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    The blog of Nathanael Boehm, UX/IxD web designer and developer currently employed by the Australian Government and doing freelance work, co-coordinator of the Free Australia Wireless project, unorganiser of BarCampCanberra, online community manager and front-end developer for OpenAustralia, an active member in the web industry with an interest in all things 2.0 - including eGovernment, social media and networking and citizen journalism.

    Main skills are with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a focus on usability, UCD and accessibility - experienced in PHP/MySQL and C#/MSSQL development, e-Learning, information architecture, systems architecture, technical lead, contract negotiation, vendor management, risk management and search engine optimisation.

    Musician (drums, bass guitar, keyboards and synths) and photographer.

    Meyers-Briggs personality type: INTJ.

    Signal Patterns:
    Personality: Curious, Conscientious, and Prudent.
    Musical: Electrical, Percussive, and Distorted.

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Great Australian Firewall and Free Australia Wireless

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on November 2nd, 2008 in Free Australia Wireless, General, Rights and Censorship

I did see one positive outcome from this. A frequent question that comes up while I’m pimping Free Australia Wireless is about illegal content being downloaded by users of someone’s free wireless access point.

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Meeting with David Mathews

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on May 13th, 2008 in Canberra, Free Australia Wireless, Government and Government 2.0, OpenAustralia, Social Networks

Today I met with David Mathews, talking eGovernment, Free Canberra Wireless, social networking in government departments, social media in political campaigning.

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The decision validity test: Blocking Facebook

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on May 7th, 2008 in General, Social Networks

Any ruling made by a corporate or government IT department should apply only to that physical network and not be at all relevant to activities off the corporate or government network.

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Net filtering: Oh noes!

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on March 1st, 2008 in General

It was announced a couple of days ago that ACMA and the selected vendor Enex TestLab evaluating Internet Service Provider (ISP) content filters would be soon commencing testing of products in a “closed environment” in Tasmania.

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