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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 messaging the love today?

Posted on February 14, 2008
In turns out that Valentine's Day is a good day for mobile phone carriers: Text messages may not sound as romantic as flowers, chocolate, and dinner dates, but they're more popular on Valentine's Day than any other holiday, according toAT&T (NYSE: T)...

oneConnect

Posted on February 14, 2008
The New York Times offers a glimpse of Yahoo's oneConnect: Yahoo is working on a mobile service called oneConnect designed to aggregate contacts and communications around what it calls a "socially connected address book." The service, due to launch in the second quarter this year, will be open and other...

Resisting YouTube's lure

Posted on February 14, 2008
MediaWeek reports on the growing trend of saying "no" to YouTube: Based on the recent slew of online video distribution deals, media?s biggest companies are sending YouTube a clear message: We don?t need you. At least that?s the stance of companies like Viacom and NBC Universal, which continue to resist...

Twitter: getting fired at Yahoo

Posted on February 14, 2008
On Tuesday the Silicon Alley Insider blog charted the last day of a Yahoo employee via Twitter: Yahoo's Ryan Kuder was canned today. A drag for him, but a gift for the rest of us--because he Twittered it. A new form of literature is in the making... Y! layoffs today,...

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Why phishing works

Posted on February 14, 2008
Rachna Dhamija, J. D. Tygar and Marti Hearst from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science have published an academic paper explaining "Why Phishing Works". Here is the abstract: To build systems shielding users from fraudulent (or phishing) websites, designers need to know which attack strategies work and why...

Australian tech budget cut

Posted on February 14, 2008
The Rudd Government has announced that the technology sector will not be immune from upcoming budget cuts: The Rudd government's so-called Razor Gang has taken the blade to some of the Howard government's pre-election promises for the 2007-08 fiscal year, including AU$30 million sliced from the federal tech budget...

Qutting Facebook

Posted on February 14, 2008
Quitting Facebook has been in the news a bit recently, sparked in part by the reports that Bill Gates is one of those trying to get out of Facebook: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has stopped using the Web site Facebook, the most damning indictment in a week full of bad...

Happy Valentine's Day

Posted on February 13, 2008
As this post last year was popular, I've decided to repost some Valentine's Day videos. First up, YouTube (A Love Song): And another song, Valentine's Day by M. David Hornbuckle: Next, some Valentine's Day pains: And here is a guide for how to anti-Valentine: Need some help? Here are some...

Are you sure Corey Worthington Delaney is Wikipedia worthy?

Posted on February 12, 2008
Last month I blogged about the discussions as to whether the infamous MySpace party teenager Corey Worthington Delaney deserved a Wikipedia entry (see here), and it seems as though the debate is still going: MELBOURNE teenager Corey Worthington, also known by the surname Delaney, is set to finally get his...

Banning Underbelly

Posted on February 12, 2008
News.com.au highlights a practical problem with today's so-called ban of Underbelly, as ordered by the Victorian Supreme Court: A BAN on the screening of controversial crime drama Underbelly in Victoria will almost certainly be undermined by illegal copies of the show being shared online...

john.he.is

Posted on February 12, 2008
Here is a parody of the Barack Obama "Yes I Can" video focusing on John McCain, john.he.is:

Australia says sorry

Posted on February 12, 2008
Today was a momentous day in Australia's history as we finally said sorry. This was text of Federal Parliament's apology: Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their past mistreatment...

Does fair use matter?

Posted on February 11, 2008
Mike Madison looks at fair use: There?s nothing like a juicy fair use lawsuit to get copyright lawyers all wound up. Yesterday, the New York Times published this Joe Nocera column revisiting the Harry Potter/RDR Books/HP Lexicon lawsuit, fanning the embers of a debate that burned through the blogosphere last...

Be careful

Posted on February 11, 2008
The Guardian reports on a cautious but understandable new BBC policy: BBC editorial staff have been told to be cautious over the use of photos from social networking websites, saying the practice raises a number of legal and ethical issues. The BBC does not yet have a fixed policy on...

Real estate, Google and defamation

Posted on February 11, 2008
From The Age: 'So sue me' taunt to agents over 'defamatory' web articles Peter Gregory CONSUMER advocate Neil Jenman has called on two South Yarra real estate agents to sue him for defamation after they launched legal action to stop internet access to two of his articles...

Alan Jones loses his appeal

Posted on February 11, 2008
From The Australian: RADIO host Alan Jones has lost his challenge against a conviction for broadcasting the name of a juvenile involved in a murder trial. In the NSW District Court today, Judge Michael Finnane accepted Jones had an honest belief that he could broadcast the name, but found this...

Tech company logos

Posted on February 09, 2008
Neatorama has a fascinating look at the origin of tech companies? logos and how they evolved over time. Read it here.

Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon

Posted on February 09, 2008
I know this video is over a week old now, but I only got around to watching it today. Strangely enough I only watched after Emily Bazelon said on Slate's Political Gabfest podcast that she enjoyed it even more than the Barack Obama "Yes I Can" video. Anyway, here is...

Yahoo's Grief

Posted on February 09, 2008
The Deal Book (a New York Times blog) looks at the five stages of Yahoo's grief: Denial: The initial stage: ?It can?t be happening.? Yahoo is well past this. By rejecting Microsoft?s initial foray back in February 2007, Yahoo?s denial of Microsoft?s interest may have only whet Microsoft?s appetite, bought...

Dark Knight trailer ... with lego

Posted on February 09, 2008
Watch the Dark Knight trailer followed by the Lego version ... funny stuff:

Maybe digital natives can read after all

Posted on February 09, 2008
The Guardian looks at a recent UK report on the decline of reading but wonders, what are children doing when they sit in front of a computer all day? We've been hearing about the decline of reading for so long now that it's amazing a contemporary teenager can even recognise...

TV lowlights from Super Tuesday

Posted on February 09, 2008
Slate V has collected some election night lowlights from the television coverage of Super Tuesday:

China censors Chinese censorship

Posted on February 09, 2008
An ironic post from Techdirt: This probably won't come as much of a surprise to, well, anyone, but when Reporters Without Borders came out with a report on how China censors the internet, China ordered that the report be censored. Of course, to do that, China's censors issued a list...

Yahoo rejects Microsoft

Posted on February 09, 2008
From the Wall Street Journal: Yahoo Inc.'s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says. After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo's board determined that the $31 per share offer "massively undervalues" Yahoo,...

A hardly surprising finding

Posted on February 09, 2008
Ars Technica reports on an interesting research report: The amount of online "chatter" about an upcoming album release directly correlates to higher physical album sales, according to two researchers with New York University's Stern Business School. Professor Vasant Dhar and former student Elaine Chang observed the trends of 108 albums...

Congratulations Hugh Atkin

Posted on February 09, 2008
Australian Hugh Atkin, who has posted a range of fantastic videos to YouTube, had one of his videos played on Insiders this morning, Corey Delaney's Other Party (which I blogged about a few weeks back here):

Don't really want your family on Facebook, try Kindo

Posted on February 09, 2008
TechCrunch reviews Kindo: London-based Kindo, a social network aimed at your living family-tree, has won undisclosed seed funding from Estonia-based Ambient Sound Investments, reports TechCrunch UK ... Kindo covers the ?next generation? family tree, with communication features, stats and a family ?news feed? not unlike a Facebook feed...

Sex or TV?

Posted on February 09, 2008
An amusing post from Lost Remote TV Blog: A survey from a UK television company says nearly half of the men they asked would give up sex for 6 months if they were given a 50-inch plasma TV. Only a third of women would make that trade. According to the...

The Censored Count

Posted on February 07, 2008
It should come as no surprise what The Count loves to do ... so why should Sesame Street censor him?

The end of an era: Ray Martin resigns from Nine

Posted on February 07, 2008
From The Australian: RAY Martin has resigned from the Nine Network after 30 years with the broadcaster. Martin tonight confirmed he was leaving the network, which he joined in 1978 as a reporter on 60 Minutes. He said he had been considering leaving Nine for some time...

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