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IN AUSTRALIA IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA & MAINSTREAM MEDIA ?
06-21-2014, 07:01 AM
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IN AUSTRALIA IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA & MAINSTREAM MEDIA ?
It seems that our Communications Minister thinks there is ... what part of " communicate " does social media .. eg FB & Twitter ... not fit in with Mr Turnbulls definition ?

read more > http://delimiter.com.au/2014/03/22/turnb...craziness/

and more > http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/...nd-the-out

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06-21-2014, 07:14 AM
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He is complaining of the ultra politicised nature of the broadband debate, but he and his party are the ones who politicised it. And don't forget that he practically invented the internet. They took us for fools and now it's getting to the business end, it's coming back to bite them.

Social media is the one the Libs have no control over, so that's where you'll find the facts and the other side of the story.

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06-21-2014, 07:28 AM
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There is still a proportion of the population without an internet connection. According to Wikipedia, the net had 82% penetration in 2012 in Australia, though the remaining 18% would mostly be children.

Of those, many would not spend much time on the net and some would rarely or never look at Facebook or Twitter. I do not have an account with either.

I support Ms Keady on this. She was told there was ADSL, there was not. I do not give a tuppenny damn what Turnbull says.

I live about 6.5 km south west of Parliament House, Canberra. I have ADSL of a sort, when it is not slowed to a crawl or dropped out entirely. Over the past couple of days it has been OK, most of the time that I have been on, but it dropped out briefly a couple of times earlier today. This has persisted over three different computers and two different modems for the almost 8 years I have had a connection here. Yes, it is installed correctly.

I have spent a good proportion of my net time on Yahoo! Answers because it was one of the few sites that worked reliably until the purple passion came in. A friend who does a lot of portrait photography puts much of his "arty" work on Deviant Art. Most of the time I can open the site but the pictures will not always open. Images on Wikipedia don't always open, Flickr works mostly but Photobucket rarely does. YouTube frequently stalls and so on.

I retired several months ago, but in the few years before that a number of colleagues went outposted into Melbourne, Ballina and Toowoomba. Despite assurances that they would be able to work using their home net connections, all three of them had massive problems getting adequate connections. The lady who went to Melbourne was supposed to work from home, but in fact had to go into the Melbourne city centre for several months to get a decent, workable connection. She was still working from there when I finished up. It took the woman in Toowoomba nearly 5 weeks to get a workable connection.

The untold story of net connections in Australia is the poor state of telephone lines which limit the performance of ADSL, particularly if you are at the end of the line. Telstra will fix things if the phone does not work but they will do nothing if the net connection is poor
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06-21-2014, 07:35 AM
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Rupert Murdoch does not own Facebook hence the coalition needs to champion their puppeteers interests
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