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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
ABC Fucks Up Web Terminology Again
And this time it doesn’t come from someone called Tony Hate site targets Trinity’s accused killer Queensland police are monitoring a social networking site set up to vilify a man charged with the murder of eight-year-old Trinity Bates from Bundaberg. Except it’s not a social networking site that has been set up, it’s a Facebook […]
Why Can’t ABC Journos Get Simple Web Descriptions Right?
Or maybe it’s just ABC Journalists with the first name of Tony? On Q&A last week (the school children vs the PM episode) Tony Jones fumbled the name of iiNet, and suggested that people had been downloading pirated movies from “iiNet’s website.” The biggest copyright case in Australia in years, and he doesn’t understand that […]