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		<title>Retaking the Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday (29th October 2011) is the RetakeTheNet Bar Camp in the Wellington Town Hall.
I&#8217;ve talked about RtN before. It&#8217;s a group of people who are uncomfortable about the extent of control of the Net being exerted by governments and companies, and who want to do concrete things to imp roe the situation. This last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/10/27/retaking-the-net/</link>
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		<title>Retake the Net wordle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a wordle made up of the Retake the Net website. It&#8217;s not fiddled in any way; this is exactly what came out. It shows our priorities.


If you think it&#8217;s about time that individuals took back the Net for the things it can do for us and for each other, rather than leaving it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/08/14/retake-the-net-wordle/</link>
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		<title>Why are our data caps so low?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand seems to have the lowest data caps on its Internet in the developed world. Recently, InternetNZ commissioned me to write a report about this. My brief was to go round the Internet industry and ask people for their views, and specifically ask them why, if our expensive submarine cable is the answer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/08/07/why-are-our-data-caps-so-low/</link>
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		<title>Taking back the Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Net used to be under the radar of governments and corporates. Then it got a lot bigger, governments paid it attention and large companies moved in. Some were beneficial, some weren&#8217;t and some were neutral. But the ethos of the individual Net user running the whole show got diluted along the way.
It&#8217;s easy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/08/02/taking-back-the-net/</link>
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		<title>Avoid Outrageous Data Roaming Bills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve travelled overseas with a smart phone, you know that you have to turn off international data roaming, otherwise your telco will own your house. That&#8217;s barely an exaggeration given the cost of data roaming &#8211; here&#8217;s Telecom&#8217;s, for example &#8211; ranges from $8 per megabyte to $30 per megabyte. Yes, that megabytes. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/07/12/avoid-outrageous-data-roaming-bills/</link>
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		<title>Think of the children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s anyone left who didn&#8217;t know, Parliament passed a Copyright Amendment Act last night under urgency. It has the effect of curtailing the rights of ordinary New Zealanders for the gain of overseas companies.
Yes, there needs to be balance between rights holders and ordinary Internet users. Yadda yadda yadda, we&#8217;ve been through the arguments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/04/14/think-of-the-children/</link>
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		<title>I was a Webstock virgin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until Thursday, anyway. Despite the amazing Webstock conference running in my home town of Wellington for several years now, I still hadn&#8217;t made it along to one. My loss.
How to describe Webstock 2011? Compared to commercial conferences, it was head and shoulders better than any I had been to, ever. Compared to unconferences and enthusiasts&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/02/19/i-was-a-webstock-virgin/</link>
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		<title>So long, Knowledge Economy &#8211; we hardly knew you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t long ago that the Knowledge Society and its brother, the Knowledge Economy, were all of our futures. Remember the Knowledge Wave conference? That was almost a decade ago now. It posited that we all had a better future if only we would stop just growing nice things and sending them offshore and focussed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2011/02/16/so-long-knowledge-society-we-hardly-knew-you/</link>
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		<title>Finity &#8211; Confronting Limits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be talking at NerdNite Wellington. As the title suggests, I&#8217;ll be talking to how unprepared we are to confront finite limits. 
This article sets out the thinking I&#8217;ll be basing my talk on. And here is the Prezi I&#8217;ll be using.

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Colin Jackson &#8211; NerdNite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/11/28/finity-confronting-limits/</link>
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		<title>The new Windows Mobile &#8211; A teenager&#8217;s perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guest entry today &#8211; I lent the HTC Trophy running Windows Mobile 7 to my teenage son. Here&#8217;s his take on it.
One 17 year old&#8217;s opinion on this phone may be somewhat redundant, I don&#8217;t pretend to be the target market for a phone this expensive (possibly attributing to my ogling when being handed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://it.gen.nz/2010/10/30/the-new-windows-mobile-a-teenagers-perspective/</link>
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