
Table of Contents
Six Steps to Writing a Blog That Gets Noticed
Appendix A - Citing Your Sources
Appendix B - Writing That Captures Attention and Communicates Clearly, Concisely and Convincingly
Appendix C - Some Online Resources
Appendix D - Legal Issues
Appendix E - Readi …

Source: Reuters
Andy Kay, executive producer of sport for Australian broadcaster Seven Network, reckons that the best Olympic event next year will be watching 17,000 wide-eyed Western media folk arrive at the Beijing airport. "It's not like anywhere else," he says.

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"When you're ready to have sex, you must talk to your partner about using a condom."

Source: GZYN
My wife was telling me how bad is the wound in her finger caused by cooking the other day but I thought ......

Source: The New York Times
At a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, Donald Norman was previewing a scene about to be re-enacted in living rooms around the world.

I remember asking my favourite question (how much someone would rate their looks out of 10) to a high achiever with nagging self-doubts. Back came the reply that it would be "Only six" because he is "not as good looking as Tom Cruise or Richard Gere".

This postcard was going to be about the old men of Italy, but it's turned out to be first about communications and how we've come to take good infrastructure and easy access to information for granted.

My new cell phone can do 93, 763, 883, 911, 007 things and I can understand only two of them so far; Is this a phone or a super computer or a game station or what? I don't know. Are all these options necessary.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
There are few things as frustrating as that phone call where you end up talking to a computer that just doesn't understand. Poor diction, difficult words or thick accents can confuse speech recognition programs.

I had a problem when I was active on the Blogcritics Yahoo Group (which is where I originally started my writing life).

Source: BBC News
One of the former most corrupt countries in the world suspends Europe's largest engineering conglomerate Siemens. This is front page news and well done to the Nigerian authorities for the action.
Source: News at Nature
But Michael Veeman, a biology postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara, took the challenge to heart and produced a six-minute film about ascidians, a gummy sea creature that carries the distinction of being the most primitive living chordate.
Source: News at Nature
After three grueling days of posters, symposia and networking lunches, the 7,500 attendees of the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in Washington DC (see conference blog) were ready for a less cerebral session. Now in its second year, Cell Slam is a lecture on speed.
Source: Live Science
In the land of romance, ladies might do well to shut their traps, while men can continue to blab.

Q. Hi Elaine, how do I end a relationship with a very nice single mom? I don't know if it is the kid or if she is just too nice but I am not happy. The longer I put it off the harder it is now.

Perception emerges as a result of our experiences and learning, a sort of fictional movie of our life, which is more commonly referred to as our 'reality','beliefs' or 'values'.

As human beings, we do more than merely experience our world – we also perceive it, forming opinions about it, then using that perception to define situations and events and also to judge others.

Source: The New York Times
Spend even a little time around chimpanzees, and you begin to realize how intelligent they are. But can they outshine humans in brain power? Most humans would scoff at that.
Source: News at Nature
Scientists will have to change their tune to present more realistic claims and less hyperbole if they wish to prevent negative reactions that could severely affect support for their research.

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Source: Yahoo! News
Google is putting out cell phone software that will allow any phone to be located anywhere at any time. However, they claim that it is not linked to cell phone numbers, names or other identifying information.

Source: Microbiology
Although unicellular, bacteria are highly interactive and employ a range of cell-to-cell communication or 'quorum sensing (QS)' systems for promoting collective behaviour within a population.

I remember asking my favourite question (how much someone would rate their looks out of 10) to a high achiever with nagging self-doubts. Back came the reply that it would be "Only six" because he is "not as good looking as Tom Cruise or Richard Gere".

Source: Zephoria:apophenia
For peculiar business reasons, Americans and Canadians have historically paid to receive text messages (although much of Canada has shifted away from this).
Source: The Age
AUSTRALIANS are impulsive email users and oblivious to online etiquette, new research has found.
The study among a representative sample of full-time workers in all Australian states found the majority are trigger-happy emailers who often send communications to the wrong person …