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Cory Doctorow: We must ensure ISPs don’t stop the next Google getting out of the garage | Technology | guardian.co.uk.

The internet only took off in the UK when people were able to use it as a tool that was simply there, without concerns for costs.  Always on, always available, and the same experience for all.

BT [...]

BBC NEWS | Education | Database of all children launched.

In the naive view that a massive database with all our children’s details on will help prevent another “Baby P”.

More knee jerk reaction from our government.  How long until this information is compromised like the Child Benefit Data or a similar government mistake, and then those [...]

George Mason University Sued by Thomson Reuters over Zotero | Disruptive Library Technology Jester.

This is an example of some of the problems with closed formats.  This article shows that a user who wrote some software which can convert the files from one type of software (endnote) to another format so that the owner of the [...]