[LINK] Broadband around the world, telemarketing attitudes, Mark Scott's talk on media empires

[Jan Whitaker]

Re: APO Weekly Briefing - 23 October 2009

At 09:38 AM 23/10/2009,  you wrote:
>NEXT GENERATION CONNECTIVITY: A REVIEW OF 
>BROADBAND INTERNET TRANSITIONS AND POLICY FROM AROUND THE WORLD
>http://apo.org.au/research/next-generation-connectivity-review-broadband-internet-transitions-and-policy-around-world
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>US Federal Communications Commission
>16 October, 2009 | Prepared by Harvard 
>University’s Berkman Center for Internet and 
>Society, this report compares government 
>policies and benchmarks the results of the 
>efforts by OECD countries to rollout high-speed broadband Internet networks.
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>COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TO UNSOLICITED COMMUNICATIONS
>http://apo.org.au/research/community-attitudes-unsolicited-communications
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>Australian Communications and Media Authority
>20 October, 2009 | This report explores the 
>effectiveness and perception of the regimes that 
>regulate unsolicited telemarketing calls.
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>THE FALL OF ROME: MEDIA AFTER EMPIRE
>http://apo.org.au/research/fall-rome-media-after-empire
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>Mark Scott | University of Melbourne
>21 October, 2009 | Tonight I want to talk about 
>media empires. They have been giants in our 
>lives. And in these early days of a new 
>millennium, shockwaves are being felt all around 
>them. They now seem less like agents of their 
>destinies than helpless witnesses to the 
>unravelling of all they once stood for.


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