In the "Whatever Happened To..." News, from today's Wall Street Journal -
"Mr. Thompson, the secretary of Health and Human Services during President Bush's first term, will join Deloitte & Touche USA LLP and the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. At Deloitte, he will help establish a practice area focused on solving health-care problems that will involve insurers, states and other entities. At Akin Gump, Mr. Thompson will advise companies and health-care providers about regulation and policy. The firm's clients include hospitals, cancer-treatment centers and pharmaceuticals makers."
Blog Poll
In a soft launch of this site, several respondents admitted that they had never read a blog - just so you know, you're not alone. Here are results from a CNN-USA poll.
More than three-quarters of Americans -- 76 percent -- said they use the Internet, but only 26 percent said they were "very familiar" or "somewhat familiar" with blogs.
Blogs -- short for Web logs -- are personal diaries kept by thousands of people on a wide range of topics and posted on the Internet.
Just 7 percent of adults said they read blogs at least a few times per week, according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. Forty-eight percent said they never do.
And Apparently I'm Not the Only One Getting the Blog Thang.
ONDCP Becomes First Cabinet-Level Agency to Launch Online Web Log; New Web Site Will Showcase Nationwide, Local, and International Efforts That "Push Back" Against Drug Use [link to press release]
And if you want to see how some social marketing programs are tapping into the blog pheniomenom among teens, check out the ONDCP FreeVibe site for blog stuff.
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