My paper Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Online Search has been published in the December issue of the Review of Network Economics.
With recent antitrust and competition authority interest in Google — such as the announcement on Nov 30th of an official probe of Google by the European [...]
As announced on the Open Knowledge Foundation’s blog at the start of December, this Thursday (the 16th) is an all day ‘hackday’ on Eurostat data;
We’re currently organising a ‘hackday’ on the Eurostat data, which will take place on Wednesday 16th December 2010:
http://eurostat.okfn.org/If you’d like to get involved, please get in [...]
Read some time ago Joan Didion’s extraordinary set of essays Slouching Towards Bethlemem1, a book filled with the sense of dislocation and anomie that seems so essential to the experience, at least in literature, of America itself.
The most penetrating of the set was that which lends its title to the book Continue Reading →
This Thursday I’m in Vienna to participate in the Linked Open Data workshop at ESTC 2010 talking about open data on the semantic web (putting the ‘open’ in linked open data!). Update: slides from talk at ESTC.
Then on Friday (3rd Dec) I’m at the TOP-IX Open Data conference in Torino, [...]
As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing quarterly reports on what I’ve been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 3 months.
Talks and Events Open Government Data Camp 18-19 Nov 2010 – Organized by myself and colleagues at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Over 300 participants from over 30 [...]About
Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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