Christmas came early for Joshua Schachter this year. On Friday 9 December his web-based social bookmarking tool, del.icio.us, which lets users share their favourite links with each other
Tonight, I am following in the footsteps of a Grateful Dead lyricist, Sun Microsystems' fifth employee and the inventor of the spreadsheet. Like John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore and
One of the biggest draws of the information technology scene is that, unlike nearly any other sector of civic life, it does not tend to attract argumentative people in the
Earlier this year, Geoff Mulgan and Tom Steinberg, with Omar Salem, published a paper for the UK think tank Demos which is widely becoming seen as the seminal work on
It's funny the little things you judge people by. A couple of weeks ago one of openDemocracys new interns shocked me when he exclaimed I really can&
I didnt do it for you: how the world used and abused a small African nation
by Michela Wrong
Harper Perennial | July 2005 | ISBN 0007150954
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In December 1993, talking to Time
Today, 26 April 2005, is World Intellectual Property Day, a celebration of the power of the copyright, patent and trademark disciplines to foster creativity and innovation around the world. It
Fights for freedom are not always played out centre-stage. Since 2003, a piece of European Union legislation with the misleadingly arcane title of the EU Directive on Computer Implemented Innovation
