My new Financial Times column on the creation of a science commons is now up. For the ungated version, read on… › read more
Here is the video of my speech in Vienna at the IRF symposium. The title was What If the Web Really Worked for Science? Reimagining Data Policy and Intellectual Property.
I just started writing a column for the Huffington Post. (I will still be writing for the FT.) My first column is on the Google-Verizon announcement. Not the “what” but the “why?” › read more
The Open Rights Group held its first big conference — ORGCON — in London last month and I was really honoured to give the keynote. The Twitter cascade behind me, however, › read more
If one gets a lot of e-mail, one will eventually get very strange e-mail, but there is a frontier; an event horizon of bizarreness, that one doesn’t expect to be surpassed. But life is richer than that. › read more
Last week, Craig Venter created a media frenzy – and a frenzy of bioethical hand-wringing – when he announced the creation of the first “synthetic cell.” In reality, › read more
Colleagues at Catolica University in Lisbon and the European University Institute in Florence have very kindly asked me to give lectures next week on “Cultural Agoraphobia” › read more
Brooke Gladstone of On the Media interviews me about the birth, change and metastasis of copyright; › read more
What if you could own the facts of the news?….. Would that save the news industry? › read more
Some of you report difficulties getting access to my FT piece. Thankfully, the FT agrees to let me keep copyright in my articles › read more
