Archive for June, 2009

Nine to Noon: 4 June 2009

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Listen to my 4 June 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon show. I spoke about national security and social unrest on the Internets. Links: Guatemala The murdered lawyer National Security GhostNet Guatemala Guate is an unstable country. 36 years of civil war ended in 1996, but the unrest continues. This year ...

Open New Zealand

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Glen Barnes and I have softlaunched opengovt.org.nz, an effort to do some MySociety-style projects for New Zealand. Glen's built a catalog for open government data, and there's a mailing list on which we're discussing the next project.

Nine to Noon: 18 June 2009

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Listen to my 18 June 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon show. I spoke about online dating scams, Twitter's role in the Iranian election protests, and would have spoken about Chris Knox but we ran out of time. Here are my notes: Online Dating Scams NZ Herald story What: Websites ...