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1. Bloggies 2005: Looking for interesting new blogs? Check out the winners of the fifth annual Weblog Awards, slated to be announced in mid-March.
2. Liquid Information: This project to make text more interactive is 90 percent hard-headed information science and 10 percent art-driven whimsy.
3. Gizmondo: Put gaming, IM, a music/video player, a camera, and GPS in one box, and you get a $399 Win CE handheld, shipping in March.
4. Travel Routers: Linksys's WRT54GT Wireless G model gives a nascent hardware category a boost, with a wired LAN port (for VoIP) and slick one-button setup.
5. A9: The Yellow Pages section of Amazon's search engine adds pictures of streets and storefronts for ten U.S. cities.
Contact PC World Contributing Editor Steve Fox at steve_fox@pcworld.com. Click here to read additional Plugged In columns.
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