Guardian ads poke fun at new Independent ownership
Masthead redrawn in Cyrillic-style type to point to paper's acquisition by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev
(tags: guardian independent)

10 mobile technologies to watch in 2010 (Techworld.com)
According to research firm Gartner, the impact of mobile technologies on our lives looks set to continue to surge in the next couple of years too. Gartner says investments in mobile applications and technologies will increase through 2011 as organisations emerge from the recession and begin spending again.
(tags: gartner mobile)

Online communities genuinely help diabetes sufferers
According to diabetes news, online communities …

Back in November, I wrote about an ambitious BBC World Service Trust project in Bangladesh which encouraged the learning of English via mobile phone handsets. Since then, examples of mobile technology bringing together traditionally remote communities have been cropping up on my radar on a weekly basis.
The application of mobile technology in the sub-continent goes beyond education as villagers in the Uttar Pradesh region of India are now beginning to use cheap voice calls as a platform for basic news delivery.
Widespread illiteracy makes newspapers and SMS alerts inadequate as news …

and that four letter word is… “LIKE”.
Now, instead of clicking a button that says “become a fan” to start following a given brand, users will simply have to “like” them.
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SuperPower Nation: an experiment in multi-lingual debate
On 18 March 2010 BBC World Service hosted SuperPower Nation day in London, a six hour experiment in multi-lingual debate and discussion.
(tags: superpowernation bbc translation google googletranslate)

All UK Citizens Will Have Personal Webpage To Access Government Services – PSFK
A new initiative in the UK will see that every citizen gets a personal webpage to access government services.
(tags: government egovernment)

Yes, it's GuardianRoulette!
It's what the world's been waiting for: a random connection with completely clothed stories from your favourite news organisation
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Flickr Gets A Lesson In UK History
Flickr has announced that over 200 images from the UK’s official archive has been added to their collection.
National Archives UK has added images spanning 900 years of the country’s history. It’s not just photographs; from ancient maps to a document detailing “How girls become dope fiends!” –  it’s all here and well worth a browse.
(tags: flickr nationalarchives history)

Get Ready for Fireworks – Ryanair is Joining Social Media
Irish budget carrier Ryanair are set to enter the world of social media as the airline aims to …

Social Networks Can Make Us More Creatively Productive
Social networks are often heralded as the enemy of productivity, but Wired's Brendan Koerner points out that the kind of activities we engage in at sites like Twitter and Facebook can in fact be very productive.
(tags: media productivity social socialmedia socialnetworking)

10 Surprising Ways Humans Use The Internet (According To Robots)
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Six questions to ask before launching a Facebook fan page
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How investigative reporting makes use of the internet
More and more investigative reporters dig into stories using blogs or Twitter to link to documents, look for sources, and ask for hints
(tags: journalism twitter socialmedia)

The Comms Corner: The (mis)use of Twitter by the UK's biggest newspapers
Newspapers continue to treat Twitter like a glorified RSS feed, not as an opportunity to build communities or conduct conversations
(tags: newspapers journalism twitter)

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First they said it was going to be a Mumsnet election. Then they would have us believe that the election would be fought on Facebook…
At the time of writing this post, it’s highly surprising that the following Twitter accounts are still unregistered just weeks away from the start of the election period:

@LiberalDemocrats –  Unforgivable! Just because they’ve got @LibDems, doesn’t leave the party immune from unscrupulous brand-jacking
@ElectionNight – useful for live tweets as results roll in
@VoteLabour – Obvious, yet not taken!
@VoteConservative – Longer version of @VoteTory
@VoteLiberalDemocrat – OK, 19 characters …

Brown's broadband bravado | Left Foot Forward
Gordon Brown put e-government and internet connectivity at the centre of his government manifesto with a speech earlier today underlined by an ambitious aim for Britain to be “the world leader in the digital economy”. In order to understand the ramifications of the prime minister’s speech it is necessary to break the relevant elements down into three key points.
(tags: election2010 broadband election)

OfficeTalk: Microblogging for Business
The Microsoft Office Labs team has just launched a new experimental tool that brings Twitter-like microblogging to the workplace. Called …

A huge thanks to Zee from theNextWeb who brought my attention to a cool little service from TweJay which reads out your twitterstream to you.
Fantastic for visually impaired Tweeters or those with a fetish for sexy female robotic voices.
Making twitter talk has been a side project of Henry Sztul’s for a year now. Check out his homepage here or follow him on Twitter @henry_sztul.
You can login securely with your Twitter account (via OAuth) or just insert a search query, and sit-back and listen to the sound of your tweets.
I can imagine some creative …