gatewatching

1. It’s very difficult to stop people watching a television programme that’s been broadcast in another State, even if you’ve banned it, and even if it might prejudice court proceedings. (Bloody Internet.)
2. It’s very difficult to keep a Prince’s wherabouts under wraps when the media are globally networked, even if his life depends on it. [...]

As part of the overall research project we’re involved in, we’ve set up a hyperlocal citizen journalism site for Queensland’s local government elections.
qlddecides.com
As well as the existing partnership of us at QUT CIF, On Line Opinion, SBS, Cisco and the Brisbane Institute, we have the Local Government Association of Queensland on board.
There are already [...]

Goodness me. There’s a bit of a stoush on the Oz’s website! Janet Albrechtsen wrote a column earlier this week that gave out some advice to Kevin Rudd, and claimed victory in the “Culture Wars”, or argued that they were still going on, or something like that (It’s honestly a little bit hard to tell). [...]

Hi all. This continuing thread over at Club Troppo is discussing the merits (or lack thereof ;)) of our research. I had written a long reply post but it felt a bit rude to post something of that length on someone else’s blog, so I’ve stuck it here and tracked back to the thread.
Hi all [...]

We’re briefly going back to bog-standard wordpress in an attempt to stop the craziness with comments going in the wrong spots, etc. Thanks for your patience.

Hi everybody. Ken Parish over at Club Troppo concurred somewhat with Tim Blair’s criticisms of us. I replied in the comments but it got marked as spam so I’m not sure when it’s gonna make it.
Here’s what I wrote.
Hi Ken.
I’m one of the researchers whose work you’re talking about here. Just a matter of housekeeping [...]

Thanks for your note, and for making your readers aware of our blog and ABC columns.
I’m happy to discuss your questions, but first, it might be useful to clarify a few things.
This could be a good moment to point out that this blog and our ABC column are different from the rest of our work, [...]

Dan Hunter of the University of Melbourne at the Computer Games, Law, Regulation, Policy Symposium 2008 speaking on innovation, property and virtual worlds.

Fred von Lohmann of the EFF at the Computer Games, Law, Regulation, Policy Symposium 2008, talking about copyright and contract law as it pertains to machinima.

To all the visitors from timblair.net, welcome! Apologies for the commenting problems, clearly our funding doesn’t cover a half-decent webdesigner. We wanted to come over and chat with you, but