This week's chatter that Microsoft may have approached Facebook to discuss a possible takeover has created quite a buzz.
"It's more about people's vitality and personal style".Around the Web from link to link; today's chatter in the New York City blogosphere.
Should Trump match his poll numbers and win in a blowout, last week's chatter among some conservatives about his campaign imploding will seem ludicrously premature.
The good news – and the bad – is that, for all today's chatter and George Osborne's curiously tactless observation that the savings of "hard-working Chinese" can be deployed on UK infrastructure projects, cautious governments will take their time.
They are hardly disinterested observers, but they're on the mark — in large part because the impact of the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War (as opposed to their impact on the press) was far less momentous than last week's chatter would suggest.
Sacks took me up on it, bringing his own user survey, a funny video aimed at today's Chatter launch, and some fighting words.
There are intrinsic differences: Hodgson will never experience the deference enjoyed by Ramsey, whose aloofness and social pretensions, highlighted by his elocution lessons, would leave him vulnerable to the mockery of today's chattering classes.
Whereas Mr Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has always been popular with small entrepreneurs, big firms have historically cosied up to Congress, which has run two cranky coalition governments since 2004.India's chattering classes still see Mr Modi as beyond the pale, even if he is the front-runner in the opinion polls.
But compared with today's raucous chatter -- whether it's political partisans facing off over a Clinton scandal or a panel of teenagers who think their moms dress too sexy -- Susskind's subtle approach may have been under-appreciated at a time when the topics were more divisive.
The intellectual dissipation and self-indulgence of this ramble through today's public chatter is perhaps a true picture of Britain as it went into the 2015 general election – full of talk about a wide range of issues but lacking any coherent consensus or conclusion.
