Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, wants to “address the range of issues and challenges faced by families when they are online“.
He has proposed legislation to “require all ISPs to block material rated Refused Classification that is hosted on overseas servers“.
What Senator Conroy has suggested goes well beyond any mechanism approved by the Australian public to limit their access to the web. The government has no mandate for anything other than opt-in filtering of the internet.
And there are good reasons for that.
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Posted in: developing the web.
I’ve had the pleasure of reorganising our home library over the last few days.
By library I mean our total collection of books, rather than a purpose-specific room to house them.
That comes later.
The 2,600+ books we have are in fact spread across our house: living room, office, rumpus room, kitchen and bedrooms.
They have always been in a rough sort of order, but as their number has increased I decided to sort them out a bit, putting them into categories which would be useful for family members to find specific books.
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Posted in: turn the page, works for me.
I now have a handful of web clients who have been with me for five years or more (note to self: should I mark this by issuing a badge?), which is both a very healthy affirmation of the worth of my skills to them and a wonderful opportunity to mould a web presence over time in response to the changing needs of my client and advances in web technology.
A good example is Financial Education Professionals, which provides training to employees of financial institutions in meeting their legal compliance obligations.
Since FEP first accepted my 2003 proposal to build them a website, the company has grown in the number of staff, the number and scope of training programs it offers and the geographical range of their customers.
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Posted in: developing the web, portfolio, search me.
