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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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Data Portability

Posted on January 15, 2008
I've mentioned Data Portability a few times on this blog (for example, see here and here), but if you are still confused as to what it means and why it matters, Michael Pick of Smashcut Media has put together an excellent video explaining the concept of Data Portability and why...

Facebooking to expulsion

Posted on January 14, 2008
Another "watchwhat you post to Facebook story" (for a previous example, see here): ... Using Facebook can also get you booted out of college. That?s what happened to T. Hayden Barnes, who, according to a piece recently published by InsideHigherEd.com, was ?administratively withdrawn? from Georgia?s Valdosta State University...

Is podcasting dead?

Posted on January 14, 2008
Alexander Wolfe asks Is Podcasting Dead?: Podcasting was famously born in 2000, with Tristan Louis, Dave Winer, and former MTV veejay and legend in his own mind Adam Curry variously crystallizing the concept and creating a market for audio files encapsulated in RSS feeds...

Not everyone loves Facebook

Posted on January 14, 2008
Tom Hodgkinson at The Guardian is not a fan of Facebook: I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people...

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Party shows the power of MySpace

Posted on January 14, 2008
This out-of-control house party has been big news in Australia over the past few days: POLICE are investigating how social networking websites, email and SMS messaging may have been used to draw a crowd of up to 500 teenagers to a house party, hosted by a 16-year-old boy while his...

Index on Censorship: Cyberspeech

Posted on January 14, 2008
The latest volume of the magazine Index on Censorship focuses on issues related to free speech online. This is the issue overview: The Internet was supposed to spell the end of censorship ? instead governments now have unprecedented possibilities for controlling what we do and what we read...

I can't think of anything more nauseating ...

Posted on January 13, 2008
Share your love story on YouTube for Valentine's Day and win ...

Time to destroy some new cities?

Posted on January 13, 2008
Sick of New York City being destroyed in movie after movie, and again in the upcoming Cloverfield (see here), the New York Magazine has put together a list of "Ten Other Cities We?d Like to See Hollywood Destroy", including: 7. Orlando, Florida As home to Disney World, the United States'...

One for the do-gooders

Posted on January 12, 2008
Mashable's Paul Glazowski has a good post that looks at some web-based non-profits and how we should all be doing more in our online activities and spending to promote some very worthy causes: The social Web is monstrous. It?s almost too much so. The largest of networks continue to expand...

Agreed: One Laptop Per Child will succeed even if it "fails"

Posted on January 12, 2008
Jimmy Guterman is right when he says that OLPC will succeed even if it fails: The way people are dismissing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project this week reminds me of how people were treating Hillary Clinton during the five days between her Iowa defeat and her New Hampshire...

Data Portability FAQ

Posted on January 12, 2008
A lot has been written about data portability over the past few weeks (for example, see here), so if you are still unsure about what data portability is all about, visit the updated FAQ page here.

Movies in 2007

Posted on January 12, 2008
Watch this exceptional tribute to the best 2007 dramas from Matt Shapiro: (Hat tip: Hollywood Elsewhere.) That last bit of dialogue comes from Juno, whose trailer I have been wanting to find an excuse to embed for some time. I haven't seen the movie yet, but it has been getting...

Social networking through the ages

Posted on January 12, 2008
The brilliant Stephen Fry takes a walk through the history of social networking, including a note about the correct pronounciation of Web 2.0: Much ink, electronic and atomic, has been expended on the subject of social networking and web 2.0. First, let?s decide on how this last is pronounced...

Regrets ...

Posted on January 12, 2008
Here I am consuming all sorts of media at 9:20pm on a Saturday night - I've just finished watching The Devil Wears Prada on Foxtel (I'm not really sure why), I'm reading my email, checking my RSS feeds and have a dozen tabs open in Firefox, and all the while...

Wise Up

Posted on January 12, 2008
A classic and memorable scene from Magnolia, a simply magical movie: (Thanks for the reminder via Twitter @paullyoung.)

"The Web's unfortunate fetish with the browser"

Posted on January 12, 2008
An intriguing post from CNET's Matt Asay: The Web's unfortunate fetish with the browser It's incredible to see all the things that can be done in a browser these days. It's also incredible that we persist in exposing it all through a browser. I don't know about you, but I...

The new way to stop music leaking

Posted on January 12, 2008
TorrentFreak on how the music industry is using anti-piracy voice-overs to prevent leaking: ?WARNING: All songs on this promo CD are voice-over protected to avoid any piracy and illegal file uploading on the internet before the release date? This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs...

China and the internet

Posted on January 12, 2008
Two reports today highlight China's conflicted relationship with the internet. First, a disturbing story drawn to my attention by Duncan Riley on TechCrunch: A Chinese blogger has been beaten to death by Government authorities for the crime of attempting to record a protest on his mobile phone...

Political advertising reviewed

Posted on January 12, 2008
Check out a newish blog from Duncan Macleod - Duncan's Politics: the propaganda blog. Here is the description: A place to review the growing online political campaigns being waged around the world. I?ll be including those campaigns that are canvassing for votes, as well as those who are taking a...

A dumb idea

Posted on January 12, 2008
Mashable reviews a new feature of AIM, which it describes as "the stupidest idea ever to AIM": Real-time typing in AIM. Oh this one is a bad, bad idea. In the latest Beta of AIM, you can make a direct connection with another user and see what the other is...

More and more domain name disputes

Posted on January 11, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog looks at the rising numbers of domain name disputes: Any securitization lawyers out there looking for work? We?ve got a suggestion. Litigate domain-name disputes! We love domain-name disputes. You know, like when Nutrisystem files a complaint against some cybersquatter who registered www...

RIAA under pressure

Posted on January 11, 2008
According to Ars Technica, the RIAA is under pressure from EMI: Is the RIAA as we know it about to disappear? As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is...

Target: The Pirate Bay

Posted on January 11, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports on the attempts to shutdown The Pirate Bay: One of Hollywood's biggest foes is about to be called on the carpet. After years of steering Web surfers to free entertainment, the organizers of a massive directory of pirated movies, music and software in Sweden could...

The role of the internet in US politics in 2008

Posted on January 11, 2008
The Pew Research Center has released a report, Internet's Broader Role in Campaign 2008, which focuses on the increasing importance of social networking sites and online videos in US politics. Here is part an extract from the report's findings: The internet is living up to its potential as a major...

It has been a while ...

Posted on January 11, 2008
As a result of the writers' strike in the US it has been a long time since I have embedded a video from The Colbert Report, but the show is now back on air and here is an amusing (if clearly staged) interview with Mike Huckabee:

Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2007

Posted on January 11, 2008
You can vote for the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2007 here. These are the five entries in the technology category:bloatwarenoun Computers software that takes up a large amount of memory but has, in proportion to the space it takes up, minimal functionality...

A Facebook status update

Posted on January 11, 2008
Inside Facebook reports three important Facebook updates that are expected to launch in the first quarter of 2008: 1) Friend Lists Privacy Controls A few weeks ago, Facebook took the first step toward enabling more efficient friend management with the release of Friend Lists...

Wu on Rowling

Posted on January 11, 2008
In a piece for Slate, Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu argues that JK Rowling should lose her copyright lawsuit against the Harry Potter Lexicon website: As I wrote in October, over the last few years, the relationship between fan-written Web sites and the copyright owners of the content they draw...

Be careful what you Facebook ...

Posted on January 11, 2008
A warning to us all ... be careful what is on your Facebook profile, as you never know who will be looking at it one day: A Cambridge University admissions tutor has admitted he checks up on students applying to his college by browsing their Facebook profiles...

Some cool web applications

Posted on January 11, 2008
Lifehacker has a list of the top ten under-hyped web applications. Check out the list here.

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