An Attack on Online Anonymity

Today, I was wondering what I could blog about and the Government of South Australia handed it to me on a platter via the News and Electronic Frontiers Australia websites. In a nutshell, the Government in this state has amended the South Australian Electoral Act 1985 to require that people publishing election-related content (both print …

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Twitter (huh, yeah) – What is it good for?

Lately, I’ve been wondering about the relevance of Twitter at least within the context of my use of social networking. I use a range of social networking services, including: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yammer, … plus a range of instant messenger applications (of which I use a couple most frequently). Now, just because I find it …

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Apple iPad – Market Disrupting or DOA?

You may or may not have heard about (or seen) the new Apple iPad but if you are interested, check out the keynote and promo video. Some have described it as “an iPhone on steroids” whilst others have focused on the missing features (although I’d argue point twelve in that article as the iPad does …

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Web Hosts Ain’t Web Hosts

Over the last few months, I became disappointed with my web host, Lunarpages. I’ve been with them for just under six years so this was by no means a “fly by night” arrangement. As someone who lives, breathes and works in IT, I know it would be a perfect world if everything ran at 100% …

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Resuming normal blogging…

I’ve decided to go back to my blog as Facebook is nice for short things but my stuff gets lost in the sea of CafeTown achievements, FarmTown gifts and Bejewled high scores. I’d like to have a dedicated spot for my meaningful reflections, thoughts and reviews/ I’ll fiddle around with this blog (now hosted on …

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