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What does 13-year-old Taylor Hern ♥? Lots of things: the actor Ewan McGregor, the color pink, the band My Chemical Romance, her boyfriend Alex. You would know all that if you visited her Xanga, a blog--home-page hybrid that is the modern teen's public and interactive equivalent of a diary. You could even leave a comment on her Xanga or send her an "eProp" if, say, you ♥ Ewan McGregor...
...illegal activities are not to be allowed and will be punished in accordance with laws." COMMENTARY on the front page of China's state-owned People's Daily, warning citizens not to disrupt social stability in the wake of a series of violent protests across the country...
...interest in it to his senior thesis at Harvard: "The Impact of Television on the Presidency, 1947-1969." The small screen had created a new, unforgiving standard in politics, the young Gore wrote, one that rewards the smooth performer and dooms the stilted one. His 99-page paper turned out to be a prescient analysis of some of the forces that would conspire to deny him the White House three decades later. But while Gore's political career may be over, his fascination with television is taking a new turn. Gore has reincarnated himself as an activist entrepreneur...
...will they work? "We want to be the 'television home page' for the Internet generation," Gore has said. But there's no small amount of skepticism that his cable channel will be able to break out of the pack. If Gore is on to something with this idea of turning consumers into media programmers, so are a lot of other people. Korea's Ohmynews boasts a stable of 38,000 "citizen journalists." Pictures and video from bystanders' cell phones played a starring role in the mainstream media coverage of the terrorist bombings in London. There are already 70 million blogs...
...apply to the show, he says he filled out a 20-page application and submitted a 10-minute video of himself. He and a few hundred others were called back for interviews, which he and a few dozen others survived. After taking intelligence, personality, and film tests, the contestants recorded confessional videos...