We're implementing a sea change in our commenting policy here at openDemocracy. For a long time, we've allowed anybody to comment on our articles, and while
Is Microsoft's new attitude to openness and the web indicative of a sea change in Seattle? Felix Cohen doubts it
The website wikileaks has disappeared from the web this week. Felix Cohen asks what the implications are for the whistleblowers.
As a resident of the both terminally hip and poverty-stricken London borough of Shoreditch, I was amazed to see this announcement in The Register recently; my neighbours have been watching
This week Comcast released the final figures for how many people chose to pay (38%), or not(62%), for Radioheads ground-breaking (OK, not really, but significant for such a large
It's a common internet adage that there are no women online; clearly untrue, massively misogynistic, yet still trolled out in discussion forums everywhere. XKCD provides this brilliant counterpoint:
This week the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference was held in London. Unfortunately, due to a bad landlord, I was unable to make it over to the conference till
The OLPC project has moved the goalposts one more time
Whilst I'm loathe to continue blogging so much about Microsoft, I wanted to highlight the antitrust judgement that the European courts handed back to them today. Microsoft was
This weekend, the blogosphere was aflame with reports of Microsofts Genuine Advantage Servers crashing. And on a Bank Holiday weekend, no less.
The Windows Genuine Advantage(WGA) servers are what
While this post over at uncov, the Techcrunch for cynics, might seem a little inflammatory, people search is apparently going to be one of the big new search tools we