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Talking cybersecurity bollocks on ABC Radio’s “AM”
Following the announcement of a new Australian Cyber Security Centre, to be built by the end of 2013, I ended up being interviewed by ABC Radio’s AM program on 24 January — but it didn’t turn out so...
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Talking Twitter and TV on ABC Radio’s Media Report
Last week, reportedly, Twitter spent $100 million buying Bluefin Labs, a media analytics company that claims to be able to provide details semantic analysis of Twitter chatter about TV programs. I...
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Talking the ABC hack on “7.30”
I was interviewed by ABC TV’s current affairs program 7.30 on Wednesday about the hack of an ABC website, in a story called Hacker attacks ABC, private information released. The hack was apparently in...
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Talking Yahoo!, Summly and more on ABC Local Radio
The $30 million purchase of internet startup Summly by Yahoo!, the fourth most-visited online service, certainly attracted media attention today — thanks to founder Nick D’Aloisio being just 17 years...
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Talking about DDoS attacks on ABC TV’s “The Business”
A strange thing happened yesterday. A distributed denial service (DDoS) attack, a big one, got reported in the mainstream media as having somehow all but crippled the internet — despite all the...
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Talking downloading TV on ABC 105.7 Darwin
The new series of Game of Thrones was released in the US last week, and even though it was broadcast in Australia on pay TV network Foxtel just two hours later, it was still torrented to buggery. Just...
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Talking YouTube’s eighth birthday on ABC 105.7 Darwin
Today is YouTube’s eighth birthday, according to the internet. On 23 April 2005, co-founder Jawed Karim uloaded the 19-second masterpiece Me at the zoo, and the rest is history. I ended up having a...
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Talking Twitter and LulzSec on ABC Local Radio
On Wednesday night I ended up having a long, rambling chat on the radio about Twitter’s new advertising deal and the arrest of an alleged hacker who apparently claimed to be the leader of LulzSec. This...
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Talking Facebook’s decline, maybe, on ABC 774 Melbourne
Is Facebook on the decline? For some reason or other, I ended up talking about that on the radio on Monday afternoon. The reason was actually this story in The Australian about “Facebook fatigue”....
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Talking the dark web (ugh!) on ABC Gold Coast
On Tuesday morning I did another radio spot, this time about two web-related issues: the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, and the so-called “dark web” and the denial of service attack against The...
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Talking LulzSec and more on ABC Download This Show
My third radio spot for this busy radio week was Marc Fennell’s Download This Show, which we recorded on Wednesday morning. Can you imagine being able to control a crematorium, a powerstation or...
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Talking LulzSec and hacktivism on Triple J’s “Hack”
On Tuesday, Triple J’s current affairs program Hack decided to take a look at hacktivism more generally in the wake of Matthew Flannery’s arrest — and boy was it a shemozzle! I was interviewed for half...
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Talking Chris Hadfield and space on ABC Radio’s “AM”
Of all the things I thought I’d be talking about last week, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wasn’t one of them. And yet I did end up talking about him — ever so briefly — on ABC Radio’s national...
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Australia’s Budget 2013 keeps us stuck in the past
[As it turns out, my planned Budget commentary for Crikey didn't happen. I got up early in San Jose, read the budget papers and made notes, but then my as-yet-unwritten article got spiked. This is a...
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Talking ATO e-tax for Mac on ABC Radio’s “PM”
After 15 years, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) finally launched a Mac OS X version of its e-tax software for filing personal income tax returns — and it doesn’t work. Hah! ATO bungles e-tax for...
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Announcing “The 9pm Election”
Today Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that the federal election will be on 7 September 2013. Tonight I announce that I intend to produce five episodes of The 9pm Election. They’ll bear some...
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Talking Vote Compass on ABC 666 Canberra
“It’s not every day that I find myself agreeing with Senator Eric Abetz,” began my column at ZDNet Australia yesterday. But as the remainder of my 89-word opening sentence reveals, we’re in agreement...
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Talking future politics on ABC RN Sunday Extra
Earlier this morning I took part in a conversation on ABC Radio National’s Sunday Extra about the future of politics and political campaigning, given new media technologies and suchlike. Also...
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Weekly Wrap 167: Productivity returns, in many forms
My week Monday 12 to Sunday 18 August 2013 was quite productive, for a change. As you’ll see below, I produced more media objects this week than in quite a while. This is as good a time as any to...
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Talking about DDoS attacks on ABC TV’s “The Business”
A strange thing happened yesterday. A distributed denial service (DDoS) attack, a big one, got reported in the mainstream media as having somehow all but crippled the internet — despite all the...
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