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“WOULD the Jude Law infidelity story be any good if the nanny-mistress didn’t keep a diary detailing sex on the pool table? We think not,” said gawker.com.

Amid the salacious detail, the actor’s efforts to redeem his image by releasing a public apology after cheating on his fiancée, Sienna Miller, failed to impress. “It’s a shame that Mr Law feels a need to publicise his indiscretion,” Richard Zwicky said. “It’s worse that we, the public, buy in . . . Must be something missing from our own lives if we have the time to worry about theirs.”

Not only film stars crave audiences. A New York Times article by Helaine Olen described how she dismissed her nanny, Tessy, over the contents of her online diary. She found “amid the musings on poetry . . . a sweet scene of sex with a new boyfriend, accounts of semi-promiscuous couplings and tales of too much drinking for my comfort”. The final straw came when Tessy described an argument between Olsen and her husband.

Several bloggers commented that publishing an article was a curious way to counter an invasion of privacy, accusing Olen of hypocrisy and jealousy. The nanny had the last word. “There will be no interviews, no books, and no deals,” she said after the prospect of a lucrative publishing contract was raised. “I promise to always blog anonymously from now on.”

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Caught off Guardian

A trainee reporter for The Guardian was discovered to be a member of a controversial international Islamic group. Scott Burgess, who runs the Daily Ablution site, revealed Dilpazier Aslam’s ties to Hizb Ut Tahrir, which operates legally in Britain but is banned in several other countries.

According to a BBC report in 2003, available online, the body’s website “promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people”.

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Consuming craze

A surprise online hit of the summer has been cryingwhileeating.com, “an eclectic collection of short movies based on the theme: ‘What are you eating? Why are you crying?’ ”

Casimir Nozkowski and Dan Engber created the site as part of the Contagious Media Showdown, in which competitors try to create the most popular site possible on a shoestring budget.

Engber described to slate.com how his entry ballooned out of control. “I found a picture of my girlfriend on a Japanese fetish site the other day. Yes, that was definitely her, cramming a piece of sausage into her mouth as tears streamed down her face . . . they never told me that internet celebrity would be like this.”

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Looking for trouble

The Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute site claims to offer an alleyway onto the Arab Street through snapshots of the region’s media.

It provides translations of Arabic and Farsi media and features clips from Arab broadcasters. “MEMRI is funded to the tune of $60 million a year by someone, and it is a sophisticated anti-Arab propaganda machine,” said antiwar. “The organization cleverly cherry-picks the vast Arabic press for the most extreme and objectionable articles and editorials.”

A headline from Dream2 TV in Egypt said: “Egyptian MP Hamadein Sabahi: I support al-Qaeda when it kills Americans; any kidnapping and slaughtering of an American in Iraq is good”.

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