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Episode 7.5: The man wants your digital rights.

Where’d we go?

Colin Jacobs from Electronic Frontiers Australia joins us this week (www.efa.org.au)

Who/what is the EFA? What do they do and what don’t they do?

Brief mention of the Whirlpool thingo: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14427/53/
What are some of the big things Australian geeks (and the Australian community in general) need to be aware of?

Clean Feed
Customs inspecting iPods and PMPs
NO R Rating for interactive media
Google Street view privacy implications

Twitterers say the darndest things
This week in Lego
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/army_of_transvestites_celebrate_lego_minifig_anniversary-2.html

What are we playing at the moment?
Mario Galaxy
Spore
Portal (Orange Box)
Metal Gear Solid

Links to
www.efa.org.au
www.eff.org
www.nocleanfeed.com

 

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Hooray! After a break that was a little longer than any of us really expected, we’re now coming to a point where we can start recording again.

But we need input from you guys! We’ll be re-focussing the show to a more topical /discussion/ show rather than three nerds reading stuff out.

There’s no doubt the ‘old format’ had fans though, which is why we need the feedback. What should stay? This Week in Lego? Our console gamer rants? What? We want the show to be primarily around discussion but we’re open to the topic.

Heard something you don’t understand? Can’t decide if what someone is doing is good or evil? This is the kind of stuff we want to talk about. Podcast@namealreadytaken.com. Drop us suggestions. If we can find an expert on the topic we’ll try to have them on, too.

We have some ideas for some ongoing content but we really want some listener driven stuff, too.

Anyway, keep the feedback coming in - it’s reassured us that this really is worth doing. Look out for us back in your iTunes podcast folder within a week.

Cheers,

Chris.