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U.S. Radio Goes Global With Yahoo! Widgets

Surprised to find a Radio SAWA widget today, while scrolling through the latest additions to the Yahoo! Widget Engine Gallery (download the Engine / View the Gallery).

Simply load into your widget engine and it will begin streaming… great way to touch up on your Arabic. (Sawa’s Web site: Arabic | English)

Bengali speaker? Try the Bangla Live New Radio widget, which offers BBC Bangla, Voice of America Bangla, Radio Japan Bangla and BBC Asian Network.

Take it even further East with Radio Tuner Singapore and tune into 23 Singapore-based radio stations streaming in English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.

Plenty more radio ’round-the-world in desktop widget format here.

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Steve Case is Sorry

Steve CaseWhelp, Mr. AOL apologized for merging with Time-Warner on Charlie Rose the other day.

But what about all those goddamn AOL 19.6 promotional CDs that won’t stop filling up the mailbox?

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The Daily Show on Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality is a serious issue for those of us who love the Internet. Last night Jon Stewart did a wonderfully enjoyable piece on it. Watch below. For more on Net Neutrality and how it affects you, visit the Save the Internet Coalition.

Also, click here to listen to Sen. Barack Obama discuss the issue on his podcast.

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Chris Allbritton is Back in Beirut

Allbritton, who files regularly for Time and the S.F. Chronicle, is a freelance journalist who has won my admiration with his solid, independent reporting from the Middle East over the past few years.

He is posting updates on his current dispatches from Beirut on his blog, Back to Iraq.