And yet, top bloggers include academics and commentators whose work would qualify them as public intellectuals by any traditional measure for example, Tyler Cowen, Daniel Drezner, James Fallows, Steven Levitt, Lawrence Lessig and Andrew Sullivan.

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One of the main commentators has been India's top election official, Dr M S Gill.

BBC: World 'smug' at US fiasco

But, many commentators, like the one linked at top left, expect that CES 2012 will lack blockbuster innovations.

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Giancarlo Abete, president of the country's football federation (FIGC), announced the suspension of Serie B and C matches at the weekend, but international matches are taking place this week with no top-flight matches taking place, which has led to some commentators critical of such a weak reaction.

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Some commentators muse that he might have been distracted because he had just been handed some horrible top secret news.

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