Category Archives: Blogging

Newsnanny knows best

June 25, 2008 – 11:31 pm

John Quiggin has a useful wrap-up on David Burchell’s peculiar piece of newsnannyism in the Oz. David and his fellow journalists are clearly the nannies, and clearly it’s their job to look after the news. No-one else gets a look in, presumably because we’re, ahem, not worthy. Burchell buckets all and sundry, albeit obliquely, while [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Law, Media | Comments (17)

Public Service Announcement

June 17, 2008 – 3:17 am

In light of recent revelations about Caz & the Hack, perhaps we should have been a bit less willing to accede to an archival request from the National Library of Australia, but we have. That means this site is now archived electronically in the library’s ‘PANDORA‘ archive.
We’re not sure how regularly this is likely to [...]

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Lulz and legals bleg

June 3, 2008 – 7:56 am

I’m going to reveal my technical idiocy here, but I can’t think of any other way around it.
Legal Eagle and I have had a few requests, both online and offline, for a post on the legal issues arising out of the ongoing Spin Starts Here/Lulz Starts Here imbroglio. Yesterday, we thought we pretty much had [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Internet, Law | Comments (10)

Blogging judges

May 28, 2008 – 5:41 pm

You don’t get many blogging judges. In fact, I can’t really imagine any of the judges of my acquaintance writing a blog, although I can imagine them reading legal blogs avidly.
However, I read this story of a US Federal Court judge in Massachusetts, Nancy Gertner, who has commenced blogging for Slate magazine. I would think it [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law, Technology | Comments (14)

Being Behinderhund or, blogging while disabled - guest post by DeusExMacintosh

May 27, 2008 – 6:17 am

DeusExMacintosh is one of our regular commenters, and earlier this year she had a slightly unusual run-in with facebook, which seems to be an organisation somewhat given to perverse control-freakery. While not on a par with the casual denigration on display here, it’s still pretty ordinary. I asked her if she’d be interested in telling [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Animals, Law | Comments (18)

Tres cool artwork

May 21, 2008 – 7:56 pm

Well - as you may have noticed - we’ve finally uploaded our u-beaut blog header (those of you using Firefox may have to hit ‘reload’ while holding down the shift key). We’re pretty pleased the place no longer looks like Seattle at all hours of the day and night
Although the blog’s called ’skepticlawyer’ [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Art | Comments (10)

Now I’m really disturbed

April 6, 2008 – 9:25 pm

Someone found my blog via a google search for “whale penis”. I didn’t even know that I had used that second word in this blog! I know I used the word “whale” in a post featuring a picture of a little boy swimming with a whale.
I don’t even dare think why someone might be searching for that [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Fark! | Comments (8)

Blogging meme: Gimme three good reasons why you blog

February 12, 2008 – 8:39 pm

I’ve been unwell the last few days, otherwise I would have written a few posts on different issues: students suing schools for lack of support with learning disabilities, apology to stolen generation, other things. But before I get to that, I thought I’d answer Bruce’s meme of 3 good reasons why I blog.
(1) To keep [...]

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Best Blog Posts 2007

January 3, 2008 – 8:08 am

The first of the selected posts (two a day will be published each weekday through January) is up over at Online Opinion. James Farrell gives a useful backgrounder to this year’s selection process over at Club Troppo.
UPDATE: All the BBP2007 are tagged as ‘features’ over at OLO, in case people were wondering which ones [...]

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You can tell I’m busy when…

November 15, 2007 – 3:57 pm

I can’t even find the time to write blog posts! I have received a number of queries asking where I am, whether I’m OK and indeed, whether I’m still alive. Yes, I’m OK and still living and breathing.
Shortly, I am buried under marking. I’m 40% of the way there. I hope to be at least [...]

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