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Private Images and Public Debate

By Craig | Published: October 10, 2006

(Published by myself in the Age , Opinion section today . The recent discovery of a number of videos of young Australian soldiers brandishing military weapons and skylarking on the popular video sharing system, Youtube, perhaps comes as no surprise given the shear volume of material now contained on services such as this. From the [...]

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The OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data

By Craig | Published: September 1, 2006

Along with balancing the rules that govern Intellectual Property, the battles over the protection of personal data becomes another area of potential conflict within a society where information storage and global retrieval devices have become cheap and ubiquitous. Here is the international guidelines set by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). Also see [...]

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The Death of a Meta Tag

By Craig | Published: May 16, 2006

 I just found this article from that wonderful site, search engine watch, about the death of Meta tags, or at least, the death of the 'key word' Mata tag. (I don't know of anyone who actually used it). The things about Meta tags, is that they give a site rigorous time, author, and context specificity, so [...]

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Globalisation and the Internet

By Craig | Published: May 15, 2006

What is globalisation?  Globalisation is a somewhat difficult concept to ground, but it is an important concept nevertheless for our understandings of the 'big picture' Internet. The term globalisation did (at least in the popular mind) come to the fore around the year 2000 (about the same time as the US led technology boom. And [...]

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Sean Healey’s Web Log

By Craig | Published: May 1, 2006

Sean Healey is an ace-blogger who has a keen understanding of the blogosphere. He gave a guest lecture today in our class 'net communications' (in the Media and Communications program here at the University of Melbourne). He was kind enough to place his lecture notes on his own blog. Here they are: Why Blogs? Why [...]

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What is privacy and why is it important?

By Craig | Published: April 24, 2006

What is privacy and why is important in the digital domain?

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Trust corruption and surveillance in the electronic workplace

By Craig | Published: April 20, 2006

Information Age | Trust, corruption and surveillance in the electronic workplace Every wondered why it is a bad idea for your boss to monitor you at work? Ever wanted to hone your arguments against monitoring (to take on your boss)? Good old fashioned trust is the most productive form of 'monitoring' at work it seems. [...]

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