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...song, “White Houses,” the lamentation, “we grew up way too fast.” At last Thursday’s screening of Inside Out, a documentary about the harsh reality of teen motherhood, the lyrics of this piece of contemporary pop took on a whole new meaning...
...said the two offenders engaged in “absurd dialogue” with one another. One suspect asked the other, “should I pop...
...Informal finance isn't just for mom-and-pop shops. Wenzhou's biggest restaurant, the 200-table Golden Fields Village, opened in May and specializes in shark-fin soup, giant snails and stingrays. Owner Wu Jianguan started the business by borrowing $100,000 from banks by mortgaging his home. But that wasn't enough to pay for the floor-to-ceiling fish tanks and staff of 150 hostesses in purple evening gowns, so he borrowed five times more from friends at higher rates. The cornerstones of such informal lending are relationships far stronger than Wu's connections to the bank...
...technology. Whenever those feeds are updated, an outline of each new story appears automatically in his reader along with a link back to the full content on the originating page. It's kind of like customized, one-stop information shopping. "RSS means stories from all my favorite sources just pop into my news reader as soon as they're published," he says. "I no longer have to spend ages scrabbling around lots of different sites every morning." Andrews is one of a growing legion of Web users who've embraced Really Simple Syndication, and this burgeoning movement has convinced...
...advertising. "I think there's the potential for a backlash against ads in feeds," says Eric Peterson, an analyst for Jupiter Research, because they might alienate users by destroying the flow of clutter-free information. The danger, RSS proponents realize, is that RSS ads could become just like Web pop-ups or e-mail ads - another form of spam. But Peterson doubts whether either subscription or advertising can sustain stand-alone RSS firms. Acquisition, he suggests, might be the best business strategy. "I think there's more potential for larger companies to buy these smaller RSS services," he says...