I reckon about 10% of what I’ve read today is total rot. (Although that Nigerian chap who mailed about getting his funds out of the country sounds like an opportunity too good to miss.) Stories spotted so far…

• Calling Carla: Brown enlists first lady to give Britain style (had me going for one paragraph, then settled back and enjoyed it)
• SpringSource Announces Acquisition by Microsoft (for one paragraph, and was then annoyed by it)
• Morning conference: after the wallchart (for about half the article, and then decided I should just stop reading anything for a couple of hours)

Goodness knows how many articles I was actually taken in by. Favourite quote is this, from the end of the Carla Bruna article:

“This week has been so wonderful - such a change from the usual British media coverage of France and the French, which is based on a handful of ill-founded stereotypes,” said Jean-Claude Forestier, assistant attache for cultural affairs at the French embassy in London. “It has been crazy here, with all the international media enquiries about Carla. We have been working absolutely round the clock, from 9am to 3pm, just to keep up.”

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