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This blog was drowning in spam, so some action was needed.  Lets hope the new versions of akismet and spam karma can manage the best they can offer.  I will leave the comments open on this post, so come on casino and pharmacy owners - give it your best shot!

Yesterday was my first day working with the Open Rights Group. It’s going to take me a while to gain pace with the rest of the team, and the bevvy of projects they’re working on both in terms of campaigns (e-voting, more IP stuff, and the European Television without Frontiers legislation are all under the […]

I’ve just seen that TechnoLlama name-checked me on blog day, and I’m chuffed to bits, especially as I get a lot of my most interesting legal titbits from his blog, like this observation on a spurious software patents winning BBC’s Dragon’s Den.
I’m gutted I can’t be at the VI Computer Law World Conference in Edinburgh, […]

Last week’s column for the New Statesman was a pithy little number entitled “When world leaders blog…”, which for some reason I didn’t point to at the time. This week’s is on the DEFRA wiki. Coincidentally, the day after my piece was published (that’ll be last Thursday), Guido Fawkes and his gang of merry co-conspirators […]

Well, not quite. But this week’s New Statesman column is a response to a post Guido Fawkes wrote criticising openDemocracy after the New Media Awards last week (which we won, by the way). I admit it was a bit mean of me to pull him up on his misspelling of smorgasbord:
“When I was a little […]

(originally published on openDemocracy)
The pioneering Global Voices initiative hosted bloggers from Algeria to Zambia at a conference in London. An impressed Becky Hogge reflects on the challenges it may soon face.
Christmas came early for Joshua Schachter this year. On Friday 9 December his web-based social bookmarking tool, del.icio.us, which lets users share their favourite links […]