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Hello! Everybody ! Please help me !I want to lean English by reading news, but generally the news web are difficult to me.
I want to find some news web so that I can elevate my reading quality. Who can provide the news web which is proper children to read.Pleas provide the link for me. Thanks!

I want to start up a blog as a place for people to read my short stories. If I do this, can I still send them to competitions/ publications or would having them “out there” be deemed as the stories being published?

I’ve been away for a week and now that I returned home I’d like to read all the posts since I left. But Twitter doesn’t let me go back and read posts more than 2-3 days old. Any solutions?

I’m thinking of starting a personal finance blog. The types of topics I plan to cover are: budgeting, building wealth, risk management, asset management, and other topics that, admittedly, can be a bit “dry” to many people. I want to attract a wide variety of people, not just bean-counters; I’d like it to be for everyone.
What would it take to make you read a blog like that? Humor? Some additional, more interesting topics? Bios of wealthy people? Contests?

I want to make a post, but I don’t want it to be too long. I would like to be able to make a link where people can click it and it will show them the rest of the post on the same blog. Kind of like Kanye’s blog. I don’t need flash or anything.

How can you tell how many people read your blog in Blogger? I’ve seen counters on ebay and such, is this what I have to get? If so, what/where are the best counters that are free?

Why are they set up this way? This seems so antiquated to me. i would like to catch up with an old blog, but i don’t want to tab back 1000x. Any thoughts?

I’m deciding what to write my blog on…
My hobbies are music, books, politics, and fashion. Should I write a blog on just one of those, or all?
Thanks for your advice.

I posted a blog, but I just want only a few select friends to have access to it. I already posted a blog but I really only want close friends to have access to that particular blog on myspace.

I’m looking for a blog or magazine that reports on startups, trends, and news from international internet companies. I have a specific interest in India, Europe, Latin America, or Asia. I’d even take suggestions for multiple blogs that I could aggregate using something like Yahoo! Pipes.
Thanks for the help.