All the Clichés: HodgePodge for July 11

Raising the journalism bar

The San Francisco Chronicle has collected a growing list of clichés for newspapers to avoid. PR people (and marketers in general), would do well to avoid most of them as well, I imagine.

Hug a millennial

Marketplace takes a look at just how bad it was to graduate into the recession with the help of a Department of Education study.

Taking your mind off of work

CityLab (formerly The Atlantic Cities) reports on a study that claims workers who take frequent phone breaks have higher job satisfaction than those who spend all day diligently filling out their TPS reports. I can’t imagine why.

The Internet of Tweets

The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal takes us through a strange turn of events that had Bank of America’s (presumably automated) official Twitter support account butting into an exchange between two Twitter “bots”: That Time 2 Bots Were Talking, and Bank of America Butted In.

So long and thanks for all the goals

The Atlantic also wonders aloud whether this is the best World Cup ever, noting the preponderance of goals among the reasons. And that was before Germany hung 7 goals on the host nation.

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