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Buzz was the great buzzword among mediarati in the late `80 and by means of the `90s. It was the conversation starter at the top of what journalist James Fallows formerly labeled ``the hierarchy of infor-mation and attitudes''-that soft stew of gossip, insider information, pointed analysis and wisdom (conventional and unconven-tional) that marked its distributor as in-the-know. Because being in-the-know is, in a knowledge economy, essential to succes