I’m not sure if it just covers political ads in this year’s U.S. presidential campaign or if it extends to the debates as well, but I know I plan to take a look at the Annenberg Political Fact Check site after tonight’s debate. It is a non-partisan site that checks both sides for the veracity of their claims, and deflates exaggerations.

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I received the following this morning, and thought I’d pass along the info on how things are progressing in the Caribbean after the recent rash of hurricanes. It came from the Caribbean Hotel Association, the Caribbean Tourism Organization, the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association, and the International Council of Cruise lines, and is a summary of what they’ll be saying at a press conference this afternoon. It goes on forever, but I thought it was the best roundup I’ve seen so far, so I included pretty much the whole thing. Click on “read the rest of this post” to find info on specific Caribbean countries or islands.

According to an article in Promo magazine on Yahoo, Inc.’s Internet Deprivation Study released this week, most of us Web-heads can’t go more than five days without Internet access before going nuts.

The study, conducted by Yahoo and OMD, asked 28 consumers in 13 households to stay offline for two weeks and keep video and written diaries about the experience.

All participants suffered withdrawal and frustration. They said they felt “left out of the loop” and had to “resist temptation” to go online, Yahoo said. The median time that participants could stand being offline: five days.

Participants often forgot or didn’t feel like using “old-fashioned tools” like the phone book, newspapers and telephone-based customer service, reported Sunnyvale, CA-based Yahoo.

What does this mean for the future of meetings? For the present, at the very least, it would be prudent to make sure before booking that brainstorming meeting that a week-long retreat in the unplugged beauty of nature is something that won’t inadvertently drive attendees crazy.

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