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• “Computers could store entire life by 2026″ via The Daily Telegraph
• “Auditions Come to YouTube” via the Wall Street Journal
• Time’s Person of the Year is You! via Time Magazine
• “10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Acquire Yahoo In 2007″ via ShoeMoney.com
• “RUMOR: Apple ‘iPhone’ may include JAJAH VoIP software” via MacDailyNews.com
• CraigsNumber: an auto-expiring, FREE anonymous phone number via the Voice 2.0 blog
• “New NYC taxis to have TV and tracking” via SiliconValley.com
• “Google teams up with NASA” via CNN.com
• “Ask X - New UI for Ask.com Secretly Launched” via Read/WriteWeb
• “2007 Web Predictions” by Read/WriteWeb
• “Google axes search API” via the Register
• “BBC moves to file-sharing sites” via BBC News

Michael Geist blogs about the launch of a user-generated news show at BBC News 24

According to this Journalism.co.uk article, “Your News, which began a pilot run on Saturday, will feature stories, features and video proving most popular with viewers on TV and the internet. Presented by Richard Bilton and Laura Jones, the show will contain weekly features that will look at news reports covering issues raised by members of the public (called Your Story) and a section where reporters try to find answers to questions sent in to the BBC by the public (Your Questions).”

It seems like the BBC Web site receives 10,000 suggestion/comment e-mails a day.

What it means: what might seem like “garbage” to one company (what do we do with these 10,000 e-mails we’re getting, they’re a pain!) is gold for the BBC. I’m sure they saw all this submitted content sitting there and figured out a way to leverage it. Very smart! So, are you sitting on “garbage” that could be turned into gold?