While Australia has been suffering under yet another fruitless attempt to censor the internet on the grounds of protecting children, the NZ government has just gone ahead and done it without public consultation. And now the scheme has met daylight....
Topics: Law

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This one made the papers, how many have not? School told me to use house money for fees - mother A Wairarapa college has outraged a solo mum by telling her she should pay "voluntary" fees owing for her son's...

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I love ICT, I'm donkey deep in it and have a ball, but when I see this kind of thing I just want to throw up. How Semantics Could Help the Big Three. If only U.S. automakers had listened to...
Topics: Emergence, Organisational Tao

{"title":"How Semantics Could NEVER Help the Big Three","post_url":"http:\/\/www.kn.com.au\/networks\/2009\/06\/how-semantics-could-never-help-the-big-three.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.kn.com.au\/networks\/rss.xml","author":"EarlMardle","date":"2009-06-04 02:50:49","summary":"I love ICT, I'm donkey deep in it and have a ball, but when I see this kind of thing I just want to throw up. How Semantics Could Help the Big Three. If only U.S. automakers had listened to..."}

There is exactly zero reason for the expenses of our parliamentary representatives not to be detailed and publicly available. It is our money they are spending and I have a right to know how they are using it and to...
Topics: Society

{"title":"NOW we are getting transparency","post_url":"http:\/\/www.kn.com.au\/networks\/2009\/06\/now-we-are-getting-transparency.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.kn.com.au\/networks\/rss.xml","author":"EarlMardle","date":"2009-06-02 14:31:58","summary":"There is exactly zero reason for the expenses of our parliamentary representatives not to be detailed and publicly available. It is our money they are spending and I have a right to know how they are using it and to..."}

I was just bemoaning the difficulty of posting similar or identical content to multiple blogs, and the lack of a tool like Hootsuite that lets me post to multiple twitter accounts at the same time. Fortunately I was moaning to...
Topics: Media, Technology, Weblogs

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