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• Talking Twitter and censorship on ABC Local Radio

  30 January 2012 in Conversations, Media, Politics

  Twitter has announced that it now has the capability to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, and naturally there’s been a global outcry about the threat to free speech. I wrote a piece for Crikey today, explaining the positive spin the company was putting on it all, and pointing out that Twitter does still need [...]

• Weekly Wrap 86: Linux, paranoia and a few rants

  29 January 2012 in Weekly Wrap

  My usual weekly summary of what I’ve been doing elsewhere on the internets. This post covers the week from Monday 23 to Sunday 29 January 2012. This week included the last of my output from Linux.conf.au. I’ve just gathered all of my Linux.conf.au coverage plus selected other people’s in one place for your convenience. Add [...]

• My complete Linux.conf.au 2012 coverage

  29 January 2012 in Internet, Media

  Here’s everything from the Linux.conf.au 2012 conference on one place. All of my coverage, plus that of Angus Kidman for Lifehacker and Sam Gentle. This will be a boring post for anyone not interested in Linux, so I’ll put the content after the jump. Stilgherrian’s coverage Written articles: Open source needed to save democracy, ZDNet [...]

• Talking digital downtime on Sydney radio 2UE

  28 January 2012 in Conversations, Internet, Media

  So Radio 2UE must’ve been happy with the spot I did a fortnight ago, because they asked me back again today to talk about cyberbullying and trolling. Well, that was the plan. But time constraints limited our conversation to just one topic: Rose Smith’s suggestion that children should be made to surrender their mobile phones [...]

• Weekly Wrap 85: Trains, planes, Linux and podcasts

  27 January 2012 in Weekly Wrap

  A weekly summary of what I’ve been doing elsewhere on the internets. This post covers the week from Monday 16 to Sunday 22 January 2012, i.e. last week. Yes, just like last week’s Weekly Wrap it’s being posted way late because I’ve been incredibly busy. The main cause of that was covering Linux.conf.au 2012 (LCA) [...]