This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• Doug Haslam asks whether journalists make good PR people.
• Hub Culture ranks the best cities on the planet.
• Tom Martin considers whether Amazon’s Kindle is enabling Amazon to make a move into publishing new and upcoming authors’ books.
• Mediabistro.com gathers the reactions of sports PR execs to Mark McGuire’s confession to using steroids during his career.
• Jeremiah Owyang gathers critical social media stats for 2010 in a single post. Check back as he’ll update throughout the year.