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become an increasingly relevant and much talked about tool for the digital
politician. As recently as December 2008 only two MPs were regularly
dispatching 140-character ‘tweets', as a twitter message is known. Today, this
has risen to 79 or just over 12% of MPs.

Twitter's 140 characters are most widely
used as a broadcast medium, replicating the other web tools. But it offers much
more and, used well, becomes a platform for engagement and to listen.

L’Europe a longtemps été exemplaire en matière de respect de liberté de la presse, mais cette année, plusieurs pays européens reculent très nettement. Même si les treize premières places restent occupées par des Etats européens, d’autres tels que la France (43e), la Slovaquie (44e) ou l’Italie (49e), continuent leur descente, perdant respectivement huit, trente-sept et cinq places. Ils se font distancer par de jeunes démocraties africaines (Mali, Afrique du Sud, Ghana) ou latino-américaines (Uruguay, Trinidad et Tobago).

it isn't just new immigrants who are returning home, we learned. Some 27% of the Indians and 34% of the Chinese had permanent resident status or were U.S. citizens. That's right?it's not just about green cards.

social media is not paying our bills. If your work load is very heavy one week, then you should scale back your social media activity.

A kitchen sink resume is the antithesis of what employers are seeking.  Employers don't have hours to ponder the nuances of your resume to find that gem of an experience you had three years ago. They are faced with large stacks of resumes and are looking for ways to eliminate you, not keep you, unfortunately.  And the kitchen sink resume is the first to g

In 21st-century America, the quest for openness, so often pursued in the name of democracy, can lead to the violation of a sacred democratic principle: the right to privacy.

2. Google Reader's auto sorting. "This works by prioritizing subscriptions with fewer items. So, with this setting, your friend's blog with one item a month will not be drowned out by higher volume sites such as the New York Times because we'll raise the blog to the top."

"Basically, Twitter is the digital water cooler," said Deborah Schultz, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, a Silicon Valley technology consulting firm. "Just like a real-world water cooler, what you hear about the office depends on whether you're standing there at the moment. If you're not there at that given moment in time, how do you identify what's of interest to you?"

The administration has stopped short of calling for a second economic stimulus package to augment the $787 billion measure approved this year. But with the jobless rate continuing to climb, President Barack Obama said Saturday he is exploring "additional options to promote job creation."

Selon une enquête de France Retraite, spécialiste
de la reconstitution de carrière et du calcul de retraite auprès
des entreprises et des particuliers, 70 % des personnes interrogées
ont intégré la nécessité d'une réforme
des retraites en raison de l'accroissement de l'espérence de vie.
65 % considèrent qu'il serait normal de cotiser plus longtemps. 45,5
% accepteraient une augmentation des cotisations salariales et 70 % seraient
favorables à un accroissement des cotisations patronales. Par ailleurs,
1 personne sur 2 se dit globalement bien informée par les media et
les sites Internet spécialisés mais seulement 1 sur 5 juge
l'être suffisamment via les caisses de retraite.