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Here’s something to briefly distract you from the Telegraph’s Pre-Budget report build-up: an online rumour claims that Sarah Brown’s recent gibberish tweet – “fvdfzsrsazxzzxcvbnmadgfhjjkqwrtyuuuiop” – was written not by her three-year-old son, Fraser, but very deliberately by her, so that the Prime Minister could include the anecdote in a speech this week.
Gordon Brown told an audience at an event to [...]

Perhaps Sir Ian Kennedy is trying to justify the £100,000 he could be paid as head of the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. Or maybe he has only recently discovered the joys of social networking. Either way, his plan to use Facebook to launch his own consultation onMPs’ expenses is as bizarre as it is downright [...]

A senior Arab Afghan adviser to al Qaeda and the Taliban has openly challenged an Australian counter-terrorism expert in a series of blog posts. Abu Walid al Masri has written direct responses to Leah Farrall, an Australian academic who writes the All things Counter Terrorism blog and has years of experience fighting terrorism with the Australian Federal [...]

When the Republicans launched their brand new website this week, it should have heralded a change in direction for the party. They lagged behind Barack Obama during the presidential election campaign by failing to grasp how the internet could help win them the White House. And it was time to prove that lessons had been learned. The [...]

From my Telegraph blog:
There’s something you need to know about this blog. I know it’s new, so it hasn’t quite reached the dizzying heights of the Total Politics top 40(congratulations by the way to Messrs. Brogan, Delingpole and West, plus a few others). But it has at least been dissed by John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister who [...]

From my Telegraph blog:
She might be a plucky girl, but someone should have told Ruth Smeeth that her campaign videos were a step too far. As Iain Dale reports, the Labour candidate’s YouTube efforts are cringeworthy and hilarious – it looks like Jeremy from Peep Show is her cameraman. A taster:

From my Telegraph blog:
A new study claims that the number of people with internet access worldwide will reach 2.2 billion by 2013. But that’s not how the Guardian reported it this morning. This was Roy Greenslade’s reaction on his blog:
Levels of internet use are set to rocket over next few years in Asia, Middle East [...]

From my new Telegraph blog:
It appears I am not the only one who thinks the “Twitter revolution” has proven extremely dangerous for Iranian internet users. Support comes from Timothy Karr, the Campaign Director of Free Press, a US “media reform” think-tank.
He has bad news. While I highlighted the fact that the Iranian government is using Facebook and Twitter to track [...]

From my new Telegraph blog:
Almost a month on from Iran’s presidential election, it is now time to recognise that the so-called “Twitter revolution” has utterly failed to achieve anything – save dead and injured young Iranians, and up to2,000 new political prisoners. President Ahmadinejad retains power after a violent crackdown. There has been no recount of [...]