This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more:

• US Elections – As the countdown continues, the Guardian reports on the influence of satirist John Stewart and Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! Mail account gets hacked.
• Twitter – Twitter Grader is a great way to measure the words you use most frequently on Twitter and the rumours are circulating that Cisco, following its capture of Jabber, has Twitter in its sights.
• Google – US retailer Dan Savage reveals the real power of Google and takes the search engine to court over the new ‘landing page quality’ scoring. Elsewhere, the first phone to use Google’s Android platform will feature the Google branding alongside the handset manufacturer and Google founder Sergey Brin launches a personal blog.
• Finally… how to handle Tech PRs…

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