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Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating ContestIt’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time c... |
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State of U.S. Broadband: Demand Hits Speed BumpsA new report from Pew Internet shows that broadband growth in the U.S. has slowed down to a crawl, a sign that U.S. broadband carriers would have to work hard to find ways to grow their overall businesses. Pew points out that 55 percent of adult Americans have home broadband connections. Accordin... |
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Twitter, Identi.ca and July 4thFirst of all, if you’re American, and you’re reading this - I have to ask why? The web is like a ghost town today. There isn’t much going on via Twitter. FriendFeed is unusually slow, and about six or so of our two trillion readers showed up to leave a comment ... |
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Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86Former Sen. Jesse Helms, the North Carolina arch-conservative dubbed "Senator No" for his opposition to everything from federal arts funding to civil rights, died Friday. ... |
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Iranian Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for BloggersThe Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostasy means the abandonment of a religion. The offi... |
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10+ Blogging Politicians Who Still Don’t Say What They MeanPlace the words “blog” or “social media” and “politician” in the same line, and you almost invariably conjure images of a scandal. Or at least a messy exchange between writer/publisher and politician. Much less often are you likely to consider them a team. Poli... |

