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This afternoon, Jason Langenauer posted a well-argued piece with respect to the issues he sees in the national discussion we’re having over the imposition of the Labor government’s Internet filter. Initially, I thought it was a good piece. It’s clear, makes sense, sensible. But Jason is wrong on several points.
First, I should point out that [...]
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Parts of this post were originally a comment on Senator Kate Lundy’s blog post on the Clean Feed policy.
Today, Senator Kate Lundy, a politician I admire greatly and my local Senator, posted her views on the government’s Clean Feed policy. While hinting at her opposition to the policy, she very much toes the party line, [...]
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With apologies to Obi-Wan Kenobi for the title…
Public awareness and momentum against the issue of the Federal Government’s proposed clean feed appears to be growing apace. Now we have the international news magazine, TIME, reporting on it in none too glowing terms:
Initially, the minister for communications, Stephen Conroy, denied that the list on Wikileaks and [...]
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My closing keynote from eLearning08, the primary event on the NSW Australian Flexible Learning Framework calendar.
Connect.ed – The story of a girl
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: participation learning)
I want today to tell you a story. Like many stories, our hero is a young girl. She will face challenges and adversity. But she [...]
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Laurel Papworth is planning a protest video as the heat over the government’s plan’s for a censored Internet in Australia builds.
Take a photo of yourself protesting the government’s actions, post it to Flickr with the tag nocleanfeed and let Laurel know.
Here’s my contribution.
If you’re not certain what I’m on about, see my earlier post and [...]
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As a resident of our national capital, the references in the media to “Canberra” as an analogy for the Federal Government sometimes bug me, as they must equally bother the residents of places like Washington DC and other seats of government. But that’s a minor issue in comparison to the serious issue facing Australians with [...]
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Government of any color will never learn – they’re not interested enough in the Internet and its technology to really understand the futility of this at a technical level. Yesterday’s announcement verifying the Australian Federal Government will be mandatorily requiring ISPs to filter the nastiness from the ‘Net is plain and simple stupidity. [...]
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It looks like the time has come to again raise the anti-blocking flag into the sight of those who advocate blocking rather than dealing properly with the issue. stopblocking.org is a clearinghouse for issues and information about removing the walls and describes itself as:
… dedicated to providing resources for those who choose to resist [...]
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There’s quite the discussion going on over the banning of social computing applications in the workplace – in particular, Facebook. To quote Deloitte Digital Chief Executive, Peter Williams in The Australian:
“The best way to see what is going to be the next big thing on the internet is to go to the IT department [...]
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