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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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Barack Obama's race

Posted on March 20, 2008
The mainstream media and the blogosphere have been obsessing over Barack Obama's speech on race this week. However, rather than chiming in to the debate or linking to some of the commentary, I thought I'd highlight a few interesting posts that approach race and Obama's speech from a sightly different...

Why the color wars?

Posted on March 20, 2008
After my post last night on the Twitter Color Wars (see here), a commenter referred me to the source, zefrank: ok, i promise not to let this blog devolve into a series of posts about twitter, but i think this is worth mentioning. We used to play color wars at...

Are you social?

Posted on March 20, 2008
On Twitter this morning Ross Hill made an interesting remark: "Isn't it funny how geeks and nerds own the word 'social' now, online at least.." So true ...

Are Apple ads hurting Microsoft's brand?

Posted on March 20, 2008
CNET's Beyond Binary blog considers whether Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads have hurt Microsoft's brand: A new ranking of global brands shows Microsoft's reputation sinking in recent years. Among the possible factors: Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads. Microsoft lands at No...

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Twitter color wars

Posted on March 20, 2008
If you're on Twitter you may come across in the last few hours the so-called Twitter Color Wars. If you want to find out what that is all about, check out Mashable's post here.

How Apple breaks the rules

Posted on March 20, 2008
Wired explains how Apple got everything right by doing everything wrong: Google's famous catchphrase, "Don't be evil," has become a shorthand mission statement for Silicon Valley, encompassing a variety of ideals that proponents say are good for business and good for the world: Embrace open platforms...

Another politician who blogs

Posted on March 20, 2008
Trevor Cook points out that Cairns has a mayor who blogs. Read her blog - Cairns First - here.

Is Brisbane ready for a Social Media Club?

Posted on March 20, 2008
My friend Des Walsh is trying to set up a Social Media Club in Brisbane: Q. What?s the difference between Boston, Massachusetts and Brisbane, Queensland? A. A lot. At opposite ends of the earth, for one thing. Different climates and time zones. I could go on...

Law & Order sued

Posted on March 20, 2008
The New York Times describes the libel case being leveled against the producers of Law & Order: In the criminal justice system of television?s ?Law & Order,? the plots are inspired by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the television writers who craft the intricate if sometimes convoluted episodes, and...

"Everywhere and nowhere"

Posted on March 20, 2008
The Economist writes that social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life, but that does not mean it is a business: So it is entirely conceivable that social networking, like web-mail, will never make oodles of money. That, however, in no way detracts from its enormous utility...

A proposed internet censorship code for China

Posted on March 19, 2008
PC World reports on an interesting development relating to internet censorship in China: A code of conduct addressing how major Internet service providers and portal operators should deal with Internet censorship in China is in the final stages of preparation by Human Rights Watch and the providers, the head of...

Facebook Chat

Posted on March 19, 2008
TechCrunch has the exclusive video of a demonstration of the upcoming Facebook Chat application:

"A More Perfect Union"

Posted on March 19, 2008
The blogosphere (and mainstream media for that matter) are busy today discussing Barack Obama's speech on race. Rather than read the commentary or watch edited excerpts, watch the whole thing and make up your own mind:

Cure boredom with Twitter

Posted on March 19, 2008
ReadWriteWeb offers five ways to have fun with Twitter when you're bored: We've all had one of those days when the universe seems to be playing games with us. Things haven't quite worked out all day, there's nothing good on TV, all your friends are out with each other and...

Maybe internet addiction is not a mental illness after all

Posted on March 19, 2008
Yesterday I blogged about internet addiction (see here), but not everyone is buying it: Over the past few years, we've seen so many "calls" to label the use of certain technologies as "addictions" that we've noticed something of a... well... addiction by some to call for new technology addictions...

More privacy for Facebook

Posted on March 18, 2008
TechCrunch reports that Facebook is about to introduce its long anticipated privacy controls for groups of friends: Facebook announced new privacy controls at a press event at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters today, and also demoed their new chat application - called Facebook Chat - that has been rumored since...

How to confess

Posted on March 18, 2008
Following the Elliott Spitzer scandal last week Slate V produced a primer on "The Art of Fessing Up":

Internet addiction = mental illness?

Posted on March 18, 2008
According to the Citizen Ottawa, some doctors are beginning to take internet addiction very seriously: Compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness. An editorial in this month's issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction -- including "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations...

GW Law Revue presents Abuse of Expression

Posted on March 18, 2008
There are nine entertaining videos from the George Washington Law School Law Revue - Abuse of Expression - available on YouTube here:

Slate's new law blog

Posted on March 18, 2008
Slate has launched a new group law blog - Convictions - with a great range of contributors: Ben Wittes, David Barron, Deb Pearlstein, Adam White, Dawn Johnson, Doug Kmiec, Diane Amann, Nancy Gertner, Jack Balkin, Kenji Yoshino, Marty Lederman, Orin Kerr, Patrick Keefe, Eric Posner, Richard Ford, Tim Wu, Viet...

It's not Hicks

Posted on March 17, 2008
On Sunday I blogged about the rumour that Andrew Denton's first "mystery" guest of the year would be David Hicks (see here), however, it turns that that was nothing more than a false rumour. TV Tonight reports that the Denton's first guest will actually be Wayne Carey: Contrary to speculation...

Fuck yeah!

Posted on March 17, 2008
The US Supreme Court is going to hear its irst major case on broadcast indecency in 30 years. From Jan Crawford Greenburg's Legalities blog: Holy @$#%! Here?s a surprise: The Supreme Court is going to hear some bad language. The justices announced today they?re going to take up the issue...

Hooked on social networks

Posted on March 17, 2008
Troy Wolverton for the San Jose Mercury News explains why he is hooked on social networks: In January, I received an e-mail through Facebook from a college friend with whom I'd long regretted losing touch. Last month, as the Mercury News was about to announce layoffs, a contact on LinkedIn...

Finding talent on MySpace

Posted on March 17, 2008
Wired has a very interesting piece on how Hollywood is beginning to use social networking sites to find fresh talent, using Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park as a case study: He's worked with Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Nicole Kidman and Keanu Reeves, but director Gus Van Sant had no interest...

The State of the News Media

Posted on March 17, 2008
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its annual report on American journalism, The State of the News Media 2008. Read the whole report here. Here is the report's introduction: The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago...

Black is the new President

Posted on March 17, 2008
A few weeks back Tina Fey's "Bitch is the new black!" rant on Saturday Night Live (see here) arguably changed the course of the Democratic primaries (see here). This week Tracy Morgan hit back in defence of Barack Obama:

More on Juicy Campus

Posted on March 16, 2008
The New York Times covers some of the legal issues surrounding Juicy Campus, a site I have blogged about a few times over the past few weeks (see here and here): ... Juicy Campus [is] an eight-month-old Web site (JuicyCampus.com) that cultivates and distributes gossip across a network of 59...

Change Congress to launch this week

Posted on March 15, 2008
Larry Lessig has announced by email that his Change Congress movement will be officially launched this week: Dear Friend, Colorado Congressman Wayne Allard has taken over $45,900 from ConAgra Food Corporation and over $405,000 from the oil and gas industry...

Blogging and newspapers

Posted on March 15, 2008
Mark Cuban wonders why newspapers have taken to blogging: ... newspapers having "bloggers" is easily one of the many bad decisions that newspapers have made over the past 10 years. Much of what I am about to say can be considered semantics, but guess what, marketing and branding are all...

Bad movie titles

Posted on March 15, 2008
Jack Lechner explains why Quantum of Solace - the title of the next Bond movie - is a bad movie title: It?s official: The next James Bond film will be called Quantum of Solace. This announcement has already caused much head-scratching throughout the world ? or at least the part...

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