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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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PollDaddy Twitter polls

Posted on April 14, 2008
PollDaddy has launched a great tool that allows you to create a poll and post it as your Twitter status. Here is one I created: a href =http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/520692/ /a br/ span style=font-size:9px; /span Try it out here.

TV Fugly Awards

Posted on April 14, 2008
Nominations are now open for the Fugly Awards, an "annual chance for frustrated viewers and lovers of bad tv to vote on the worst of what's been on telly over the last 12 months". Learn more about the Fugly Awards here and nominate here.

The great friend divide

Posted on April 14, 2008
Robert Scoble has a very intelligent post on the value of friends on social networking sites: I?m tracking the new ?friend divide.? What is it? Well, compare your experiences on a number of services when you only have one friend vs., say, 500. Look at Upcoming...

Cewebrity

Posted on April 14, 2008
A piece I wrote on internet fame and cewebrity is now available on News.com.au here.

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The internet is expanding

Posted on April 14, 2008
Monkey Dust takes us behind the scenes of a typical ISP:

Tracey Ullman as Arianna Huffington

Posted on April 14, 2008
Each week on her new Showtime series State Of The Union, Tracey Ullman does an uncanny portrayal of the Huffington's Post Founder and Editor-In-Chief Arianna Huffington: Watch more clips here.

The latest in nerd verite

Posted on April 13, 2008
Slate's Cultural Gabfest tipped me off to the latest in nerd verite, The Guild, a funny and original web series focused on the real world lives of online gamers. Here is episode 1:

The new digital paparazzi

Posted on April 13, 2008
The new digital paparazzi, a piece I wrote on how technology has resulted in teenagers and young adults having a very different conception of privacy, is now available on On Line Opinion here.

Twitter account for sale

Posted on April 13, 2008
Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has put his Twitter account up for sale: How much is a Twitter account with nearly 1,500 followers worth? Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron wants to find out, and launches a publicity stunt that will spark a debate about trust and privacy: He?s selling his Twitter account,...

Think before you post

Posted on April 12, 2008
Preston Williams, a staff writer for The Washington Post, reports on a student whose Facebook status update has had lasting repercussions: In an Instant, Message Has a Lasting Impact On his final day of winter break from Wake Forest University, Lucas Caparelli sat on the couch in his father's girlfriend's...

Virtual fame

Posted on April 12, 2008
The Age profiles three Australian artists who are using Second Life to build their profile: Second Life has become second nature for three enterprising Australian artists, writes Clare Morgan. Imagine an art gallery where you can not only touch the works on display, you can walk over them, sit on...

Microhoo

Posted on April 12, 2008
CNET News.com have put together this guide to the Microhho saga:

Music 2.0

Posted on April 12, 2008
Music futurist Gerd Leonhard has released a video explaining what music 2.0 is and how the music industry should change to adapt to 'web 2.0' principles: (Hat tip: ReadWriteWeb.)

Must-see mashups

Posted on April 12, 2008
PC World has put together a list of 11 sites not to miss: Call them Web 2.0 sites or mashups -- or come up with your own trendy term. Whatever you call them, there are sites popping up all over the Web that process information in new ways rather than...

Hulu international

Posted on April 12, 2008
I've blogged before about how Hulu doesn't work internationally (see here), and now Duncan Riley suggests that Hulu is working on international streaming, with Australia, Canada and the UK up first: Hulu has started offering the above box to international users visiting the site from outside of the United States,...

You must blog

Posted on April 12, 2008
Malaysian politicians have performed a remarkable about-face on blogs: Some candidates for posts in Malaysia's ruling party will be required to set up blogs, an official said Friday, a turnaround for governing politicians who had derided online politicking...

Some things never change

Posted on April 12, 2008
NewTeeVee reports that sex and hip hop are the most searched terms on YouTube:

Made up words of Web 3.0

Posted on April 11, 2008
David Armano lists the top 10 made up words of Web 3.0 here. These were some of my favourites: 1. Socialstainable The act of socially conscious and sustainable conversations, interactions and recycled linking. "Is your blog socialsustainable? Mine is" "How can our marketing be more socialsustainable?" 2...

Tearing down the walls

Posted on April 11, 2008
BusinessWeek reviews FriendFeed: Attention, attention: The latest tech darling has arrived, and it goes by the name of FriendFeed. Silicon Valley is buzzing about the seven-month-old startup, which offers a promising if somewhat messy new Internet service...

The Meter is Running

Posted on April 11, 2008
On The Daily Show, John Oliver looks at the legacy of FoxNews:

If Learned Hand had spent time in the blogosphere

Posted on April 11, 2008
A hysterical post from Orin Kerron The Volokh Conspiracy: If Learned Hand were alive today and spent a lot of time reading blog comment threads, I think his famous address "The Spirit of Liberty" probably would have gone something like this: What then is the spirit of liberty? Only a...

Tearing down the walls

If Learned Hand had spent time in the blogosphere

MySpace love

Posted on April 10, 2008
Declan McCullagh, in a blog post at The Iconoclast, a CNET News.com blog, highlights a very sensible judicial decision from New York: The annals of history are replete with examples of teenage angst and unrequited love. It took the state of New York to make those a crime...

2020 Summit to be televised

Posted on April 10, 2008
TV Tonight reports that the Australia 2020 Summit will be televised: ABC will broadcast the 2020 Summit, principally on its ABC2 channel. The opening and closing ceremonies will screen on ABC1 on April 19/20 and extensive coverage will air live on ABC2 across both days...

"Warming Up to User-Generated Content"

Posted on April 09, 2008
Professor Edward Lee, who blogs at The Utube Blog, has posted an article on copyright law and user-generated content: Lee, Edward, "Warming Up to User-Generated Content" . University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2008, No. 5, 2008 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn...

"Living Without Copyright in a Digital World"

Posted on April 09, 2008
Diane Leenheer Zimmerman has an interesting piece on copyright in the digital age: Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, "Living Without Copyright in a Digital World". Albany Law Review, 2007. NYU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-20 Available at SSRN: http://papers...

The Truth According to Wikipedia

Posted on April 09, 2008
TechCrunch reports that Dutch filmmaker IJsbrand van Veelen stirred a lot of controversy last week at the Next Web conference when he premiered his documentary The Truth About Wikipedia. Read more here. The documentary is now available to watch on YouTube:

Viral video South Park style

Posted on April 09, 2008
South Park takes aim at some of the internet's viral video stars: (Hat tip: Mashable.)

Blogging killed the radio star

Posted on April 09, 2008
Every few weeks over the past year or two I find myself giving a radio interview on some internet law related matter. For example, on Sunday it was online privacy and Facebook for Breakfast with George and Paul on 2UE 954 and this afternoon it was about the YouTube bashing...

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