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The NBN: Tasmania

February 22, 2010 – 21:21

Today I was lucky enough to attend a forum in Hobart run by the Australian Computing Society with the leaders of the three state parties as the panelists. The theme of the forum was the National Broadband Network (NBN), which is a rollout of fibre-to-the-node for most of Tasmania and good wireless access in other [...]

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Twitter And Politics Don’t Mix

August 10, 2009 – 20:09

Twitter received some major news coverage for its fanatical userbase following the recent Iran election. The tone of the media reports is more or less that of wonder. It seems to be a common theme to assume that social networking is completely useless, then make a news story about it when it is useful. Add [...]

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