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Council spends £36,000 worth of tax money on games.
Tameside Council decided that in order to encourage people to access services, they would buy property in the online gaming world in Second Life. The property which would be worth about 10Million in game was intended to help people in the whole world access council services in Tameside. In addition to the island and town…
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Freedom of speech first.
Writing in the mirror, Sue Carroll questions weather or not Facebook should be defending free speech. She’s writing in regards to the controversial “RIP Raoul Moat – You Legend” group which the author had taken down not facebook. I’m not going to look at that in any detail. She however does make an interesting point…
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Lord Kinnock on Lord Mandelson!!!
Well isnt that intresting, not long ago Lord Mandelson was featured here in his capacity of the Internet Villian of the year. Now a fellow Lord has lashed out at him too! Lord Kinnock whom was infulentual in Mandelson’s early career has implied that he is but a shadow of what he once was. Must…
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Unemployment Down but is the Jobs listed up?
In the UK, the Office of National Statistics is perhaps one of the most perculiuar departments of any goverment agency. In effect it is their job to take all the information the goverment has, file it in some dark database (and probly lose a copy in the process) and come to a conclusion. They estimate…
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The Battle of Britain ‘began over Orkney’
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” -Winston Churchill I just read an article by Stephen McGinty on the Scotsman website. Apparently an author has suggested that the famous Battle of Britain has been mis-recorded by historians. The author is claiming that it began over…
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Lord Mandelson awarded Internet villain of the Year 2010!
The ISP Awards this year have been done. In light of the activities in support of the Digital Economy Bill and UK legislation, they were proud to offer Lord Peter Mandelson the title of Internet Villain of the year!