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Have You Learned These Five Secrets to Irresistable Headlines?

Clearing out my email inbox this morning I skimmed the “Smartbrief for the Workplace” newsletter and saw the following:

Screen capture of the list of the top ten most popular smart brief stories of 2009. Each story has a list of n things headlines

Screen capture of the list of the top ten most popular smart brief stories of 2009. Each story has a list of n things headlines

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Investors are less afraid of Iran than the US Congress

So argues Philip Greenspun, who has been must-reading this Fall.

An Endorsement if I’ve Ever Heard One

“I looked in the mirror and I was disgusted.”

This is Robert Caponi, “32 year old musician from Greensborough, NC”, quoted in a Wall Street Journal article detailing the return of male-cleavage (or “heavage”) revealing attire. Caponi, quotation not-withstanding, is portrayed as a booster of the fashion.

Two law partners …

I love stories like this:

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Twitter Violence

The digerati aren’t the only one’s enamored of Twitter. Turns out street gangs have found the platform a useful tool—and valuable turf to occupy.

The Gothamist reports:

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Viking … Poets?

Were the warring Vikings—and not the effete, wandering troubadours—the first of the romantic poets? Quite possibly.

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