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Last week I wrote about the curious case of Mr Kallas, vice president of the European Commission. He seemed to have problems with the word “...

Surprisingly, perhaps, education was one of the late-comers to the openness party (couldn't be all those fiercely protective academic eg...

One of the central questions this blog tries to answer is to what extent the principles behind open source software can be applied to other ...

This is incredible: An American author and broadcaster claims Canadian border officials questioned her about whether she would discuss the ...

What do you do after Inventing the Web? That's not a question most of us have to face, but it is for Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Heading up the...

Great to see this in Australian Senator Kate Lundy's big speech "Government 2.0: co-designing a better democracy": Open sourc...

If you thought retention of communications data was a new habit of the UK government, think again : What was also new to me is the fact that...

One of my heroes, Sir John Sulston, has a piece in the Guardian today with the intriguing headline "How science is shackled by intell...

There is a nauseating piece of troll-bait in the Guardian today. It's called "My DNA dilemma", and in it Alan Johnson attemp...

...about his plans to gag Google, and embrace the beauteous Bing: For the plan to work, it will also require that the vast, endlessly proli...

Open source science certainly seems to be catching on lately: there have been as many articles on the subject in the last few months as in t...

Another nicely clueful piece in the Guardian : The emancipatory potential of the free dissemination of intellectual property through infini...

Here's an noteworthy story about the different kinds of protection that can be given to software: Mit einer Stellungnahme vom 16.11.200...

I've steered clear of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) break-in since emotions are still running high, while information content remains ...

Since it's Monday morning, I thought I'd start the week gently, with a little humour, courtesy of a Microsoft job ad. After all, who...

I've written before about the idea of applying openness/open source ideas to science, but here's an interesting new project that at...

"How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and a...

I and many others have noted how changes in copyright law only ever work in one direction: to *increase* copyright's term and to give gr...

The trajectory of the Digital Economy Bill has been extraordinary, constantly experiencing will-he-won't-he moments as successive consul...

The man - er, knight - himself comments on the opening up of the Ordnance Survey, and concludes with these thoughts: Data is beginning to ...

As regular readers will know, I write a lot about the related areas of openness, freedom, transparency and the commons, but it's rare to...

This is better than I was expecting: Speaking at a seminar on Smarter Government in Downing Street later today, attended by Sir Tim Berners...

Oh look, the British Library thinks it has passed a milestone : The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Li...

I've written before about Russia's ambitious plan to install free software throughout its education system. Worrying news suggest...

The general area of the economics of ecosystems is something that I have been banging on about for while. Now we have a Web site and even ...