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interesting."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/-\/intenet+addiction?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=6"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/intenet%20addiction"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gee TEE"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05453399516295661171"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"3"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"6"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403865830110720728.post-5149751561798946568"},"published":{"$t":"2010-05-27T07:43:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-05-27T07:43:56.803+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"google"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intenet addiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"productivity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"technology"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Google's Pac-Man doodle cost the economy $ 120 mn (estimated)."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S_czpsuaObI\/AAAAAAAACAs\/XfQHtg1qw9k\/s1600\/google_doodle-pacman+.png\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S_czpsuaObI\/AAAAAAAACAs\/XfQHtg1qw9k\/s640\/google_doodle-pacman+.png\" width=\"600\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWow this is interesting news. Google's interactive Pac-Man logo game led to almost five million wasted hours and cost the economy about $ 120 million, an analyst estimated. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoogle apparently had about 505 million users Friday when the Pac-Man doodle went live. The game took up 4,819,352 hours of employee time and cost the economy a whopping $ 120,483,800, said Tony Wright, founder of Rescue Time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"For that same cost, you could hire all 19,385 Google employees. That includes Larry (Page) and Sergey (Brin), right down to the janitors. You could hire them for six weeks - imagine what you could build with that army of manpower,\" The Telegraph quoted from Wright's blog post.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternet users were happy to find the Pac-Man doodle on the search engine's home page. It was to mark the 30th anniversary of game's release.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe game could be played by clicking \"Insert coin\". It was online for 48 hours before Google went back to its usual logo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe search engine giant was \"overwhelmed, but not surprised\" by the reception given to the Pac-Man doodle, said Marissa Mayer, vice president of user experience at Google.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Due to popular demand, we're making it permanently available at google.com\/pacman ,\" she was quoted as saying."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5149751561798946568\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=5403865830110720728\u0026postID=5149751561798946568\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/5149751561798946568"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/5149751561798946568"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/googles-pac-man-doodle-cost-economy-120.html","title":"Google's Pac-Man doodle cost the economy $ 120 mn (estimated)."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gee TEE"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05453399516295661171"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S_czpsuaObI\/AAAAAAAACAs\/XfQHtg1qw9k\/s72-c\/google_doodle-pacman+.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403865830110720728.post-5777868830842576182"},"published":{"$t":"2010-04-27T06:30:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-04-27T06:30:07.408+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"buzz"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"facebook"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gaffes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intenet addiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"internet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"twitter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wacky"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Top 10 gaffes on Facebook, Twitter and Google"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9Y2zWuDDcI\/AAAAAAAABmM\/zF_Jp2l5UTE\/s1600\/facebook-logo.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9Y2zWuDDcI\/AAAAAAAABmM\/zF_Jp2l5UTE\/s200\/facebook-logo.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9Y20Cg7a_I\/AAAAAAAABmU\/Fep0VFTNYD4\/s1600\/twitter_logo.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"73\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9Y20Cg7a_I\/AAAAAAAABmU\/Fep0VFTNYD4\/s200\/twitter_logo.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9Y26dezbYI\/AAAAAAAABmc\/kivbDgwZxqM\/s1600\/google-buzz-logo.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9Y26dezbYI\/AAAAAAAABmc\/kivbDgwZxqM\/s200\/google-buzz-logo.png\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EA new poll says that three in every four Facebook users avoid adding their boss as a 'friend' out of fear that their actions on the site could cost them their job. We round up the best social media gaffes from Facebook, Twitter and Google. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to a new survey 73 per cent of Facebook users are not 'friends' with their bosses on the site for fear of losing their job because of their actions on the site.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EArticle appeared on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/facebook\/7635982\/Top-10-gaffes-on-Facebook-Twitter-and-Google.html\"\u003Etelegraph.co.uk\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1. Tenant sued by landlord\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Amanda Bonnen described her Chicago apartment as \"moldy\" on Twitter, she had no idea of the legal trouble that would ensue. Her landlords, Horizon Group Management, took offence to the message, claiming that she \"maliciously and wrongfully published the false and defamatory tweet, thereby allowing the tweet to be spread throughout the world\", and sought at least $50,000 in damages. But a judge in Cook County, Chicago, eventually threw out the lawsuit, saying the tweet was \"too vague\" and \"lacked context\". Nonetheless, the furore was a stark reminder that thoughts and views shared online do not exist in a vacuum, and have the potential to come back to haunt the sender.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2. Habitat hash-tag spam\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe brave new world of social media can be a minefield for \"traditional\" brands making their first foray in to online marketing. Habitat was forced to apologise after it used the Iran election to help publicise money-saving discounts at its store. The person in charge of the company's Twitter feed added keywords, known as hashtags, to their tweets, to ensure Habitat's messages appeared on Twitter's list of trending topics. The timing of the stunt was unfortunate -- at the time, Twitter was being used by protestors in Iran to organise rallies against the disputed election results, and to inform people in the West about how they had been treated. The appearance of offers for discounted bookcases and coffee tables among messages about police brutality and pleas for help did not go down well with the Twitterati. “Just read about your hashtag abuses,” wrote Caramboo on Twitter. “You utter scumbags, I’ll never visit your shop again”. Habitat apologised, and said the \"hashtag spam\" was an error, but it's a cautionary tale for companies that think engaging with the online community is as easy as setting up a Twitter account. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E3. Tweeting live from a funeral\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tragic death of three-year-old Marten Kudlis, killed by a motorist while queuing for ice cream, devastated the community of Aurora, Colorado. Local newspaper, Rocky Mountain News, dispatched journalist Berny Morson to cover the funeral - on Twitter. The resulting stream of tweets - describing every stage of the service, from the sobbing of relatives to the lowering of the coffin in to the ground - make for truly uncomfortable reading. There's a cold detachment to the messages, caused, no doubt, by the need to condense an emotionally charged event in to 140-character messages. But it demonstrated that even in today's permissive society, where make-ups, breaks-ups and the minutiae of daily life are shared through social-networking sites, some things should never, ever be \"live blogged\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E4. Facebook Beacon\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith 400 million users around the world, Facebook is sitting on huge amounts of personal data that many advertisers would sell their souls to get their hands on. Mining this data is one sure-fire way for Facebook to boost its profits, but it also has a duty to its users to protect their privacy. Its efforts to square this circle have resulted in some significant mis-steps, the most famous of which is Beacon, Facebook's ill-fated attempt at an online advertising platform. The aim of the service was to exploit the power of \"word of mouth\" marketing - it inserted details of purchases made at participating websites in to the news feed of Facebook users, making it visible to all their friends. But some users complained that that they had not been aware these details would be shared --one user said it meant her husband knew what she had bought him for Christmas. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, was forced in to a humiliating U-turn, admitting that the service had been a mistake, and changing the rules so that Beacon became opt-in rather than opt-out. Beacon was shut down completely in September 2009, following a class-action lawsuit from disgruntled Facebook users.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E5. Google Buzz\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was Google's attempt to replicate the real-time status updates that have proved so popular among Twitter and Facebook users. Buzz, which plugs in to a user's Gmail email account, connects people together based on names in their address book; it auto-followed people based on who users emailed most frequently. The problem was, as many people pointed out, the service was switched on automatically, which resulted in some people being connected to other people they had no wish to network with. Blogger Harriet Jacobs was furious about the service, which resulted in her being automatically connected to her \"abusive ex-husband\", putting her \"actual physical safety\" at risk. Google admitted that the roll-out of the service had been less than perfect, and made some changes so that it was easier for users to hide their list of followers, block new followers, and dictate who appeared on their public profile.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E6. Labour candidate sacked over 'offensive' tweets\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStuart MacLennan, who was standing in Moray in Scotland, used his Twitter account to moan about having to go \"up north\" to his constituency, branded elderly people \"coffin dodgers\", called local people \"chavs\" and insulted rival MPs, including Nick Clegg and Dianne Abbot. Although most of the comments were made before he was selected to stand for Parliament, the resulting uproar is a timely reminder of the digital permanency of online comments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E7. Worker sacked for calling job 'boring'\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a hard day at work, Kimberley Swann logged on to Facebook to let off some steam. She updated her status, complaining about her \"boring\" job, only to be hauled in to the manager's office the following week to be told her services were no longer required. The incident led to accusations that companies were using Facebook to \"snoop\" on their employees, and resulted in the TUC calling on businesses to turn a blind eye to such comments. \"Most employers wouldn't dream of following their staff down the pub to see if they were sounding off about work to their friends,\" said Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E8. Sacked on Facebook\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks to social networking sites such as Facebook, our \"social graph\" -- the number of people we're connected to -- is growing every day. But one employee, known as 'Lindsay', clearly forgot that she was friends with her boss on Facebook. So when she updated her status to complain about her \"pervy boss\", it shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise to discover a 'wall' message, from her employer, telling her not to bother coming in to work again. \"I'll pop your P45 in the post and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you've left here. And yes, I'm serious,\" wrote her disgruntled boss.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E9. Too ill to update\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEagle-eyed employers in Switzerland dismissed one office worker after they noticed that she had updated her Facebook status while off sick - and was supposedly too ill to use a computer. The lady said that she was suffering from a migraine and needed to lie in a darkened room. Working on a computer would exacerbate the condition, she said. But when the company discovered she had updated her Facebook status, it said that is \"destroyed its trust\" in the employee, and prompted her sacking. The woman, for her part, claimed she had accessed the site on her iPhone, while confined to her sick bed. She also accused the company of creating a fake Facebook persona in order to befriend her and monitor her online activities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E10. Job offer retracted on Twitter\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwitter user “theconner” was happy as she had just landed a well-paid job from internet company Cisco, but was not sure whether to accept. She tweeted the following: “Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.” However soon after the company rescinded the offer tweeting: “Who is the hiring manager? I’m sure they would love to know you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web.”"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5777868830842576182\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=5403865830110720728\u0026postID=5777868830842576182\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/5777868830842576182"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/5777868830842576182"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/top-10-gaffes-on-facebook-twitter-and.html","title":"Top 10 gaffes on Facebook, Twitter and Google"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gee TEE"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05453399516295661171"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9Y2zWuDDcI\/AAAAAAAABmM\/zF_Jp2l5UTE\/s72-c\/facebook-logo.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403865830110720728.post-2679354241011451348"},"published":{"$t":"2010-04-25T06:56:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-04-25T06:56:22.690+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intenet addiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"internet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"technology"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"U.S. students suffering from Internet addiction: study"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think its not only US students but many of the world wide students are suffering from internet addiction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EArticle appeared on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/23\/AR2010042303867.html\"\u003Ewashingtonpost.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy Walden Siew\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EReuters \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENEW YORK (Reuters)\u003C\/b\u003E - Crackberry is no joke.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearchers at the University of Maryland who asked 200 students to give up all media for one full day found that after 24 hours many showed signs of withdrawal, craving and anxiety along with an inability to function well without their media and social links.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESusan Moeller, the study's project director and a journalism professor at the university, said many students wrote about how they hated losing their media connections, which some equated to going without friends and family.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I clearly am addicted and the dependency is sickening,\" said one student. \"Between having a Blackberry, a laptop, a television, and an iPod, people have become unable to shed their media skin.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMoeller said students complained most about their need to use text messages, instant messages, e-mail and Facebook.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort,\" wrote one of the students, who blogged about their reactions. \"When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFew students reported watching TV news or reading a newspaper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe American Psychiatric Association does not recognize so-called Internet addiction as a disorder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it seems to be an affliction of modern life. In one extreme example in South Korea reported by the media, a couple allegedly neglected their three-month-old daughter, who died of malnutrition, because they were on the computer for up to 12 hours a day raising a virtual child.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the United States a small private U.S. center called ReSTART, located near Redmond, Washington, opened last year in the shadow of computer giant Microsoft to treat excessive use of the Internet, video gaming and texting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe center's website cites various examples of students who ran up large debts or dropped out of college due to their obsession.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStudents in the Maryland study also showed no loyalty to news programs, a news personality or news platform. They maintained a casual relationship to news brands, and rarely distinguished between news and general information.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"They care about what is going on among their friends and families and even in the world at large,\" said Ph.D. student Raymond McCaffrey who worked on the study. Loyalty \"does not seemed tied to any single device or application or news outlet.\""},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2679354241011451348\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=5403865830110720728\u0026postID=2679354241011451348\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/2679354241011451348"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/2679354241011451348"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/us-students-suffering-from-internet.html","title":"U.S. students suffering from Internet addiction: study"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gee TEE"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05453399516295661171"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});