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Worth a second outing: What should you be getting up to on the internet?

Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding the finest words of wisdom behind an incomprehensible error message. Today’s is a review of a book first published in 2008 which is still going strong.

Should politicians blog? Does it matter if a local party has a website that allows comments or not? Is it …

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