Wrexham council is due to reconsider its policy after hitting the headlines in December when a councillor was called out of a meeting and told not to post live updates on the website via his mobile phone.

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These were essentially webcasts originating from his office, with Fenne and his staff playing the role of talk show hosts, inviting the soccer-mom sales consultants from the Nordic region to participate and to post live comments on Facebook.

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Just as a disclosure, I live in New York, so post-Sandy, the topic still is very much on my mind.

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His post-games publicity tour proved equally impressive, with appearances on Saturday Night Live and the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Larry Hryb, a director of programming for Xbox Live perhaps best known by his gamer tag "Major Nelson, " responded to a post on his blog with comments that gave some hope.

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Rather, we must come together as a nation and recognize that we do not live in a post-racial era, and that, while difficult, we must confront these issues head on with clarity and without fear.

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