Category Archives: Internet

Anonymous no more…

June 18, 2009 – 9:02 pm

I can’t believe there is a case called The Author of A Blog v Times Newspapers Limited [2009] EWHC 1358 (QB). But there is.
“The Author of A Blog” cited as the claimant was the pseudonymous author of a blog known as “Night Jack”. He was a police officer whose blog provided an inside view of [...]

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Wisdom of a child

April 6, 2009 – 10:36 pm

Conversation between my husband and my three-year-old daughter tonight:
Miss 3: Mu-u-u-u-u-ummy…?
Daddy: She’s gone to the moon.
Miss 3: No. She’s not. She’s on the Internet.
Daddy (asking just to see what the answer is): What’s the Internet?
Miss 3: It helps us. It has words and stuff. It helps us see with pictures and things.

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Cat-contracts

February 22, 2009 – 9:48 pm

All of us will have come across those internet contracts (aka End User License Agreements, aka EULAs). You know the ones: they say “Terms and Conditions of Use” and you scroll down about 20 clauses, and click “I agree” at the bottom. Because I’m a contract nerd, I do actually sometimes read them out of [...]

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Publication with prejudice

February 16, 2009 – 3:50 pm

A man has been arrested and charged with arson causing death of at least 11 people in connection with the Churchill bushfire. Initially, the identity of the accused was subject to a suppression order, but despite this, vigilante groups on Facebook published the accused’s name, address and photograph. A magistrate has lifted the suppression order, [...]

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Welcome to our dinner party

February 16, 2009 – 12:29 pm

Our “About Us” section says, “Pull up a pew, grab a beer (or three) and join in the conversation.” Helen wrote that, and I’ve always found it very evocative. I see our blog as reminiscent of the discussions I used to have with friends at uni, frequently over a cup of coffee or a bottle [...]

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Bloggers and journalists

January 18, 2009 – 2:29 pm

In his guest post on this blog earlier this week, Ken Nielsen wrote on the changes to media which may result from the growth of the internet. I want to focus more specifically on the role of the blogosphere. Are we quasi-journalists? Or are we something different which overlaps with journalism?
Of course, the answer to [...]

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Black Dog, the internet, Phillip Adams and My Father — Guest Post by Ken Nielsen

January 13, 2009 – 8:39 pm

[SL: After qualifying as a lawyer, Ken Nielsen switched to management and spent most of his career in the food business in Australia and Asia. In 2002 he and his wife Liz accidentally set up an opera company: www.pinchgutopera.com.au]
You can, for a small price, download me from iTunes. I don’t sing, play an instrument or even hum in tune. [...]

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Facebook forces debtors to face facts

December 17, 2008 – 9:40 am

As I have mentioned previously, I used to work as a banking litigator. This frequently involved chasing up reluctant debtors and trying to serve them with court documents. People came up with amazing ploys to avoid service - assuming other identities, pretending to be terminally ill, hiding. On one occasion, my only contact for a [...]

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Gender Analyzer

November 23, 2008 – 8:26 pm

According to the site genderanalyzer.com, this site has an 82% likelihood of being written by a man. Whereas Tim Blair’s site has a 72% chance of being written by a female. Hmm. I’m thinking the text classifier needs a little work.
I’m wondering what aspect of our writing makes it more “male”?!?

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Play with spider…

October 5, 2008 – 7:46 pm

I thought I was a bit of an arachnophobe, but clearly I’m not as bad as I thought, because I found this virtual spider quite endearing. You can pull it around by the leg or feed it.
I don’t know if my fear of spiders is getting better, or whether pregnancy hormones have just dulled my [...]

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