Helpful Advice, and Plummeting Polls Amid Non-Plummeting Prices
Oh, the blogosphere can be filled with helpful advice, if you're an author who wants inside advice on how publishers determine a book's potential to hit the big time (subject of today's top blog post), or if you want to know how IT geeks can creatively take down less-than-ethical executives (No. 16 top blog post). A potential author comments, and some IT folks suggest IT Appreciation Day (just in case).
Up..and down
Today's two most-cited news stories tell a tale of up and down. As gasoline prices keep going up, former oilman President George Bush is watching his ratings continue to drop to a new low, with only 32% of Americans approving of his performance. Which no doubt leads to today's third most-cited news story, a New York Times piece about airlines considering standing-room-only seats as a way to get more from each gallon by cramming even more passengers into a giant airborne, metal tube. Like THAT will make getting to the restroom and around the snack cart a whole lot easier, eh?
Names in the news
Name-dropping is big today, too as recently fired CIA analyst Mary McCarthy (today's sixth most-cited personality) insists she wasn't the source of classified intelligence about secret prisons, and Fox correspondent Tony Snow's name is bandied about as the next White House press secretary. One blogger wonders if the Fox News execs will ask him to quit? And urban planners everywhere are mourning the death of Jane Jacobs, today's burstiest person, credited with modern-day thinking about the future and designs of modern cities. My hero!, exclaims one LiveJournaler.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 26, 2006 12:22 PM
