Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ BBC Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust.
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Peter Mandelson declares war on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire Guardian Lord Mandelson declared war on the Murdoch empire today when he accused News Corporation of maintaining an “iron grip” on pay television and warned that the company wants to import rightwing Fox News-style journalism to Britain. In his strongest attacks on News Corp since the Sun abandoned its support for Labour hours after Gordon Brown’s party conference speech, the business secretary accused the company of imperilling the traditions of British broadcasting
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p2pnet news view P2P:- Fire marshals on Prince Edward Island are warning people not to leave their computer laptop chargers plugged in for long periods.
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Why, after “so many years into the era of digital music” do the Beatles still not allow digital downloads of their songs? The question comes in a Wall Street Journal item which says, “The Beatles and their heirs have refused to make their songs available on the Apple iPod or other devices.” Given that Paul McCartney, the only surviving Beatle to have maintained any kind of profile on or offline, is among other antique rockers such as Cliff Richard (right) who want rights extended to 700 years , or so, it’s hardly surprising Beatles tunes aren’t on the handful of Big Music supplied sites which are trying to peddle the same thing to the same people at the same rip-off prices. “For two days last week, it seemed that the last holdouts had relented, making their music available digitally,” says the story
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- There’s an urgent need for performers to nurture fans and, “the relationship … an artist has with them is the only one that counts”. That was Britain’s Billy Bragg (right) in an “ incredible, rowsing speech to huge applause” during the Featured Artists Coalition meeting at Air Studios in London
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- There’s an urgent need for performers to nurture fans and, “the relationship … an artist has with them is the only one that counts”. That was Britain’s Billy Bragg (right) in an “ incredible, rowsing speech to huge applause” during the Featured Artists Coalition meeting at Air Studios in London. That was when Lily Allen ’s, “intervention highlighted the conflicted feelings of many musicians and artists,” as Jeremy Silver, who chaired the meeting, put it.
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p2pnet news view Kids & Kartels | Politics:- Children in the Middle East will soon become the targets of ‘educators’ invading schools to implant The Corporate Word on filesharing and intellectual property, together with other essential scriptures. The League of Arab States, Microsoft and Khasawneh & Associates (?) say their new Arab Intellectual Property Centre will, “provide a central hub for best practice sharing and legal resources on intellectual property in the Arab region”. “The site aims to provide the Arab region with assistance in its efforts to promote the protection of intellectual property by providing a central database on intellectual property and internet crime issues within the region, including an extensive collection of regional laws and regulations, international treaties and agreements and intellectual property case law from around the Middle East region,” says a joint statement
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