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If they pull down Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, it will probably be portrayed as a grand gesture of freedom towards the victims of Saddam Hussein's regime.

A cynic might argue, however, that the demolition plans announced by US President George W Bush conveniently erase more recent unpleasant associations in the light of the maltreatment of detainees there by US guards.

The question of whether to raze a prison notorious for the ill-treatment of its inmates, or to preserve it as a memorial, is one that arises across the world at the passing of this or that regime or conflict.

The Bastille in Paris must stand as the most celebrated example of a prison being demolished as an act of liberation.

France has made the storming and destruction of that building during its 1789 Revolution the key symbol of national independence, commemorating it annually on 14 July.

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The stress here has always been very much on symbolism, as only seven prisoners were found inside.

However, the French revolutionaries, at least, had a real battle of musket and cannon on their hands with the troops of the ancien regime.

That was not quite the case with a rather more recent revolutionary, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, when he set out to tackle the Furnash prison in Tripoli.

In 1988, he drove a bulldozer into the gates of the jail to "liberate" inmates, despite himself being at the head of the regime that had kept them in custody since 1969.

Of course, the symbolism was everything for the great showman of the Middle East as it may be for Iraq eventually if, in the US president's words, Abu Ghraib is razed "as a fitting symbol of Iraq's new beginning".

Museums

Alternatively, the jail could be preserved as a memorial to those who suffered there - like the Khiam prison in southern Lebanon where thousands of people were held without trial during the Israeli occupation.

Amnesty International has accused the Israelis and their Lebanese allies of war crimes in the prison between 1985 and 2000, including the widespread use of torture.

Khiam is now officially known as the Hezbollah Museum and, like any self-respecting institution of the kind, even has its own gift shop.

Khiam is one of those jails where history is a live issue, many of its former inmates still young men, but it has the advantage of commemorating people who resisted a clearly identifiable foreign occupier.

In the UK, the Maze prison poses a much thornier problem.

Shut down after its prisoners were released as part of the Northern Ireland peace process, the future of the sprawling site outside Belfast arouses passionate debate.

On the one hand, there are those who wish to preserve it as a memorial to the Troubles.

On the other, some would have the H-blocks razed as a bad memory - to be replaced, perhaps, with a national stadium.

It is much simpler over the border in Dublin where the Republic of Ireland maintains Kilmainham Gaol as a national monument to the struggle for independence from Britain.

Several generations of Irish nationalists have visited the cells and yard of this impressive Georgian building to pay homage to those incarcerated there.

In Russia, the city of St Petersburg still preserves the prison wing of the Peter and Paul Fortress as a monument to revolutionaries jailed there in the final decades of the tsars.

Despite the collapse of communism, its well-preserved cells and prison paraphernalia retain an air of reverence, like that at Kilmainham, as well as conveying a genuine sense of dread and despair.

A more contemporary prison museum is that of South Africa's Robben Island, which commemorates the struggle of anti-apartheid figures such as Nelson Mandela as well as other episodes from its long penal history.

Fresh wounds

Before the flood of allegations against US guards began, Abu Ghraib would have been regarded as one of the world's most notorious police state prisons.

In the scale of the oppression there, as evidenced by the mass reburials of victims by their families which followed the fall of Saddam, it is probably fair to rank it with the Nazi concentration camps or the Soviet Gulag.

Purely as a contemporary prison, however, it might be compared to Cambodia's Toul Sleng or Argentina's Esma.

Toul Sleng was once used by the Khmer Rouge to round up intellectuals and any other perceived dissidents.

Now a Museum of Genocide, the Phnom Penh site conserves such artefacts as instructions for prisoners on how to behave under torture.

Only this year, Argentina inaugurated a Museum of Memory at the Esma naval school in Buenos Aires, the main torture and execution centre during the 1976-1983 Dirty War.

Though more than two decades had passed, the decision provoked fierce controversy with high-ranking Argentine officers resigning in protest as survivors welcomed the acknowledgement of their suffering.

Any move to make a museum of Abu Ghraib would probably raise much greater controversy now with its "liberators" themselves in the dock of world opinion.

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Paul Bradshaw is not a psychologist. He just plays one on the Internet.

Calling himself an amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, the U.K. blogger has identified common psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts as they adapt to the demands of new technologies.

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-- Comment guilt: Feelings of worthlessness and frustration that they don't comment more frequently on other peoples blogs.

-- Twitter rage: Extreme psychopathic episodes directed at microblogging service outages (the most acute case currently being studied: TechCrunchs Mike Arrington)

-- Twitterhoeia: The uncontrollable urge to share mundane experiences with Twitter followers (Arrington currently taking part in a case study)

-- Six degrees of separation syndrome (also known as Robert Scoble multiple personality disorder): The delusion that he or she is just one friend removed from anyone else in the world and compulsively adds friends on social networks

-- RSS reader Sisyphus complex: No matter how much time is spent checking RSS reader, there are still 8,978 posts unread.

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Pheedo, the leading provider of RSS advertising, today announced that Gawker Media, publisher of several of the webs most popular media properties including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, experienced more than 300 percent growth in RSS advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2008.

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China is now home to the worlds largest number of Internet and mobile phone users, and their hunger for quake news is forcing the government to let information flow in ways it has not before.

Almost nonstop, the uncensored opinions of Chinese citizens are popping up online, sent by text and instant message across a country shaken by its worst earthquake in three decades.

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If you have a blog on WordPress.com, you may have noticed a new feature called Possibly Related that links posts from other blogs in the Comments section of posts on your blog.

The crew at Automattic introduced the feature in late April to add an element of social networking to blogging. At least that's what Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg said when I interviewed him recently.

Possibly Related is basically software that trolls the blogosphere looking for blog posts with keywords that are similar to keywords on a new post that you've written. When it finds a good match, the software automatically lists a couple posts at the end of your post.

So far, reaction to the new feature has been pretty mixed. When it first appeared, Possibly Related wasn't doing a very good job of picking posts. WordPress users reported the new feature was automatically generating links to some pretty questionable stuff, including links to X-rated sites.

On the other hand, I kind of like it, because it gives my readers other places to go to find out more about what I'm writing about.

WordPress bloggers can opt out of Possibly Related by changing the Design settings on their blog. To do that, go to Dashboard, Design, Extras and check the box that states: "Hide related links on this blog, which means this blog won’t show up on other’s blogs or get traffic that way."

According to Mullenweg, Possibly Related's post-matching should improve over time in much the same way Automattic's Akismet blog comment spam filtering software gets smarter about determining what is and isn't spam as more people use it. You can read more about Akismet here.

PC Mag takes on the question of who owns content, especially where RSS Feeds are concerned:

Every day people put virtual truckloads of information into the public domain. Books are published. Newspapers printed. A lot of that ends up on the Internet as well, along with the words of bloggers and other online denizens. All of these people make content public so that others can hopefully benefit from it.

Once it is out in the public domain, who owns it? Well, the author of course, or in some cases, their employers. That makes sense when we're talking about a web Wage. But sometimes, in order to make it easier for people to find and read the information, it is delivered as an RSS feed. RSS breaks down the information into article-sized chunks and streams it out so that news-reading tools can grab it and display it for users.

Create your own TV RSS Feed using MyTVRSS. Select your favorite shows below, and then click Create feed to generate your own personalized RSS feed. We will then alert you through the RSS feed the day an episode is aired.