Academic publishing, open data and business models

A few quick bookmarks - things I'm thinking about. I'd be interested in you're thinking about them as well?

• George Monbiot in The Guardian on how academic publishing is a racket and could be reformed
• An alternative view to Monbiot (via @simonmagus on Twitter - ta Simon!)
• I don't sign e-petitions, but if I did, I'd sign this one: "Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available."
• And here's Michael Cross in the Telegraph on HMG's interests in public data.