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Freedom to Differ

A blog that speaks freely about legal issues facing the media and the internet. It mainly covers issues relating to the legal regulation of the internet and the media, but at times Constitutional law issues and politics are discussed. While the focus is on Australia, developments in other nations around the world are considered as well.

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Slap Corey

Posted on January 18, 2008
Take out your frustration at Corey and the Australian media by slapping Corey here.

Reality check

Posted on January 17, 2008
ReadWriteWeb puts the Facebook hype in perspective: While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today indicating that things are not as they might seem...

I Want More Porn

Posted on January 17, 2008
A ballad about porn, spam and pop-up windows:

The future of social networking

Posted on January 17, 2008
Over at Google Watch, Clint Boulton looks at MySpace's recent pledge to 49 states' attorneys general to better protect minors and suggests that it was "not just a gesture of self-preservation" but rather was an act that foreshadows the future of social networking: The protection MySpace has "agreed" to provide...

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Apple disappoints Australians ... again

Posted on January 17, 2008
iTunes movie rentals, one of the big announcements from Macworld this week, will not be coming down under any time soon: APPLE has unveiled its much-anticipated online video rental service, which lets viewers rent movies directly from their television...

Oppression of bloggers

Posted on January 17, 2008
Mashable's Sean P Aune has put together A Brief History of Oppression Against Bloggers: The recent news about a blogger being beaten to death in China definitely shows that being a blogger isn?t always an easy road to travel - especially in countries where the concept of free speech is...

That Tom Cruise video

Posted on January 17, 2008
Gawker is hosting the controversial Tom Cruise video: You have to watch this video. It shows Tom Cruise, with all the wide-eyed fervor that he brings to the promotion of a movie, making the argument for Scientology, the bizarre 20th-century religion. Making the argument is an understatement...

More on Corey ... sorry, I mean more on "a Victorian teenager" ...

Posted on January 16, 2008
The news that a "Victorian teenager has been charged with producing child pornography and creating a public nuisance after a wild suburban party last weekend that has achieved global notoriety" has been all over the media today. Of course, the identity of the teenager is known to us all...

Bill Maher's "Caucus Me"

Posted on January 16, 2008
In a segment called "Caucus Me", Bill Maher asks voters to convince him how he should vote in the US Presidential primary contest:

Why not auDRP?

Posted on January 16, 2008
Yesterday I noted a post by David Jacobson on Ricky Ponting commencing proceedings in the Federal Court about an unauthorised website (see here). David Jacobson wondered why Ricky Ponting chose litigation over the domain name disputes resolution procedure administered by ...

Is Corey Worthington Delaney Wikipedia worthy?

Posted on January 16, 2008
News.com.au reports on the discussions as to whether the infamous MySpace party teenager Corey Worthington Delaney (see here and here) deserves a Wikipedia entry and in the process gives a useful insight into how Wikipedia works behind the scenes: MELBOURNE teenager and infamous "party boy" Corey Delaney has managed to...

Steve Jobs at Macworld ... in 60 seconds

Posted on January 16, 2008
Mahalo?s Veronica Belmont the 90 minute Macworld Keynote from Steve Jobs in 60 seconds:

Hillary and Tracy Flick

Posted on January 16, 2008
If you've ever seen Alexander Payne's film, Election, starring Reese Witherspoon, you will appreciate this mash-up from Slate V, Hillary's Inner Tracy Flick:

The Dumb Man

Posted on January 16, 2008
Check out Lainy Voom's The Dumb Man, a stunningfully beautiful piece of machinima and a great showcase for Creative Commons licenses: The Dumb Man from Lainy Voom on Vimeo. (Hat tip: Boing Boing.)

Cybersecurity menaces

Posted on January 15, 2008
Information Week analyses the top ten cubersecurity threats for 2008: The SANS Institute on Monday released its take on the top 10 cybersecurity threats for 2008. Leading the list is a rise in the number of attacks on Web browsers, the proliferation of botnets, and sophisticated cyberespionage...

A Facebook reality check

Posted on January 15, 2008
Bits argues that Facebook is yet to have any real impact on US politics: Sunday?s ?60 Minutes? feature on Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, hit all the logical bases: privacy, business model, the Beacon miscues and his youth. Only one section struck me as oddly off: the brief section...

The rise and fall of Corey

Posted on January 15, 2008
Crikey covers the past few days for Corey Worthington Delaney: Weekend at Corey's: an idiot's guide to fame Sophie Black writes: Corey 'Wa Wa' Worthington Delaney -- villified by the media, then courted, then villified again -- and all in 80 hours. Updating yesterday's story, Crikey tracks Corey as a...

Steve Jobs at Macworld

Posted on January 15, 2008
Information Week has a good recap of Steve Jobs's Macworld Keynote. Read it here. (Of course, you can always watch it at Apple's official site here.)

Happy birthday Wikipedia

Posted on January 15, 2008
Yesterday - 15 January - Wikipedia turned seven: In the 7 years since Wikipedia was publicly launched on January 15, 2001, the online encyclopedia has put up some impressive numbers. The flagship English language version now has 2,174,371 articles (as I write this), is the 9th most popular site on...

Lessig and PowerPoint

Posted on January 15, 2008
At Concurring Opinions, Robert Ahdieh discusses Larry Lessig's amazing use of PowerPoint (although admittedly he doesn't actually use Microsoft's PowerPoint): Following up on Deven's recent, well-deserved praise of Larry Lessig's Free Culture, I wanted to mention the rather distinct grounds on which I've often had occasion to praise Lessig: His...

Cricketing domain name dispute

Posted on January 15, 2008
At Australian Regulatory Compliance Review, David Jacobson comments on an interesting domain name dispute: Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has lodged an application (set for hearing in the Federal Court on 8 February 2008) claiming misleading and deceptive conduct against the operator of a website which described itself as "the...

Blawg Review of the Year

Posted on January 15, 2008
The best Blawg Review of 2007 has just been announced here. Congratulations to Colin Samuels for Blawg Review #137.

Support software freedom

Posted on January 15, 2008
A call from the Free Software Foundation: Dear free software supporter, Now is the time to join and give to Free Software Foundation. 2008 is going to be extraordinarily important year for free software. Eben Moglen likes to quote Gandhi's "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then...

Election technology

Posted on January 15, 2008
Jon Stewart pokes fun at the technology used by television journalists while covering the New Hampshire Primary:

Smile

Posted on January 15, 2008
What happens if you can't Smile?

Take that Obama girl!

Posted on January 15, 2008
Someone's got a crush on Hillary:

Wikipedia for dummies

Posted on January 15, 2008
Thanks to this article in The Guardian, I now know about the simple version of Wikipedia: The English version of Wikipedia, the online reference resource that anyone can edit, now contains almost 2.2 million articles. The French version has just over 600,000, the Polish about 450,000...

Share and share alike

Posted on January 15, 2008
Bloomberg looks at unusual online business model that gives a whole new meaning to "reality TV": If you want to watch Nick having sex with a prostitute, he's happy to let you. The 36-year-old bank-security technician drove eight hours from his home in Metz, France, to Big Sister, a Prague...

Dance fiasco? How about news fiasco?

Posted on January 15, 2008
I just saw an ad for Seven's Today Tonight which has a report focusing on this story - Dance dispute ends in court. The ad posed this question, "So, can you copyright a dance?" Now, who do you think Today Tonight might contact to try to find out the answer...

Lecturer bans Google and Wikipedia

Posted on January 15, 2008
I must admit I was really surprised to see that this story - Lecturer bans students from using Google and Wikipedia - made news in the UK (via The Argus) in the first place, and was stunned to see it pick up internationally (see, for example, here). I was surprised...

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