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Consensus IT Writers Awards

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2004 Consensus IT Writers Awards
Award Categories

Select a category to view the list of entries

Most Controversial
Most Entertaining
Best Feature
Best News
Best Investigative
Best Technical
Best Headline
Best Editor
Best Web-site
Judges will also consider nominations for Kester Cranswick Life Time Achievement Award

Entrants 2004

Listed in order of arrival

Most Controversial

Darren Ellis

 Censorship Down

David Braue

Terror of tiny tech

Siobhan Chapman

Evidence in the inbox

Simon Sharwood

Telstra to profit from its own email mistakes?

Nathan Davis

Cheat bitching: FFS

Fran Foo

Replacing Telstra

Sandra Rossi

Lights, Camera, Action

William Maher

Weapons of Mass Restriction

Elise Kelsey

Law without Order

Julian Bajkowski

DIMIA defends IT performance against Audit Office

Ashton Mills

Time to act

Anthony Fordham

Guerilla Gamer

Tim Dean

Apples and oranges

Garth Montgomery

Three columns from APC

Most Entertaining

Darren Ellis

Mobo-lise!

David Braue

Project management: fairy tale or nightmare?

John Davidson

Three Columns from the Australian Financial Review

Nathan Davis

Nanobots can do anything. Any-thing

David Kidd

Protecting our privates

Alex Kidman

Installation Ignorance

Logan Booker

Valve: The Masquerade

Sandra Rossi

A job of hidden treasures

William Maher

101 Classic Computing Moments

Julian Bajkowski

RFID needs ‘forky’ toughness

Ashton Mills

On the discovery channel

Anthony Fordham

Stalker

Tim Dean

Self-induced nightmare

Garth Montgomery

The Revolution will not be televised

Best Feature

Keith Power

Where has all the training gone?

Bennett Ring 

Wearable Technology

Danny Allen 

Get set for Intel's Centrino 

Also entered for Best Technical

Georgina Swan

Risk Ascending

James Kirby

Jobs Exodus
(Australian jobs go west)

David Braue

Stop buying IT you don't need

Emma Connors

Fast Company

David Crowe

Consumers win in the battle for broadband

Rachel Lebihan

Trail of a scam from Nyngan to Nigeria

Siobhan Chapman

Dirty games

Simon Sharwood

The Moving Target

Nathan Davis

Hot chips with sweet chilly sauce

Michael Crawford

Bittersweet for IT managers in vendorland

John Gillooly

Refining the PC

Logan Booker

Science meets nanofiction

Ben Woodhead

Desktop drug ads target doctors

Ben Woodhead and Mandy Bryan

Healthcare's data systems in sick state

Rachael Osman-Chin

Sulesman's Smokescreen

William Maher

Warez the justice, ask prison pirates

Eric Wilson

Free and oh, so sweet

Julian Bajkowski

Defacement spree hits government sites

John Davidson

The day the music died

David Kidd

Way of the Future

Garth Montgomery & Dan Warne

Inside the Kazaa Raid

Tim Dean

Way of the future

Garth Montgomery

Facing the music

Dan Warne

The great Australian disconnect

Best News

Toby Tidmarsh

Why are call centres being asked to mind read?

Rachel Lebihan

Spam: going from bad to worse

Siobhan McBride

Death of the IT trade show

Michael Crawford

IT attracts auditors' unwarranted advances

Rodney Gedda

Nation's first spyware laws to go before Parliament

Patrick Gray

Hackers: Under the Hood

Simon Sharwood

Microsoft unleashes Theory Division in Google attack

Sandra Rossi

Telstra flexes its pricing muscle in storage stoush

Ben Woodhead

Audit reveals contract blow-out

Rachael Osman-Chin

Net closes on $4m name game

William Maher

Battle looms over piracy

Julian Bajkowski

Exporters revolt over Customs software

Garth Montgomery

Canberra’s copyright clanger

Best Investigative

Keith Power 

The Guard Dog Grows More Teeth

Stuart Denham

Aus Egamer - CXG

David Braue

School networks struggle to make the grade

Emma Connors

IBM, PWC marriage still rocky

David Crowe

IBM market power comes under fire

Siobhan Chapman

Paradise lost

Fran Foo

Will Lotus users bite Microsoft's bait?

Ben Woodhead

Health ID system raises heartbeats

Rachael Osman-Chin

Robin Hood of the Internet

William Maher

How cheap is too cheap?

Kate Mackenzie

AFP keeps an eye on Siev X website

Ashton Mills

They build em' like they used to

Stephen Coates

Commercial IT Research isn’t Always What it Seems

Garth Montgomery

Four part investigation of Kazaa

Best Technical

Keith Power 

Practical Connections

Darren Ellis

Tablet PC's

Bennett Ring

Athlon 64 FX 51 - World's Fastest Gaming CPU

Danny Allen 

Get set for Intel's Centrino 

Also entered for Best Feature

Ryan Shaw

Custom PC modification

David Braue

MPLS: Multi-service at last

Simon Sharwood

Fuel for thought

Nathan Davis

Depth charged 3D screens

David Kidd

Catching the faster bus

John Gillooly

Atomic Assembly

Dan Chiappini

NVIDIA 6800 Ultra

William Maher

Is my email hot, or not?

Ashton Mills

The Uber Linux Box Project

Jarrod Spiga

Building online communities

Matt Overington

Codename Prescott

Tim Dean

Apple Power Mac G5

Best Headline 

 Seeing sound, hearing visuals 
Australian PC World Magazine
May 2003 issue

Danny Allen
Reviews Editor
(02) 9902 2738
 danny_allen@idg.com.au 

Out of the frying pan, into the hire? 
Information Age
14 October 2003

David Braue 
Freelance Writer 
0403 328 567 
david@braue.com

Petering PAN
Atomic issue 42
June 2004

John Gillooly
Technical Editor
Atomic
(02) 8399 3611
 jgillooly@atomicmpc.com.au

The Thick and the Dead
PC Authority 
May 2003 

Dan Chiappini 

The Emperors new CLI

Ashton Mills

Steaming pile
Atomic
December 2003

Tim Dean
Former editor - PC Authority
AJB Publishing
 0412 560 365 
tdean@iinet.net.au
 

Best Editor

This category is assessed by the panel of judges reviewing a selection of material supplied as hard copy

David Crowe
Technology Editor
The Australian Financial Review

Josh Mehlman
Editor
 Technology & Business

David Hutchins
Head of Editorial
AJB Publishing

Fox on the Run

Sandra Rossi
Editor
IDG Communications

Ben Mansill
Editor
AJB Publishing

Hardcopy

Best Web-site
 http://australianIT.com.au www.computerworld.com.au
www.itnews.com.au  http://www.zdnet.com.au/
www.whirlpool.net.au  www.misweb.com 
www.atomicmpc.com.au www.selldigital.com.au
www.arn.com.au

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