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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Grogs Gamut is Back

October 13, 2010 – 8:41 pm

With a Tweet saying “Wow! Damn is it ever good to be out of that mine #wherehasgrogbeen” he burst in to full voice at precisely 20.17 this evening. New post up on the blog, too. He is trending on Twitter, and the welcome back messages, including one from the man who outed him, James Massola, [...]

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Pseudonyms and Anonymity – a Previously Unpublished Case Study.

October 7, 2010 – 10:18 am

Yes, its more on Grog’s Gamut. In this post I will argue that the point of difference between most reasonable people in this debate is one of where to draw the line, rather than one of fundamental principle. Some people are suggesting that bloggers should have a RIGHT to anonymity and/or the use of pseudonyms. [...]

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Information Brokerage and Citizenship. More Reflections on Grogs Gamut

October 5, 2010 – 8:41 pm

The controversy over the outing of the blogger Grogs Gamut as public servant Greg Jericho has now passed out of the hands of newspapers and the blogosphere and on to the desk of senior public servants, who have some interesting questions to wrestle with. To be specific, are public servants, on their own time, allowed [...]

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More on the Ethics of Outing Grog’s Gamut

October 3, 2010 – 4:19 pm

A large part of the Blogosphere and Twitter have been consumed this week by the Australian newspaper’s action in  ”outing” the astute but anonymous blogger Grog’s Gamut as Canberra public servant Greg Jericho. The Australian’s Media section will tomorrow carry even more material on the issue. I have been approached for comment by them, as [...]

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