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Is The Huffington Post Worth More Than Your Newspaper? (LEE)

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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=49352fc6796c7a080066da77maxX=240maxY=180" border="0" alt="NewspaperStackSmall.jpg" title="NewspaperStackSmall.jpg" width="240" height="180" /The Huffington Post took $25 million in funding to set a $100 million valuation yesterday. a href="http://adage.com/digitalnext/post.php?article_id=132924"AdAge's Michael Learmonth points out/a that makes the Internet's paper-less newspaper more valuable -- on paper, so to speak -- than quite a few of the kind printed on dead trees:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The funding means Arianna Huffington's news blog is now considered more valuable by its backers than quite a few publicly traded newspaper companies, such as strongLee Enterprises (LEE)/strong, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 52 other papers (market cap: $36 million), strongA.H. Belo (AHC)/strong, owner of the Dallas Morning News and the Providence Journal (market cap: $35 million), and strongMedia General (MEG)/strong, owner of the Tampa Tribune and Richmond Times-Dispatch (market cap: $34.6 million). It puts Huffington Post in the same league as strongMcClatchy Corp. (MNI)/strong, owner of the Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald and 28 other dailies (market cap: $150 million). /p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/12/newspapers-prepare-to-make-savage-cost-cuts-nyt-"br /Newspapers Prepare To Make Savage Cost Cuts (NYT)/a/p pemPhoto: a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drb62/"DRB62/a/em/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/KMQECQ9y2cCmyKovIaP086z58MU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/KMQECQ9y2cCmyKovIaP086z58MU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=539VXWVe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=539VXWVe" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=nvwLJVKs"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=jBe72VmO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=TtN98wru"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=TtN98wru" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=NUnQ3RgJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Dekcu1D1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Q48Z60ig"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ROy9JxPL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/MB6cab-jX4c" height="1" width="1"/

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Spanish entrepreneurs aim to kill standby power drain, get gold star from Mother Earth

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- 1 days and 1 hours ago

div align="center"a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783062843762925.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-2-08-power-strip-loaded.jpg" //abr //div The amount of a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/29/how-much-does-it-cost-to-just-leave-your-hdtv-plugged-in/"power consumed/a from appliances and such left in a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/tv-standby-buttons-to-be-outlawed/"standby mode/a is certainly a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/27/how-much-power-does-your-hdtv-use/"up for debate/a, but what's not is the fact that they'd all be better off, um, a href="http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/20/a-little-standby-goes-a-long-way/"off/a. That's according to Spanish inventors who have developed a technology to automatically detect when gadgets fall into standby mode and then a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/domias-bye-bye-standby-kills-power-en-masse/"shut 'em off completely/a; the best (read: differentiating) part, however, is that devices won't have to go through their boot-up sequence again after rising from the grave. Of course, this technology is worthless with devices such as security systems and DVRs, which obviously require at least some power at all times in order to effectively answer the call of duty. Still, the elaborately named Good for You, Good for the Planet is hoping to get its tech into power strips and individual gizmos soon, with one hotel chain in Spain already testing a prototype. Here's hoping these thoughtful entrepreneurs aren't squeezed to death by all of the collective hugging from trees that's surely going down.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/12/01/snuff-out-the-standby-mode-save-money-and-planet-say-inventors/"WalletPop/a, image courtesy of a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034348621@N01/1372635204"GavinBell/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"Misc. Gadgets/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/spanish-entrepreneurs-aim-to-kill-standby-power-drain-get-gold/"Spanish entrepreneurs aim to kill standby power drain, get gold star from Mother Earth/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:25:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783062843762925.html?mod=googlenews_wsjRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/spanish-entrepreneurs-aim-to-kill-standby-power-drain-get-gold/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1388080/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/spanish-entrepreneurs-aim-to-kill-standby-power-drain-get-gold/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/aNFFN4tYd6ksM_c5f1kSYKmkatA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/aNFFN4tYd6ksM_c5f1kSYKmkatA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=dTvvIicE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=dTvvIicE" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=aI9u11QO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=aI9u11QO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/rU9STJ8_LjU" height="1" width="1"/

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This is a thing that's happening very fast, in apple terms.

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How the Honeycrisp apple went from being nearly discarded to one of the a href="http://www.minnesotaharvest.net/apple_honeycrisp.htm"tastiest best-named apples of all time/a -- NYTimes says "a href="http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/nyregion/15towns.html"the iPod of apples/a" -- and more about a href="http://www.citypages.com/2008-10-01/restaurants/with-honeycrisps-patent-expiring-uofm-looks-for-new-apple/"the patenting and branding of apples/a. br / blockquote"[D]uring its time of evaluation, Honeycrisp, being a beautiful but partially-colored apple, effectively waited in the wings until the big stage was set. I'm not saying the University would not have introduced Honeycrisp against the tide of Red and Golden. I don't know that. It just takes years to get to the point of taking the leap, and maybe 1991 would have been the leaping point regardless of the current. But there's no doubt Honeycrisp jumped into a very favorable current, one that had been started with Granny Smith and had gained irreversible momentum with Gala and Fuji. Its time had come.br / br / But even when your time has come, if you're an apple, it'll still be a while. There are millions of Honeycrisp trees in the ground right now, but a production ranking is nowhere in sight. Like Gala, Honeycrisp will take a few more years before it climbs out of the "All Others" category.br / br / So, if you're David Bedford, and you evaluated a variety for many years until 1991 and then released it, and it's been out now for well over a decade and it's still in "All Others," you've done a wonderful job. That's just the speed of this game. Honeycrisp is on a meteoric rise. This is a thing that's happening very fast, in apple terms."/blockquote

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Jonathan Glancey is dazzled by the thrilling new European court of justice in Luxembourg

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- 1 days and 8 hours ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/55504?ns=guardianpageName=Art+and+design%3A+Let+there+be+lightch=Art+and+designc3=The+Guardianc4=Architecture%2CEuropean+Union+%28News%29%2CWorld+news%2CCulture+sectionc5=Middle+East+Travel%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CArchitecturec6=Jonathan+Glanceyc7=2008_12_02c8=1127261c9=articlec10=GUc11=Art+and+designc12=Architecturec13=c14=h2=GU%2FArt+and+design%2FArchitecture" width="1" height="1" //divpIf the law were a colour, what would it be? Dominique Perrault, the Parisian architect of the newly reconstructed European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, thinks the answer is gold. Why gold? "Because this is not a criminal court," he says. "It's not a place concerned with prisons and punishments. It's do with relations between European countries, with constitutional concerns. And anyway, I thought the sky over Luxembourg is often so sad that it would be nice, somehow, to catch the sun and bring it here." He's right: when the low, late November sun catches the base of the court's brand new twin towers, they light up like a pair of giant candles. /ppThe European Court of Justice, founded in 1952, is the highest court in the union, with a judge appointed from each member country. Located on top of the Kirchberg plateau, separated from Luxembourg City by a deep ravine, the court was until recently a rather soulless place. Perrault has succeeded in introducing an unexpected playfulness. "I like those cities you find in Spain, Austria or Bavaria," he says, "which have patches of wonderful and unexpected colour - where buildings have been designed to bring some nice architectural weather when conditions are grey." /ppThe Kirchberg plateau forms a sort of latter-day bureaucratic Acropolis. Since the founding of the European Union, this place has been studded with a large number of imposing, if not exactly delightful, EU buildings. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was one of the six founding members of the European Community, and as the EU has expanded, the need for new architecture here has grown. Today, mighty institutions such as the European Investment Bank, housed in a purpose-built 1980s fortress designed by Denys Lasdun (the architect behind the National Theatre), stand next to a new generation of cultural buildings, among them the recently completed Philharmonie concert hall by French architect Christian de Portzamparc, and the new museum of modern art by IM Pei, the Chinese-American architect behind the glass pyramid at the Louvre. This all seems well done, although somewhat worthy and antiseptic./ppAs for the Court of Justice, this had to expand when it was announced that EU membership would increase to 27 countries. Perrault was commissioned to wrap a new building around the existing complex. His brief was not simply to enlarge the court, but to ensure that every one of its 2,000 staff, formerly spread across a huge campus, was housed under one roof. He and his collaborators have doubled the amount of space - and yet the building does not appear twice the size. It feels generous, easy to use, and well crafted - which, given that it cost you, me and everyone else in the EU more than euro;500m, is as it should be. /ppBehind those two pencil-thin gold towers lies a kind of shimmering palace. This is the grand new public plaza, between the towers and the main building, and its interiors are some of the most extraordinary yet created for the EU./ppFrom the main entrance into the building, a ramp leads down to the central court. A dramatic room by any standards, this handsome timber-lined chamber boasts a ceiling straight out of One Thousand and One Nights. Above a great glass screen, a giant gold flower appears to blossom out over the judges' benches and the public viewing gallery. This is in fact a woven steel veil, which floats over the court like an improbably glamorous mosquito net over the bed of a fairytale princess. Well, that's what I saw, anyway. Perrault describes this ceiling as "like a shining Medusa". Perhaps the judges who meet here will make the final ruling on what it is meant to signify./pp"I wanted to create a warm ambience," explains Perrault, "not a confrontational one. I wanted to grab the sun and bring it inside the court. The judges wanted some daylight, but not views out because this might distract them from their deliberations. So I thought of this golden veil, where the light can come in, [where it can be] warm even on a cold day. Then I made the floors and walls in warm wood, and the carpets in purple."/ppThe smaller courtrooms, while less dramatic than the main chamber, are also timber-lined and warmly finished. These are encircled by a new two-storey corridor or internal street of crisp, modern spaces - lobbies, cafes, libraries, judges' chambers. Daylight filters through the building, while the artificial light is playful and imaginative. /ppThe overall impression is of an earnest giant who, despite himself, wants to dress up and play. While Perrault has decked his building in colour and plays of shimmering light, the structure of the remodelled court is logical and perfectly serious. In a way, it reminds me of Barry and Pugin's Palace of Westminster: a mighty parliamentary building for what was once the hub of an empire, garbed in stunning fancy dress, and all the better for it. /ppOutside, the twin 100-metre-high towers are reminiscent of Oscar Niemeyer's National Congress Building in Brasilia. In cityscape terms, they have been designed with the same end in mind - as eyecatchers, architectural focal points to be seen from afar. Perrault's towers will be home to some 600 legal writers from across the EU, whose job it is to ensure that European laws are understood in more than 20 languages. That there are a lot of EU laws is evident in the sheer scale of the towers. /ppDominique Perrault's Court of Justice is a highly unexpected one - though you could argue that we should expect nothing less. Born in Clermont-Ferrand and based in Paris since 1981, the architect made his name with the vast and hugely controversial Bibliothegrave;que Nationale de France, one of President Mitterand's "grands travaux". Rising from what was an industrial wasteland in the 13th arrondissement on the south bank of the Seine, this giant library, known as "la TGB" (Tregrave;s Grande Bibliothegrave;que), is composed of four giant glass towers shaped in the guise of open books set about a plinth. Books are stacked in these towers, while readers gaze out into a sunken garden, planted with evergreen trees. /ppStacking books in glass towers was, to many minds, an odd and even contrary thing to do. Soon after the building opened, wooden screens were placed inside the tower windows to keep the sun at bay. Exotic woods lining the reading rooms were a further source of controversy. Had they come from a sustainable source? What did their use say about a nominally post-imperial France? Despite these concerns, the building remains deeply impressive. Perrault has the knack of somehow combining the role and skills of an architect with those of an art director. His up-and-coming Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, women's university in Seoul and San Pellegrino thermal baths near Bergamo all promise to be cinematic buildings of great daring and adventure. (The latter will look something like a fall oftumbled boulders, seen through a glacier at the foot of a real mountain.)/ppPerrault's designs can be wildly imaginative, and they can be abstractly minimal. He treads his own bold path. With the EU Court of Justice, he has shown us how a rational, highly organised and seemingly matter-of-fact building can be dazzling, even romantic. The law has never looked quite so colourful./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture"Architecture/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/eu"European Union/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/byFTd24JRU4K-V9EvtRELhOjARY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/byFTd24JRU4K-V9EvtRELhOjARY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Norwegian Übër-Bläck-Mëtäl Devotees Captured In New Portrait Book

Boing Boing

- 1 days and 13 hours ago

( Image above by Peter Beste. You're welcome! ) The LA Weekly has a feature up about a new book with portraits of very serious Norwegian Black Metal dudes. In True Norwegian Black Metal, photographer Peter Beste captures the "blackest of the black: apolitical and anti-Christian separatist self-preservationists who’d sooner make a lampshade out of their own skin than to try to convert fans." Snip from Siran Babayan's piece: Take, for example, Immortal singer-bassist Abbath strolling through the woods surrounded by moss-covered emerald trees (“That’s essentially his backyard”), or Gorgoroth singer Gaahl standing in front of a snow-capped log cabin. Every turn of the page is a moving postcard of brooks, lakes and forrests. Which begs the question: With all the serenity and breathtaking views, what’s to rebel against? Apparently, Mother Nature makes mean Vikings out of little boys. If Black Sabbath were a product of bleak, industrial Birmingham, it should be no surprise that music this extreme thrives in a country with such high precipitation and so many months of either uninterrupted daylight or darkness. So don’t let the scenery fool you. These are some disturbed and disturbing fuckers, whether it’s guitarist Ymon of Perished with his arms covered in branding marks, or Nattefrost of Carpathian Forest smoking heroin off tin foil or a nude female model being painted in cow’s blood before she’s about to be hung from a cross for a Gorgoroth show in Krakow. Nearly everyone is wearing a scowl, corpse paint and spikes. And Beste’s grossest moment has him shooting Nattefrost smeared in his own shit. Of all the bands featured, Beste focuses on the Tolkien-inspired Gorgoroth and its lead troublemaker Gaahl, who’s been arrested twice for alleged assault and torture, and whose face, with its sunken cheeks, looks even creepier without makeup. And that Krakow gig in 2004 not only included human crucifixes but sheep heads mounted on sticks. (Dude, one photo of decapitated sheep heads would’ve been enough.) Images of Satan (LA Weekly), and there's a terrific slideshow here (NSFW). Here's the Amazon link if you'd like to buy the book. (Thanks Richard Metzger) Previously on Boing Boing: Black Metal for Dummies Black Metal cupcakes More on sociology of Malaysian Black Metal Malaysia bans metal as un-Islamic. For those about to rock: jail ... Cookie Monster Tribute Heavy Metal Band Malaysian metal and the Man: a first-hand account Dave Hill and Black Metal Dialogues...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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Norwegian ??b??r-Bl??ck-M??t??l Devotees Captured In New Portrait Book

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- 1 days and 14 hours ago

( Image above by Peter Beste. Youre welcome! ) The LA Weekly has a feature up about a new book with portraits of very serious Norwegian Black Metal dudes. In True Norwegian Black Metal, photographer Peter Beste captures the blackest of the black: apolitical and anti-Christian separatist self-preservationists who???d sooner make a lampshade out of their own skin than to try to convert fans. Snip from Siran Babayans piece: Take, for example, Immortal singer-bassist Abbath strolling through the woods surrounded by moss-covered emerald trees (???That???s essentially his backyard???), or Gorgoroth singer Gaahl standing in front of a snow-capped log cabin. Every turn of the page is a moving postcard of brooks, lakes and forrests. Which begs the question: With all the serenity and breathtaking views, what???s to rebel against? Apparently, Mother Nature makes mean Vikings out of little boys. If Black Sabbath were a product of bleak, industrial Birmingham, it should be no surprise that music this extreme thrives in a country with such high precipitation and so many months of either uninterrupted daylight or darkness. So don???t let the scenery fool you. These are some disturbed and disturbing fuckers, whether it???s guitarist Ymon of Perished with his arms covered in branding marks, or Nattefrost of Carpathian Forest smoking heroin off tin foil or a nude female model being painted in cow???s blood before she???s about to be hung from a cross for a Gorgoroth show in Krakow. Nearly everyone is wearing a scowl, corpse paint and spikes. And Beste???s grossest moment has him shooting Nattefrost smeared in his own shit. Of all the bands featured, Beste focuses on the Tolkien-inspired Gorgoroth and its lead troublemaker Gaahl, who???s been arrested twice for alleged assault and torture, and whose face, with its sunken cheeks, looks even creepier without makeup. And that Krakow gig in 2004 not only included human crucifixes but sheep heads mounted on sticks. (Dude, one photo of decapitated sheep heads would???ve been enough.) Images of Satan (LA Weekly), and theres a terrific slideshow here (NSFW). Heres the Amazon link if youd like to buy the book. (Thanks Richard Metzger) Previously on Boing Boing: Black Metal for Dummies Black Metal cupcakes More on sociology of Malaysian Black Metal Malaysia bans metal as un-Islamic. For those about to rock: jail ... Cookie Monster Tribute Heavy Metal Band Malaysian metal and the Man: a first-hand account Dave Hill and Black Metal Dialogues...br style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

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China: AIDS blogger Li-xiang's unextraordinary life

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Li-xiang is a patient, but also more than a patient. He filmed in 2004 a documentary called “our life” about how AIDS patients live, and founded an AID-care NGO named Red-wood, which reaches out to comfort AIDS patients and train health-care volunteers. Outside his sickroom, he is more a social worker than a patient in need of care. As he said

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To me, my daily work to help AIDS patients, and lift public’s misunderstanding and discrimination against AIDS. I spent most of my time working on HIV issue, as any social worker does.

Now about 30, he contracted AIDS in a blood donation when he was only a high school student. He started blogging in 2005, writing about his life, ideas, and occasionally HIV treatment. He faces the disease with an open mind and never grudges talking about it, and his optimism cheers up many of his fellow patients.

He writes about AIDS treatment and discusses with netizens, many of them fellow patients, the prospect of overcoming the fatal disease; for example, he has entries called “Li-xiang: my point on AIDS medicine”, and “Li-xiang: relationship between anti-virus cure and CD4.” Also, he scolds the quake that swindles fake medicine to anxious patients. Moreover, he deliberated on a trade-off between people’s privacy and a preventive measure against AIDS that have to make any lurking disease open.

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Should we shift from a strategy that centers on treatment to another strategy centers on preventive measures? Or should we do them equally hard? Is the measure we are taking now, namely, treatment going first, only takes as little effect as a water drop has to the entire sea? Are the 60 million AIDS workers around the world able to save effectively the 40 million patients? Should we, facing AIDS, sacrifice human rights to impose a forced examination on people to better control the AIDS infection? Is that worth it?

He has been a celebrity. His deeds were widely reported. Southern Weekend, an influential periodical, dedicated one page to him after his documentary was finished. He was said to be so busy that even on bed he has to pick up phone calls to tell his ideas about where the NGO Red-woods should be going for next step. And pictures show that he was planting trees with the Belgium Princess Mathilde in an AIDS-related activity.

(From Li-xiang's blog)

But in all these reports and pictures, one thing remains, that Li-xiang has never shown his face to the camera. The reason he does that, is because he also wants a life of dignity, and tries not to let his parents and friends worry too much about him.

Self

Li-xiang, though with the aura as an extraordinary man, is in nature a common person, who just happened to run into a misfortune. He likes to talk about himself in most daily-life details.

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I love playing games, not only freecell (a poker game), but also Counter-strike (a computer game). Playing games for less than 30 minutes a day will help adjust your life and mind.

He talks about what he dislikes:

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What I hate the most is that when I am sick, people come to look after me, and I have to repeat how my treatment goes time and time again. What disappoints me more is that some one even come bearing other purposes.

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Finally again I saw your blog updated. Do you feel better? Though Beijing has good health-care hardware, you have to really rely on yourself and a strong immunity. Too much side-effect with medicines. Sincerely wish you the best with everything! Zhou-yuan

Beautiful girls

Li-xiang confessed he loves beautiful girls. He also has a girlfriend named Wu, translated as “Dance”.

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Those who know about me all have heard that Li-xiang loves beautiful girls. When people ask me about the rumor, I will give a straight answer, “yes, I love beautiful girls.”
It’s lucky for me to know exactly some beautiful girls. It goes without saying that one of them is my girlfriend. Aha, what hope will life have if beautiful girls were no long liked and appreciated?

But some netizens left on his blog unfriendly comments on his love of beauty.

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This blogger named Li-xiang is really shameless. He knows how he is but still find a beautiful girl as his girlfriend. Isn’t this meant to be harming her? Shame on him!!!!! Please be more considerate for others. Sina.com Netizen

But the remark met rebuttal from other netizens very soon.

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Li-xiang, don’t bother to argue with this kind of people. Life could be much unfair. You are so kind, wise, but were infected with AIDS due to a blood donation. This is not your fault. I feel painful that there is so malicious a person in the world. They don’t know the appreciation of beauty is also a virtue. They don’t know besides bodily relationship, there is spiritual love. Their ignorance and bigot, are impossible to understand you. Sina.com netizen

Sometimes Li-xiang would disappear for a while. He explained to those care about him:

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For quite a while I have written no diary and blogs. It’s not all because I was busy, but for some other reasons. Sometimes I felt depressed, and sometimes at a loss. Yes, I am not as strong as bronze. I am just a common person with a belief that some day hope will come true.

Though his blog enhances his popularity, he still takes it as a simple platform for communication, and a windo