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Are you tired of potholes? Wanna do something about it? If you live in the UK you can report your local pothole at potholes.co.uk.
The site is run by an independent organization supported by an insurancecompany. The aim of the site is to make the problem visble on a national scale hoping they willl be able to awake political action on the issue.
But the site is not a typical protest site. It can be used by the motorists not only to report portholes but also to give them a view of …
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The first time I tried twitter more than a year ago when a friend od mine told me about this new thing. We both twitted sending messages to eachother. After a while we stopped unable to see any use for this crazy program.
A couple of weeks ago I finally understood how usefull twitter could be. I was at a conference where twitter was used during the conference to comment and to ask questions. I was quite fascinated be the activity I saw on twitter during the conference and was very inspired by the …
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On nov. 17 local elections for members of the 98 municipality boards were elected in Denmark. Alle citizens aged 18 and above was invited to vote for their favorite candidates in the municipalities and in the regional government.
This year a initiative involving 31 municipalities held a youth election for youths aged 16 to 18. They were invited to vote too using a web-platform. This special election was only used to indicate the involment if this agegroup, the vote didn’t have any influence on the real elections.
The idea behind the test-election was …
