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David Stonehouse peers into the overcrowded world of internet opinion - and nominates his top 10 blogs: You need to take people outside the A-list into reality. That's your job, being at the top, guys: digging it up, presenting it to us. Enlightening us. If you don't like that job, then stop blogging Gary Wisniewski: Simply the best
The Blog, The Press, The Media: The spy who loved you: It's Called a Breakup Because it's Broken
A new array of high-tech gadgets promises to be the kiss of death for cheating partners
Type the words catch cheating spouse into Google and more than 14,000 entries come up from companies in the serious business of breaking up relationships. From kits testing stains of dubious origin to software that will record every keystroke made on your loved one's computer, the market is teeming with ways to check up on cheats.
• Breakups are an unavoidable part of our lives - Dedicated to Google and AAPT Carolyne Molloy and David Reynolds [Breaking up is hard to do, often leaving behind mangled hearts and a bitter ex. So is there a way to break up without causing too many bad feelings? And what is appropriate breakup etiquette? Sam and The City ; Is it time to dump him and move on? ]
• · How to Break up With Someone Using Style and Sensitivity ; It’s something we didn’t really expect to see in Australia, but over the last year more and more journalists and media workers are finding themselves targeted by angry and violent mobs. The Media Muzzled
• · · WHAT is it they say about imitation and flattery? Something a seasoned radio jock would hate to admit to in relation to imitating the rival, we think. Lawsie in tune with rival ; I just take a moment to welcome all of my new readers who have been migrated across from my ‘old’ newsletter into this new ‘conversational’ medium — I can promise you an entertaining few months ahead as you become more aware of what is being called ‘Web2.0 and its implications for business communication. What a difference a year makes; I think being an author is exactly like feeling like a child – occasionally not always. Freedom to write
• · · · Are journalists the real spin doctors Post-modern politics ; Selecting a PR agency is difficult. It's a high-involvement, low frequency purchase with multiple decision-makers and influencers Ten common mistakes in selecting a PR agency ; IT HAS LONG BEEN recognized that political language forms a linguistic category of its own, one in which words serve not as exact descriptive symbols but as empty formulae designed to push specific emotional buttons in the guileless listener. What Orwell saw
• · · · · Are newspaper editors really necessary? Or will Internet users just roam the Web, picking and choosing what they wish to know? Sorting Out the Future of News ; From Wired, an article on the New Networks: Say good-bye to the CBS eye. Aggregator sites like iFilm and YouTube let you watch anything - and everything - you want i Film ;
• · · · · · Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner -- President Not Amused? This administration is soaring, not sinking; Make no mistake, Stephen Colbert is a dangerous man -- a bomb thrower, an assassin, a terrorist with boring hair and rimless glasses. It's a wonder the secret service let him so close to the President of the United States The truthiness hurts ; Peer Review in the Google Age: Is technology changing the way science is done and evaluated? Google Age