Top UK news stories on Digg in 2007

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? [...]

Hillary campaign excluded UK journalists, says Telegraph correspondent

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 [...]