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Congratulations are in order for Luis Acosta, winner of the NYC Condom wrapper design competition run by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Decided by popular vote, Acosta's design, featuring a yellow power symbol (IEC 5009 - line partially within a broken circle), ...Read More

New York is turned on

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 10 March 2010.
Filed under rapid fire.
Tagged as City of New York, Dr Thomas Farley, health, Luis Acosta, NYC Condom, sex, sexual health, sexuality.
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In a bid to be 'returned result A' in the list of suitors for Google's announced 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home network experiment, the City of Topeka, capital city of Kansas in the United States, will be known as 'Google, Kansas – The Capital City of Fibre Optics' ...Read More

Butt-kiss on to get Google’s fiber network

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 4 March 2010.
Filed under rapid fire.
Tagged as City of Topeka, google, William Bunten.
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Ok Go's new film clip for "This too shall pass" shits all over Honda's Accord 'Cog' commercial (Find 'Cog' under adverts on Honda TV). Watch as a Rube Goldberg contraption utilises the domino effect to fire paint into the band member's face. ...Read More

OK Go’s contraption action

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 3 March 2010.
Filed under rapid fire.
Tagged as Grammy Awards, Honda, Honda 'Cog' advert, Ok Go, power pop, Reuben Goldberg, Shock Hound, Syyn Labs, viral video, youtube.
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Everyone's playing host to a club night these days.San Fran Reverend Bertie Pearson has been hosting EpiscoDisco in the house of our lord at Grace Cathedral for almost a year! I read about it on GOOD. The free monthly events carry ...Read More

WWJD? Dance all night!

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 2 March 2010.
Filed under rapid fire.
Tagged as GOOD, Grace Cathedral, Jesus, Reverend Bertie Pearson, Theo Schell-Lambert.
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I'm sure many of you have heard about Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy's speculations on Channel 9's coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games about the sexual orientation of male ice skaters. I certainly don't agree with perpetuating ridiculous stereotypes on ...Read More

Eddie and Mick can see your dick

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 26 February 2010.
Filed under rapid fire.
Tagged as Channel 9, Eddie McGuire, gay stereotypes, Madonna, Mick Molloy, spandex, stereotypes, tony abbott, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
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It seems the place of fringe festivals in the arts and (sub)cultural landscape is as fickle as fringes in the world of hairdressing! Sydney's decided they're bringing the fringe back with the (new) Sydney Fringe Festival to be held in September ...Read More

Sydney cuts itself a new fringe

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 23 February 2010.
Filed under rapid fire.
Tagged as Adelaide Fringe Festival, australia, Darwin Fringe Festival, Digital Fringe, FotoFreo Fringe, Fremantle Community Fringe Festival, Hobart Fringe Festival, Kris Stewart, Melbourne Fringe Festival, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Sydney, Sydney Fringe Festival, Under the Radar.
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Vivienne Westwood used London Fashion Week as a platform to not sell her clothing... That's right, after showing her Red Label Autum /Winter 2010 collection the 'former-punk' reportedly pleaded for people to, "Stop all this consumerism" at one of the most prestigious ...Read More

How about a buy nothing (big fashion) day?

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 22 February 2010.
Filed under rapid fire.
Tagged as #wattadouche, London Fashion Week, the australian, Vivienne Westwood.
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So I'm back on the blog again, after far too long of hating the layout of this blog but not getting off my arse and doing something about it (although, if you want to redevelop and design it for me, ...Read More

Don’t give up your day Twitter

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 8 December 2009.
Filed under Social media.
Tagged as ABC The Drum, Annabel Crabb, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Crikey, Jonathan Green, Margaret Simons, media, mUmBRELLA, rant, social networking services, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tim Burrowes, Twitter.
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This article It explores new the realities of the permissions culture and "all rights reserved copyright" in the networked environment and poses the question: why is lending a copy of a book sharing but emailing a PDF of it piracy? ...Read More

Creative Commons: Fair to share?

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 7 December 2009.
Filed under Copyright.
Tagged as Aduki Independent Press, Articles, Artlink, Copyright, Creative Commons, Emily Clark, henro michi, Homeless, Lisa Dempster, Neon Pilgrim (2009), permissions culture, publishing, rant, Stick This In Your Memory Hole, Tristan Clark.
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Earlier this evening I ducked over to the QUT Creative Industries Precinct to see Adam Greenfield talk at the first of NICTA's Big Picture Seminar Series. I love this photo of him: Photo: The Good Life by slavin fpo He's one of ...Read More

Sets and the City - Adam Greenfield lecture

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 14 July 2009.
Filed under They said it.
Tagged as Adam Greenfield, data collection, information architecture, information privacy, NICTA, privacy, RFID, ubiquitous computing.
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Just a quick note to say that the Productivity Commission has released their report on the current restrictions on parallel importation of books under the Copyright Act 1968. Information on the scope and objectives of the Commission’s review are available ...Read More

Productivity Commission opts to drop parallel importation restrictions

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 14 July 2009.
Filed under Copyright.
Tagged as Chris Bowen MP, Copyright, Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), Creative Commons, exportation, government reviews, importation, parallel importation, Productivity Commission.
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As the end of work approached this evening I was stuck with two options: go home, finish my Master of Arts assignment, or go and listen to a panel about music and fashion. So I found myself in attendance of ...Read More

Stimulated by music and fashion

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 23 June 2009.
Filed under They said it.
Tagged as 50 Cent, Andy Arthurs, Brisbane Powerhouse, Britney Spears, Chicks on Speed, Eminem, Hilary Duff, Hip-hop, iCi, IMP Labs, Kiley Gaffney, Kylie Minogue, Patience Hodgson, QUT, QUT Creative Industries, Shady Ltd, Southland Tales (2006), Suzi Vaughan, The Grates, Wu-tang Clan.
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On Monday Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay presented a proposal (PDF, Doc) for a treaty that would see the introduction of harmonised copyright exceptions across World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) countries. The proposal, which was tabled at the 18th session ...Read More

Blocked WIPO disability exceptions caught in the copyright divide

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 30 May 2009.
Filed under Copyright.
Tagged as Berne Convention, BoingBoing, Copyright Agency Limited, copyright exceptions, cory doctorow, Electronic Frontiers Australia, flexible dealing, FTAs, hreoc, James Love, Knowledge Ecology International, nic suzor, Part VB licences, TRIPS, WIPO, WTO.
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Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper from QUT’s Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project discussed the impact of Crown copyright in Australia. Crown copyright is a copyright doctrine that has developed in the Commonwealth nations that affords protection to ...Read More

Copyright in government information

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 28 May 2009.
Filed under Conferences, events, etc, Copyright.
Tagged as Australian Bureau of Statistics, Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), Copyright Future conference, CopyrightFuture09, Creative Commons, crown copyright, Dr Terry Culter, Geosciences Australia, GILF, Neale Hooper, OAK Law Project, Prof Anne Fitzgerald, PSI, Queensland University of Technology.
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Queensland University of Technology was one of the first institutions in Australia to establish a publicly accessible scholarly research repository. QUT introduced an institution-wide policy for open access in January 2004 which led to the establishment of the ePrints repository. ...Read More

Being open to access

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 28 May 2009.
Filed under Conferences, events, etc, Copyright.
Tagged as auPSI, ccAustralia, Copyright Future conference, CopyrightFuture09, CRCSI, Creative Commons, ePrints repositories, Legal Framework for e-Research project, OAK Law Project, OAK List, open access, Prof Tom Cochrane, Queensland University of Technology.
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Professor Julie Cohen, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, gave a presesntation about copyright and creativity. Or more appropriately, copyright is not creativity. At the root of her argument is the claim that copyright law is premised on ...Read More

Copyright is not creativity

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 28 May 2009.
Filed under Conferences, events, etc, Copyright.
Tagged as 2008 US Presidential Election, Associated Press, barack obama, Copyright Future conference, CopyrightFuture09, Creative Commons, Georgetown University, Georgetown University Law Center, Mannie Garcia, Obama HOPE poster, Prof Julie Cohen, Sheppard Feirey.
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Peter Coroneos A case for a review of the current safeharbour provisions. As part of the FTA Australia had to amend the Copyright Act to harmonise it with the US law. The version of safeharbour that was introduced as a result ...Read More

In the Chamber - Proposals on dealing with some of the issues in copyright

Written by admin
Posted on 27 May 2009.
Filed under Conferences, events, etc, Copyright.
Tagged as Ben Atkinson, collecting societies, Copyright Future conference, Copyright Tribunal, Creative Commons, Delia Browne, Dr Matthew Rimmer, jessica coates, nic suzor, peter black, peter coroneos, Prof Adrian Sterling, Robert Cunningham, US-Aus Free Trade Agreement.
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Similar to his presentation at the recent Unlocking IP conference in Sydney on 16 and 17 April 2009, Graham Greenleaf His principles for public right: The future development of public rights should reflect Australia’s interest rather than other country’s interests. To take ...Read More

Another slice of the magic pudding public domain?

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 27 May 2009.
Filed under Conferences, events, etc, Copyright.
Tagged as academic research, Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), Creative Commons, crown copyright, digital rights management, Graham Greenleaf, Norman Lindsay, public sector information, term of copyright, The Magic Pudding (1918), US-Aus Free Trade Agreement.
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I will post about Lawrence Lessig’s presentation soon. Read More

Lessig’s war on the war on piracy

Written by elliott bledsoe
Posted on 27 May 2009.
Filed under Conferences, events, etc, Copyright.
Tagged as Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig.
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All I want to say about the “Copyright History and Prospects” is “What a mammoth session!” Seven very interesting and distinquished speakers managed to span (at least some of) the breadth of the history of copyright. And who thought a ...Read More

Seven speakers talk through the history of copyright

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