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Freedom to Differ

A blog that speaks freely about legal issues facing the media and the internet. It mainly covers issues relating to the legal regulation of the internet and the media, but at times Constitutional law issues and politics are discussed. While the focus is on Australia, developments in other nations around the world are considered as well.

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Beware of those depressing blogs

Posted on May 21, 2008
At The Inquisitr Duncan Riley rants about how Australian football players have apparently been banned from reading blogs by the Australian Football League Players Association as reading blogs causes depression: The AFLPA contends that blogs don?t provide any decent feedback, and are racist, carry sexual overtones, are a form of...

It was only a matter of time

Posted on May 21, 2008
Silicon Alley Insider breaks the news that Redlasso is in legal trouble: Redlasso, a TV clip service favored by bloggers everywhere, is being threatened with legal action by three of the major media conglomerates: Fox (NWS), CBS (CBS) and NBC (GE). The three companies have sent the Web firm a...

Facebook overtakes MySpace in Australia

Posted on May 20, 2008
Ben Shepherd is reporting that Facebook now has more Australian users than MySpace: Facebook passes Myspace in AU for first time April Neilsen numbers are out and Facebook has passed Myspace in terms of usage. Facebook: 2.646m users Myspace: 2.623m users Source: Neilsen Netview, April 2008 Myspace has shed over...

Twitter Come Back

Posted on May 20, 2008
With Twitter down again this evening (although at least this time it was a planned outage), I thought I'd post this song "Twitter Comes Back" (well, it is sort of musical):

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Al Jazeera English keeps trying

Posted on May 20, 2008
Al Jazeera English is looking to expand its reach and gain access to the US market: The English-language offshoot of Al Jazeera, the Arabic television news network, is pushing for a "breakthrough" that would make the channel available to American TV viewers and help it move beyond a turbulent start-up...

More McCain

Posted on May 20, 2008
Here is another video of John McCain on Saturday Night Live: For a previous video, see here.

Burgundy and Brokaw

Posted on May 20, 2008
Ron Burgundy interviews Tom Brokaw: lt;a href=quot;http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/660cb47b01quot;gt;Ron Burgundy Interviews Tom Brokaw!! An FOD Exclusive!lt;/agt; on lt;a href=quot;http://www.funnyordie.comquot;gt;FunnyOrDie.comlt;/agt;

Do bloggers exist?

Posted on May 20, 2008
At The Local Anthony Dever highlights an interesting post by Joel Postman arguing that claiming to be a blogger is now a misnomer: A blog is a tool. There is no such thing as ?a blogger,? or someone who can be rationally defined by their ability to use a blog,...

McCainPedia is not a real wiki

Posted on May 19, 2008
"McCainPedia" may well be good name for a website, but the DNC seems to have totally missed the point of using a wiki: The DNC will tomorrow launch "McCainPedia," a wiki-like hub of their opposition research on the GOP nominee. The site features a bevy of articles and documents organized...

Desperate times call for desperate measures

Posted on May 19, 2008
The New York Magazine reports on a NYU student who has invented a virtual girlfriend ... as part of art class: Photo: Courtesy of Drew Burrows You work late. Like, every night. You probably screwed up your last steady relationship, and, well, maybe there's no one to curl up next...

McCain is old

Posted on May 19, 2008
On Saturday Night Live John McCain makes fun of his age: "I have the the courage, the wisdom, experience and, most importantly, the oldness necessary [to be president]".

OMG ... TTYL

Posted on May 19, 2008
According to NewScientistTech the much-aligned IM txt may not be that bad after all: LOL, OMG and TTYL: parents and teachers worry that teenagers' use of these and other forms of online shorthand is harming their language skills. Perhaps they will take comfort from a study suggesting that instant messaging...

Blogging 2.0

Posted on May 19, 2008
The always opinionated Duncan Riley opines on Blogging 2.0: Blogging 2.0 If blogging 1.0 was about enabling the conversation on each blog, blogging 2.0 is about enabling the conversation across many blogs and supporting sites and services. The conversation has matured and no longer is it acceptable to believe that...

British PM launching online question time

Posted on May 19, 2008
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has finally found a use for YouTube: Gordon Brown is seeking to embrace the digital age by launching an online version of prime minister's questions. He has pledged to respond to video clip questions submitted via the Downing Street YouTube website...

Bodysnarking

Posted on May 19, 2008
At Concurring Opinions Frank Pasquale introduces me to a new term, "bodysnarking": Author Hannah Seligson coins a new term in her critique of celeb-mocking websites: bodysnarking, which she defines as the snide, often witty, comments that have become a ubiquitous part of under-30 female conversation...

Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or email address

Posted on May 19, 2008
Much has been over the past few days of the decision to indict a Missouri mother on charges connected to the suicide of a 13-year-old MySpace user (see my post here). However, MSNBC approaches it from a different angle: Think twice before you sign up for an online service using...

The social networking chase

Posted on May 18, 2008
Do you ever feel as though you are being chased in the social networking wars? (Hat tip: Ross Hill.)

Is Google becoming evil?

Posted on May 18, 2008
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington highlights a difficult issue for US technology companies - balancing commercial interests against free speech: These stories are becoming more common as Internet companies operate under the laws of many counties. In February A Moroccan man was arrested for pretending to be the Moroccan king?s younger brother,...

Phone more important than wallet?

Posted on May 18, 2008
PC World reports on the results of a surprising survey: More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found...

Enter the Twitpitch

Posted on May 17, 2008
Business Week has an intriguing post on the Twitpitch: Forget the elevator pitch. Forget the press release. Forget the PowerPoint deck. If you were making a "Twitpitch" about your business, it would be over by now. A what? A Twitpitch forces you to tell your company's story in 140 characters...

MySpace crimes

Posted on May 17, 2008
Two interesting pieces of news to note relating to people using MySpace for criminal purposes. The first, is a ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Doe v. MySpace Inc that predictably held that MySpace is immune under s 230 of the Communications Decency Act...

Bill O'Reilly Flips Out - Dance Remix

Posted on May 17, 2008
Here is another video making fun of Bill O'Reilly's losing his cool when he hosted Inside Edition: (Hat tip: Blawg Review editor.)

Addressing rape on YouTube

Posted on May 17, 2008
CNN has a story on an extraordinary use for YouTube: The video is hard to turn away from. A sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped. "Hi, my name is Crystal. ... I need some help. I didn't want to do...

First music download trial may get a do-over

Posted on May 17, 2008
At the Fordham University School of Law Conference on International Intellectual Property Law & Policy in March I participated in a panel discussion on Capitol Records v. Thomas (D. Minn. 2007) and statutory damages (Ray Beckerman has an informal preliminary transcript of that discussion here), so I am interested to...

Who is younger than John McCain?

Posted on May 17, 2008
Ok. We get it. John McCain is old:

Copyright Paradox

Posted on May 17, 2008
Over at The Volokh Conspiracy Neil Netanel has been guest blogging on his new book Copyright's Paradox. Here are some of his posts: Online Journalism versus Newspapers Copyright's Paradox How Copyright Burdens Speech Copyright and the First Amendment Blood Libel or Just Libel? For anyone interested in the tension between...

What to do with this blog?

Posted on May 17, 2008
Just over a week ago I began to wonder about what I should do with this blog and so I posted about it: This week Duncan Riley announced his new blogging venture, The Inquisitr (see my post here). However in my mind an equally significant announcement was that Skepticlawyer (Helen...

Stephen Spielberg presents: John King

Posted on May 17, 2008
Close Encounters of the magic wall kind: (Hat tip: Blawg Review editor.)

Blackboard to sync with Facebook

Posted on May 17, 2008
Michael Rees has a good post on a potentially great new Blackboard tool: This influence Facebook has over the social networking of university students across the world is undoubtedly significant and probably growing. The dominant learning management system used in universities is Blackboard...

Why Gen Y is going to change the web

Posted on May 17, 2008
ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez looks at why Gen Y is going to change the web: Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that's composed of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X'ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the...

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