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Do you, like Vice President Joe Biden, worry about catching swine flu in the Petri dishes that are airplane cabins? You shouldn’t, said experts quoted by The New York Times . But, that hasn’t stopped the Association of Flight Attendants, the union representing about half of all U.S. flight attendants, from pushing airlines for more safety precautions to prevent the spread of swine flu. “An industry consultant, Robert W. Mann Jr., said in an interview that airlines might be worried about…

Think you’ve got it good (or bad) at your company? PRNews has named the top places to work for PR pros in three categories: agency, corporate department and nonprofit. Is your company on the list?

Web readership of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which moved to online-only in March, plummeted 23 percent from year-to-year. Web readership sank by a half-million since the printing press stopped, dropping from 1.8 million in February to 1.3 million in March.

Tony Kindelspire, the business editor at the Longmont Times-Call in Colorado (near Boulder), has had enough of PR pros sending him press releases with pictures of naked women. “Look, I’m no prude,” he wrote, “but that’s way over the line as far as I’m concerned — and as far from ‘professional’ as one can get.” Kindelspire said he received two press releases with the female form, one pitching plastic surgeons and the other plus-size women. &#8220…

Want to know the brands that have the most active Web presence based on the volume of online chatter? Well, here are the top 50. The top five brands, in case you can’t wait to click, are Twitter, Google, Obama, iPhone and Facebook. The first non-tech—or presidential—brand name to crack the list is the National Basketball Association, which clocked in at 15.

The results of Nielsen Online’s new Brand Advocacy Quotient are out and Toyota has topped the list for major automotive brands. The new Nielsen Online rating, a quarterly measurement, examines online survey data and customer experiences shared through Internet buzz. Honda, Lexus and Acura followed closely behind Toyota in the car category.

Employees tip-tapping away on keyboards and cell phones, sending tweets and updating blogs and Facebook, is a scary site for lots of managers. What are they writing? Is it embarrassing for the company? At one boutique Chicago ad agency, employees have tweeted about how demanding their boss is, how hung-over they feel and how “totally not into” the client they are. “Social networking is a love-hate relationship,” Michelle Conlin and Douglas MacMillan wrote for BusinessWee…

On Monday, The Big Money , a Web site from Slate.com , released the top 50 brands on Facebook. The team at The Big Money is back with the top 12 brands on Twitter. The top three are The New York Times , E! Online and the NBA. (Here are Big Money ’s criteria for choosing the top brands.)

This week, awards for min’s Best of the Web 2009 were given to Conde Nast Digital, United Business Media’s TechWeb, The Atlantic, Scholastic and Time Inc. Bonnie Fuller, CEO of Bonnie Fuller Media, was among the presenters. She said in her opening remarks that after 20 years as a print editor, she was crossing over “to the dark side,” that is, the Web. Really? In 2009, a top magazine editor still refers to the Web as the “dark side.”

In January, Journalistics blogger Jeremy Porter examined the online newsrooms of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Porter revisited the topic for those who don’t have the budgets of these larger companies. In this post, Porter takes a look at the online newsrooms of three of his favorite startups: HubSpot, MailChimp, and 37Signals.

Vanity Fair released its 16th annual list of the 100 most influential people of the information age . The person topping the list this year — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The top-ranked woman on the list is Lady Gaga, who ranks No. 23, overall.  Mediaite breaks down the top five.

At Chicago’s Mercantile Exchange for Ragan’s Corporate Communications & the Social Media Revolution conference. The event takes place June 24 – 26; it’s hosted by the CME Group; and there’s still time to sign up. Seriously, just check out the lineup !

A study of the global dating website Badoo found that Spanish women are the most flirtatious online. Polish women rank second on the list, followed by Dominican Republic, Italy, and Argentina. Canada was No. 9. The United States ranks 19. What is considered flirtatious behavior online? Making the first move. The study, which analyzed 90 million contacts made in one month on Badoo, ranked countries by the number of times women initiated contact with a man. Check out the rest of the list .