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Liberal Democrat candidate Chris Huhne buys Google ads for opponents' names Simon hughes and Ming Campbell

Lib Dem leadership candidate has bought out ad space next to his competitors' names when they come up in Google searches. Try it. Google Ming Campbell or Simon Hughes - same ad comes up for Chris Huhne. Heres how the search looks:

Via Guido Fawkes' blog of conspiracies

Update: Here's Simon Hughes' blog, hosted on Wordpress

Most Chinese office workers blog

Over half of all Chinese office workers are blogging, according to these guys. East vs West - what's the difference?

Unlike western bloggers who often focus on news and politics, the Chinese white collar bloggers see complaining alongside office and personal gossip as their priorities, according to the survey.

Via Steve Rubel

New blog outs slack hacks

Here's a new UK blog aimed at shaming slack hacks: The Bad Hack blog. Readers can send in their stories about rubbish journalists and share the tales that all PR offices love to hear. This blog doesn't name and shame through. Shame!

Via Stuart Bruce

85 year old Harold Burson starts blogging

Harold Burson, as in Burson Marsteller, has a new blog. His extra curricular activities? Media, of course:

Early in the evening I turn to magazines. Mondays I immerse myself in The New Yorker, sometimes reading until I am ready for sleep. Another is The Atlantic.  As would be expected, I also read Fortune, BusinessWeek and Forbes. I scan Time and Newsweek, and find myself intrigued with a newcomer titled The Week, a sprightly written compendium of news and features. My "serious" periodical reading is mainly Commentary and I confess to peeking at the photos in Vanity Fair.

UK tech PR news roundup

PR Week has a bunch of tech news this week (and why does it still not have a focused tech page I hear you cry?!)

• Column: Blogging revolution will force a change in PR
• Intel hands global PR to WPP
• Commodore comeback - maker of Commodore 64 hires Pleon
• Lincolnshire council takes on Camargue to position it as a tech trailblazer

FT sets up new blog about blogs

To accompany a tediously long article on blogging, the FT weekend magazine set up a new blog on blogger: http://ftmagblog.blogspot.com/

FT Mag Blog: Blog off, we've had enough
Is blogging really an information revolution? Is it about to drive the mainstream news media into oblivion? Or is it just another crock of virtual gold - a meretricious equivalent of all those noisy internet start-ups that were going to build a brave "new economy" a few years ago?

Blog off? Crock of gold?! I like Hill & Knowlton's Niall Cook's response.

Guinness blog

Guinness Book of Records blogs
Via Steve Rubel

How to fit 22 hrs of PR into one day

Digg: how to fit 22hrs of PR into one day

Edelman appoints blogging daddy Steve Rubel as SVP

What happens when you get a reputation as the daddy of blogging and a full page photo in BusinessWeek because you're such an expert blogger (like in this pic)? You get offered a SVP job at the world's biggest independent PR firm that's what. Steve Rubel has announced his appointment at Edelman in a move by them to hire senior bloggers and 'get more Fortune 500 firms blogging'. Congratulations Steve.

IT Week launch Lem Bingley & Gary Flood blogs

Editor of IT Week, Lem Bingley, has launched a blog as part of the magazine's site. Looks good! And is open to readers' comments and pictures of their cats (catS in Lem's case, cat in mine).

IT Week also seems to have hired tech freelance hack Gary Flood to write a blog there too. It's only got one post mind, so this one is brand spanking new. But you gotta love the photo. Looks like Gary is telling off a junior PR bunny for calling him on deadline :-)