Today (24th March) is Ada Lovelace Day, and I, along with >1,500 other people, pledged to write a blog post about a woman in technology whom I admire. This turned out to be more difficult than I thought, not because of a lack of inspirational women in technology, but rather instead due to it [...]
Tuesday evening I attended a lecture at the RSA entitled The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind, where Professor James Boyle talked about the subject of his recent book. I won’t go into too much detail here since you can download the entire book in PDF form via the last link, else [...]
As an ex-electronics engineer, hardware geek and a strong advocate of free and open source software, it should come as no surprise that I get more than a little excited at the prospect of open source hardware. Late 2007 I got my hands on a prototype of the Openmoko hardware, a Linux smartphone platform for [...]