ITWindex02

ITWindex02

Consensus IT Writers Awards

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Up-dated 2:00pm Tuesday 19 March 2002
All entries should now be listed below.
Please note that this year we are only accepting one entry per person per category.

2002 Consensus IT Writers Awards
Award Categories

Select a category to view the list of entries

Judges will also consider nominations for Kester Cranswick Life Time Achievement Award

Entrants 2002 Listed in order of arrival
Most Controversial
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Restricting DVD's illegal: ACCC	Scott Mendham Sensible Censorship
Angus Kidman Business as usual	Karen Dearne Censor Bill gets R rating
David Richards Wake up Apple	Rob Irwin Who ever heard of a 10 year-old fad?
Jeanne-Vida Douglas Governing for a piece of mind	Ashton Mills Ignorance isn't bliss
Rachel Lebihan Telstra busted rigging user surveys	Ed Dawson GTA 3 -- Silenced and Censored?
Josh Mehlman Crossing the digital divide	Gerard Norsa Ha, ha, ha, kerplonk
Bennett Ring Telstra's restrictive ADSL usage policies	John Gillooly Terrorists Win
Michael Sainsbury Telstra must be split to save industry	Niki Scevak Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Art of Capital Raising
David Braue Wireless static	Ian Yates www.banksarebastards.com

Most Entertaining
Scott Mendham Adults in Toy Town	Kerrie Murphy A Time Safe From Nostradamus
Angus Kidman Conference confessions	Rob Irwin & Stuart Kennedy Hot chicky babe action at XP launch
Jeanne-Vida Douglas Escape from data Alcatraz	Karen Dearne Intelligent agents get emotional, too
Rachel Lebihan Telstra busted rigging user surveys	John Gillooly The LAN experience
Stuart Ridley Internet filth - is sick humour the new porn?	Bennett Ring Doing the Lap Dance
Michael Sainsbury Death Star Operational	Felicity Robinson packin' tech
Matthew Powell the cable guy	Sandra Rossi The good, the bad, the ugly
Val Quinn I overclocked my car	Tim Dean A day at the hyperbole

Best Feature
David Braue The privacy debate: the darker side of customer intimacy	Josh Mehlman Able & Wireless
Stephen Withers Java Does the Business	Caitlin Fitzsimmons SMS backers battle spam
Deanne McIntosh Blogs: Your Friends on the Net	Keith Power Survival of the fastest
Scott Mendham The E-book Story	Kate Mackenzie Impasse still name of auDA game
Angus Kidman Want to build your own arcade?	Karen Dearne Simplicity rules on the web: guru
Kimberley Gaskin Trading places	Rob Irwin Here's looking at you...
Jeaane-Vida Douglas Cybernarks - Who's hunting the Hackers	Helen Han Swot: At Your Service
Angelina Forsyth Economic chill slows IT budgets	Lauren Thomsen-Moore Skills shortage: myth or reality
Ben Gerholt XP: A case of peripheral vision	Natalie Hambly Security: A private issue
Georgina Swan MORPH: Pop goes technology	Ben Woodhead SAP back for seconds
James Riley Smartcards on the table-part 1	William Maher Lord of the FX
Fiona Angus with William Maher 20 Years of the PC	Jeanne-Vida Douglas Governing for a piece of mind
Richard Noone Is tape dead?	Agnes King Return to sender
Siobhan Chapman IT's a Cinch	Michael Sainsbury Mobile Mirage
Niki Scevak Why The Web Will Never Be Able To Measure Everything	Sean Nicholls Big shots
Garth Montgomery RoboCrop (Hardcopy)

Best News
Angus Kidman Big Brother is watching . . . the web	James Riley Microsoft Services Shuffle
Michael Sainsbury SingTel/Optus bid: "Reasonable, but not fair"	Helen Han Refocus on business to ride out 'grim' economy
Lauren Thomsen-Moore Union slams IBM GSA plan to cut data management staff	Kelly Mills Vodafone to slash staff, outsource IT
Niki Scevak The Bargan of Today Ensures Adultshop a Future	Sean Nicholls ETA: 2002 ?
David Braue Piracy truce nets 600 companies

Best Investigative
David Braue PICK, TICK, CLICK	Caitlin Fitzsimmons Consumers reject DVD zones
Scott Mendham The Net's Toughest Test	Simon Grose ITOL Grants to heavies defended
Karen Dearne Prescribing a privacy cure	David Richards Inside a CIO's worst nightmare
Jeaane-Vida Douglas Froggy ISP: Joy flight or tailspin	Helen Han HP/Compaq customers grapple with product support
Agnes King What One.Tel Won't tell	Rachel Lebihan and Andrew Colley Warez raids: An Australian's account
Andrew Colley Nokia Australia aware of phone faults for six years: source	James Riley Optus Port
Georgina Swan Software pirates not even charged	Brett Winterford IBM vexes its hardware channel
Kelly Mills Paging problems hit emergency network	Richard Noone Accusations fly as Sunlit saga escalates
Siobhan Chapman Microsoft forced to extend licensing deadline	Garth Montgomery RoboCrop
Sean Nicholl White Noise	Danny Allen Segments from Home Networking

Best Technical
David Braue WAN, LAN thank you MAN	Stephen Withers XML Great hope or great hype
Deanne McIntosh Microsoft's Big Bet	Caitlin Fitzsimmons IBM's self healing networks
Scott Mendham The E-book Story	Angus Kidman Making domain names international
Kate Mackenzie Future's at your service	Karen Dearne Chips and neurons co-operate
Georgina Swan Distributed printing: a global niche	Josh Mehlman Harnessing broadband’s potential
Tim Dean Marching Broadband	William Maher Copycat Crime
Ashton Mills The wonders of X	Kelly Mills Defence Force overhauls IT for centralised approach
Bennett Ring Workstation Head to HeadThe Battle of the Heavyweights	John Gillooly Disintegration
Ian Yates Have Software, Will Lease	Danny Allen Webcam Best Buys
Ashok Zaman 3D Graphics Card Labs

Best Headline
'Beer and chips a natural mix'	Fraud of the pings
There's an Australian in my software: Confessions of a project director	Dingo eats staff
Shut the Gateway - a vendor had bolted	The Boys Light Up
Pretty pleased as Darian steps into Judy's shoes	Apple bruised as Buzzle gets brushed
The dog ate my bandwidth	Beware geeks bearing gifts
The lost tribe	SMH/Age (waiting for hardcopy from Matt Holden)

Best Editor This category is assessed by the panel of judges reviewing a selection of material supplied as hard copy
Chris Janz www.AustralianIT.com.au	Ian Grayson The Australian IT
Amanda Conroy Australian PC World/IDG Communications	Sandra Rossi Computerworld and www.computerworld.com.au
Rob Irwin Windows 2000 Magazine	Cass Warneminde Managing Editor ZDNet
Byron Connolly Editor of CRN Australia	Brian Haverty Editor in Chief, Technology & Business Magazine
Ben Mansill Atomic/AJB Publishing	David Flynn Australian Consolidated Press
Ashton Mills ACP Pocketbooks	Rosanne Bersten e)mag
Glen Rees Australian PC Users	Stuart Kennedy www.itnews.com.au
Niki Scevak www.australia.internet.com	Gerard Norsa Australian Reseller News
Ian Yates Information Week	Tim Dean PC Authority

Best Web-site
www.australianIT.com.au	http://www.cio.com.au
www.educateIT.com.au	www.computerworld.com.au
www.linuxworld.com.au	www.dealoftheday.com.au
www.arnnet.com.au	http://pcworld.idg.com.au
www.itnews.com.au	www.zdnet.com.au
www.pcuser.com.au	www.australia.internet.com

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