FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! LinkedIn vs Facebook

On Read Write Web today there’s a stramash afoot: LinkedIn vs Facebook.

The focus of this article is on which is the better for keeping and establishing professional contacts. Taking this to its logical conclusion (for this blog, at any rate) I thought it might be useful to pit the two against each other for the purposes of finding journalistic contacts.

So... let’s say we are after an expert to pass comment on James Whale’s attempts to influence the public during last week’s Mayoral Election, through comments made during his radio show on Talksport (for which he quite rightly got the tin-tac). We’re after an expert on media impartiality, or political influence on the media.

Acronym dictionary or Almanac of Victoriana?

If you find yourself confused (or angry – or both) by the many many ways in which English is being butchered modified in web 2.0, then here’s a starting point for you – AIM’s Internet Messenger Acronym Dictionary.

Of course from a generalist’s point of view (heaven knows there are no shortage of acronym dictionaries in every specialist field) something like this seems useful in principle.