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Blues (music and the internet)
Feb. 12th, 2009 12:35 amIt's that time of year again, so I'm heading off to Goulburn for the National Festival of Australian Blues Music. While I'll hardly be liveblogging (the whole point is to go listen to live music, not post about how I'm sitting here, listening to live music), I'll try to give a quick wrap-up of who I went and saw each day. Apart from the Blues Preachers I haven't heard any of the artists before, so it's another exciting round of "pick what sounds interesting on paper". As before, I'll put together a mix of artists I liked, to spread the love.
And on a completely unrelated note, for those of you keeping track of Senator Conroy's so-called "clean feed" plan, they are pushing ahead with the live pilot. I didn't think it needed to be said how wasteful, undemocratic and fundamentally flawed an Australia-wide ISP filtering system would be, but apparently Conroy missed the memo. I recommend No Clean Feed for a clearly-articulated, point-by-point outline of objections. ALIA, I am relieved to see, is also aware and asking questions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they don't seem to be getting any answers.
To be clear, I favour education and opt-in filtering for parents looking to protect their children from the Whatever That Came From The Tubes(, Series Of). Not a nation-wide firewall with an unacceptably high error rate (that would be anything above 0 - even a 1% margin of error becomes enormous when you consider the sheer number of websites accessed). Hey, you know who else has an enormous internet-filtering scheme? China. (Have fun with that gambit, Mr Conroy - I think it might become the next corollary of Godwin's Law.)
And on a completely unrelated note, for those of you keeping track of Senator Conroy's so-called "clean feed" plan, they are pushing ahead with the live pilot. I didn't think it needed to be said how wasteful, undemocratic and fundamentally flawed an Australia-wide ISP filtering system would be, but apparently Conroy missed the memo. I recommend No Clean Feed for a clearly-articulated, point-by-point outline of objections. ALIA, I am relieved to see, is also aware and asking questions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they don't seem to be getting any answers.
To be clear, I favour education and opt-in filtering for parents looking to protect their children from the Whatever That Came From The Tubes(, Series Of). Not a nation-wide firewall with an unacceptably high error rate (that would be anything above 0 - even a 1% margin of error becomes enormous when you consider the sheer number of websites accessed). Hey, you know who else has an enormous internet-filtering scheme? China. (Have fun with that gambit, Mr Conroy - I think it might become the next corollary of Godwin's Law.)
