Interest areas > News & Current affairs

Advantages: You get paid at least 50p and sometimes £1 per survey
Disadvantages: £50 minimum payout and lack of surveys reccently.

I joined YouGov around 2 years ago, when I joined, I was pleased to find I was recieving around 3 surveys a month as a minimum, but usually more. The surveys pay 50p-£1 in general, which isnt bad as the surveys are not overly long. You do have to check the e-mail invitations though, because several times I have clicked through to complete a survey and completed it only to find that I was not getting paid for it, I was just being entered into a prize ...
...completed them had I realised, so now I always read the invitations for the incentive. As the name suggests, YouGov mainly has surveys which are to do with government relatyed things, such as the education system, benefits, taxes, global warming and elections. I usually find the surveys from YouGov pretty borring, however as they pay pretty well, I am continueing to complete surveys untill I reach my £50 at which point can request a cheque. Unfortunatly ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to navigate around, simplified news perfect for young readers, cool layout and colourful
Disadvantages: Maybe a little young for some people....

Newsround was first screened on 4th April 1972, in a desperate bid by the BBC to make more children watch the news. Children found the news boring, dull and something far less interesting than cartoons. So, John Craven's Newsround attempted at changing the attitudes to news and make it more fun and interesting for the younger generation. Newsround told news for children and about children, covering a range of topics specifically picked to keep them ...
...at 5:25pm for 10 minutes. Within the 10 minutes, important bulletins are broadcast to the viewers covering different topics from day to day. Newsround simplifies the news so that it's easier for younger people to take in and understand. News ranges from celebrity gossip to political news, from sports to issues affecting school children. With the ever-increasing popularity of the world wide web, newsround also has a very cool and interesting website, ... Read review

Advantages: The latest news at a click of a mouse
Disadvantages: Wouldn't use it over rival sources

We all know that news travels fast, especially bad news, although The Sun probably isn't the worst paper when it comes to bad news, there would have to go it's Sunday companion in the News of the World that does everything in its power to ruin the lives of the celebrities that is writes about. In a world of people wanting the latest news first though, it means that once a paper is published it is more than likely going to be out, and that is why ...
...The Sun turning to giving online deliveries of the daily news. It would be wrong to say that it is just The Sun that has online news, because pretty much every paper going does at the moment, even my local paper. This online delivery of the news can be quite helpful when there is maybe something I would want to know about, and no one in my family has managed to pick up a paper from a newstand, but it does make me wonder why The Sun feels the need ... Read review

Advantages: very accurate weather information
Disadvantages: only updated 3 times per day

For anybody who needs to have an accurate weather forecast for their region then I would definately recommend metcheck.com. I was told of this website by an air traffic controller at bristol airport, as they use it everyday to get an idea of the local weather situation. Unlike other weather forecasting websites metcheck.com gives you an hour to hour guide on temperature, rainfall, percentage cloud cover, rainfall, wind speed and wind direction. ...
...type of information upto three days ahead and is usually very precise; it can also give less detailed information upto seven days ahead. The website is updated three times a day, with the time of the next update displayed at the bottom of the page. The website asks you to enter either the postcode or place name of the town or area for which you want information. In addition to the features I already mentioned there are other features which don't ... Read review

Advantages: Ability to look at and understand translated sites
Disadvantages: none that I found

http://www.ajeeb.com/ http://arabic.ajeeb.com/ http://english.ajeeb.com/ ><> - ><> - ><> - ><> - ><> ><> - ><> - ><> - ><> - ><> - ><> I was mortified by the September 11 2001 **************************************** Like every person who has a television, I was absolutely dismayed by the pictures I saw on the screen that afternoon and evening, continuing into November, and wondered WHY? How could people do what they did, fly planes into buildings? ...
...psychoanalyst, I could not answer nor am I going to try and answer that question. What I did was visited http://www.ajeeb.com/. What I found was a web site that was very well laid out, easy and fun to use. The site was established for the American internet market, to try to get the US public to understand that there are no differences and for non Arabic speakers or readers to look at and read Arabic sites. ><> - ><> - ><> - ><> - ><> ><> - ><> - ... Read review