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Weblogging

zem and the fight for freedom

He sits quietly at the bottom of my newly organized blogroll, place assured because of the weblog name — zem. And a visit to his weblog at least once a day is absolutely mandatory because zem is my portal for information about copyright, cryptography, censorship, and most importantly, freedom of speech. If there’s action in regards […]

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Internet

Australia and Internet civil liberties

If the fight for freedom of the Internet has a center, that center would be in Australia. I’ve long found that the difficulties inherent with trying to enforce censorship and copyright laws, as well as other related legislation, seem to get tested, first, in this country. I wrote on the possible effects of South Australian […]

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Weblogging

Tom Graves, shy, not!

Tom appeared first in comments, later in a Radio weblog called xio. If you’ve hung around Burningbird for long then you know Tom and know that he is not the most shy person in the block. No, I wouldn’t call Tom shy at all. As with so many other webloggers I seem to know, Tom […]

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Critters

Speaking of animals

Speaking of cat loving Australian men and other animals, I found a web site that lists some of the more interesting Australian Animals, including creatures such as the Kookaburra and the Bandicoot. And the Tasmanian Devil isn’t just a Bugs Bunny cartoon character. Want to hear what they sound like? Make sure your cats are out of the room, first.

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Weblogging

A good cobber Allan Moult

Allan’s weblog, G’Day Cobbers weblog is a treasure I discovered not long after he started. I was attracted to Allan’s photographs first — he is an extremely accomplished professional photographer — and then stayed for his humor and his interest in all things eclectic. Of course, when I found out that Allan was from Tasmania, the Down […]