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Avoid any unsolicited offer received via the web.

They are always scammers or just rip offs.

Making money on the internet is really hard work. If you can write well then maybe take a look at Squidoo or Helium these are both services that pay based on the number of visitors your work gets - its regular money coming in for several years - but not a lot at one time

I have about 400 pages of work live

I earn about

Meanwhile the council stuff their bloated administrations full of unnecessary staff and have no money free for regeneration.

I am even thinking of emigrating to Australia things seem to be that bad!

Ah - forgot we were global - thought just UK!

If you think about it that is not easy at all.

Say you have 2 million articles in a database you need to find a way of comparing several 1,000 new articles a day to the entire database not just exact match but by level of commonality and articles can be heavily spinned.

Its also about having interesting content not just getting rid of similar stuff.

Simple just freeze council tax and revenue support grant for the next 5 years - that way local authorities will have no choice but to cut the admin - if they cut services instead they won't get re-elected.

Its happening this year with the 0% council tax increase - but 1 year isn't enough needs 5 or more years of pressure to reign them in.

BBC News - 'I just launched' - Pope Benedict sends first tweet

Even the pope is active on social media now!

I think it will be popular if the name is a strong brand.

Like adrian.facebook etc

But probably there will be not much take up beyond that.

I just found a load of +1's have been created for my site - yet I don't even have a +1 button on it.

I think its Google Account logged in users adding them via the search results.

Looks likely to become a factor in the Google Algorithm as its appeared as a metric within webmaster tools.

Doesn't seem to me that PR has any bearing on search results (SERP) anymore.

I have pages doing really well for my target phrases. But their PR changes with each update without any reference to the rankings.

So I would remove the PR toolbar and just forget about it.

Problem is that people are living longer but retiring at the same age. There needs to be a link between these two which is revisited each year. But that is not acceptable to the Unions.

Otherwise the contribution that employers - ie us tax payers need to make will keep rising. Its already extremely expensive and we just can't afford it any more.

So I say close all the public sector schemes to new members and let public sector employees fund their own pension same as the rest of us.

Just make a fixed % contribution from the employer.

Over time the number of members in the old schemes will reduce bottoming out the cost to the taxpayer.

So to answer the question let them strike - but don't give them any more concessions - we need to limit the benefits further.