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Content summary: New IABC Cafe2Go podcast; new FIR Interview podcast with Forrester Research analysts; Shel’s in the UK next week: join us at the FIR Geek Dinner in Windsor on October 5; take a Society for New Communications Research survey; Neville’s impressions from the Conference Board meeting in Zurich; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Facebook, breast feeding and PR; what does the end of pay-for-content by the New York Times mean for the media and the consumer?; Lee Hopkins…