The Twitter Blackout
If you use Twitter you may have noticed that recently some people have started to replace their avatars with simple black squares. This gesture is in support of a …
Brisbane's Best Blog
Blogging is simply the act of informal writing as a regular practice on Brisbanes best blog. Journals take many forms and serve different purposes, some creative some personal. Writers keep journals as a place to record thoughts, practice their craft, and catalogue ideas as they occur to them.
Open Source Social Networking Sites
We are all familiar with Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, well now you can create your own lookalike site for free. Joomunity describes itself as ‘a …
Torvalds on Open-Source Identity
Linux founder Linus Torvalds this week talked to Computerworld about the development of Linux over the past two decades. He was of course asked about his views …
Small Business SEO – Why You Can’t Live Without It
One of the reasons small business can’t live without SEO is that fact that it is one of the only marketing channels available where the smaller …
Pass the Hammer Please..
Computer magazine Which this week warns of the threat of identity theft and advises the public to dispose of hard drives carefully. I would encourage anyone to recycle and re-use …
MediaWiki Skins Design book review
A couple of months back I was contacted by Jude from Packt, a UK based publishing company specializing in focused IT books, she was looking for …
OpenTV – Free and Open Source YouTube TV
Yet another great Free and Open Source offering from Xstreet SL Marketplace. The OpenTV enables you to play videos from YouTube on parcels that you own in …
Make a difference in 2009
As we wave goodbye to 2008 I thought now seemed as good a time as any to look back at the work done by the Free …
Brisbane internet censorship protest
Went to the Brisbane internet censorship protest yesterday, the video below from the ABC says that there was around 200 people there. It was a very …
Act Now! Stop Censorship in Australia
On Saturday the 13th of December throughout Australia, activists will take to the streets to demonstrate against the governments proposed censorship of the Internet. The Electronic Freedom …