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"This is another example of Google not capturing the 'real-time web'. Is it that Yahoo and Google are bad at tracking Twitter? No. When an event starts — or news breaks — there is no 'content' to link to and so services that analyze only URLs cannot be real-time."
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"The APP reports that a scheduled screening of Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam/immigration film Fitna in the House of Lords has been cancelled...Protests and demonstrations have [also] been cancelled, which is a shame because they would no doubt have resembled the protests and demonstrations shown in the film itself, creating a pleasing symmetry."
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"Every 18-year-old in France would get a year's free subscription to the paper of their choice to boost reading habits". Colour me cynical but a) will that make them read it and b) won't their parents cancel their subscription if they all live at the same home and c) is this the most environmentally friendly way of trying to drag 18 year olds into being interested in the press? Surely better to give them some free public service data download allowance on their phone?
