Archive for December, 2008

Dec 31 2008

The first full year in this Brave New World

Published by Ian under Personal, Travel

As it’s now the end of 2008 I thought I’d just like to reflect briefly and thank everyone who has been on this journey with me.
I had only just launched the podcast at the start of the year. Since then I’ve posted 30 Your Story Episodes  and 18 Addendum Episodes. Along with many blog posts [...]

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Dec 16 2008

Your Story Ep 30 : David. Industrial Design, Street Furniture and Helping the Next Generation

Welcome To Episode 30 of Your Story.
Today we talk with David Shaw who as an Industrial Designer with his company Street and Garden Furniture Company shares a little of the life of an industrial designer. We talk of what design is for him with his early attempts at being a manufacturer to eventually realise that [...]

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Dec 15 2008

Your Story Addendum Ep 18 : Internet Filter and No Clean Feed Rally

Welcome To Episode 18 of Your Story Addendum.
Saturday 13 December 2008 saw rallies around Australia in all capital cities against the Australian Federal governments plans initially to trial and eventually introduce a mandatory ISP level filter. In Brisbane several hundred concerned people turned out to speak and make their feelings heard.

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Dec 08 2008

Route Around to Censorship in UK

Published by Ian under Society & Culture

Today I came across this post from The Nock Blog about the clumsy attempts to filter internet content in the UK. As they are attempting to block child pornography they seem to be throwing up false positives for social networking sites and Wikipedia preventing them from being viewed.
I don’t pretend to understand all that is [...]

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Dec 07 2008

Internet Filter Reply from Kevin Rudd

Published by Ian under Personal, Society & Culture, Technology

As you may recall the Australian Governments has decided to introduce a trial for an Internet filter.  I decided that one of the few things to express my displeasure about this was to send letters to my local MP, Prime Minster Kevin Rudd and Minister for Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy, Steven Conroy. I posted [...]

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