Speeches and presentations made at the Lowy Institute — including our regular and very popular Wendesday Lowy Lunches — are now available for viewing at Fora TV. Michael Fullilove's reflections on the US political scene are here, and Dr Jeffrey Eisenach's presentation on the future of global internet regulation is also available. We'll also be embedding Fora TV clips on The Interpreter and on the Lowy Institute homepage soon.

Will Grant writes:

I've just signed up for your Interpreter blog posts via the email you sent — but you don't allow comments!  I really don't trust blogged opinions hidden behind comment barriers — it seems a little one sided to me. If you plan to change this, I'll happily keep reading your posts.  But if not, I'll unsubscribe fairly soon.

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Today we sent an email to people on the Lowy Institute's mailing list inviting them to subscribe to The Interpreter's email digest. We got a great response, with over 300 new subscribers already. For those not familiar with the email digest, it brings The Interpreter straight to your email inbox; to subscribe, look for the green Email Digest button on the right-hand column of this page.

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The Daily Show host's 2004 commencement address to students at the College of William & Mary has become a minor classic, which you can read or listen to here. Enjoy your weekend, and for our non-Australian readers, note that blogging will be light to non-existent on Monday, which is the Australia Day holiday.

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Blogging will be light, at best, until 7 January. I'd like to thank our readers for supporting this new blog, and wish you all the best for Christmas and the New Year.

The Interpreter now has an Email Digest feature (in the column to the right, just below the RSS button). Enter your email address, and you can receive a daily or weekly email that lists all the items that have been posted on The Interpreter in the previous day/week. The emails will contain the titles and a few lines of text from each item — just click on the item to read the whole thing. The emails will carry no advertising, and you can unsubscribe any time.

As you can see on the right-hand sidebar, The Interpreter now has an Email Digest feature (it's just below the RSS button). Enter your email address, and you can receive a daily or weekly email listing all the items that have been posted on The Interpreter in the previous day/week. The emails will contain the titles and a few lines of text from each item — just click on the item to read the whole thing. The emails will carry no advertising, and you can unsubscribe any time.