Those of you who frequent my blog (or follow me on twitter) will know that I am strongly to any form of internet censorship. Here in Australia the government is currently trailing new ISP level filtering which threatens to reduce our internet to a state comparable to China, read more here

In New Zealand, they have recently pass some crazy copyright law that calls for internet disconnection based on accusations of copyright infringement without a trial and without any evidence held up to court scrutiny. This is due to come into effect on February 28th unless immediate action is taken by the National Party.

Join thousands of New Zealanders (hey, I am not even kiwi!) already against this law by blacking out your Facebook photo, your websites, your Myspace pages, your Twitter account, in protest against this unjust new law that may come into effect on February 28.

I have "blacked out" my blog and twitter avatar to show my support!

for more info and to sign the petition, click here

THE Federal Government's internet filtering plan has been compared to censorship in China by one of the participants in its blacklist trials. Read full article here

Check out the NO CLEAN FEED website here

Conroy announces filtering trial participants. "The initial round of ISPs are Primus Telecommunications, Tech 2U, Webshield, OMNIconnect, Netforce and Highway 1" Read more here

check out the NO CLEAN FEED website here

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. More information about this update is available here

It is worth mentioning that this update also includes a fix for the critical security issue that was published under Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-003 on 10 February 2009.

"Labor's 'deafening silence' as web censorship trials delayed" read full article here

Already being tested by 3.5 million users and aligned with Microsoft's software plus services strategy. What I find fascinating is that Microsoft found the cost of running Exchange 2007 to be roughly half that of running Exchange 2003. It is thought that E14 will bring that cost down by a similar margin yet again.