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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]