This isn’t a post about intellectual property or the networked society, so if your interests only run that far, cease reading here.  In the late 80’s and early 90’s refugees were attempting to escape what was, in a decidedly non metaphorical sense, a hellish situation in Haiti.. › read more

Nitya Rajan interviewed me at Orgcon about why the legislative process malfunctions particularly badly on digital policy, and what the creation of civil society groups could do to fix that.  Video after the jump. › read more

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