Thinking out loud

“Interesting to the Public” and the commercialisation of news

EDIT: My family informed me on our holiday (quite forcefully in fact) that this post sounds like I’m saying Mike Rann did it. I am not, in fact, saying this. Really, I don’t think that he did it – the whole thing seems a bit strange (why has she come out with this now? And [...]

Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by Bosun McShiny
Filed under: Ethics, Journalism, Philosophising, Politics | 3 Comments »

Piracy, intellectual property, and copyright reform (part 1)

PART 1: Piracy
Before I launch into a rundown on piracy and illegal file sharing, I will let you know right now that my expertise (if you consider an honours thesis to be an area of expertise) is in communication ethics, not law, so if I say things that make you lulz and say “Silly Bosun, [...]

Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Bosun McShiny
Filed under: Ethics, Philosophising | 2 Comments »

Responsibility on the Internet: Part I

This is a very slight tidy up of the original article on my first blog, “Antique Song” from the 19th of February, 2009. If you want to read the original, go ahead – it’s not going anywhere. It’s the first of a series of posts I intend on writing around the idea of responsibility on [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Bosun McShiny
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