
Timothy B. Lee has been explaining at Freedom to Tinker why journalistic skepticism is important when considering piracy statistics. It's worth reading in full:

Just over a month ago, the OU web team released a “Fact of the Day” Google gadget that publishes an interesting fact from an OpenLearn course once a day, along with a link to the OpenLearn course that it came from.

The European Court of Human Rights has reportedly cleared Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US.

Well the EU has not been slow about following up on Charlie McCreevy's promise to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings. From Europa:

Well the EU has not been slow about following up on Charlie McCreevy's promise to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings. From Europa:

Just been referred to this article, thanks to a post on the Picklejar blog (not the pizza express one post, btw).
The article talks about something us PR folks should know already - that the headline of any press release has to grab people by the neck and shake them about, ...

For the last couple of months, a small team (nothing to do with me...) have been putting together an OU presence on iTunes U - and very slick it looks too (well done, folks :-): visit the Open University on iTunes U.

Well a couple of quick OU blogger