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THE Isle of Man TT Races received another huge boost from the TT3D film ‘Closer to the Edge’ when CinemaNx Chief Executive Steve Christian was interviewed on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio Two this morning. The show has a weekly audience of over 8 million listeners and is the most popular radio show in the UK.

The interview, where Steve featured as the ‘mystery guest’ came about when Chris was inundated with supportive texts the previous day when he mentioned TT3D Closer to the Edge on his show.

Sports presenter Vassos Alexander introduced Steve by saying that he was ‘the driving force’ behind the film and that it ‘put the move into movie’ before Chris began the 3-minute interview with Steve Christian. During the interview Steve was able to give a brief history of the event while Chris encouraged everyone to be inspired by the film’s strapline ‘just because you’re breathing, doesn't mean you’re alive’ – a quotation from its star Guy Martin.

The CinemaNx team also arranged for Chris to receive a copy of the DVD and invited him to visit the Isle of Man for this year’s event.

This is the second high profile boost that the film has provided this month, following the endorsement from respected F1 Williams team owner Sir Frank Williams who described the film as ‘unbelievable’ in his monthly column in leading Motorsport magazine ‘F1 Racing. Sir Frank also went on to add that ‘If you haven’t seen the documentary Closer to the Edge, go and get it on DVD’ and revealed ‘my family got bored of hearing me say how good it is, so I started telling the dog.’

Hon John Shimmin, MHK, Minister, Department of Economic Development commented:

‘This is a great example of the benefits that the Isle of Man and the TT Races continue to receive from the film long after its original release date.  This high profile appearance on the leading breakfast radio show, and the endorsement from someone as respected as Sir Frank Williams, demonstrates the impact that the documentary continues to have.’

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This is a great example of the benefits that the Isle of Man and the TT Races continue to receive from the film long after its original release date.

John Shimmin, Department of Economic Development

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January 31, 2012 |

It's started out as a great 2012 for technology stocks. So far, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has stomped the Dow Jones Industrial Average, returning 7.7% versus the Dow's 3.6% return.

Taking a peek at the top performers in the Internet and services space, you'll find a few key themes.

It's a global list. The top four performers are all from China. In addition, Net 1 Ueps hails from South Africa. Many of these stocks were horribly beaten down in 2011. Renren (NYSE: RENN  ) is of particular note for being one of the biggest busted IPOs of 2011. Did I mention China? Seven of these companies on the list are from China. While the Shanghai Composite is up a reasonable 5% so far in 2011, we're talking some extreme outperformance in the list below.

Top 10 Internet and services stocks of January

Company

% Price Change

VanceInfo Technologies (NYSE: VIT  )  57.0 AsiaInfo-Linkage  50.2 Renren  47.9 Youku.com (NYSE: YOKU  )  47.5 Net 1 Ueps Technologies  44.1 Parametric Technology  41.3 SouFun Holdings  37.4 NetQin Mobile  36.6 Ancestry.com (Nasdaq: ACOM  )  35.1 SINA (Nasdaq: SINA  )  34.5

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Includes only companies with U.S. listings and market caps greater than $300 million. All prices through Jan. 27.

Will the rest of 2012 be as kind to these highflyers of the new year? Here's an amazing fact: While outperformer lists early in the year are normally riddled with companies that smoked earnings during the first few weeks of January, only one stock in the list above has reported earnings! That's Parametric, which unsurprisingly earned its spot by beating earnings. For example, top performer VanceInfo doesn't have any particularly exciting news this year aside from an analyst upgrade.

What's driving that level of outperformance? For one, many technology growth stocks were heavily sold across the summer of 2011. As investors begin nibbling on more risk again, those stocks have come back in vogue. China reported GDP far more robust than the market was expecting earlier in 2012, and that's led investors back into the country.

Also, there's some pretty key tailwinds at the backs of other companies. As players in the social media space, both Renren and SINA will get to ride momentum from Facebook's upcoming IPO. Likewise, both Ancestry.com and Youku are also seen as fringe social media players that could ride the momentum of a positive Facebook IPO.

That's it for our recap of the Internet space. However, if you're looking for a better stock idea to kick off 2012, we've uncovered one such stock with so much promise we've dubbed it "The Motley Fool's Top Stock for 2012" and created a special free report for investors to uncover this soon-to-be rock star. The report highlights a company that is revolutionizing commerce in Latin America, and you can get instant access to the name of this company. Thousands have already requested the report, which is free today, but it won't be forever, so access it now.

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A study finds that blogging is therapeutic for teens -- and that having an open comments section makes it even more so.

A study (PDF) from psychologists at the University of Haifa, Israel, is garnering some attention with for its findings that blogging can help socially awkward teens. The New York Times ran it in its "Studied" column, with "the gist" boiled down to "Blogging is therapeutic for teenagers." The site io9 ran it under the headline "Science proves blogging is therapeutic -- at least for teenagers." But read past the top findings and you'll find something more surprising, and, also, somehow, more comforting: The teenagers who got the most out of their blogging experiment were those whose blogs were open to commenters.

As the Times explains:

In all the groups, the greatest improvement in mood occurred among those bloggers who wrote about their problems and allowed commenters to respond.

Interestingly, the commenters on the blogs were overwhelmingly supportive. "The only kind of surprise we had was that almost all comments made by readers were very positive and constructive in trying to offer support for distressed bloggers," Dr. [Azy] Barak wrote in an e-mail.

. . .

"People will write in the comments, 'I remember when I was in your shoes' " and 'Don't worry -- you'll get through the SATs!' and it's wonderful," she said. "It really helps put everything into perspective."

For anyone who kept a journal growing up, the benefits of writing are obvious. But the Internet seems like a hostile place for a socially inept teen to open up. Aren't bullies and other trolls going to pounce on these kids?

In a way, the study is a welcome reminder that Internet comment sections have gotten a bad rap. In the defense of people everywhere, the claim is often advanced that the ranks of Internet commenters are not filled with a representative sampling of humanity, but the people who choose to participate. But as this study shows, this is true but it also doesn't go far enough: Bad Internet comment sections aren't even representative of Internet comment sections themselves.

The trolls, the bullies, they go where they can be seen. Some of the most well-trafficked sites on the Internet have the worst commenters. In general, smaller blogs with dedicated readers -- whether personal journals or niche-interest publications -- have lively, thoughtful, and smart conversations in their comments sections.

With commenters like that, who needs friends? And that's precisely the point: They *are* friends -- or at least they are another human, at some other far-off computer, providing the guidance or simply the listening ear that friends provide. Whatever therapeutic powers journaling has, they are amplified by the comfort of a human response.

The problem, of course, is the risk. For a teen going through a rough time, what is the power of one bully? Is the benefit of comments outweighed by the chance someone will use the comments section to mock or tease? The authors of the study recommend that question for further investigation.

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