Last week the complete unredacted diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks last year were revealed to the world following a series of events involving WikiLeaks, the Guardian and possibly others. There has been much finger pointing regarding who is to ultimately blame for this, which is essentially pointless. The deed is done and the information ( Read more... )

Last week I mentioned an American podcast called Walking the Room which had Wil Anderson as a guest.

Since these guys tend to record more than one podcast session in a day, we’re lucky enough to get a second installment.

Once again, it is worth a listen. The first part is here and the second is here.


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Sometime last year I started listening to the Thirty Odd Foot of Pod podcast by Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen. They’re on hiatus right now, while Wil Anderson spends a few months on tour in America. Before they finished, though, they announced a sister podcast in LA called Walking the Room from a couple of guys called Dave Anthony and Greg ( Read more... )

In spite of my complete aversion to sport (with the possible exceptions of politics and chess, if they count), I’ve been watching the unfolding drama of the so-called “Dickileaks” scandal. Yet another case of sports professionals behaving like complete tools and then being shocked when that fact is revealed to the world.

Most of the focus in the ( Read more... )

In a bid to combat insomnia I, perhaps foolishly, read Paul Keating's lecture on privacy. I would have liked to have seen a little more detail on his views of governmental intrusions of privacy, but the issues regarding media organisations are certainly deserving of considerable focus. I definitely recommend reading the speech.

Thirty-eight years ago the Washington Post began publishing a series of pieces of investigative journalism which spanned more than two years and culminated in the resignation of Richard M. Nixon. I refer, of course, to what we now collectively refer to as the Watergate scandal ( Read more... )

I'm not normally a big fan of the Herald Sun, but this article is a little interesting. Not so much for the article itself, but for the leak of emergency call statistics and the link to their searchable database of the leaked data ( Read more... )

Those of you out there who have fallen to the Facebook craze (without relying on lying in your profile to protect yourself/identity) can now thank Canada's privacy commissioner for negotiating improvements to Facebook's privacy policy.

Welcome to Victoria, the coddling nanny state! That's what should be displayed on any signs viewed when entering this state.

It appears the Victorian Government wants to penalise tens of thousands of clubbers and punters because of a relatively smaller number of thugs, drunks and kids who can't hold their liquor. Specifically by imposing a 2am ( Read more... )

In May this year a collection of Australian media organisations, including News Ltd., Fairfax, AAP, the ABC and others, formed a coalition called Australia's Right to Know. Last week the independent audit they commissioned into freedom of speech, information and the media was completed.

The report is available here and even the little I've read ( Read more... )