Posts tagged “Government 2.0 Taskforce

The new ‘Brian Fitzgerald projects’

Posted on 25 February 2012

While I’ve know about this for awhile, the information is now public so I can tell you all about it. My former boss, Professor Brian Fitzgerald—specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation, Co-Project Lead of Creative Commons Australia where I worked for 8 years, and more recently a Director of the corporation and member of the Board of Creative Commons—is taking up a new position as Executive Dean of  the new Faculty of Law at the Australian Catholic University from March this year. As most people who know me well can attest, I have nothing but admiration for Brian’s trailblazing leadership is so many of the areas I give a shit about. Before joining the Australia Council for the Arts I worked under Brian at…

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Better late than never Google

Posted on 28 July 2010

Google’s website for the 2007 Federal Election was one of the many sites I relied on heavily in the lead up to that election. That world-first service included an election mapplet—with the electorates marked out and information including the incumbent member, the candidates contesting that election, the margin, links Google News, YouTube, the ABC and other services, and a history of the seat—for Google Maps, links to the party’s YouTube channels and Google’s Australia Votes channel and a string of iGoogle gadgets. Such a service from Google was sadly lacking from this election. Until this morning of course when Google launched their 2010 Federal Election landing page. Another outcome of Google’s 20% rule, the 2010 suite includes: A Google Maps mapplet with electorates, colour-coding to indicate tipped outcome and…

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