“© kiwiright”, Documentary About Copyright Laws
“© kiwiright” is a 12 minute documentary about how copyright laws have been contorted to benefit the financial needs of corporate rights holders and no longer benefits the public nor the artists who create the work itself. Employing a fair-use argument, “© kiwiright” intercuts interviews with New Zealand lawmakers and technologists with Disney clips defining and commenting on copyright law. The filmmaker calls “© kiwiright” a "proof-of-concept" film remixing footage from other films released under Creative Commons licenses to build an argument against “guilt upon accusation” laws and to promote freedom of speech and expression.

Guilty Upon Accusation In The UK - Say No
Here in New Zealand we were one of the first countries that the forces that be tried to implement the "3 strikes and you're out" law with regards to alleged copyright infringement via the Internet - in essence if you're accused 3 times by a copyright holder of illegally copying their work you will have your Internet disconnected by your ISP. I have no qualms with copyright holders protecting their goods BUT the issue is that the disconnection would occur immediately on the third accusation and before any evidence is produced and way before you have a chance to defend yourself - therefore you are guilty because someone has accused you.In NZ the law was defeated by

Online Collaboration Tools – We Want Your Recommendations
Helping Ben on a project and the team would love to know your thoughts:... part of a group looking at building a collaborative platform for data sharing for a local Government organization, it seemed logical to approach the project in a similarly collaborative way. Wanting to “eat their own dog food”, a joint group of individuals shared in the project; Mike Riversdale, Aaron Brunet and Ben all joined forces to work on a project initiated by a forward thinking local government staffer required to manage an extensive natural resource. The great thing about this particular project is that, without giving specifics out, it seeks to improve the management of a scare natural

NZ Government Opening Up Their Data
As you are probably aware the New Zealand government have, through their Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), created a one-stop-shop listing all the data accessible from government agencies. Nice.This initiative was almost entirely driven from the awesome work of a small independent group led by Glen Barnes and Nathan Torkington (http://open.org.nz) with the Open Data Catalogue as a “one-stop shop for locating government data”.So where is this official site:

How To Tun A Great Barcamp/Unfonference Session
Spotted this over at the UX Barcamp group - Scott Berkun's, How to run a great unconference sessionPerfect compliment to my wider How To Facilitate A Barcamp/Unconference MiramarMike.co.nz - Connecting people with people via information (subscribe/RSS)