Media Output

Articles | Books | Letters | Magazines | Multimedia | Papers | Presentations | Radio | Television

This is intended to be a complete list of my media output over the years. If anything’s missing, please let me know. Last updated 16 March 2010.

Articles

• Health ID cards unleash ’scary’ Little Brothers, Crikey, 16 March 2010.
• Facebook’s ‘news feed’ patent — just a legal novelty?, Crikey, 4 March 2010.
• How I brought down the Parliament House website, Crikey, 15 February 2010.
• Conroy tells movie industry, ISPs to kiss and make up, Crikey, 8 February 2010.
• iiNet decision a slapdown for AFACT, movie industry, Crikey, 5 February 2010.
• iiTrial: ISPs not responsible for users’ copyright infringement, Crikey, 4 February 2010.
• SA’s Govt 2.0 became mob rule, ZDNet.com.au, 4 February 2010.
• Zombie Generation: The spreading infection, ZDNet.com.au, 3 February 2010.
• It’s called iPad, and the Kindle is rooted, Crikey, 28 January 2010.
• Clinton declares cyber war on China, Crikey, 22 January 2010.
• Dump Internet Explorer? Stay alert but not alarmed, Crikey, 19 January 2010.
• China isn’t our biggest hacker threat, Crikey, 18 January 2010.
• Bushwalking: cross-check everything, even official advice, Crikey, 15 January 2010.
• The swift takedown of stephenconroy.com.au, Crikey, 21 December 2009.
• 2009: the internet’s watershed year, Crikey, 18 December 2009.
• Evidence-based policy? Not on this filter!, ABC Unleashed, 17 December 2009.
• Internet filtering: first step on the path to Burma?, Crikey, 17 December 2009.
• Conroy’s internet filter: so what?, Crikey, 16 December 2009.
• OECD: publicly funded NBN could pay for itself, Crikey, 14 December 2009.
• Legit Mininova gives no traffic relief, ZDNet Australia, 4 December 2009.
• Is social media killing the web as we know it?, Crikey, 26 November 2009.
• Baffled by Murdersoft? Making sense of Murdoch and Microsoft, Crikey, 25 November 2009.
• Dear Rupert, this is how the internet works. Google it., Crikey, 10 November 2009.
• Are clueless politicians holding IT back?, ZDNet Australia, 3 November 2009.
• ACS filter report just what Conroy needs, ZDNet Australia, 14 October 2009.
• Twitter in court: Why not streaming video?, ZDNet Australia, 9 October 2009.
• Why AFACT v iiNet is important, Crikey, 7 October 2009.
• Conroy’s internet filter dread, Crikey, 28 September 2009.
• Freedom (or freebies) of the press takes another meaning, Crikey, 23 September 2009.
• Crikey Clarifier: What caused Sydney CBD’s Telstra outage?, Crikey, 17 September 2009.
• Great for competition? Or one true NBN?, Crikey, 16 September 2009.
• Telstra has to morph into a different kind of beast, Crikey, 15 September 2009.
• ACMA iTunes and the failure of net filtering, Crikey, 14 September 2009.
• The serious risk of cyber-grooming. Or not, Crikey, 11 September 2009.
• PM’s website hacked? No, just script kiddies, Crikey, 10 September 2009.
• Telstra consigns nowwearetalking to the memory hole, Crikey, 8 September 2009.
• NSW gets its geek on, Crikey, 4 September 2009.
• The Future of Influence: welcome to the confetti economy, Crikey, 3 September 2009.
• Proposed intercept laws could create thousands of “Little Brothers”, Crikey, 31 August 2009.
• They’re building data pipes under the ocean: why no media coverage?, Crikey, 26 August 2009.
• Government 2.0 Taskforce: seeding a cultural revolution, Crikey, 21 August 2009.
• From hype to backlash, Twitter’s path is inevitable, Crikey, 19 August 2009.
• Twitter “40% pointless babble”? What twaddle!, Crikey, 18 August 2009.
• Bug-free computer software: Australia paves the way, Crikey, 13 August 2009.
• Smartphone photos make it easy for stalkers, Crikey, 11 August 2009.
• Elections slip out of newspapers, Crikey, 6 August 2009.
• eCrime: the bad guys pwn the internet, Crikey, 4 August 2009.
• Internet filtering: speed won’t be the issue, Crikey, 27 July 2009.
• Literature? What’s that got to do with the price of books?, Crikey, 21 July 2009.
• Ruddblog: populist masterstroke or full of fail?, Crikey, 17 July 2009.
• Australia’s Digital Economy: discuss it, but not here, Crikey, 16 July 2009.
• Government 2.0 Taskforce: first a logo design contest, Crikey, 23 June 2009.
• Utegate: If the email exists, it’ll be found, Crikey, 22 June 2009.
• We’re all wearing green for Iran now, apparently, Crikey, 18 June 2009.
• Crikey Clarifier: What is spam and where does it come from?, Crikey, 11 June 2009.
• Digital Radio: Who gives a toss? Radio’s dead anyway, Crikey, 29 May 2009.
• OECD: Australia’s broadband is rubbish. Who knew?, Crikey, 22 May 2009.
• Rees on NBN: Gimme gimme gimme!, Crikey, 13 May 2009.
• The Budget? How quaint! They’re just made-up, you know, Crikey, 13 May 2009.
• NBN: Everyone’s got an opinion, Crikey, 9 April 2009.
• NBN: Pricey, but it’s building for the long term, Crikey, 8 April 2009.
• Crikey Clarifier: National Broadband Network, Part 2, Crikey, 8 April 2009.
• A massive and much-needed catch-up, Crikey, 7 April 2009.
• Crikey Clarifier: National Broadband Network, Crikey, 7 April 2009.
• The future of “quality” journalism: lots of questions, few answers, Crikey, 6 April 2009.
• Conroy’s continued lies and gaffes, Crikey, 1 April 2009.
• Conroy’s really bad week #347: Classification Board website hacked, Crikey, 27 March 2009.
• Two thirds of ACMA blacklist out of date, Crikey, 26 March 2009.
• It certainly looks like the ACMA blacklist, eh Senator Conroy?, Crikey, 24 March 2009.
• Yet another ACMA internet blacklist springs a leak, Crikey, 23 March 2009.
• ACMA’s blacklist just got read all over, Crikey, 20 March 2009.
• Well That’s Awkward (The outing of Fake Stephen Conroy), New Matilda, 18 March 2009.
• ACMA issues threats, meets the Streisand Effect, Crikey, 18 March 2009.
• Is the Victorian Government running without data backups?, Crikey, 16 March 2009.
• So Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall is dead… or is it?, Crikey, 2 March 2009. [local copy]
• Outclassed Conroy hides in his bedroom, Crikey, 17 February 2009. [local copy]
• Conroy announces filter-trial ISPs and clams shut, Crikey, 16 February 2009.
• Twitter: enabling the new global rubberneckers, Crikey, 11 February 2009.
• Christian Lobby: The New Lions Of Clean Feed, newmatilda.com, 2 February 2009.
• Google Takes a Slash and the world ends, Crikey, 2 February 2009.
• Who supports compulsory Internet filtering, exactly?, Crikey, 28 January 2009.
• So Conroy’s Internet filter won’t block political speech, eh?, Crikey, 23 January 2009.
• Another nail in the coffin of Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall, Crikey, 15 January 2009.
• The Internet’s feral goldfish get it very wrong, Crikey, 14 January 2009.
• Telstra holds back broadband speeds. Again., Crikey, 12 January 2009. [local copy]
• Conroy attacks BitTorrent: Ruins Australia online, Crikey, 5 January 2009. [local copy]
• Nine quiet on Microsoft hack solutions, Crikey, 18 December 2008.
• The lies of the internet censors: Your. Filter. Won’t. Work., Crikey, 17 December 2008.
• Kruddiversary: The internet thanks you for 12 months of achieving nothing, Crikey, 27 November 2008. [local copy]
• @KevinRuddPM stumbles into the Twitterverse, Crikey, 12 November 2008. [local copy]
• The inflated cost of illegally copied DVDs, Crikey, 10 November 2008. [local copy]
• Conroy thoroughly tangled in his own Rabbit-Proof Firewall, Crikey, 30 October 2008. [local copy]
• Cheap tricks not the right response on internet filtering, Crikey, 24 October 2008.
• The Digital Economy: just for big business?, Crikey, 10 September 2008. [local copy]
• Oh no, Google took a photo of my house!, Crikey, 5 August 2008. [local copy]
• The Great Firewall of China: how it works, how to bypass it, Crikey, 31 July 2008. [local copy]
• Internet filters a success, if success = failure, Crikey, 29 July 2008. [local copy]
• Immobilised by Apple’s MobileMe, even without an iPhone, Crikey, 23 July 2008. [local copy]
• Note to “old media” journalists: adapt, or stfu!, Crikey, 16 July 2008. [local edition]
• iPhone mania, coming soon to an Apple geek near you, Crikey, 9 July 2008.
• eBay Australia: Who? Us? Anti-competitive?, Crikey, 29 May 2008.
• Australia’s web 2.0 wipeout on the wave of the future, Crikey, 23 May 2008. [local edition]
• Rudd’s slow digital revolution, Crikey, 14 May 2008.
• Music industry propaganda hits a bum note, Crikey, 6 May 2008.
• eBay faces wrath, ACCC investigation over PayPal move, Crikey, 18 April 2008.
• eBay to customers: we’ll handle your money, it’s for your “protection”, Crikey, 11 April 2008.
• Crikey essay: ABC Playback is a backwards step, Crikey, 31 March 2008.
• Remembering the Space Age: Arthur C Clarke dead at 90, Crikey, 19 March 2008. [local copy]
• Labor’s dream of kid-friendly internet is flawed, Crikey, 20 February 2008. [local copy]
• A torrent of interest in downloading Underbelly, Crikey, 14 February 2008
• Message to Microsoft: You can’t buy cool, Crikey, 4 February 2008
• Angry geeks: “Don’t waste money on internet filters”, Crikey, 17 January 2008 [local edition]
• Why government internet filtering won’t work, Crikey, 11 January 2008
• Social media goes mainstream (except for business and politics), Crikey, 17 December 2007. [local edition]
• 2007: The (second) last TV election, Crikey, 29 October 2007. [local edition]
• Coonan kicks own goals over ICT strategies, Crikey, 5 October 2007. [local edition]
• Sputnik 2: The space age Australia never had, Crikey, 3 October 2007
• Kirribilli house: yours for $15, Crikey, 15 September 2007
• Wikipedia and the PM — the trail is still hot, Crikey, 4 September 2007
• Failing the Citizenship Test, Crikey, 27 August 2007. [local edition]
• Why MySpace for grown-ups won’t fly, Crikey, 13 August 2007. [related article]
• Blackle: a “green computing” furphy?, Crikey, 31 July 2007. [local edition]
• Howard should be au fait with this internet thingy by now, Crikey, 20 June 2007. [related article]
• Telstra blocks porn but opens a can of worms, newmatilda.com, 1 December 2004

• Black Holes, Science Journal, number 32. Adelaide: Prince Alfred College, 1976.
• Silicon Life, Science Journal, number 31. Adelaide: Prince Alfred College, 1975.

Books

• Johann Jackson, Ray Jobling, Rod LeNaine Smith, Tony Porter, Andrew Scheer and Stilgherrian. Tutoring: Staff Development Techniques. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1983. ISBN 0 644 00497 5.
• Rod LeNaine-Smith. Report-writing Program, 3rd edition. Adelaide: Department of Transport Australia, 1982. (Editor and Designer)

Letters

• (untitled feedback item), New Scientist, 6 October 2007. [local copy]
• (untitled feedback item), New Scientist, 18 Novermber 2006.
• Dogs’ hidden costs, New Scientist, 14 May 2005.
• (untitled letter), Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 2004.
• (untitled letter), New Scientist, 21 August 2004.

Magazines

• Features Editor & Managing Partner: The Core, numbers 1 to 86. Adelaide: Core Productions, 1991–1993.
• Editor: Bread and Circuses, numbers 1 to 27. Adelaide: Students Association of the University of Adelaide, 1979–1980.

• The Sun (SCA newspaper). Adelaide: self-published, dates TBA.
• Cornerstone: The Quarterly Publication of the Shire/Barony of Innilgard. Adelaide: Society for Creative Anachronism, October 1985 (AS XX) to April 1987 (AS XXI).

Zines:

• Psychopathic Silverfish. Adelaide: self-published, 22 May 1986
• hordes of one-legged seagulls. Adelaide: self-published, 22 December 1985
• Menu for a Palm Court Café. Adelaide: self-published, October 1985
• The Fornt Coover. Adelaide: self-published, June 1985
• The Exact Re-wording, numbers 1, 2, 2.1, 3. Adelaide: self-published, 1985?
• …to cast a shadow, number 2. Adelaide: self-published, 31 May 1980.
• to light a candle…, number 1. Adelaide: self-published, 30 March 1980.

Multimedia

Both iRadio and FastStart Asia Pacific would have been called “podcasts” had that word been in currency at the time. Both programs were used for internal marketing within the corporations concerned.

• Producer: FastStart Asia Pacific, 6 episodes. Sydney (distributed online throughout the Asia-Pacific region): IBM Australia Limited, August 2003–October 2004.
• Producer: iRadio, 4 episodes. Sydney (distributed nationally online and on audio CD: Telstra Corporation Limited, February 2002–February 2003.

this!zine™ was an award-winning CD-ROM magazine for the youth market produced by Big Hand Asia Pacific Pty Ltd, a joint venture between the Fairfax media group and Big Hand Inc of Dallas, Texas (as far as I know they have no connection with BigHand Digital Dictation).

• Editor: this!zine, issue 1. Sydney: Big Hand Asia Pacific, February 1996.
• Associate Editor / Associate Producer: this!zine, issue 0. Sydney: Big Hand Asia Pacific, November 1995.

Papers

• Gay & Lesbian Internet Users: Trends and Implications. Sydney: CitySearch Australia, 1998. (unpublished confidential research)

Presentations (Conferences & Seminars)

• What do journos do better, exactly?: Media 140 Sydney, Sydney, 5–6 November 2009.
• Risk, Fear and Paranoia: Perspective, People!: NSW Sphere, Sydney, 4 September 2009.
• The Parable of the Topless Gnome: Cultural imperialism and censorship in a global world: SoGiKII: Law, Communication Technologies and Culture Conference, Sydney, 9 June 2009.
• The Importance of Authenticity: WebForward@CeBIT, Sydney, 14 May 2009.

• Social Media and the Federal Election 2007: PodCamp Perth 07, Perth, 27 October 2007.

• The information power of multi-media: a strategic key to increase sales and profits: Capture & Use Information for Effective Targeted Marketing, IIR Conferences, Sydney, 26–26 March 1996.
• Harnessing the power of marketing through this!zine: a live presentation: Youth Marketing, IIR Conferences, Sydney, 29 May 1996.

Radio

I worked in radio full time from 1982 to 1992 in various roles, and dabbled over the years since then. This list includes some of the highlights.

• Station Manager: Three D Radio 93.7 FM. Adelaide: Progressive Music Broadcasting Association Inc, April 1994–March 1995.
• Presenter (with Scott Thompson): Club Escape. Adelaide: Triple J.
• Producer: Radio 5AN. Adelaide: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 1985–February 1992.

Television

• Govt’s website black list leaked on internet, Lateline. Sydney (broadcast Australia-wide): ABC TV, 19 March 2009. (Interviewee)
• Pornography on the Internet, Sex/Life. Sydney (broadcast Australia-wide): Channel 10, Beyond International, October 1996. (Interviewee)