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Hot topics right now: July/August 2010 : Wikileaks

Statistics. Sometimes you want to back up those sweeping opinions with facts. Here's a link to an article about a [|Neilson study] which reveals that Americans spent 43% more time on Social Networking (ie. Facebook), in the past year.

[|Serial Killers] - for the soap opera fans out there. You can watch bits on NZonScreen. The 2003 comedy series //Serial Killers// pokes fun at a group of characters who write for a//Shortland Street//-esque TV soap called //Heart of Hearts//. Around the "table of pain" are irrational Pauline (Robyn Malcolm), in the midst of a messy divorce from series co-creator Alan (John Leigh); boozy ex-nurse Simone (Katye Ferguson); name-dropper Matt (Oliver Driver); and ditzy ingénue Elaine (Nikki MacDonnell). Created by James Griffin, who has written for //Outrageous Fortune//, //Gloss//, //Mercy Peak// and //Shortland Street//, and based on his award-winning play.

Fun ways to learn stuff about media.

[|Charlie Brooker] - search him on youtube.

Google's chief has put forth a novel solution for today's teenagers whose wild online antics threaten to follow them into their adult life: change your name.