<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>115 Social News and Bookmark Sites Ranked and Rated : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>5</score><crdate>3/19/2007 8:11:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-19T08:11:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25172</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25172/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Social sites reveal class divide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>21</score><crdate>6/25/2007 10:35:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-25T22:35:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13638</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13638/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mine Explosion Kills 78, Rescue Efforts Continue]]></title><description><![CDATA[As of 3:30 pm PST, Russian officials say 78 bodies of miners have been recovered from the mine site explosion in Siberia, but fear casualities will increase.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>43</score><crdate>3/19/2007 7:43:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-19T19:43:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58923</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/58923/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Play The News]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think the news is boring? 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But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>24</score><crdate>10/5/2007 6:11:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-05T06:11:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20253</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20253/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man With One Leg Kills Sex Offender Dating His Ex-Wife]]></title><description><![CDATA[From story: <br/>&quot;He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>15</score><crdate>5/14/2007 5:46:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-14T05:46:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13319</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13319/1/</url><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? Social insecurity]]></title><description><![CDATA[That's not my name! Never mind identity theft, now the government re-names you without your knowledge! Anchorage Daily News opinion columnist Heather Lende finds out the government says she's not who she thought she was.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>73</score><crdate>3/16/2007 7:36:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-16T07:36:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37650</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37650/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Msnbc.com buys social news site Newsvine]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Msnbc.com is diving into citizen journalism and social media by acquiring Newsvine.com, a small but innovative player in what is known as &#8220;participatory journalism.&#8221;&quot; - <br/><br/>A new age in journalism.....?]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>27</score><crdate>10/7/2007 9:34:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-07T21:34:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6172</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/6172/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></title><description><![CDATA[I read an article yesterday, blaming Digg for good stories being ignored. More than anything else, his argument shows that Thomas Kostigen has no clue what he is talking about when it comes to social media.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>0</score><crdate>11/20/2006 12:53:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70068</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/70068/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bad News Robot]]></title><description><![CDATA[No one likes to give bad news. What if there was a better way to give out bad news? What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear?]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>88</score><crdate>7/25/2008 12:54:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-25T12:54:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50168</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/50168/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Collection of Odd and WTF News]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the 100th Petshotel to a girl who had an allergic reaction and got her boyfriend arrested, this is your (almost) daily news source from Blogspot.com]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>29</score><crdate>2/11/2008 4:09:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-11T16:09:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7401</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7401/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Papers battle online news sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;All the news that's fit to print&quot; was once the newspaper man's slogan. 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