Social media is at least 10 years old. Few remember MySpace or Friendster, but one would be hard pressed to find a literate person who had never heard of Facebook or Twitter. With the steady growth of social media use, a new Australian study that examines its influence on communication between people and their governments seems particularly timely. Read More

Telstra, one of Australia's biggest Internet service providers, has not yet made a final decision on whether or not to cooperate with the federal government there to block access to websites that purvey material ... Read More

Starting next month, major Australian Internet service providers Telstra and Optus will block access to more than 500 websites on a government-supplied list of pages that allegedly provide content like child pornography, ... Read More

Newcastle, Australia, sounds a bit like Detroit. An industrial city with historic ties to shipbuilding, Newcastle suffered greatly during the decline of first-world manufacturing and the rise of the suburbs; as flight ... Read More

The government of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), in an attempt to mitigate the effects of the economic downturn and stimulate local economies, has allocated the equivalent of US$30 million to the ... Read More

In Australia, PdF friend Mark Pesce reports, there's been a fascinating confrontation between "ANONYMOUS" and the government over the issue of internet censorship. A week ago, hackers temporarily brought down the Prime ... Read More