Open source

Open source citizenship looks at why some companies can’t easily contribute to the open source movement. I think that government is likely to be the driver here. All the projects I’m working on at the moment require any software produced (where possible)...

Sony and China

What Sony Tells Us is that 20k jobs are gone for ever in an attempt to a) win business in China and b) compete against China. As Mitch says, China is likely to be the new competitor for most every business sector.

Web sites for councillors

From VoxPolitics: Local councillors can now set up and run their own personal websites using Councillor.info, a service sponsored by the LocalGovernment Association to provide

Information overload?

New data says there’s lots of new data. Great headline, bizarre research that says new data (whatever that means) stored in 2002 is 500,000 times the Library of Congress’ entire collection. Which is a lot. However we transmitted four times this amount of...