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19 February 2010
Open Data: A Question of (Panton) Principles
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Since I have been banging on about the need for open data in science for some time, you won't be surprised to learn that I am in agreeme...
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15 February 2010
Lies, Damned Lies and Climate Science
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If, like me, you were wondering where on earth (and atmosphere) we now stood with climate science in the wake of recent events, here's t...
Something Happened: Where's Microsoft?
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As you may have heard, last week there was a bit of kerfuffle over Google's Buzz and its implications for privacy. And Google has respon...
11 February 2010
SAP Slouches Towards Bethlehem
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Readers with a taste for high comedy may remember my post “Why SAP is Such a Sap over Software Patents”, which rather took to task a certain...
British Library Helps Lock Down More Knowledge
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It has been a sad spectacle to see the British Library – without doubt once the greatest library in the world, and hence a powerful force fo...
10 February 2010
Is Microsoft Exploiting the Innocent?
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I'd never heard of the UK government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), but that's not surprising, since ...
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09 February 2010
Of Open Science and Open Source
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Now here's an idea : Computer code is also at the heart of a scientific issue. One of the key features of science is deniability: if you...
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The UK Police State's Perfect Storm
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I missed this story when it first came out, which is a shame, because it's an important revelation of what the current mad mix of surve...
Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into...
08 February 2010
EU's Unconvincing ACTA Act
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The EU has made an official statement [. pdf ] on ACTA. As you might expect, it is as wriggly a wriggly thing as a wriggly thing can. Here ...
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Beyond Open Access: Open Publishing
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Another splendid piece from Cameron Neylon calling into question the value of traditional peer review: Whatever value it might have we larg...
Microsoft's Sulphurous Cloud Computing Offer
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I've written before about Microsoft's attempts to break into the world of academic computing, currently dominated by GNU/Linux, by ...
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Crowdsourcing + Open Source: the Perfect Combination for Startups?
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Crowdsourcing represents an interesting attempt to generalise the open source methodology to non-technical areas. The basic idea is to tap i...
06 February 2010
The Tragedy of the Antibiotics Commons
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Here's an interesting - and frightening - story that opened my eyes to something: Studies in China show a "frightening" incre...
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05 February 2010
Opening Our Eyes to the Tilted Playing-Field
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One of the subtlest ways of gaming the system is to hack the system before you even play - for example, by building in a bias that means you...
Oh, What a Lovely Standards War
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You know something big must be afoot when people start to get worked up over video compression standards. Basically, the issue is whether th...
04 February 2010
China (Hearts) Royalty-Free Standards?
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This sounds great news for free software (and the world): China recently circulated a draft regulation regarding the use of patents in Chin...
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ACTA Goes on the Charm Offensive
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Charm
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Sorry to rattle on about ACTA, but it seems there's something of a concerted campaign to "counter" all the noise we little peo...
EU Official Caught in the ACTA
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As more and more people write about the global scandal that is ACTA, a question naturally forms itself: is it worth it? After all, however ...
From Open Source to Open Government
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Yesterday I had an interesting chat with Paul Clarke, an advisor to government departments on digital strategy, and a man with fingers in ma...
The New Face of Open Source: Facebook
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Without doubt, one of the most extraordinary developments in recent years has been the rise of Facebook - not just as the most popular socia...
The Great Oracle Experiment
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So, it finally happened: We are pleased to announce that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun is now a wholly ow...
03 February 2010
LoveMachine: Virtually the Singularity?
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A few years ago I had the good fortune to interview Philip Rosedale , the creator of Second Life. Now, say what you might about that virtu...
Welcome to the Free Technology Academy
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How did I miss this amazing project ? The expansion of Free Software has brought together a continually growing global community of develope...
01 February 2010
Britain Loves Wikipedia - And About Time, Too
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One of the important roles of museums and galleries is education: helping the public to discover and explore the masterworks in their collec...
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