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Euro at risk from Europe⊘s economic storm – Telegraph The euro fell hard last week. It is the start of a long slide to levels that reflect a sluggish, half-reformed bloc in demographic decline. The euro must be weak, or it will break. Whatever happens, it is already too late to avoid the Latin Crisis…

Children’s books: ‘If children are to become readers for life, they must first love stories’ – Telegraph Interesting read! Thanks Nigel. (tags: children literacy reading education)

With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian Facebook has 59 million users – and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information – not now that he knows the politics of the people…

BBC NEWS | Business | EU launches new Microsoft probes The European Commission is launching two new anti-competition investigations against US computer giant Microsoft. The first will look at whether Microsoft unfairly ties its Explorer internet browser to its Windows operating system. (tags: Microsoft EU competition)

twitter-nanoformats – Microformats Lots to learn here! (tags: twitter microformats nanoformats) Twitter Fan Wiki – This is the unofficial place where Tw… Since the Twitter folks hadn’t put up a wiki yet, it seemed like a good idea to get one going out of the community. Lately there’s been a bunch of scripts and other…

BBC NEWS | Business | Warner agrees to use MP3 format Warner Music Group is making its music available for US downloads from Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection. (tags: music warner copyright digital downloads mp3 amazon) BBC NEWS | Technology | Web icon set to be discontinued Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL,…