By Anna Winter on July 25, 2011
WA’s Attorney General wants to give parents legal rights over their children’s Facebook pages. Miranda Devine, in her typically careful way with words, describes social media as “barbarism, unleashing the worst elements of human nature, with no restraints” and quotes [...]
Posted in Culture, Featured, Relationships, The Web | Tagged anonymity, bullying, christian porter, Culture, cyber-bullying, email, facebook, google, Marshall McLuhan, Miranda Devine, pseudonyms, social media, Sociology, trolls, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 18, 2010
In the wake of Google’s changed stance toward the Chinese government, the company has now raised concerns about the Rudd government’s internet filter. In a piece in Crikey today, Jason Whittaker reported:
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Politics, The Web | Tagged censorship, China, Crikey, filtering, google, implementation, internet, internet filtering, isps, Jason Whittaker, nocleanfeed, Rudd government, stephen conroy, web |
By Phil on January 13, 2010
Google. We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, China, Economics, Ethics, Foreign policy, Government, Law, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Policy, Politics, Security, Technology, Trade | Tagged China, google, internet, search |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 9, 2009
Rupert Murdoch on Sky News: Make of it what you will. It seems pretty incoherent to me. I think Cory Doctorow’s pretty much right – these musings are fantasies, and his editors are going to have a horrible time trying [...]
Posted in Markets, Media, The Web | Tagged business model, content, Cory Doctorow, fair use, future of media, google, Media, News Limited, paywall, Rupert Murdoch, search, Sky News, social media, web, web 2.0 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 11, 2009
Rupert Murdoch has stepped up his rhetoric about the evils of new media at a shindig in that bastion of press freedom, China. You can read all about it at Derek Barry’s Woolly Days. The sheer onion-ness of President Obama’s [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, International, Media, The Web | Tagged associated press, China, content, Derek Barry, future of media, google, Hu Jintao, internet, journalism, Media, media ownership, press freedom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, web 2.0, world media summit |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
An American Court has required Google to disclose the identity of a blogger who allegedly defamed a New York model, Liskula Cohen, so that she could take an action for libel: Judge Madden rejected the claims by the blogger’s lawyer [...]
Posted in Blogging, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, anonymity, attack speech, blogger, Blogging, blogs, commenters, comments, defamation, google, hate speech, identity, Jason Wilson, Law, libel, Liskula Cohen, Media, vilification, web 2.0 |
By Phil on July 6, 2009
Well, I think it’s safe to say that a full scale war has broken out between News Ltd and Australian independent media operators. Posts today at Crikey, Larvatus Prodeo and The Oz’s Mark Day. Day amused me with this in [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Blogging, Economics, Markets, Media, The Web | Tagged Australia, business model, Crikey, google, mark day, Media, News Corporation, publishing |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 6, 2009
Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of editors/columnists/commentatorsminions have been sounding off about the evils of Google as a news aggregator. News Limited is a “content creator”, it’s asserted, and news aggregation is something akin to theft. A few years ago, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged blogosphere, blogs, consumer behaviour, content creation, google, media industry, news aggregators, News Limited, newspapers, online, Rupert Murdoch, user generated content |
By Kim on October 2, 2008
Here’s something a bit fun. Google – to celebrate its tenth birthday – has reactivated one of its oldest stored databases. If you go to this page, you can do Google searches 2001 style. Here’s what I came up for [...]
Posted in The Web | Tagged google, google 2001, google searches, google tenth birthday, internet history, search engine history, web history |
By tigtog on August 6, 2008
So, is your house shown on Google Maps Streetview? What about the directions to get to your place? Adequate, or rubbish? And did they have a clean lens round your way? Inquiring minds etc.
Posted in Life, The Web | Tagged directions, google, maps, streetview |
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By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
An American Court has required Google to disclose the identity of a blogger who allegedly defamed a New York model, Liskula Cohen, so that she could take an action for libel: Judge Madden rejected the claims by the blogger’s lawyer [...]
Posted in Blogging, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, anonymity, attack speech, blogger, Blogging, blogs, commenters, comments, defamation, google, hate speech, identity, Jason Wilson, Law, libel, Liskula Cohen, Media, vilification, web 2.0 | 33 Responses