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31 August 202431 August 2024

The 9pm War on Social Media with Professor Axel Bruns

*Professor Axel Bruns analyses all of your thoughts online. (Photo: Queensland University of Technology*)

With so much news about social media in Australia right now, I thought I’d wrap up the winter series by speaking with Professor Axel Bruns from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology.

31 July 201030 October 2011

Weekly Wrap 8

A weekly summary of what I’ve been doing elsewhere on the internets.

Articles

The internet taking a back seat during the campaign for Crikey. Looking back at the first week of the federal election campaign and how the politicians used this “new” internet thing, it really was boring.
Let’s blame Facebook again, shall we? for ABC Unleashed. A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by a man she met via a social networking service and later allowed to stay in her home overnight. Once more, social networking sites are portrayed as evil.
A new cable brings the promise of more internet capacity for Crikey. Australasian consortium Pacific Fibre announced that they’re joining forces with Pacnet to build a 5.12 terabit per second undersea cable from Sydney to Los Angeles via Auckland. It’ll pretty much double Australia’s international data capacity when it goes live in 2013.

Podcasts

Patch Monday episode 50, “Security lessons from Adobe Reader” with guest Brad Arkin, who heads up security and privacy at Adobe. The next version of Adobe Reader for Windows to be released later this year will include a “sandbox”, making it much more resistant to certain kinds of attacks.

Media Appearances

On Thursday afternoon I did a quick spot on ABC Radio Statewide NSW with Paul Turton, talking about, of all things, running out of IP addresses, DNSSEC and this mangled story about the seven secret people who can reboot the internet. Alas, this isn’t podcast anywhere.
On Friday I recorded an interview with ABC Radio National’s Future Tense which will be broadcast next Thursday.

[Photo: Circular Quay viewed from the railway station, photographed on 27 July 2010. We really do take this view for granted.]

30 April 2009

Links for 29 April 2009

Here are the web links I’ve found for 29 April 2009, posted with postalness.

Australia 2020: Government Response: A year after the event which seemed so important at the time, we finally have the government’s response.
Developments in internet filtering technologies and other measures for promoting online safety | ACMA: The second of ACMA’s three annual reports on “developments in internet filtering technologies and other safety initiatives to protect consumers, including minors, who access content on the internet”.
The Full Story: “The Full Story is a media and information release portal where individuals and organisations can post breaking news, publicity, information or their side of the story on issues of local or national importance — free, as it happens, unedited and in full.”
Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview | McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: “Course Description: As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade. Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era focuses on the creation of short-form prose that is not intended to be reproduced on pulp fibers.”
NBN Luddites will be proven wrong | BuddeBlog: Analyst Paul Budde with another thoughtful piece.
RedR Australia: This organisation provides training for people working in overseas aid and disaster relief, covering everything from logistics to personal protection. Yes, there is a reason this is being bookmarked, but it’s secret.
Swine flu: Twitter’s power to misinform | Net Effect: Once more, the usual human trait of passing on information which may or may not be true is blamed on Twitter, not on the humans. Fail.