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    <title>Ipod Porn on the Rise</title>
    <description><![CDATA[CNN and other Mainstream media sources quoted the "Podfather" in saying that Ipod Porn for the Ipod Video was going to be the next big porn wave, now Suicide Girls are getting into it and Gizmodo is noticing. The rest of the blogging world is sure to follow soon.

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    <title>Brief Abstract of Wikipedia's Mesothelioma Cancer page</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Mesothelioma is an uncommon form of cancer, usually associated with previous exposure to asbestos. In this disease, malignant (cancerous) cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body's internal organs. Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) or the pericardium (a sac that surrounds the heart).

Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or have been exposed to asbestos dust and fibre in other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos, or by home renovation using asbestos cement products.

In the United States, the average mesothelioma-related settlement was $1 million; for cases that go to trial awards averaged $6 million, according to a study by the RAND Corporation. Only a small fraction of the thousands of asbestos-related lawsuits in the United States every year are related to mesothelioma. In 2004, a bill in the United States Senate aimed a asbestos litigation reform failed to reach a floor vote. In January of 2005, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter announced he would again try to pass an asbestos litigation reform bill.

A separate bill introduced on March 17, 2005, the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 (FAIR act of 2005), seeks to ensure a set amount of compensation dependent on the symptoms of the victim. The range is from Medical Monitoring for victims with Asbestosis or Pleural Disease to $35,000 for victims with Mixed Disease With Impairment all the way to over $1,000,000 for Mesothelioma victims and nonsmoking Lung Cancer victims 
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    <title>Get first aid instructions in your cell phone</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Finnish Red Cross has made a Java cell phone program ("midlet" for the technically inclined) which contains the most basic first aid instructions in an easy-to-follow format with pictures.  The instructions are in Finnish only, but you can get yours by texting "LATAA7 SPR ENSIAPU7" to number 17116.  You need to have WAP settings in place to make the download.  I took a quick look at it and it certainly seems like something I'm going to keep on my phone for a long time.
(Though, be warned, the midlet costs 7€!  Something that which Helsingin Sanomat completely forgets to mention (boo hiss, this is stupid), but that is declared on Red Cross's page...)

Just in time for the holidays, I would say.

(Via Helsingin Sanomat.  Lisää tietoa Punaisen ristin sivuilta.)]]></description>
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Maybe I can be bothered to do something about it someday.  Tips appreciated.

Update 24.06: Tweaked the CSS a bit and added some explicit "display:block;" -commands to some places, which seemed to required on IE (boo hiss).  It still looks a bit crappy (and the window is too wide), but now at least you can see all the content.]]></description>
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Essentially, all attachments on a page entries are added as enclosures, if you request a page in blog mode (and add "type=rss20" to the rss.jsp request URL to enable RSS 2.0).

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This is what street journalism is[1].  Whether it is a good thing, or a bad thing, I cannot say.  That is up to everyone to decide for themselves.

But you saw it first in the blogosphere.


[#1] Note that I didn't say 'citizenship journalism'.
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    <title>Who's Hot Today? Nashville; All U.S. Libraries</title>
    <description><![CDATA[ Nashville, Tenn., has 600 computers in its Metro library system and waiting lines: Adding Wi-Fi is a natural for their patrons who can bring their own laptops. The system will cost just under $70,000 across the system through 50-50 federal and local money. The AP reports on an library study showing 99.6 percent of libraries connected to the Internet: Almost of those offer Internet access to their patrons. This number from the American Library Association is up from 20.9 percent in 1994, when the commercial Internet was brand-spanking new. (I founded a Web site development firm in 1994, and had a T-1 to the Net that August--when it was pretty rare.) Eighteen percent of libraries offer Wi-Fi, but a whopping 21 percent plan to offer it in the next year. Only 42 percent of libraries have high-speed connections, and often broadband is coupled with Wi-Fi: sharing a single dial-up modem over Wi-Fi isn't much of an incentive over home dial-up to library patrons. Public libraries' biggest problem is having enough computers to go around....
    


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    <title>Boingo's SBC Home Roaming Lights Up</title>
    <description><![CDATA[ Boingo customers can now roam onto 3,400 SBC FreedomLink locations that SBC has directly contracted: To avoid confusion, SBC should probably better label its different offerings. SBC operates 3,400 FreedomLink locations at The UPS Store, Barnes & Noble, Caribou Coffee, and other locations. This is its home network. It also resells access to Wayport and a few other networks as part of its roaming network. And it buys access to McDonald's restaurants via Wayport, but includes that access in its standard network. So SBC FreedomLink subscribers who sign up for the basic deal gets SBC-run locations and McDonald's. Add in roaming, and they get the roaming partners, which includes airports, hotels, and other locations. Boingo Wireless announced it would resell SBC-run locations, and those locations are now live in their network. Whew....
    


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    <description><![CDATA[ Dell, Intel, Texas Instruments, and others want more broadband to sell more gear to consumers: They've increasingly gotten involved in the ongoing debate over whether incumbent monopolies and duopolies deserve right of first refusal for broadband deployment in their service areas over municipalities because of incumbents' investments, municipalities' tax-free and bond-raising abilities, and the role of government in competing with private enterprise. The Wall Street Journal walks through the issue, starting with a small town in Texas that's building broadband because SBC can't or won't. The Texas legislature was considering a telecom "reform" bill--a bill which removed many public service and oversight controls on telcos--that would also have banned municipalities from participating in broadband. The original bill was so broad it would have banned virtually all private-public partnerships that the FCC and the Bush Administration have stressed for extending broadband into the furthest reaches of the country. The backlash is now coming since Texas's bill hit defeat for a variety of reasons, partly including Dell's founder picking up the phone and calling legislators. You see, computer makers would enjoy selling more equipment and one way to do that is broadband. (Homes with broadband connections tend to buy newer equipment and more computers, among other reasons.) Pete Sessions (R-Texas) has introduced a bill at the national level to pre-empt local legislation (there's that anti-federalism again) governing municipal operation of broadband. Sessions is the representative from SBC: a former employee with huge stock and stock options held directly (not in trust) with a spouse who currently works there. His chief of staff told the Wall Street Journal that "the congressman's ties to SBC do not present a conflict of interest." Except in that he has millions of dollars at stake over SBC's continued performance in the market....
    


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    <title>Technorati Live 8 launches</title>
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We just launched the Technorati Live 8 site.Technorati Live 8Technorati has teamed up with Live 8 to bring you the latest conversations about the campaign to Make Poverty History. Read first hand accounts of the concerts and events, and get all the news and opinion from the blogosphere.

We've also put together some resources to help you find your way around Live 8 and the blog world:

What is Live 8? Which organisations are behind Live 8?

Are you new to blogging? Find out what it's all about.

Get a Live 8 badge for your blog.

Join in the conversation and find out how to make your posts show up on Technorati.

Do more than just blog - contact the G8 leaders.

The posts listed on the Technorati Live 8 site have been written by bloggers worldwide and appear in real time from Technorati's index of 1.1 million blogs. Find out more about Technorati. Joe Trippi called us about two weeks ago with this idea. Thanks to a guest appearance of Suw Charman as the producer of the site and extra hard work by the Technorati team, we were able to get this site out in time.

This is such a good opportunity for nations like the United States and Japan to helped their damaged images and also show their solidarity to a cause that they shouldn't have to think twice about. I'm amazed at how poor the response of some of the developed nations has been to this call. Hopefully this concert and the voice of the blogs will help get their attention.



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    <title>Fair, but snippy, play</title>
    <description><![CDATA[From USA Today: With boy safe, searchers celebratePrayers answerd in Utah mountains as lost 11-year-old is found after 4 days Maybe I'm feeling snippy this morning, but in the interest of fairness, I expect to see a headline like the following soon: Body of missing pretty white woman foundGod turns deaf ear to distraught parents Yeah, I guess I'm feeling snippy....]]></description>
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