As I was walking to work today I was thinking about a metaphor to describe #blogjune. For me reading the blogs is like popping in to visit neighbours and catching up with friends. Many of the people blogging are part of my PLN (Personal learning network) and for those I haven’t met virtually or IRL (In Real [...]

ALIA has aligned itself with Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo to present a statement on Internet filtering. You can read Core Principles for Effective Action for a Safer Internet on the ALIA site. As one tweeter put it… @katiedatwork smart partnering and a strong stance: http://www.alia.org.au/internetfiltering/ seriously impressed, @ALIANational.

Whilst many of us will be at VALA, for those who aren’t, Tuesday 9th February is a day to note, its Safer Internet Day 2010! Even with the issue of ISP filtering is still ongoing, we can’t forget that one of the best protections for children on the internet continues to be education. So on [...]

The topic of Australia’s proposed Internet Filter has been mentioned here on Libraries Interact before. Recently there were three interesting views of the issue that I came across. First was the Web of secrecy article on the Unleashed by Mark Pesce: It began with a blacklist. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has one – [...]

According to a recent news report (Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end), the Federal Government plan to introduce compulsory internet censorship at the ISP may be over before its barely begun. According to the report, such a mandatory filtering scheme will require legislation.  If that is the case, then at this time, the [...]

Readers of the Libraries Interact blog will know that we’ve written before about the plans that the Australian Government has for filtering the Internet. Some of us have written about it on our personal blogs, and I’ve collected some news stories and put them up on Delicious. Today I came across this post by David [...]

The Dept. of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has launched a blog to gather Australians’ thoughts and ideas about the digital economy.  The blog will apparently only be ‘open’ for two weeks, so get over there now if you want to share your ideas in this type of forum, and subscribe. There should be [...]

Yesterday the article “ISP filtering gains momentum” was published in the Online edition of The Australian IT section of The Australian newspaper. We’ve posted about this initiative before. From the article: “As part of the federal budget, the Government allocated $125.8 million for a range of internet security initiatives, including the filtering program, over four [...]

In time for Library Week, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has launched a new information pack for public library staff, aimed at assisting them to promote safe internet use in-house, with a particular focus on children. Created with consultation from ALIA and staff from public libraries, the pack includes: Cybersmart Guide for Library [...]

Recently I stumbled across this post on the ABC Unleashed website by Lucy Saunders. It presents an interesting way at looking at issues that we’ve posted about before [1] [2] [3] [4]. From the post: Enjoy your unfiltered internet access while it lasts. As we speak, the government is hard at work building a device [...]