Archive for May, 2009

Eurovision: who needs Terry Wogan when we now have Twitter?

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

I watched the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in years on Saturday night. Being a big Tel fan (I’m following him on Twitter!) I was curious to see how Graham Norton fared replacing him as the Beeb’s Eurovision host. The evening had all of the usual Euro gems: ...

Women are more excitable and friendly, according to their exclamation marks!!!

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Being a lingo luvvie I was loving an article in the Guardian this week by Stuart Jeffries re. the use and abuse of the exclamation mark (! - !) in this digital communications age (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/29/exclamation-mark-punctuation - which, by the way, is a great example of SEO best practice for URLs). ...