Retweeting @garthk: fuzheado’s ongoing Great Firewall coverage on Twitter. http://is.gd/19Jc
“Behind the Great Firewall, Net Nannies work overtime for companies” http://is.gd/19MX Suggests self-censorship more the norm.
Real-time test to see if your website is currently being blocked by the Great Firewall of China. http://is.gd/19MO
“China’s All-Seeing Eye” by Naomi Klein (Rolling Stone) http://is.gd/pM0
“The Connection Has Been Resetâ€: China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. (Atlantic) http://is.gd/19Mo
“Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China” from Harvard Law School. http://is.gd/19Mm
Reporters Withour Borders’ “Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents” http://is.gd/19M4
@neerav @garthk Thanks for both articles, outside scope of immediate needs but will add them to the pot for later.
@deanlk I’d heard of the Naomi Klein Great Firewall piece but not read it. http://tinyurl.com/66r9z6 Ta. May link, but only have 400 words.
Writing about the Great Firewall of China. Fascinating stuff. Check this research on how it works: http://is.gd/19Gd
@andrewdotnich I am disturbed by your choices of what you do and don’t retweet from my world. ;)
Fail Whale Pale Ale label design contest extended to 1 October. Details at http://tweethunt.org/ (though date not updated yet). #fwpa
RT @BBCWorld: Man kills and beheads fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies. http://tinyurl.com/5b8xcm
Me from Crikey yesterday, “The Great Firewall of China: how it works, how to bypass it”, with added liinkage. http://is.gd/1aZG
Emerges. Alkaloids required. They shall be consumed NOW.
Time for me to collapse. Ciao until the morning. [exit]
@SnarkyPlatypus AFAIK, Ustream chats are not archived. And I keep forgetting to copy and save them before closing the broadcast window. :(
@limburger2001 The recorded Stilgherrian Live Akpha episode 7 is at http://is.gd/1ad4 for your post-live enjoyment. :)
@Entregreeneur Sorry, I can’t do Ustream support while actually doing the program. Sometimes restarting browser helps.
@katska Episode 7 of Stilgherrian Live Alpha is then, in just over 5 mins… but I will be in the Ustream chat thingo.
12 minutes to air time at http://stilgherrian/com/… … will start standby feed shortly.
Half an hour until the program. I have almost assembled all of the important elements… Mwuahahahahaha!
@limburger2001 “Poke you with a stick”? NOW we’re talking! That and the music. ;)
@mpesce Ah I’ll be right, I have some things to talk about. And couple of songs.
@Entregreeneur Andrew Bolt? Snarkiness, yes, but I want to keep my dinner down.
Hmmm… I don’t feel ANYWHERE near bitter enough to do a Stilgherrian Live Alpha in under two hours. Maybe I should’ve watched some TV.
ACMA: Mobiles aere replacing fixed lines, but convergence of the two into one seamless service unlikely in the short term. http://is.gd/1a3g
Home. And there WILL be episode 7 of Stilgherrian Live Alpha at 2130 Sydney time http://stilgherrian.com/… That’s in approx 140 minutes.
@zhasper Don’t pick on the poor folks at News Corp, the “internents” can be challenging.
Town Hall station continues to be overcrowded and dangerous. Testimony to a decade of what I suspect is deep corruption.
Tim Dunlop at Blogocracy picks up the Conroy Internet Porn Filter story. http://tinyurl.com/66oqtv Interesting comment stream.
@joshsharp Start as you intend to proceed. Only “too small” suppliers fall for easy haggling tactics, I reckon. Took me ages to learn that.
@joshsharp “Dubious Big Client” is haggling. If you have properly estimated & costed project, do not cave in. Plenty of work out there.
OK, Darlinghurst appointment now officially a write-off. Will have now start wending way CBDwards to collect some things before homeward.
@SilkCharm Does your Internet not have “search”? :P Under Accessories / System Tools, probably. Your fault for using Windows. ;)
@SilkCharm Don’t copy files manually before reformatting hard drive, use the the Files & Settings Transfer Wizard.
RT @earleyedition: Oz Internet users rate internet as reliable an information source as newspapers & more reliable than TV http://is.gd/19UV
@ApostrophePong Pojaman Shinawatra and Pauline Hanson in the same jail together…? Sick puppy…
@mpesce That procedure looks easier than, oh, creating a VPN using PPP over SSH, a few shell scripts and route commands. ;) Ah, memories…
@neerav Do ANY of the Australian carriers have Visual Voicemail on the iPhone though? (And thanks for comment re Virgin & Optus plans.)
@mpesce The lack of being a modem, and suspected poor battery life with a non-swappable battery, are my key doubts re iPhone for my needs.
@mpesce Turning the iPhone 3G into a 3G modem, either via Bluetooth or WiFi. How painful? Does the recipe work?
Pojaman Shinawatra, wife of former Thai PM, and 2 family members sentenced 3 years jail for tax evasion. http://tinyurl.com/6lezvw
My god, are Virgin Mobile’s iPhone plans sensible about data? http://tinyurl.com/6dwzab (Hat-tip to @mpesce and @MrShlee.)
Retweet @ApostrophePong: Sweded TRON. Awesome! http://tinyurl.com/2qp5x5
@firstdogonmoon Ken the Hen, Gender Ambiguity Chicken, is an excellent new character.
@DCouch There is a nice irony in my article about China’s firewall being behind Crikey’s paywall. Will do a non-Crikey version tomorrow.
@SnarkyPlatypus My feral goats are none of your concern, young man. Vive le poisson rouge sauvages!
@mpesce What is this “mobile” of which you speak? Is it like that little black buttplug labelled “Nokia” that is on the internetz now?
Me in Crikey today: “The Great Firewall of China: how it works, how to bypass it.” http://tinyurl.com/6jmeo5 Is it behind the paywall?
Waiting at an office in Darlinghurst for a cable guy to quote on a data cabling job. Did I get the time wrong? Did he?
Departing for 1400 client-site meeting in Darlinghurst. 1500 CBD to collect some things. 1600 home again for deskwork etc. Unless waylaid…
Imagine a filing cabinet that’s been turned inside out and ravaged by feral goats. That’s my desk right now. And it’ll have to wait.
@jdub @stokely The CMS could well deliver the web pages just fine, but users will complain they can’t see it ‘cos their computers are wrong.
@jdub @stokely The problem, as always, is Windows. Even if CMS works, a default English windows installation doesn’t install Chinese fonts.
Anyway, Crikey article done, apart from poor @stokely trying to get my Chinese characters to work in their CMS. Prep for Darlinghurst time!
@earleyedition Actually, yes, the whole mobile internet needs to go into the RSF dissidents’ handbook. And Twitter. ;)
@wembley Also, to avoid the flood if someone’s tweeting a conference, http://twittersnooze.com can turn them off the a few hours.
@wembley Thanks for the compliment. To cope with Twitter overload, just let the river flow. Past is past. Don’t try to drink everything. :)
@earleyedition I haven’t looked inside RSF handbook, but techniques would be much the same as 2005. Just diff sources for current proxies?
@dpn It’s usually a fair assumption that I’m complaining about SOMETHING… ;) [gone]
Anyway, I’m at the Mosman client’s office and will now go dark as I destroy their village to save it. Erm, their network I mean.
@earleyedition How can news sites build audience? Well, journalists if any good will have audience already, must market that in new media.
Everybody is part of the community. But what role(s) do they choose? Can they create new roles?
@dpn Not complaining, just observing the forces in play. Exploring how to explain / change.
@earleyedition Re fan sites, they need core critical mass. Message has to resonate with enough to make that possible. Then luck?
@earleyedition journalism’s myth of objectivity means they think they’re separate from “the people” of course…
Talkback radio: Ignorant old men whinging to other ignorant old men about how everything was so much better in the past.
@earleyedition @jayrosen_nyu Is it JOURNALISM’s job to “excite people into community”? Or someone else’s?
RT @jayrosen_nyu (edited): @howardeaver sees self-organized fan sites: something like that for fans of serious news? http://is.gd/1b1W
Fri plan: At Mosman client all day (departing soon), dealing with network loose ends; evening unplanned.
@andrewbarnett @mpesce There’s also a Norwegian study which showed CCTV operators tracked people who “different” rather than “suspicious”.
@andrewbarnett @mpesce And see this BBC report, “CCTV boom ‘failing to cut crime’: http://is.gd/1b1a
RT @jayrosen_nyu: The bigger the change, the more likely it is to go unframed, unnamed and [relatively] unreported. http://is.gd/10lz
Thu plan: Write for Crikey; 1400 client site Darlinghurst; kill Vodafone; month-end invoicing; 2130 Stilgherrian Live Alpha episode 7.
@cpanczak My N80 is my 3G modem when I’m out’n’about. iPhone can’t do that without hacking, seems too much trouble.
@cpanczak Um, I don’t have an iPhone. LOL! But yes, same deal: my Nokia N80 can go anywhere. More in my response at http://is.gd/18C9
@firstdogonmoon M’pleasure. Miro TV can automate it too. In YouTube create a “favourites” RSS feed, then subscribe to it in Miro. Voila!
@politics_in_aus No links to a human? A tweet from yesterday deleted? Makes you look untrustworthy. More transparency needed, I suggest.
@nylvinylvi Why following me? I’m not the least bit interested in a marketplace for vinyl.
@s4ur4bh @FiBendall @Jade_pingping @hitpenguin Hi folks, hope you find something of interest. I’ll check yuour stuffs out later.
Hearing kookaburras on a cold, grey winter morning is actually able to bring a smile to my face. For the moment.
@shelisrael is most sensible about this bloggers vs journalists thing. http://is.gd/19vS Tie everyone down & make them read this twice, too.
British NASA hacker to face US trial. Used dial-up modem, found many systems used insecure Windows program, no password. http://is.gd/19sm
Liberals so boring they have to Digg their own media releases. http://is.gd/19s2
Emerges. It says it’s 6C outside and 0635 inside.
@limburger2001 The Vodafone plans don’t bill by data but by data-connection time. Data usage isn’t reported.
59% of Aust companies fail to respond to online enquiries within 7 days. http://is.gd/18Ej
@firstdogonmoon MiroTV will convert YouTube vids something useful, I find.
@eskimo_sparky Calling it The Blue Screen of erm Knowledge is superb, Sir! “Medal, that man there!”
My whinge about Vodafone. I wonder how things will turn out tomorrow. http://is.gd/18C9
I think I will write up my whinges about Vodafone, it seems to be the theme for the day,
@DenubisX No, the metro-style train was CBD up to NW suburbs. The eastern line still gets no green light. They are fools.
Decisions! Do the little website maintenance task for the client? Or read the interesting things?
Me from yesterday’s Crikey, with added bits. “Internet filters a success, if success = failure” http://is.gd/18y3
Oxford St is a hole. Daylight only makes it obvious.
@kcarruthers And how do you know whether I am with or without trousers? The Internet hides many truths, and reveals others.
Richard E Grant in a post-amphetamine rage, a shotgun and no trousers, demanding “something’s flesh” to eat. Yes, this is my life.
@cbishops Wow, my world is being confused with a Woody Allen parody, and fictional cartoon dogs dream about me. My life is complete.
@cbishops Woody Allen? Well it was “Withnail & I” just then. About 55 mins in.
“I hate those Russian plays. All full of women staring out of windows whining about ducks going to Moscow.”
@acatinatree The “hair” comment was by Danny, the drug dealer visiting the flat just before the chaps head north.
@SnarkyPlatypus Burn them. Yes. “Burn them,” I say. I think arson is, quite rightfully, the theme of the day.
“All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos…”
Their array of “rare herbs and proscribed chemicals” is not working its magic.
“Withnail & I” is not bitter enough.
@wolfcat YouTube provides all… even Dylan Moran. But “Withnail & I” has been… obtained.
But I need sheer, unadulterated, pure bitterness. The Good Stuff.
@acatinatree @mrspeaker Yes, “Withnail & I”, “Saxondale” and “15 Storeys High” are all possible…
@kcarruthers “@stilgherrian does absinthe really cause hallucinations?” Huh? Why. Ask. Me? (Maybe don’t answer that.)
OK, even Black Books isn’t doing the trick. I need something stronger than Dylan Moran. Urgently.
Chocolate. Is. No. Substitute. For. Gin. But. Absinthe. Is. A. Potential. Stopgap.
Speaking of snarkiness, I am currently in no mood for a celebratory dinner. An episode or 2 of Black Books will doubtless help.
@SilkCharm Snarkiness is not “fixed”, it is “refined”. As if in a crucible, made pure. Pure snark. And gin is the catalyst.
Retweeting @textism: “A six gigabyte torrent entitled ‘The Best of The Price Is Right’. I’m not kidding.” See, ‘old media’ is not dead.
@SilkCharm @SnarkyPlatypus Chocolate is no substitute for gin. And gin can be taken internally.
Starbucks’ voluntarily closing their stores has only one negative: it reduces the opportunities for justifiable arson.
@mpesce Maybe you should refer the white iPhone issue to http://artofmanliness.com …?
Isn’t it a bit strange that a fictional cartoon dog is dreaming about me?
@firstdogonmoon “had a dream i burgled stilgherrian’s house - put all his stuff in a truck and drove out on the highway” Yes, you ARE weird.
There! I’ve tweeted about syadmin stuff, politics and my cat, and I’ve used the f-word. My day is complete.
@julesoir Apollo is 6.5kg and has this thing for anything red. Chillies & tomatoes, for instance, MUST be on the floor, not the bench.
RAID5 recovery = 4.5% (8792960/193157376) finish=90.2min. Original cause: playful cat pulled pretty red cable from one of the SATA drives.
One positive point: I’m really, really good at this stuff. I get it wright most of the tiem. Trooly.
This is not the excuse I wanted to install Ubuntu, nor the reason to re-structure the RAID. One mistake, goodbye data. Whacko.
Meanwhile, “Internet filters a success, if success = failure” http://is.gd/172L (Behind Crikey paywall?)
@john_chr @jeffonstein This is a RAID5 set, the / of a Linux box. Should be able to boot off something else and rebuild.
EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock [blah] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! [blah] I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR THIS, HEAR ME?
@kcarruthers Fuck it, I’ll torch the server, office, the house, next door’s house, the street! And piss on it all as it burns. Live video.
And now to see why my file server has decided to die in the arse. Might just torch the damn thing.
@jeffsonstein The trial had a specific, limited scope. It was set up by Sen Conroy’s predecessor, he’s going with the flow. Intends to fail?
@steven_noble I assumed diff train tech = diff place to, erm, divert funds in our non-corrupt State.
Wed plan: Leaving NOW for Darlinghurst client site meeting, then… not sure… brunch somewhere. Then ad lib until collapse.
And we wonder why they can’t get trains to work… though I did like Premier Iemma pimping minibuses as Teh Answer on the weekend. WTF?
@mpesce @SnarkyPlatypus What was scariest about that story? That MPs thought, “Mental health problems? Go to MICHAEL COSTA for advice.”
@firstdogonmoon At least a sea cucumber could be turned into a nice salad after the election.
What would make a better government for NSW? A pork bun. A sea cucumber. A plastic bag full of old cat litter. Any combination of the above.
@jeffsonstein http://is.gd/18cZ for starters, and the etro disaster today is http://is.gd/18aQ
@jeffsonstein … and even cleverer, a line has just been built with tunnels that are a steeper grade than the trains can handle.
@jeffsonstein Though the last batch of trains built were heaver & used more power before, too much even to run on certain lines…
@jeffsonstein Sydney seriously needs transport for the NW suburbs, but somehow the wrong kind of train got approved…
@jeffsonstein No, the NSW govt has actually approved a $12B metro-style rail for an outer-urban route, precisely NOT what is needed.
@mpesce Yes, that’s what newspapers have become, a promotional medium for computer games. And they wonder why they have no respect.
Mind you, I have just been looking back thru my Twitter stream and I am… concerned.
I tell you what, if arson was the theme yesterday, I don’t know what’ll be the theme today!
@jeffsonstein … and [surprise again] a ‘terrorist suspect” never was. http://is.gd/18b1 But that’s OK, as long as we beat the All Blacks.
@jeffsonstein Ah well the earrthquake does make news here, but [surprise] stupid metro scheme was advised against http://is.gd/18aQ …
What I love about saying random things is that other people then project THEIR insecurities… ;)
Emerges. Jesus Mary Mother of God, what on Earth has been going on here?
@jodiem Gordon Ramsay? Gee, you have to wonder when the kitchen menials have become celebrities. Those below stairs should know their place.
@earleyedition “Does only MSM fear the legal conseqs?” For sure. Blogs/comments say stuff I’d NEVER say on radio for fear of being sued.
@mediahunter Google reveals two Crikey mentions of Bill Caralis, and one of them is in the comments. http://is.gd/163u Not really my patch.
@SnarkyPlatypus says his parents took him to see “The Bodyguard” as a child. Much is explained.
@SnarkyPlatypus & I about to do something involving barramundi, prawns & gin at The Courthouse Hotel, Newtown.
After a down and somewhat unproductive Monday, let’s see if gym and dinner with @SnarkyPlatypus can help. Attention partial.
@trib You should thank @jayrosen_nyu for being the bloke making sense. But yes, very good points made.
All this stuff about journalism lately, one might think I actually gave a toss about it.
@earleyedition Possible answer: radio was live but ephemeral (forgotten). Print was slow but permanent. “New media” is both simultaneously.
@earleyedition Coming from a live radio background, decisions as to what’s in/out happens at the lowest level all the time. Sky not fall in.
@earleyedition I don’t quite understand the fear that (partic) print / ex-print has with comments. It’s all about “control”…
@StuartL I guess a blogging journalist is one who both fact-checks and doesn’t, both is objective and not, all at the same time.
http://journalism.me is an aggregation of journalists who blog (mostly) about journalism. Just in case you’re not sick of it yet… ;)
@markhjones True, journalists if employees are over-worked. Are their employers interested in better journalism? Or just “more” journalism?
@markhjones Agreed, contributors need to know their efforts are appreciated, or journos will just be seen a parasites on the social network.
@StuartL So the strategy is to shout “chicken, chicken, chicken” and give them the choice: comply for a glass of wine or the mincer? ;)
@JasonBarnett @jayrosen_nyu Once again, my colourful use of language causes trans-Pacific confusion. :)
Now why don’t Australia’s beef or lamb TV commercials look like THIS? http://is.gd/15QI
I am so excited that my sense of tense and number has abandoned me. ;)
If you know a journalists, tie them to a chair and FORCE them to watch it TWICE before they get any beer ever again. http://is.gd/WXW
Retweet @jayrosen_nyu: “Thousands of People on a Single Story.” How to add social networks to beat reporting. http://is.gd/WXW 5-min video.
@einspruch Indeed, a telco warning is the difference between a feel-good “Hey thanks for the heads-up” and the feel-bad nasty surprise.
Escaped convicted spammer kills family, commits suicide. http://is.gd/15Jv
@jeffsonstein iPhones have fresh batteries now. What about in 9mo? I don’t want to hack devices for them to work. I want to USE them.
@decryption Oh over-cap is where the best profits lie, sure. Vodafone’s choice is $400 & lost customer today, or heavy data user to come.
Sen Conroy releases report on ISP-level internet filters. http://is.gd/15Ib 2.8MB PDF Even most successful only blocks 97% in closed test.
@decryption If I’m going to be charged 5x usual amount I expect a warning. I’m not on contract, so can switch providers today if unhappy.
@Alex_Manchester No, not iPhone. I have no urge to buy a device which will run out of battery half-way thru day and can’t be used as modem.
@wolfcat Vodafone’s $79 business plan includes internet as time-based $1/5mins inside $550 funny money cap. There was more Internet usage.
Vodafone seem to think I’ll pay them $476.91 rather than $79 this month for going over cap. No warning received. I don’t think so…
@ssharwood Well yes, people can do this price-compare thing without no steeeenking government. Time to pimp @mpesce again. http://is.gd/15Gk
@philipsim @markhjones says to follow you, so I shall. “Worth following for all things web2, digital media, journalism etc” is a hell rap!
Settling in to write, attention given to what’s on my desk.
Tues plan: Write about Internet filtering for Crikey.com.au; desk work as health permits; @ApostrophePong’s leave-work dinner party thing.
@bengrubb Thanks. Those 3 articles were in response to specific news events so the focus was easy to shift. Still thinking about today’s.
@jeffsonstein That said, a couple dept workers have told me Sen Conroy is light years ahead of the muppets who’ve previously held the post.
@jeffsonstein “Minister for Broadband, Communictions and the Digital Economy”? All pre-election gloss to make Rudd sound futuristic.
@jeffsonstein Yes, as author John Birmingham put it in his glorious rant, the government is not your babysitter. http://is.gd/16K1
@jeffsonstein Try http://is.gd/16JE again, I got intermittent errors. It’s only the Minister for Internet’s website. Expect it to work? ;)
There! Maybe I should just send those tweets to Crikey and say, “My work here is done!” This is the Future of Journalism!
The Australian regurgitates Minister’s spin uncritically: http://is.gd/15YX More critical analyses: http://is.gd/16JE and http://is.gd/16JA
Report on Internet filtering trial: http://is.gd/15Ib (2.8MB PDF). Ministerial spin: http://is.gd/16Jf
@jeffsonstein The government needs to be seen to be “doing something” to get his vote, all wrapped in “we must protect the children”.
@jeffsonstein Problem is, it’s ALL political. A sop to the “Family First” Senator who along with an independent hold the balance of power.
@jeffsonstein I’ll have to think of a new way to explain why filters still won’t work. http://is.gd/16It http://is.gd/16IB http://is.gd/16II
Emerges. Cold. Angry. In pain. This is not going to be the best morning to write about Internet censorship.
@andrewbarnett Same for me. Unique name in a unique domain, yet http://cuil.com doesn’t have my site in the first 10 pages of results. FAIL.
So Radiohead are just the new Coldplay, yeah?
@ApostrophePong and I are doing the Sunday tour of King Street, lest I become totally unbearable.
@SnarkyPlatypus It looks like there’s a whole genre of turning Hitler into animates music videos. I guess he’s not around to complain…