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Full story: Twitter mainstream
Quite a bit of commentary in the blogosphere and twittersphere greeted the news that pop icon Britney Spears now has a Twitter account (actually started on October 10). Known as therealbritney, Spears’ presence on the micro-blogging service is the front end, as it were, of “brand Spears,†run as it seems to be by her marketers as her Twitter bio indicates: Yes! This is the real Britney Spears! We’ve got updates from her team, her website and yes, even Britney…
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Full story: A little Latin flavour
A part of the world that’s not constantly front-of-mind for many people in the UK is Latin America. One country that’s an integral part of that region is Costa Rica, nowadays a popular holiday destination and a place I call a second home having lived there for much of the 1980s. It’s also my wife’s first home, something she focuses on with her blog. So it was a real pleasure to spend much of yesterday afternoon immersed in sights and…
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Full story: When you care enough to hit send
If I were to get back into using ecards again – something I used to do a lot in the early 00s: remember BlueMountain? – Someecards.com is the service I would definitely use today. I stumbled across this site the other day and have been splitting my sides since then over its witty, pointed, timely and downright wicked humour. Much of the content is unquestionably NSFW so exercise care when you click in the workplace. Many of the cards’ captions…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #389: October 16, 2008
Content summary: Shel’s in North Carolina; Dan York reports on the Canadian general election, real-time Friendfeed and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits with guest co-host Bryan Person – highlighting poverty on Blog Action Day 2008, BBC extends online reach with first ‘interactive reporter’, launch of m.seesmic.com, WordPress acquires Irish start-up PollDaddy, economic indicator: UK marketing budgets cut at record rates in Q3, the value of agency PR in an economic downturn; listeners’ comments discussion and…
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