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...turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form - and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy, and it is the current obsession of every Web company from Amazon to Yahoo!. Consider: in July, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. spent $580 million to acquire Intermix Media, a U.S.-based company whose prime asset is MySpace, a site that lets members share their blogs, photos and favorite music. In March, Yahoo! bought Flickr, a photo-sharing website, for an undisclosed sum. All that activity makes sense, given the rapid growth and expansion of both personal blogs...
...Internet users spend online, advertisers get more chances to entice them. Global Internet ad revenues are set to soar by almost 20% this year. Not surprisingly, old-media firms are feeling the pinch. News Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch last week paid out $580 million for Los Angeles-based Intermix Media, the company behind the burgeoning social network at MySpace.com. The two-year-old service hosts music, chat rooms and blogs, as well as personal and classified ads. But not all online companies are created equal. Google and Yahoo! are squeezing the online ad market share of smaller search engines...
Fires that occur in the zone where suburban sprawl abuts rugged wild lands are known as intermix fires, and they are a fire fighter's nightmare. Vastly complicating the ability to protect property and lives are nonnatural hazards like narrow, twisting roads that dead-end in blind canyons or houses with cedar-shake roofs and logs stacked beside the kitchen door...
...charges, a gridlock in the justice system. America is not the pandemonium portrayed in the shock-addicted mass media. But its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix, the American experience is becoming the world...
Carter: Let me finish it. It is also one of the conceits of this business that we have more impact than we really do. The idea that television is out there influencing this massive economic machine, which is the U.S. economy, let alone the intermix of the world economy, is ridiculous...