http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/leslie-nassar/ Leslie grew up in Adelaide, but he is not a serial killer. He designed and built the podcasting platform used by ABC Radio National, and was a Senior Emerging Technology Specialist at Telstra.  While at Telstra, Leslie was responsible for the Fake Stephen Conroy and Today, Tonight parodies on Twitter. Leslie lives in Melbourne with his wife, two daughters, and two increasingly fat and stupid cats. You can follow him on Twitter as @stephenconroy or @leslie_nassar. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:13 +0000 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:13 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-it-was-time-to-kill-fake-stephen-conroy/ My name is Leslie Nassar, you may remember me from the side-splitting online satire of Fake Stephen Conroy, Today Tonight, and iSnack 2.0. Ah, The Internet, where even the most obvious and mediocre of writers can become a Celebretard. I’ve been asked to write about the Harold Holtification of Fake Stephen Conroy.  I only have a few hundred words to play with and every article that references Twitter must, by law, contain an excruciatingly detailed history of the author’s use of the service, so let’s not dilly-dally. When Twitter launched in 2007, I joined the microblogging site thinking I could sate my hunger for telling complete strangers (most of them foreign) about my favourite sandwiches. Disappointingly, it turned out that people were more interested in discussing politics than listening to my opinion on multigrain sourdough breads (I am opposed to them, naturally).  So I deleted my account in disgust. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Leslie Nassar) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-it-was-time-to-kill-fake-stephen-conroy/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-it-was-time-to-kill-fake-stephen-conroy/#item2032 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:37:52 +0000 Leslie Nassar | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/paid-content-not-all-media-dinosaurs-have-small-brains/ For an open, organic, freedom-loving Utopia, there are a great many wannabe digital dictators on the Internet, vomiting forth mandates on how we must behave, speak, and do business. The Ethos of the Web, they call it; they know what is right, what is wrong, what will work, and what will fail. So in May, when Rupert Murdoch tabled the idea of paywalling his newspapers, the Glorious Leaders of Twitterstan took to their keyboards, and registered their disdain with an all-caps “FAIL!” “You can’t charge for content! Information wants to be free! Show your support by donating to my PayPal account!” Every Social Media Expert and Futurist hustling for speaking fees and fat consultancies knows, unequivocally, that newspapers are dinosuars; one edition short of extinction. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Leslie Nassar) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/paid-content-not-all-media-dinosaurs-have-small-brains/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/paid-content-not-all-media-dinosaurs-have-small-brains/#item1066 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:50:38 +0000 Leslie Nassar | Author bios | The Punch