Net filtering and ECD

September 27, 2009 in Campaigns, Rants & Raves, Thoughts
Tags: ALP, Australia, censorship, clean feed, DDoS, democracy, ECD, electronic civil disobedience, federal government, freedom of speech, government, Internet, Internet censorship, Internet Service Providers, ISPs, Minister for Communications, No Clean Feed, online action, online activism, online protest, politics, Senator Conroy

Late last week there was a great story about anonymous online activists using electronic civil disobedience (ECD) to express their outrage at the continued effort to censor the Internet by Australian Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy and the Rudd Labor Government.

A gratuitous self promotion

September 23, 2009 in Rants & Raves
Tags: Alex Schlotzer, analysis, Damian Baker, independent, information, Internet, journal, media, news, opinion, Rich Bowden, social media, technology, theangle.org

I’ve been trying really hard to hold back on making this announcement but have given in to my urge for gratuitous self promotion. Bare with me here for the moment or two it takes to read this post. It’s actually about something good.

Brimbank’s saga continues

September 17, 2009 in Elections, Rants & Raves, Thoughts
Tags: ALP, Brimbank, Greens, John Brumby, local government, political parties, politics, state government, Victoria, Victorian Greens

Brimbank recently featured in the state news for the wrong reasons once again. On Tuesday (15/09) the Victorian state government finally sacked the Brimbank City Council after the state’s watch dog recommended it due to the on-going external influences pervading among the ALP councillors. And this was after the sole Greens councillor called on the [...]