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Kestrel rescue at Downing Street!

Cute, but not quite what I was expecting. Where’s the rescue then?

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Web 2.0 is great. No, really.
Here’s the kind of awkward PR run-in that I’m sure has been happening for donkey’s years. Off-message Channel 4 News reporter Ben Cohen dares ask an iTunes question on an iPhone day, and Apple’s PRs move in for the kill.

Admittedly we don’t see the context, and the Apple interviewee does [...]

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A while back, the BBC caused a ripple of excitement (at least for this blogger) when it started to furnish stories with social bookmarking links.
Far more significantly, perhaps, BBC News has just embedded a YouTube video directly into an article.
I’m not a regular reader of the BBC’s entertainment stories, but this is the first time [...]

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