Monthly Archives: December 2008

Plane crash live on Twitter

Plane crash live on Twitter – web – Technology – smh.com.au.
Plane crash geek Twitters from burning Denver aircraft

Fatal flaws in website censorship plan, says report

Fatal flaws in website censorship plan, says report.
Update: Net filtering trial delay ‘another Govt bungle’.

Ottawa library offers e-books to armchair borrowers

Ottawa library offers e-books to armchair borrowers.

Lawyer uses Facebook to serve legal documents

Lawyer uses Facebook to serve legal documents – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Axia shows its NBN hand

Axia shows its NBN hand | Australian IT.

Peak-hour speed 31kmh

Peak-hour speed 31kmh – National – smh.com.au.
Sydney traffic is this bad.
M5 (the Motorway from my house to the CBD) – peak hour average speed: 34km/h

Labor plan to censor internet in shreds

Labor plan to censor internet in shreds – Technology – smh.com.au.
Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to critics saying that the so-called “live” trials would be “a closed network test and will not involve actual customers”
Huh?
A “live” trial – on a closed network without actual customers.
So, what’s this supposed to prove?
How dumb is Senator Conroy?  [...]

Telstra BigPond refuses to participate in net filter trials

Telstra BigPond refuses to participate in net filter trials – Internet – iTnews Australia.

Wikipedia Censorship Sparks Free Speech Debate

Wikipedia Censorship Sparks Free Speech Debate – washingtonpost.com.
Update: U.K. Internet watchdog backtracks on Wikipedia ban – CNET News
More on the banned Wikipedia page.

British ISPs filtering Wikipedia

British ISPs filtering Wikipedia | Digital Media – CNET News.
So when Stephen Conroy and Kevin Rudd and all the Labor Party hacks tell you that the Clean Feed will only filter out bad, evil, vile pornographic sites, now you know what they have in mind.  Oh yes, Wikipedia, it’s vile.  Wikipedia is the scum of [...]