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  • ivy_bean

    THE DEATH OF IVY BEAN, THE OLDEST TWEETER IN TOWN

    THE oldest person on Twitter, Ivy Bean, died this week at the age of 104. The great-grandmother from Bradford had first hit the headlines when she got ‘bored’ with one social network – Facebook – and switched to Twitter. She ‘tweeted’ about her love of...

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  • Raoul Moat Manhunt- Britain Breathlessly Awaits Bloody Shoot-Out_1278449653348

    LIFE IMITATES ART: How a spoof became ‘real news’

    A SPOOF story about the fugitive Raoul Moat has been reproduced as reality by the previously ‘respected’ AolNews website. Liverpool-based Robin Brown penned the article ‘”Nation ‘can’t wait’ for Moat shoot-out” for the satirical news web site The News Grind. Brown waxed lyrical about how...

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  • edBalls

    It’s not the internet – its Balls!

    A FASCINATING insight into the workings of Government is provided by the right-wing Spectator magazine in its blog ‘Coffee House’. It tells how Cabinet Minister Ed Balls, a close confidante of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, rang up the magazine’s political editor, Fraser Nelson, to complain...

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  • Google Earth – a force for good?

    Google Earth – a force for good?

    WHO would have thought a map of the world could have been a force for good? That certainly appears to have happened with Google Earth and its ‘Crisis in Darfur’ project. And once again technology and the worldwide web have shown how they can raise...

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