Radio NZ National: Transparency
I’m going to be appearing regularly on Nine to Noon on National Radio Radio New Zealand National. I’m every other week, alternating with Colin Jackson. After the show airs, I’ll post …
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Teaching Kids to Program
My OSCON talk on teaching kids to program is now available as an audio podcast on the ITC Conversations Network.
NZ Broadband
There hasn’t been a lot of action from the new Government on broadband (or anything, really, yet) but this Economist article is food for thought about spending priorities: When it comes to …
S92A: Interim Repeat Infringer Termination Policy
The Telecommunications Carriers Forum have released a note to ISPs saying that while they’re working on a policy that will comply with S92A of the Copyright Act (“An Internet Service …
Submission on NZ IP law and a free trade agreement with USA
SUBMISSION ON THE TRANSPACIFIC STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES To: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade Introduction This Submission is from Nathan …
NZ Healthcare
At the New Zealand Open Source Awards, David Cunliffe (the then Minister of Health as well as of IT) literally tapped me on the shoulder and asked whether I’d be interested in serving on HISAC, …
National Library joins Flickr Commons
Way to go, National Library of New Zealand! They’re the latest addition to Flickr Commons!
Good one, National Library!
My friend Aaron Swartz writes about the increasingly-evil OCLC: Not satisfied with controlling the world’s largest source of book information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. …
Nine to Noon: 30 Oct 2008
Today I was on the National Radio show Nine To Noon. It was nerve-wracking beforehand, but fun once it started. The podcast of my appearance needs some context: she’d been teasing future …
Ode to Auckland
Auckland Even when I’m well stoned on a tab of LSD or Indian grass, you still look to me like an elephant’s arsehole surrounded by blue-black haemorrhoids, The sound of the opening and …