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GalleyCat reports that the Chicago Reader and the Washington City Paper are the latest publications to declare bankruptcy.  Not quite sure what “filing for bankruptcy” means for us book publicists since we still fly on bankrupt airlines (and bank at bankrupt banks).

I noticed recently, since reaching 4,000 followers on Twitter, my "new Twitter follower" email notifications have been steadily increasing. This means I have a constant influx of new follower profiles to visit, check out and consider offering a return follow.  Not surprisingly, most of my new followers

Drama queens (or kings); we all know at least one – and if we spend a lot of time on social networking sites, probably at least a few dozen. As its name suggests, a new website called Dramalevel is looking to provide a ranking of the amount of drama that individual users bring to more than a dozen different online communities, including MySpace, Twitter, Digg, and YouTube.

Introducing yet another tale of athletes and their fans who like to become popular by posting suggestive photographs of themselves with said athlete on their public social networking profile. In this case, the involved parties are Alfonso Soriano and his sidekick and opportunist, Keri Wiesen.

Where will you be during the third annual celebration of One Web Day, set for this Monday September 22, 2008? Devouring all things Internetastic, we presume. Of course, if we do our job right, every day feels like One Web Day.

Nearly six weeks after its launch, more friends have been added to the social networking web site, Barackbook.com. The most recent friend updates include Barack Obama’s notable associations with: Click image to visit Barackbook.com.

As has been made very clear by the media, the presidential candidates chosen to represent the two major parties of the United States for the election this November will be spending precious primetime airspace sparring over issues which pollsters of America deem most important to the nation’s people.

Would you use a time-tracking application to help you determine and manage your “real” social network? timeXchange hopes so, with some of its latest updates. Instead of becoming stagnant as a tool that merely tracks time for employees, contractors or the self-employed, timeXchange is going the

CaptainU, the online recruiting network dedicated to soccer players and athletes, is officially launching this week with a few notable new features, most of which provide more attention to end users as a way to further differentiate itself from other online recruiting tools like Takkle and BeRecruited.

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