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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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Hicks to appear on Denton

Posted on March 15, 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald picks up an interesting rumour: SPECULATION is mounting that convicted terrorism supporter David Hicks will break his silence in an exclusive interview with Andrew Denton on March 31. The former Guantanamo Bay inmate was banned from speaking to the media until March 30 as part of...

Reporting the news: linear or contextual?

Posted on March 15, 2008
Mashable's Paul Glazowski wonders what is the best way to display news online, linear or contextual: First, I want to express very clearly at start of this post that I?m all for RSS, and the linear way in which news is delivered via the medium. It?s convenient and efficient, and...

Dupre uncovered

Posted on March 15, 2008
The media has been uncovering details about Ashley Dupre's life (Dupre being the woman who reportedly worked as an escort and whose clients included former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer) through her socialnetworking profiles: For most people, updating your MySpace or Facebook profile is not news...

IM in Facebook

Posted on March 15, 2008
In a long overdue move, Facebook is to add instant messaging: Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps in the next week. Our understanding is that the service will be built into user?s Facebook pages and allow them...

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Delicious drops the dots

Posted on March 15, 2008
Mashable reports on a delicious makeover: Del.icio.us has just previewed a completely overhauled site design at a gathering earlier this week, flaunting an even cleaner layout and simplified format, according to Silicon Alley Insider. The company has been talking about making these changes for some time now, but at least...

FriendFeed and SocialThing!

Posted on March 15, 2008
As a follow up to yesterday's post (see here), here is ReadWriteWeb's take on FriendFeed and SocialThing!: FriendFeed has a bit of a head start, but even barring that, there are more intuitive features in place despite its visual shortcomings. The most notable is that it links you to your...

A duet ...

Posted on March 15, 2008
Here is a funny (and cute) duet in the vein of Juno between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton:

Should a late-night comedy show be able to change the course of a presidential campaign?

Posted on March 15, 2008
That's the question Stephen Colbert asked media analyst Howard Kurtz: And read Howard Kurtz's analysis of this issue here.

Internet video

Posted on March 14, 2008
From Slate V:

FriendFeed ... the next big thing

Posted on March 14, 2008
Although FriendFeed is the latest hot startup, I can't help but agree with Duncan Riley's commentary: If you haven?t been keeping up with the noise, FriendFeed is the hot startup of the minute. The service launched to the public February 25 and announced $5 million in funding at the same...

Watch what you say on Juicy Campus

Posted on March 14, 2008
I've blogged about Juicy Campus before (see here) and it is now once again in the headlines: Make rape, physical violence, and even non-gun-related death threats all you want online with virtually no consequence?but when it comes to school shootings, law enforcement thinks the 'Net is serious business...

Politics and the teaching of law

Posted on March 14, 2008
Legal Eagle has a fascinating post on ideology, law and teaching: As I am a university lecturer, I was interested to read about the Young Liberals? campaign to ?out? left-wing lecturers. That seems to miss the point to me: it?s a bit unpleasantly reminiscent of a McCarthyist witch hunt...

Hulu no fun down under either

Posted on March 13, 2008
From Mashable: Hulu - Still Not That Fun If You?re In Europe by Stan Schroeder I know we?ve said it before. I know it?s nothing new. But now that it?s officially launched, I still have to give Hulu one huge thumbs down simply because none of the videos on the...

Virtual protest against internet censorship

Posted on March 13, 2008
CNN reports on an important virtual protest against internet censorship: Fifteen countries were named as "Internet enemies" on Wednesday as press freedom campaigners called on Web users to join a 24-hour virtual protest condemning cyber-censorship. The online demonstrations in virtual locations including China's Tiananmen Square, Cuba's Revolution Square and North...

Legal education blogs

Posted on March 13, 2008
Law X.0 takes stock of some legal education blogs: Hosted by the Elon University Law School, the Center for Engaged Learning in the Law Blog "is intended to contribute to the discourse on teaching and learning in law, from the inspirational to the whimsical, to the mechanical...

Capitals or lowercase?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Information Week's Mitch Wagner addresses a question that has bugged me for some time, "Should 'Internet,' 'Web,' And 'E-Mail' Start With Lowercase Letters?": Just as the Internet has evolved over the past decade and a half, the language used to describe it has evolved as well...

Casting your digital shadow

Posted on March 12, 2008
Bits explains the size of our individual digital shadows: The digital universe ? the pile of digital information that includes everything from e-mail to YouTube videos ? is growing faster than previously thought, according to a new study from the research firm IDC...

They're saying what about me online?

Posted on March 12, 2008
In guest Andy Beal, co-author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online and CEO of online reputation monitoring tool Trackur, Mashable offers ten tactics to save your online reputation. Read them here.

Law blogging and the academy

Posted on March 12, 2008
J Robert Brown Jr attempts to analyse the role of law faculty blogs in legal scholarship: Brown , J. Robert Robert, "Of Empires, Independents, and Captives: Law Blogging, Law Scholarship, and Law School Rankings" (February 16, 2008). U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No...

Australia 2020 for everyone

Posted on March 12, 2008
Jim Rettrew is trying to give all Australians a way to participate in the Australia 2020 Summit: For the 20 million people not invited to the 2020 Summit, the online community created a wiki so people across Australia could post, discuss, and vote on the best ideas for the country...

New Rules

Posted on March 11, 2008
A classic rant from Bill Maher (keep watching until the end):

Beware the angry law student

Posted on March 11, 2008
As Techdirt says, when law students angry ... lawsuits get filed: A year ago, we wrote about a popular law student message board/forum called AutoAdmit that was making some female law students upset, as they claimed sexist messages on those boards were making it difficult for them to find a...

Fox Business News misses out

Posted on March 11, 2008
News Corp loses its domain name battle over Fox Business News: NEWS CORP.'S 6-MONTH-OLD FOX BUSINESS News has lost its battle for the same domain name. The World International Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center has ruled that Florida businessman Derek Hodges, of Sebring, Fla...

Who really reads political blogs?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Information Week reports that despite all the attention they attract, not many Americans actually read political blogs: Despite the attention given to political blogs, only one in five Americans read them regularly, a research firm said Monday. In fact, 56% of Americans say they never read blogs that discuss politics,...

The Law Accordion To Hanson Bridgett

Posted on March 11, 2008
The San Francisco law firm of Hanson Bridgett has a different way of promoting itself: (Hat tip: The Faculty Lounge.)

If life were a musical ...

Posted on March 10, 2008
This video featured on Boing Boing reminded me of The Chaser's "If life were a musical" series: Here is how the pranksters at Improv Everywhere describe this video: For our latest mission, 16 agents staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of a Los Angeles shopping mall...

The difficulties of governing

Posted on March 10, 2008
According to Malcolm Farr, the new Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, is finding the business of government harder than perhaps he thought: NOW that the symbols, some of them clangers, have left the political stage the Federal Government is confronting the less pleasant aspects of...

Social networking or social hyping?

Posted on March 10, 2008
I think Steve Hodson is onto something here: The whole purpose; or at least the purpose that is pimped out to the general internet public is that things like Facebook, Twitter and even FriendFeed are a great way to create new friendships, keep in touch with all these new and...

Wikipedia's soul

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Economist analyses the battle for Wikipedia's soul: IT IS the biggest encyclopedia in history and the most successful example of ?user-generated content? on the internet, with over 9m articles in 250 languages contributed by volunteers collaborating online...

Freedom to Differ must have been no 51 ...

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Guardian has compiled a list of the world's 50 most powerful blogs, with The Huffington Post coming in at number one: From Prince Harry in Afghanistan to Tom Cruise ranting about Scientology and footage from the Burmese uprising, blogging has never been bigger...

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