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Top 5 Week Six

Mark Glaser

by Mark Glaser, February 21, 2006

  1. Great Firewall exposed
    Washington Post looks in-depth at China censorship issues
  2. Animated news puppets
    Failed Yahoo idea leaks out
  3. Windmill charger
    Don't have a plug? Your cell phone's charge is blowin' in the wind
  4. Fishwrap rising
    Newspaper assocation to pay $50 mil to promote dead-tree news
  5. TPMmuckraker
    Liberal blogger Josh Marshall to launch muckraking series
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Charles Clark said:

February 23, 2006 6:19 PM

This is about the only source of unbiased info we can get. Facts are hard to filter from other sources.

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