Tor developers Arturo Filasto and Jacob Appelbaum have released OONI-probe, an…

“open-source software tool designed to be installed on any PC and run to collect data about local meddling with the computer’s network connections, whether it be website blocking, surveillance or selective bandwidth slowdowns [forced by the service provider]. OONI will allow anyone to run the testing application and share their results publicly.”

Just in case you wanted to tell the world how much your ISP is trying to censor you…

The Hathi Trust has launched its own open ejournal publishing platform, the awkwardly-named jPach.

Interesting article on a year-old search-engine called Attrakt, which is a new one to me. It’s Italian, and its selling point is that it runs on a set of curated CSE’s (Custom Search Engines).

Peer-reviewed journal papers are to be protected from libel actions in the UK. I have visions of dodgy Russian moguls setting up dubious journals in order to attack their rivals…