<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - ZenAid's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - ZenAid's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:02:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:40:03 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Sex columnist is out for having plagiarised her FIRST column</title><description><![CDATA[It has come to our attention that some of the questions in this week's debut of the New York Press's new sex-advice column, "Lip Service," were taken from past columns by Dan Savage, the nationally-syndicated sex-advice columnist and editor of The Stranger. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1253072-sex-columnist-is-out-for-having-plagiarised-her-first-column</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1253072-sex-columnist-is-out-for-having-plagiarised-her-first-column</guid><category>us-news</category><category>new-york-press</category><category>claudia-lonow</category><category>dan-savage</category><category>plagiarism</category><category>journalism</category><category>ethics</category><category>lip-service</category><category>sex-columnist</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:02:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>If &quot;Real Journalism&quot; Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In?</title><description><![CDATA[When the business model of "real journalism" fails, what should society do in response? When things are considered important, but can't be supported with a business model, government sometimes steps in. National parks, highways, police and national defense are all examples.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1253041-if-real-journalism-fails-as-a-business-should-government-step-in</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1253041-if-real-journalism-fails-as-a-business-should-government-step-in</guid><category>us-news</category><category>journalism</category><category>newspapers</category><category>print-media</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:49:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Number of young people found hanged in 'suicide cult town' rises to 13</title><description><![CDATA[The true scale of a suicide epidemic among young people in a small town was revealed yesterday.

As well as the seven deaths linked to social networking websites, a coroner revealed that a further six had also died within a year.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1253029-number-of-young-people-found-hanged-in-suicide-cult-town-rises-to-13</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1253029-number-of-young-people-found-hanged-in-suicide-cult-town-rises-to-13</guid><category>world-news</category><category>internet</category><category>uk-news</category><category>social-networking</category><category>south-wales</category><category>bebo</category><category>suicides</category><category>internet-suicide-cult</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:42:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Turning Japanese: the first foreign geisha</title><description><![CDATA[She comes from Australia and her real name is Fiona Graham, but to her customers she is Sayuki and her aim is to educate the world in a unique national tradition. David McNeill met her]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1250772-turning-japanese-the-first-foreign-geisha</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1250772-turning-japanese-the-first-foreign-geisha</guid><category>world-news</category><category>geisha-memoirs-of-a-geisha</category><category>japan</category><category>sayuki</category><category>fiona-graham</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:49:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Crash! Biggest fall in shares since September 11 </title><description><![CDATA[It was the day that the fear factor took over. From Asia to South America, share prices tumbled yesterday as the world's investors gambled that a US recession was now inevitable. In London, the City endured its darkest day since the nadir of 9/11.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1247131-crash-biggest-fall-in-shares-since-september-11-</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1247131-crash-biggest-fall-in-shares-since-september-11-</guid><category>business</category><category>stock-market-crash</category><category>sub-prime-crisis</category><category>stock-exchange</category><category>recession</category><category>uk-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:22:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>'Internet suicide cult' rips apart town as SEVEN young people hang themselves</title><description><![CDATA[
A small town has been rocked by the copycat suicides of seven young people.

Local people fear the hangings are linked to a chilling internet cult.

Within 24 hours of the latest death last week, two friends of the teenage girl had also attempted suicide.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1247108-internet-suicide-cult-rips-apart-town-as-seven-young-people-hang-themselves</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1247108-internet-suicide-cult-rips-apart-town-as-seven-young-people-hang-themselves</guid><category>technology</category><category>suicides</category><category>internet-suicide-cult</category><category>bebo</category><category>social-networking</category><category>internet</category><category>uk-news</category><category>south-wales</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:11:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Year 2007 sees repression worsening in Tibet: Report </title><description><![CDATA[Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy's 2007 annual report finds cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions inside Tibet increased almost threefold compared to 2006 indicating a worsening of human rights situation in Tibet ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1247078-year-2007-sees-repression-worsening-in-tibet-report-</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/22/1247078-year-2007-sees-repression-worsening-in-tibet-report-</guid><category>world-news</category><category>china</category><category>human-rights</category><category>tibet</category><category>beijing-olympics</category><category>buddhism</category><category>repression</category><category>free-tibet</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:53:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Journalist's hand cut off</title><description><![CDATA[According to Ashok Rauniyar, a local representative of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, his assailants shouted "Do you write the news with these hands?" before cutting one of them off.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/21/1244523-journalists-hand-cut-off</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/21/1244523-journalists-hand-cut-off</guid><category>world-news</category><category>press-freedom</category><category>journalist</category><category>nepal</category><category>manoj-sah</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:32:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Chinese Olympics Logo 2008 - NOT!</title><description><![CDATA["The Olympic Games is not simply a sports event and its meaning is beyond sports itself." 
-- Wei Jizhong, senior consultant to the Beijing Organizing Committee.

]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/21/1244508-chinese-olympics-logo-2008-not</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/21/1244508-chinese-olympics-logo-2008-not</guid><category>world-news</category><category>beijing-olympics</category><category>china</category><category>activism</category><category>sport</category><category>human-rights</category><category>cartoon</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:27:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rotating Power Outages An Equalizer in South Africa </title><description><![CDATA[As she drove home to this township, known as the Dark City during apartheid because it lacked electricity while Johannesburg's white neighborhoods nearby blazed with light, community activist Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa experienced a delicious moment of irony.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/20/1240981-rotating-power-outages-an-equalizer-in-south-africa-</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/20/1240981-rotating-power-outages-an-equalizer-in-south-africa-</guid><category>world-news</category><category>south-africa</category><category>electricity</category><category>power</category><category>power-blackouts</category><category>loadshedding</category><category>johannesburg</category><category>sandton</category><category>alexander</category><category>apartheid</category><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:53:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Power cuts disrupt surgery in South Africa </title><description><![CDATA[Michael Bevan was on an operating table as surgeons performed a delicate procedure on the artery supplying blood to his brain, when, without warning, the lights went out.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/20/1240974-power-cuts-disrupt-surgery-in-south-africa-</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/20/1240974-power-cuts-disrupt-surgery-in-south-africa-</guid><category>world-news</category><category>south-africa</category><category>power-blackouts</category><category>loadshedding</category><category>power-failures</category><category>electricity</category><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:45:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A New Text Message in Islamic Law - I divorce you</title><description><![CDATA[The Cairo woman stared in disbelief at the text message in her cellphone inbox.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/19/1239549-a-new-text-message-in-islamic-law-i-divorce-you</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/19/1239549-a-new-text-message-in-islamic-law-i-divorce-you</guid><category>world-news</category><category>cellphone</category><category>mobile</category><category>text-message</category><category>sms</category><category>divorce</category><category>islamic-law</category><category>text-message-divorce</category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:41:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Shock at beating death of executive who filmed police violence with mobile phone</title><description><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the way a construction company executive, Wei Wenhua, was beaten to death by municipal law enforcement officers known as "chengguan" in Tianmen, in the province of Hubei, on 7 January when he used his mobile phone camera to film them i&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219259-shock-at-beating-death-of-executive-who-filmed-police-violence-with-mobile-phone</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219259-shock-at-beating-death-of-executive-who-filmed-police-violence-with-mobile-phone</guid><category>world-news</category><category>china</category><category>censorship</category><category>murder</category><category>wei-wenhua</category><category>chengguan</category><category>mobile-phone</category><category>cellphone</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:39:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Can the world afford the Tata Nano? </title><description><![CDATA[It's either the start of a people's revolution or the trigger for social and environmental headaches across the globe. 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When the media think it is time for another overnight shock, they get on the blower to Olaf.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219254-miles-kington-everything-youve-heard-about-healthy-eating-is-wrong</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219254-miles-kington-everything-youve-heard-about-healthy-eating-is-wrong</guid><category>health</category><category>satire</category><category>medical-scres</category><category>miles-kingstone</category><category>column</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:33:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Website aims to aggregate 'every interview since 1859'</title><description><![CDATA[Celebrity interviewer Rob McGibbon has launched a website business which aims to provide a comprehensive index of journalistic interviews.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219250-website-aims-to-aggregate-every-interview-since-1859</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219250-website-aims-to-aggregate-every-interview-since-1859</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>website</category><category>rob-mcgibbon</category><category>celebrities</category><category>interviews</category><category>accessinterviews</category><category>journalist</category><category>journalism</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:29:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The gay poem that broke blasphemy laws</title><description><![CDATA[The announcement that the government may support moves to strike down blasphemy laws comes 30 years after Denis Lemon was found guilty of committing libel against Christianity, the last prosecution for blasphemy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219248-the-gay-poem-that-broke-blasphemy-laws</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219248-the-gay-poem-that-broke-blasphemy-laws</guid><category>world-news</category><category>uk-news</category><category>britain</category><category>blasphemy</category><category>law</category><category>denis-lemon</category><category>mary-whitehouse</category><category>james-kirkup</category><category>gay-news</category><category>jesus</category><category>gay</category><category>poetry</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:26:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>I lost everything after succumbing to the office piranha's seduction </title><description><![CDATA[Once, retail boss Colin had an enviable life. He was in line for promotion, had a beautiful North London home, two children he adored and a loving wife who was expecting their third baby.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219241-i-lost-everything-after-succumbing-to-the-office-piranhas-seduction-</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219241-i-lost-everything-after-succumbing-to-the-office-piranhas-seduction-</guid><category>world-news</category><category>office-romances</category><category>office-piranha</category><category>philanderers</category><category>sex</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:22:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Do Not A Voice-Mail Babbler Be</title><description><![CDATA[If you would like to leave a long, rambling message with no apparent point, please hang up now.

If you are calling to verify that your e-mail has been received, please go outside and do five laps around the block.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219233-do-not-a-voice-mail-babbler-be</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219233-do-not-a-voice-mail-babbler-be</guid><category>technology</category><category>voice-mail</category><category>phones</category><category>voice-mail-messages</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:12:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Erica Jong: Fear of Crying Unfair </title><description><![CDATA[Now Hillary Clinton "cries" and everyone cries foul. Just using her feminine wiles, they say. Playing unfair, they say. Bill Kristol and Maureen Dowd call her manipulative, scheming and false.

She didn't even cry - just misted up - and what a hullabaloo.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZenAid]]></dc:creator><link>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219230-erica-jong-fear-of-crying-unfair-</link><guid>http://ZenAid.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/11/1219230-erica-jong-fear-of-crying-unfair-</guid><category>politics</category><category>erica-jong</category><category>hillary-clinton</category><category>crying</category><category>feminism</category><category>feminist</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:10:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>