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		<title>Today on the radio: Do we deserve the Internet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my last time on Radio New Zealand National for a while, and I thought I&#8217;d use it to address some more a philosophical question than I often do. I&#8217;ve written a separate post with my ideas below.
I&#8217;ll be on air after the 11am news. You can listen live, or soon afterwards you will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/03/11/today-on-the-radio-do-we-deserve-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>The Internet: Too good for us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is an unmediated form of communication between humans all around the planet. It was designed that way and so far it has stayed that way. It&#8217;s different from the telephone, which allows targeted one to one communications, and from broadcasting which is one to many, although it does provide those as well. Through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/03/11/the-internet-too-good-for-us/</link>
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		<title>The gathering storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I make no apology for using Sir Winston Churchill&#8217;s title for the first volume of his history of the Second World War to describe the culture war between those who would capture ideas for their exclusive use and those who would disseminate them widely.
It&#8217;s not a straightforward issue. On the one hand, most of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/03/03/the-gathering-storm/</link>
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		<title>On the radio today: the tribulations of Telecom mobile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today on Radio New Zealand National I&#8217;ll be talking primarily about the recent failures of Telecom&#8217;s XT mobile network. I&#8217;ll be trying to uncover just what a radio network controller is, and how Telecom managed to ballyhoo a network which then kept failing.
After that, if there&#8217;s any time, we&#8217;ll have a brief look at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/02/25/on-the-radio-today-the-tribulations-of-telecom-mobile/</link>
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		<title>Hollywood v. the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be talking today on the radio today about a development in the entertainment industry&#8217;s ongoing war against the Internet. Last week, a federal judge in Sydney ruled in a case where 34 movie and TV companies &#8211; all the big ones, essentially, were suing an Australian Internet Service Provider called iiNet. 
The movie companies&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/02/11/hollywood-versus-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Today on the Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I talked about Apple&#8217;s latest launch, the state of Telecom&#8217;s XT network, Google being hacked in China and ACTA. I didn&#8217;t get time for Lieutenant Uhura, but she&#8217;s here.
No speaker notes for today &#8211; most of it was done off the cuff after the Apple launch. But if you missed it live, you can download [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/01/29/today-on-the-radio-2/</link>
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		<title>Time for some disinfectant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunlight is the best disinfectant, or so wrote Judge Louis Brandeis of the US Supreme Court in a book in 1914. That quote begins: &#8220;Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases&#8221;. Quite.
That brings me again to the disingenuously-named Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, whose contents the public are not allowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/01/25/time-for-some-disinfectant/</link>
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		<title>Penguins in Wellington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished attending Linux.Conf.Au 2010, the southern hemisphere Linux conference, here in Wellington. I really enjoyed myself, talked to some fantastic people and learned a lot. Nice.
There were some highlights: listening to the people who have built New Zealand&#8217;s free software high school, Albany Senior High. Linux desktops and servers. A great saving for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/01/22/penguins-in-wellington/</link>
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		<title>Why censoring the Internet won&#8217;t work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governments around the world are trying to get to grips with the notion that the Internet allows unfettered communications between individuals. This is a threat to almost all societies, and leads to &#8220;moral&#8221; arguments to control people&#8217;s access to, and activities on the Internet. It&#8217;s hard to draw a hard and fast line globally about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2009/12/31/why-censoring-the-internet-wont-work/</link>
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		<title>The trials of Gary McKinnon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the UK, a man named Gary McKinnon is fighting departation to the US for &#8220;hacking&#8221; US military government and computer systems in 2001 and 2002. He&#8217;s in his forties, he has Asperger&#8217;s, and he&#8217; facing up to 70 years in a US jail for something that would earn him a much lesser sentence anywhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2009/12/17/the-trials-of-gary-mckinnon/</link>
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