthy panic induced by Googl...

Here's some interesting news about Barnes & Noble's e-reader: The reader, named the “Nook,” looks a lot like Amazon’s white pla...

Following my recent post about Bill Gates helping to push genetically-modified and patented seeds towards needy African farmers, Roy Schest...

It was bound to happen: opencourseware is under attack : While seeking to make college more accessible, the Obama administration has launche...

One of the great knock-on benefits of Elinor Ostrom sharing the Nobel prize for Economics is that the concept of the commons is getting the ...

And how do you do that? By making all of the laws freely available - and, presumably, searchable and mashable: Public.Resource.Org is very...

This is incredibly important: On 27 January 2009, one of us — Gowers — used his blog to announce an unusual experiment. The Polymath Projec...

It's becoming increasingly evident that Bill Gates' philanthropy is not simple and disinterested, but has woven into it a complex ag...

Mozilla's Tristan Nitot has come up with a rather fine aphorism : Twitter, c'est la version XXI°S des salons mondains, mais limitée ...

Who's afraid of the data deluge ? Researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will so...

In response to a tweet of mine about shortening copyright to stimulate creativity, someone questioned the logic. It's an important poin...

Stupidly, I thought this EU consultation would be the usual clueless nonsense, unredeemable even by witty comments from people like me. I...

It looks like it's happening : The European Commission will on 9 October 2009 formally invite comments from consumers, software companie...

This is hilarious : Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog in Paris today. He said Bing...

...which is surely a offer we can't refuse. For many years, Becta was one of the main obstacles to getting open source used within UK s...

Here's a perfect example of why intellectual commons should not be enclosed. The UK Postcode data set is obviously crucial information f...