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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
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News Corp site settles row with Merlin agency whose clients include Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire WeekendMySpace has settled a year-long row with independent record companies with a landmark deal that will allow artists including Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire Weekend to sell tracks on the social networking s (Read More)
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Be it giving them Viagra, putting them in a pageant or paying $14m for them, every culture has eccentricities about animalsCan a man kill a goat armed with little more than his eyes? Well, the US military seemed willing to believe in the possibility of such superhuman powers, as revealed in The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon R (Read More)
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Social networks that want to dominate a corner of cyberspace should remember AOLLIKE MANY people in his business, the technology publisher Tim O'Reilly is a heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service. He also has a Facebook account. To save effort, he has arranged things so that his Twitter posts are automatically forw (Read More)
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Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start. It's the better-off who benefit most from t (Read More)
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Two court cases last week sparked debate about the growth of violence among young women. Here, teenagers talk about the aggression and bullying that is part of their livesSitting on a cold concrete step by a north London canal, dressed in pink and black with swinging plastic earrings, thick eyeliner and hair intensively str (Read More)
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Fears that African projects may be downsized as charity makes urgent cost savingsChristian Aid, one of the world's most important anti-poverty campaign groups, is set to cut 20% of its UK workforce as part of urgent cost savings prompted by a sharp downturn in donations and the fall in the value of sterling. The organisati (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Film:
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fameThere is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-key interview with Oren Peli, who's in London for less than 24 hours to promote his smash-hit low-budg (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
He left Britain after his girlfriend Rachel Nickell was murdered 17 years ago, to escape the trauma and the press. This week André Hanscombe returned – to force the police to face their mistakesThe picture is attractive – pale skin, a drift of blonde hair, a wide, imperfect smile that makes her approachable and young, fragi (Read More)
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Lucy Mangan on the people in the headlinesStripped blogger Belle de JourThe blogger-turned-bestselling-author who documented her secret life as a call girl revealed after five years of carefully maintained anonymity her true identity as scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti this week, apparently in a pre-emptive strike against an im (Read More)
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Poor parents pick child's school because it is close to home, while middle-class parents go on good academic recordGiving parents a choice over primary schools increases the social divide, a study reveals.The majority of poor parents pick their child's primary school because it is close to their home, while nearly half of m (Read More)
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The NHS should be freed from direct government control and run as a separate body without political interference, according to its former chief executive.In an article that will be interpreted as support for Conservative reform plans, Sir Nigel Crisp urges the Department of Health to focus on wider health issues while allow (Read More)
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Don't pay us lip service, recognise the part we play in regenerating communities, says Brenda GrixtiI hope politicians who champion a bigger role for volunteers in regenerating neighbourhoods are not just paying lip service.When I first became involved in community work I was a single parent. There was nothing for me to do (Read More)
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BBC News website to feature longer headlines on story pages, making them easier to find on search enginesFrom today, the headlines of the BBC News website will become longer to make its stories easier to find on search engines. "We estimate that about 29% of BBC News website UK traffic comes from search engines.", says Stev (Read More)
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Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
'I would not say that I lost faith in Twitter, I would say that I lost faith in my ability to negotiate it,' says Stephen FryStephen Fry, technophile and a "twillionaire" having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained what almost led him to commit "twitticide" last month and consider leaving th (Read More)
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