Three quick thoughts:
1) The true definition of power in America: Having your name on your own personal water bottle. Check out above link of Michael Dell in town yesterday at the Dell factory. Will let all of you know when Waterblog is available. Water bottles in photos bug me, but they are here to stay.
2) The parentheses lobby took a hit yesterday. Our friends at the Associated Press, arbiter of most newspaper style in America, issued the following rule change:
An AP Stylebook entry has been updated:
Editor’s Note: This changes AP style to eliminate parentheses.
telephone numbers
Use figures. The form: 212-621-1500. For international numbers use 011 (from the United States), the country code, the city code and the telephone number: 011-44-20-7535-1515.
3) JournalNow, kind host of the Otterblog, has won its first EPPY Award, sponsored by Editor & Publisher and MediaWeek magazines.
JournalNow won in the category of Best Internet Community Service Effort for its presentation of the Winston-Salem Journal’s series Unsafe Haven: The Crisis in Home Health Care.
JournalNow.com worked extensively with Winston-Salem Journal reporter Paul Garber to create a Web presentation based on his computer-generated reporting. The series also was expanded online with graphics, case studies, tips for finding good health care (including a government document on the subject) and two databases.
Danielle Deaver also worked on the print portion, and Joe Murphy and Lee Rawles did the online work.
Your host is Ken Otterbourg, the managing editor at the Winston-Salem Journal. It's a forum to discuss the media, from 
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