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A month or so ago I was prodded by @pat on Twitter to take some direct action on the #nocleanfeed issue. For those wondering what the hell #nocleanfeed is all about, check out http://nocleanfeed.com. From their website: The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to
Uncharacteristically short post this time: Dan Whitworth has an article at BBC's Newsbeat site about Facebook being so popular it accounted for almost 5% of all page views on Christmas Day. I've got three theories for why this might be: * The Facebook generation have enough of
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I first discovered Pandora as a houseguest of Mike Arrington's back in early 2006, and was immediately hooked. Unfortunately a year or so later, back in Australia, Pandora started blocking access since I wasn't coming from a US IP address - all over about music licencing
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Last week, Telstra got booted from the National Broadband Network process, where the Australian Federal Government will be spending about half the amount of money they (wasted) on the bogan bonus to fund/subsidise an improvement in Australia's broadband capacity down to the last mile. Telstra, the largest
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On a recent trip that included China, half a dozen stops in Europe, and some time in New York and San Francisco, someone skimmed my corporate credit card. My bank, Bankwest, has a pretty impressive fraud detection system, and when someone (I think based in China) made a $1 transaction
I've been doing a bit of research lately on phone setup for my new startup, Hiive Systems. Part of the establishment work is around phone numbers, and I've learned a few things I thought might be worth sharing. Firstly, I've learned that - in
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I was lucky enough to spend the better part of last week at the Open Source Developers Conference, or OSDC, held in Sydney between Wed 3rd and Fri 5th of December. I wasn't sure what to expect from my first OSDC conference - they've been running
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many of our international breathern would be moritifed at a plan where a national goverment tried to enforce a nation-wide internet filter to block specific content. they do it in china - at what cost? - and the world cries foul. then they consider it seriously in a modern western
there's been a lot of talk in the press over recent weeks about the changes in australian cross-media ownership rules. considering that most places in the world don't have laws like this to start with, much less reform, a bit of background is probably helpful. as
welcome to the maiden post of my blog. this blog has been a while coming, and this first post comes to you from the heart of the blogging revolution, the crunchhouse in silicon valley. my business partner on omnidrive - a seminal web 2.0 startup - has just been