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...Arroyo still has enemies at large. At dinner last Wednesday, a text message flashed on the President's cell phone warning that an air force general had sold out for $600,000 and joined the coup plotters. The report was wrong; the general was sitting across the table from Arroyo, and they both laughed. But unless the President starts mending ties with the military and her political opposition, the next warning to flash on her cell phone could be real...
...valid English word? if so, can "U mke me blush" pass as a line of poetry? Britain's Guardian newspaper thinks it qualifies. Victor Keegan, the newspaper's Online editor, last week announced the winner of its first text message poetry competition. Hetty Huges, a 22-year-old university student, won the $1,500 prize for her text poem...
...were submitted, written in funky shorthand and sent via mobile phone keypad, during the two-week competition. A panel that included distinguished poets U.A. Fanthorpe and Peter Sansom selected the seven best. All entrants were messaged the final selection so they could vote for the winning ode - again by text messaging their ratings to the judges on their mobiles. The competition's main rule: no poem could exceed 160 characters, the maximum that can fit on many cell-phone screens. "Telepoetry is the newest literary form," says Keegan. "We are at the start of a literary and communications revolution...
...Commonly known as Short Message Service (SMS), text messaging has taken European youth culture by storm. With each message priced at about 14 cents a pop, the practice has surpassed e-mail in popularity among the young and turned text-messaging handbooks, like WAN2TLK, into paperback best sellers...
...Last year 6 billion text messages were sent in the U.K. Worldwide, the figure topped 100 billion. Most messagers are in the 15-to-24 age bracket, and they each send more than 50 messages a month on average. That, say market experts, adds up to a lucrative stream of revenue for mobile service providers. Text messaging is priced separately from the flat fee charged by mobile telephone providers. It's not a bad sideline for media outlets like the Guardian, either. Though the newspaper has not disclosed any readership increases from its telepoetry contest, Keegan says participation was "massive...