Betty White lands book deal, two books on the way

Betty White has signed a deal with GP-Putnam sons to write two books for the company including a memoir titled 'Listen Up'. The book is said to focus on aspects of her Hollywood career as well as her thoughts on growing old.

The second is to be called 'The Zoo and I: Betty and Her Friends'.

'Listen Up' should be in stores later this year, whereas 'The Zoo and I' is expected to his bookshelves sometime in 2012. [USA Today]

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The world's most annoying blog habits

In the wild west of the internet, the blogosphere, there are a number of hallmarks that are upheld by the cliquey clubbees known as bloggers that inhabit it. There are then a number, therefore, that I detest in the highest degree.

5. "See that after the jump" This is one that I can admit to using occasionally. When people wish to refer to what cannot be seen on the homepage of a blog (you know, the rest of the article), they [bloggers] usually refer to this content as being 'after the jump'. The issue is nobody in the real world actually knows what this mysterious 'jump' actually is; so stop using it.

4. Thou shalt not overuse the ellipsis There are a few blogs that I read occasionally where the bloggers have a fixation (or perhaps obsession) with overloading their blog posts with a '...' every six words. It's a nauseatingly disgusting literary habit that many need to get out of.

3. Speech marks - 'don't use them' when they don't apply Some bloggers insist on using a set of quotation marks in every post numerous times. It's annoying, particularly when they don't actually know how a speech mark is supposed to be applied within text.

2. Using *asterisk* symbols for emphasis Most blogging systems and content management software comes with an option to include italics in a post. Learn to use it please - the asterisk is obsolete.

1. Including a full stop in a post title Please, please, please, please don't include a full stop at the end of a post title. It is unnecessary. Take a look at this. Do you see a period at the end of the title?

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