Those who know the couple describe Schwarzenegger and Shriver as very similar characters: talkative and intelligent schemers with a shared devotion to family, mass communications and middle-of-the-road political views.
The hijackers cut off communications in the middle of the night, though, apparently out of anger over the escape.
Isn't the whole point of engaging with and participating in a Web 2.0 world one to one communications, removing the middle tier of information dissemination?
Last week's second order concerned price regulations for leased data communications services, the middle mile of the Internet known in agency jargon as "special access". Special access includes services to link cell towers to high-speed backbones ("backhaul"), as well as private corporate data networks and dedicated Internet access for small businesses.
Overusing this one piece of punctuation gives your communications a distinctly middle school flavor and kills your credibility.
The idea is to put the president in settings where he can have "an intimate conversation," said Dan Pfeiffer, his communications director, "with middle-class Americans about how the economy is affecting their everyday lives".
In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.
With poor communications, in the Early Middle Ages most settlements needed to achieve a degree of self-sufficiency in agriculture.
"Off the record, some of these 20-somethings are idiots," said one middle-aged communications consultant.
Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver.
Regular and flexible contact with team members isn't just a way of maintaining good communications – it's also how middle leaders can show they're doing their job.
