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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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Are you getting bored with Facebook?

Posted on March 01, 2008
This Facebook Anthem is yet another song that uses Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire to make its point; in this case an anti-Facebook rant:

Are gadgets making our lives easier or just gadgetier?

Posted on March 01, 2008
Steve Tobak asks, are gadgets making our lives easier or just gadgetier? Ever wonder how we got along without cell phones, BlackBerrys, notebook computers, and fax machines? How did we manage to have fun without video games, MP3 players, and DVRs? Come to think of it, how did we ever...

Internet censorship as a trade barrier

Posted on March 01, 2008
Techdirt wonders whether internet censorship should be treated as a trade barrier: I'm generally wary of attempts to use international trade agreements to bludgeon through other policies. For example, Hollywood has used that system for ages to force through bad copyright laws on other nations...

Australia may not have an R rating for games after all

Posted on March 01, 2008
The Australian reports that South Australia may stop Australia from introducing an R18+ rating for computer games: SOUTH Australia will quash any plans to introduce an R18+ classification for computer games at an upcoming Standing committee of attorneys-general (SCAG) meeting...

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Just making sure that phishing is illegal

Posted on March 01, 2008
Techdirt questions why the US Senate is considering a law to make phishing illegal: As the saying goes, when your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. The folks in Congress sure do an awful lot of whacking at various nails these days...

Who is the world's most powerful journalist?

Posted on March 01, 2008
The Telegraph floats the idea that Matt Drudge is the world's most powerful journalist: Ten years ago, he was a reclusive, pasty-faced 31-year-old who, bashing away on his laptop in his grungy Hollywood apartment, shot to prominence when he threatened to bring down Bill Clinton's presidency by breaking news of...

Time for a Twittervention?

Posted on March 01, 2008
David Armano offers ten signs that you might need a Twitter intervention: 1. You type "@" before names in e-mail, blog comments and data fields. 2. Your written communications have become extremely short. 140 characters or less. 3. You change your Twitter avatar at least 3-5 times a week...

Snow day

Posted on March 01, 2008
Former White House Press Secretary and FNC journalist Tony Snow appeared recently on The Colbert Report:

The day the macchiato died

Posted on March 01, 2008
On Tuesday, Starbucks closed down all of its US stores for a three-hour barista training session. Jason Jones covered the story for The Daily Show:

Jack Nicholson supports Hillary Clinton

Posted on March 01, 2008
A very clever ad featuring Jack Nicholson declaring his support for Hillary Clinton:

Making sense of social media

Posted on February 29, 2008
On a post to the Online Spin blog Cory Treffiletti breaks down social media: Social media can be a bit daunting if you don?t take a moment to make sense of it all. Each week there are more companies being funded and more mergers and acquisitions taking place as companies...

Reforming the Oscars

Posted on February 28, 2008
In the Los Angeles Times Patrick Goldstein offers some suggestions on how to improve the Oscars broadcast: IT'S now painfully obvious that the Oscars need what nearly every aging star in Hollywood has already had -- a face-lift. The ratings for the show couldn't have been any worse if they'd...

Slate's delegate calculator

Posted on February 28, 2008
If - like me - you are closely following the Democratic primary contest, you will have hours of fun playing around with Slate's delegate calculator. Check it out here.

US politics imitates The West Wing

Posted on February 28, 2008
Slate V explains how life imitates The West Wing:

Barackula: The Musical

Posted on February 28, 2008
Well, this is just odd: Barackula is a short political horror rock musical about young Barack Obama having to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted into presidency at the Harvard Law Review in 1990. Barackula from mark mannschreck on Vimeo.

Seth Rogen?

Posted on February 28, 2008
Over the past few weeks I've blogged about the hysterically funny hit viral video where Sarah Silverman confesses to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel that she is fucking Matt Damon (see here) and Jimmy Kimmel's equally funny response (see here), but now things are getting strange with Elizabeth Banks from The...

Jimmy Kimmel responds

Posted on February 26, 2008
A few weeks back I blogged about the hysterically funny hit viral video where Sarah Silverman confesses to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel that she is fucking Matt Damon (see here). In his post-Oscar show Jimmy Kimmel got his revenge:

University branding

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Higher Education Supplement in The Australian this morning has a good article by Robert Goldney, Head of Psychiatry in Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Adelaide, on the branding of Australian universities. Are tag lines or position statements effective? Certainly universities appear to have embraced them with...

Over at Lawfont

Posted on February 26, 2008
Kim Weatherall had two particularly interesting posts over at Lawfont yesterday. The first was noting an article by my QUT colleagues Dale Clapperton and Professor Stephen Corones arguing that the technological tying of the iPhone in Australia may contravene the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth): All over the press today...

Is bitch the new black?

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Huffington Post highlights Tina Fey basically endorsing Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live: In a segment on Update called "Women's News" ("It's a great time to be a lady in America!") Fey celebrated the news of a woman running for president ? and then (after a bitty swipe at...

Lessig decides

Posted on February 26, 2008
Following up on my post about Larry Lessig considering whether to run for Congress, Larry has now posted a video explaining why he is not running:

About time!

Posted on February 25, 2008
Promising news in yesterday's The Age: The most violent video games around could soon be sold in Australia after the Federal Government said it was considering updating the classification system for games to include an R18+ rating. Unlike films, magazines and other publications, there is no adult classification for games...

Falling Slowly

Posted on February 25, 2008
Watching the Oscar Ceremony last night and seeing the superb Falling Slowly deservedly win Best Song (read more here from The Envelope), reminded me of a video I blogged about in January (see here) that used that song in a tribute to movies released in 2007...

Blawg Review #148

Posted on February 25, 2008
Check out Brett Trout's excellent Blawg Review at BlawgIT here.

The myth of Web 2.0 democracy

Posted on February 25, 2008
In a piece for Slate, Chris Wilson breaks down the myth of Web 2.0 democracy: It's getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater. The user-generated and -edited online encyclopedia?which doesn't even require contributors to register?somehow holds its own against the Encyclopedia Britannica in accuracy, a Nature study concluded, and has many...

Slate V on the Oscars

Posted on February 24, 2008
Slate V has two interesting videos focusing on the Oscars, the first looks at the obscure category of film editing and the second looks at Oscar winners who have gone on to star in truly horrible films:

The Oscars on YouTube

Posted on February 24, 2008
The Oscars now has a YouTube channel with highlights from previous Oscar ceremonies. I would embed some of my favourite moments, but the Academy has requested that embeds be disabled. So instead, visit the channel here, and look back at some of the most memorable moments in the history of...

The Razzies

Posted on February 24, 2008
The 28th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards have been announced. This is the media release: Many a RAZZIE� record was broken at this weekend's 28th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards, which dis-honor Worst Achievements in Film. Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy, each starring in one of 2007's Worst Picture nominees, both managed...

Oscar Predictions

Posted on February 24, 2008
With the Academy Awards less than a day away, I thought that like last year (see here) I'd post my predictions: Picture - Michael Clayton Direction - Ethan and Joel Coen (No Country For Old Men) Actor - Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood) Actress - Julie Christie (Away...

Scrabulous music video

Posted on February 24, 2008
A parody of Fergie's "Glamorous" on that much-discussed Facebook application, Scrabulous:

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