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Bullies, Bollocks and Divine Infanticide

Collin Van Uden — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:26:48 +0000

This post was actually a response to a discussion raised on the IF Project Facebook page. The IF Project is an endeavour by journalist Jane Lee to, in a 100 day timeframe, “launch a new magazine to shed light on the SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL and HUMANITARIAN challenges of the world.”

I suggest you check out and contribute to the [...]

Me vs Atheism

Collin Van Uden — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:38:39 +0000

Before I jump into this, a few quick points, and a disclaimer or two.

(Edit) 0: The title of this post is (deliberately, I’ll admit) misleading. I do not, by any stretch of the imagination ‘oppose’ atheism – but rather the attitude that (in my experience) is held by many who claim that (or any other) view, [...]

Breaking down Google’s new timeline feature for real time search

Collin Van Uden — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:10:41 +0000

A little while ago, after a day buried in work stuff, and a night pondering how to make this site 'fit' with the online world (when it evolves from being a chaotic dumping ground of sporadically interesting plugins, features, styles, naked code and other such silliness into something more elegant, stylish and with any luck - profitable) I had a thought... ... Knowing the way the web works, it's quite likely such a beast exists already - and Google have been displaying timelines with News site references for a while now - but clearly my idea is better. That doesn't mean, however, that Google are resting on their laurels when it comes to tracking what's going on in the land of the interwebs... [...]

Generate you Privacy Policy automagically with OECD

Collin Van Uden — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:04:20 +0000

I found something really cool today. When that happens, I like you share it with you people, because as you all should know, I'm a caring, sharing kinda guy. As some of you may also know, I don't take myself, or this site too seriously (yet) So when it comes to the nitty gritty fine print type stuff, I can get a little .. well, slack. [...]

Internet Filter Recap for the Resurfacing

Collin Van Uden — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:08:35 +0000

So, Stephen Conroy’s Australian Mandatory ISP Internet Filter was featured in a Yahoo! news article today, but the comments are limited to 1000 characters. If you’ve been paying attention it’d be pretty clear theres no way that’ll be sufficient for my ramblings, so here’s the full response below:

(Note: if you’d like to leave a comment on the Yahoo [...]

On the effect of the Infoverse – a retort

Collin Van Uden — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:51:38 +0000

On the social web, and why some folk fear it... [...]

Disrepute, Social Media Policy and other headaches

Collin Van Uden — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:24:38 +0000

On 'Disrepute' and the birth of Social Media confusion (I mean.. Policy) It's a big thing in Corporate policy. Even Premier John Brumby conceded the agreement to be signed by principals before the roll out of the Computers in schools program required revision in the face of it's interpretation as a 'gag order'. So what does disrepute mean, and how does it apply to Joe Average employee? [...]

To blog or not to blog… What was the question?

Collin Van Uden — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:37:49 +0000

I'm a fan of blogging - here's why. How do you communicate in the online world? [...]