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Top UK news stories on Digg in 2007

Thursday, 10 January 2008, 08:15

The social bookmarking and news recommendation site Digg, which determines its front-page content by allowing its users to vote for (or “Digg”) links posted by other users, has gained a reputation for generating huge spikes in traffic to web sites that stike the Diggers’ fancy.
So what stories have the often-geeky Diggers chosen in 2007? [...]

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Hillary campaign excluded UK journalists, says Telegraph correspondent

Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 15:07

Telegraph correspondent Toby Harnden, blogging from the Iowa caucuses earlier this week, notedhow unhelpful the Hillary Clinton campaign had been to foreign journalists — in stark contrast to the victorious Barak Obama campaign:
The Hillary Clinton staff excluded all foreign press from their “victory” celebration. A smug, humourless functionary called Lane told me and my colleague [...]

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