HERE is a quick look at some of the websites and articles I have sent through Twitter (@craigmcginty) today, as I've realised the service is becoming my personal link blog.
One way I keep track of what I've been sending around, and what others have said to me, is to subscribe to the Twitter RSS feed for my account and to set up keyword searches within Twitter, and again subscribe to the RSS feed, but anyway on to the articles.
Remember over the weekend the Sunday Times said that undertaking two searches on Google takes as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea.
They quoted physicist Alex Wissner-Gross and there was much criticism of Google especially as they are strong on all thing green.
However, it would appear that Alex Wissner-Gross wasn't exactly quoted correctly, he says himself he would have used coffee as an example instead of tea, and really his study was into the impact of computing in general not the search engine giant.
And newspapers still wonder why their sales are tumbling and advertisers are deserting them...
Last week saw the arrival of the US-based local business review site, Yelp, in the UK.
It is a simple idea, users write reviews of shops, restaurants and bars they visit, business owners can also be involved, and so fingers-crossed customers get a better service because owners have read what has been written.
For PR people with clients in the leisure and retail trade it is another destination to keep an eye on for 'brand management' purposes, and if you wonder just how influential Yelpers are take a look over Chrissy's reviews of places in Manchester and the connections she has made.
Chrissy actually lives in Philadelphia, but was originally from Manchester and you can be pretty sure should her friends on Yelp ever head this was they will be checking her out for pointers.
And I wonder how long it will be before we see out first court case brought by a business against a Yelp review?
One news piece on my list of 'must do' is an interview with Chris Anderson, he of The Long Tail, who speaks about his latest book Free: The Future of a Radical Price to BBC Radio 4.
With free in mind, it is interesting to see a piece about the improvements in micro-payments paid for via mobile phone, while elsewhere the idea of making payments via an iTunes type service has been chewed over, and rejected, by Jeff Jarvis.
Some still wonder if payments can be charged for news, I still doubt it because on a national/international level it would require all news producers to come to an agreement.
While on a local level, the costs of production are practically zero, especially if a one or two person operation is willing to cover a post code area for free and gain income from elsewhere.
Also many companies are heavily involved with online advertising through affiliate marketing and they will always need pages to appear on, so whether you could generate enough payment out of a small geographical patch to beat advertising and affiliate revenue is open to question.
And before I go here are ten things every journalist should know in 2009.
I AM sure a few people will be interested to click around the newly launched thebusinessdesk.com website which has opened up a 