overview

This page provides an overview of what is on this site. (Information about our publications, including conference papers, seminar presentations and journal articles, is here.)

It covers -

• introduction
• law and disorder
• Australia online
• Culture and society
• Publishing and writing
• Business
• Domains
• Networks and technologies
• Intellectual Property
• IT Business and History
• timeline

An itemisation of all major parts of the site is here.

     introduction

This site is structured around some twenty guides, each of which comprises between 12 and 30 pages, that consider major areas of interest such as privacy, intellectual property, electronic publishing, internet governance and censorship.

Discussion in those guides is supplemented by notes and profiles that have a narrower focus, covering for example the operation of the trademark system, the Australia Card, droit de suite, search engine optimisation and spam regulation.

Some users of the site have relied on the guides; others have drilled down or gone direct to particular notes. Overall there are around 1,820 pages (some 2.4 million words), so you may wish to rely on the search engine.

     Law and disorder

• governance - here
• privacy - here
• censorship and free speech - here
• secrecy and accountability - here
• security and infocrime - here
• wired politics - here
• the 419 scam - here
• alternative dispute resolution - here
• ANPR - here
• assassinations and the net - here
• bombmaking and the net - here
• cyberstalking - here
• crime proceeds, literary rights and murderabilia - here
• data loss incidents, issues and costs - here
• defamation - here
• echelon - here
• forgery & authenticity - here
• human rights - here
• identity and identity crime- here
• offender registers - here
• passports and travel profiling - here
• assembly and protest - here
• pretexting, aka blagging - here
• sedition and treason - here
• spam regulation - here
• surveillance and identification - here
• trustmarks - here
• unauthorised photography- here
• vetting and identity verification - here
• online vigilantes - here
• whistleblowing cases - here

     Australia online

• from Australia Card to Access Card - here
• Australia and New Zealand censorship - here
• Australian official registers and databases - here
• Australian privacy regimes - here
• Australian and NZ spam regimes - here
• Australian Constitution & Cyberspace - here
• Australian and NZ telecommunications - here

     Culture and society

• the digital environment - here
• communication revolutions - here
• internet addiction - here
• blasphemy and online free speech - here
• cyberbullying - here
• degree mills - here
• cybercafes and LAN cafes - here
• cybermemorials and estates - here
• dating services - here
• filesharing - here
• flag burning - here
• glbt online - here
• e-greetings - here
• repatriation and spoliation of cultural property - here
• soft networks and equaintance - here
• cybersuicide - here
• virtual worlds - here
• web 2.0 - here
• 200 books for making sense of the net - here
• myths of cyberspace - here
• virtual states and data havens - here
• the WSIS, UN and NWICO - here

     Publishing and writing

• electronic publishing - here
• accessibility - here
• online design - here
• online adult content industry - here
• blogs and blogging - here
• essay mills - here
• ghostwriting - here
• podcasting - here
• print, reading and the book - here
• ringtones - here
• wiki and wikipedia - here
• colour pages - here
• media groups | here

     Business

• the information economy - here
• taxation and tariffs - here
• digital money and payments - here
• e-capital and investment - here
• e-marketing - here
• online consumers - here
• auctions and e-trading - here
• the dot-com bubble - here
• eBay - here
• M&A benchmarks - here
• consumer credit reporting - here
• corporate rating services - here
• hedge funds - here
• IPOs - here
• jobsearch and online recruitment - here
• money laundering - here
• private equity funds - here
• art investment funds - here
• collectibles, prices and cultures - here
• privatisation and nationalisation - here
• telecommunication mergers and acquisitions - here
• venture capital bodies - here

     Domains

• auDA and the dot-au space - here
• ccTLD administration - here
• domains and the DNS - here
• domain name portfolios and direct navigation - here
• domain name tasting - here
• the dot-nz space - here
• ICANN and the UDRP - here

     Networks and technologies

• networks & the global info infrastructure - here
• net metrics and statistics - here
• biometrics - here
• broadband over power line - here
• browsers - here
• wireless internet - here
• cartography and GIS - here
• do-not-call registers - here
• digital divides - here
• internet fridge and other 'dot appliances' - here
• messaging - email, SMS, IM and Chat - here
• metadata - here
• postal systems - here
• radio frequency identification - here
• making sense of the net - here
• electronic paper - here
• readability - here
• search engines, directories, behaviour - here
• search engine optimisation - here
• popular search terms - here
• usenet - here
• 'volkscomputer' or hundred dollar laptop - here
• warchalking and wardriving - here
• web 2.0 - here

     Intellectual Property

• intellectual property guide - here
• patents - here
• trademarks - here
• designs - here
• appellations and geographic indications - here
• copyright collecting societies - here
• DRM and ECMS - here
• Droit de suite - here
• indigenous authenticity marks - here
• copyright cases - here
• duration of copyright - here
• intellectual property landmarks - | here
• legal deposit regimes - here
• moral rights cases - here
• plagiarism incidents - here

     timeline

• media and business timeline, 105 to 2007 - here

     corporate and other names

Discussion on this site of mergers, acquisitions, technological developments and regulatory disputes features reference to brand names, corporate bodies and other entities that are protected in Australia or overseas under trademark law.

Those references do not imply that this site is endorsed by or associated with those trademark owners. The references are also not an attempt to mislead or deceive members of the public that the site and its author claim ownership of those marks, provide good/services under those marks or seek any benefit in relation to those marks.

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