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XM & Sirius

Is satellite radio going to make it? Yes

Will the merger hurt or help the industry? It will help the industry because making satellite radio more affordable will enable more people to subscribe to it.

Will the merger hurt or help consumers? Help because it will make it more affordable

Google News

1. Anna Nicole Smith's Final Hours Link
This article is about Anna Nicole Smith's recent death. The article says that she was extremely drunk the night of her death and a huge number of prescription medications were found in her hotel rom. The cause of her death, however, is still unknown. "This is clearly a sudden, unexpected and unexplained death," said medical examiner Joshua Perper, describing the death as a "medical puzzle".

2. Barack Obama to Run for President Link
This article is about Barack Obama, who officially announced on Saturday that he will be running for president in the 2008 election. He mentioned that his first priority is to end the war in Iraq.

3. Obama challenges Hillary on Iraq Link
This article is about Obama challenging Hillary Clinton's plans to end the war in Iraq. He believes that she doesn't actually have a plan and confronts her about it.

Online Life

1. I agree with this quote because many people are now doing things such as reality TV-shows and blogs to gain fame.
   
2. Yes, people should have this right because if sometime in the long run and employer or someone imporant saw this picture it could jeopardize your chance at getting a job or some other oppurtunity.
   
3. Yes, because so many things that we do are in one way or another tracked by someone.
   
4. It means that people from all around the world have access to anyone's website or blog.
   
5. No because newspapers have to be based on fact, while personal blogs do not.
6. I think that nowadays that is completely normal
   
7. Iamfacingforeclosure.com is a site written by an idiot. Acknowledge he is an idiot for getting in so much trouble with money.
   
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Internet Histor y

1. "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called 'harnessing collective intelligence.')" -Tim O'Reilly

2. Facebook

3.The dot-com bubble was a period during 1995–2001 during which stock market companies in the West saw their value would increase rapidly from growth in new internet related fields. This period was marked by the founding of a group of new Internet-based companies which are known as dot-coms.

We are witnessing the rise of the articulate...

"We are witnessing the rise of the articulate and the marginalization of the inarticulate, whether in our political and business leaders or in our leading brands and most favored Internet sites."

This is saying that people are becoming more well-spoken in various aspects of society, including in politics and business, and on the internet. It's also saying that people that are articulate will be more succesful then thsoe who are not.

defnitions

Marginalization: to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power

Articulate: using language easily and fluently; having facility with words