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		<title>Why I joined the Greens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 02:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of those close to me will know, I have recently resigned my membership in the ALP and joined the Greens. Although it might seem a sudden move to some, it has been a long time coming and was not an easy decision or one taken lightly. I&#8217;m still new to the party, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Tweeter. You&#8217;re fired!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 02:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s sacking of Catharine Deveny by the Age is the latest in a string of people getting in trouble for offensive tweeting. Nick Snowden was kicked out of the Liberal party only a couple of weeks ago.
I think this is a terrible move by Age and sends a terrible message. Is it too much to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age op-ed today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an opinion piece in today&#8217;s Age, expanding on the theme of offensive internet content: do we need Rudd to step in and save us? I&#8217;m seeing more and more panic, fanned by the media, and a sense of proportion is quickly being lost.
This also continues on my new favourite theme, &#8220;Why should the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Australians a bunch of internet wusses?</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/internet-wusse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a depressing cycle repeating itself in the Australian news. Something nasty happens. The media report the outcry about how nasty it is. Then comes the depressing bit; the politicians, wanting to be seen to respond to the confected crisis, propose some sort of ill-thought-out, knee-jerk regulation to mitigate it.
A good example is Senator Nick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple needs some sex education</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/apple-needs-some-sex-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll happily admit to becoming a convert to the Cult of Mac a few years ago, and I&#8217;ve been known to refer to my iPhone as &#8220;the precious&#8221;. Apple are uncompromising in championing the user experience in their products, and it&#8217;s little wonder they have such a loyal following.
This uncompromising attitude, unfortunately, extends beyond usability. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet racism a symptom, not a cause</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/internet-racism-a-symptom-not-a-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a politician, and something nasty is brought to your attention, what do you do? The best and sometimes only tool in your toolbox is the one you reach for. The tool is this: to pass a law banning it. Therefore, although it&#8217;s always discouraging, a story like this one, is far from unusual or surprising. &#8221;Laws to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men at Work vs. Kookaburra</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/men-at-work-vs-kookaburra/</link>
		<comments>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/men-at-work-vs-kookaburra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Tim Dunlop missed the point yesterday in his Crikey piece about the Men at Work/Kookaburra case. Trying to decide whether they did or did nor borrow the melody from the folk song seems, to me, insignificant compared to the question of &#8220;should it matter if they did?&#8221;. Here&#8217;s my response (as a letter) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Missing Party</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/the-missing-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stilgherrian has been covering the iiNet trial for Crikey (good job, Stil), and wrote yesterday about Conroy&#8217;s rather worrying remarks on the subject indicating that the ISPs and entertainment industry should get together and sort out a way to solve this problem.
This makes some sense if the two parties get together and and discuss a new business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle for an open Internet</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/the-battle-for-an-open-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/the-battle-for-an-open-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the trends in Internet freedom have been all bad. China&#8217;s censorship regime escalated dramatically over the last 12 months, with a more aggressive Golden Shield, tumultuous events in Iran and of course Australia&#8217;s own filtering plan. It is therefore extremely heartening to see the tough new stand on Internet freedom taken by the USA.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why people believe stuff</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/why-people-believe-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a naive undergraduate, I laboured under a severe misapprehension. I thought that people believed things because they had heard the evidence and believed those things to be true. If somebody believed something that was (in my opinion) wrong, it must have been because they had bad information or had heard a mistaken [...]]]></description>
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