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Back in December 2011, The Guardian USA and New York University’s Studio20 (see their Tumblr – note: I am associated with the program ) announced a new joint project – US presidential election 2012: the citizens agenda .

By embracing a "digital first" approach, The Guardian has seen readership on its website shoot up by over 40% year over the past two years. Its latest feature, the Twitter-scaling search bot @GuardianTagBot, should only help. “It has fun and charm, but it's also fantastically useful and structurally sound,” Janine Gibson, who leads the papers' digital operations in the U.S., tells us

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Launches Disaster Response Website .

A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.

Earlier this week, the Guardian newspaper based in London told the story of a former prisoner at northeast China's Jixi labor camp who spent his days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines and his weary nights forcibly playing World of Warcraft (WoW) for hours on end to build up virtual currency that his jailers could sell for actual money. [More]

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