Tuesday poll

Please put all other answers in the comments section.

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Funny websites

So in the interests of *ehem* research I asked the good people of Twitter what their favourite funny websites were. This is one of the great things about Twitter, you can ask questions and discover new things in what might be classed as an ‘organic’ way (like asking lots of people at a party rather [...]

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Tom Watson and Alan Rusbridger Twitter argument

This morning, in front of everyone, the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Tom Watson MP engaged in a bit of pushy-shovey (albeit virtually).
That conversation in full:
arusbridger: Daily Mail obssessed with idea of Guardian “putsch” (in collusion with BBC?). A question of media ethics, apparently. http://tiny.cc/7Wp3M
tom_watson: @arusbridger The Daily Mail are not the only people concerned. Many colleagues think you [...]

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New House of Commons Speaker

So Michael Martin is the first speaker of the House of Commons to be forced out of office in 300 years. Should the Queen be worried about her ability to wear hats (well we beheaded the last one just after we got rid of the Speaker…)? Or now that he has stepped down will the focus [...]

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Things you only know if you work from home

In the spirit of Hannah Betts’ excellent ‘Things you only know if you’re single’ column in The Times I intend to have a series of posts on things you only know if you work from home.
This will accommodate both the people who always work from home and those who usually work in an office. Obviously there [...]

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Journalists v PRs on Twitter

I was wondering how many Journalists versus PRs there are on Twitter. And thanks to the joys of Google you can see that there are (in London):

211 people with ‘journalist’ in their bio and ‘London’ in their location here
254 people with ‘PR’ in their bio and ‘London’ in their location here

But what about outside London? [...]

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Brit scoops ‘best job in the world’

A British man has just accepted a job offer over 34,000 other applicants from all over the world to live, caretake and report from Hamilton Island, on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. Or to create a more visual idea of the ‘best job in the world’, he’ll be paid to live here:

Now we know where to send our [...]

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The Standard says sorry

This is the new advertising campaign from the Evening Standard which went up all over London overnight:
 
The move to admit that the paper is out of touch was the brainchild of the new editor, Geordie Greig, after market research found that Londonders felt that the paper was negative, complacent and predictable.
Now this has [...]

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The Queen sends email – nation goes into shock

Now don’t get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for the older generations who are adapting to technologies of today. I struggle to speak to people only ten years my junior about simple things like music, which often I am not expected to like, so one can only imagine the patience and openness needed [...]

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