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To any Polish readers who are feeling the pinch as sterling slides, an online opportunity: “Deutsche Welle TV, the international German broadcaster, is looking for Polish people that are leaving the UK for Poland. We are specifically looking for people who have not earned much more than the minimum wage and who find that the…

Well, from Arthur C. Clarke’s future in 2001: A Space Odyssey – an astronaut reads the news [HT: Liz Donovan]: …he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. …One by one he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers; he knew the codes…

There is an interesting US Government report out in draft on reporting scientific uncertainty. Buried inside is this nugget (my italics): The importance of continued and iterative empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of communication is stressed. One key finding in this literature is that there is no such thing as an expert in communication –…

Peter Horrocks at the BBC puts commenters firmly in their place. Quantitative research – not the self-selecting (qualitative?) input of 150+ commenters – will be what guides any tweaks to the BBC News re-brand. Despite the knockdown, BBC commenters keep coming back for more. And some of them are really quite funny in a dry…