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24 Oct 2007 09:00 Africa/Lagos PR Newswire Broadcast Minute Special Edition: California Wildfires for October 24, 2007 To hear a Podcast of the PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and other MultiVu radio content, cut and paste this URL into your podcast application (e.g. iTunes, iPodder): http://feeds.feedburner.com/prnewswire_bcm Southern California Wildfires Bring Out Massive Movement of Red Cross ResourcesWith the wildfires still escalating, Red Cross supplies and volunteers are en route to Southern California by the thousands. More than 500 American Red Cross workers have been hard at work since Sunday morning and the Red Cross is expanding its services rapidly as the needs change and escalate. Here's what the Red Cross has on the way: -- 25-thousand cots -- 50-thousand blankets -- 50-thousand pre-packaged meals -- 25-thousand comfort kits filled with toiletry items -- 75 mobile feeding trucks and 2 Southern Baptist Kitchens -- one-thousand shelter workers -- one-t...

Suddenly more Nigerian babes and ladies are blogging and making the Nigerian blogosphere sizzling with hot posts. And they are attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. Most of their blogs are what I call scuttlebutt blogs or daily social gist and tidbits blogs. And Bella Naija leads the pack, followed by Linda Ikeji and company. Adaure is still in a world of her own, because she is like the Oprah Winfrey of the Nigerian blogosphere in her subject matters. Queen Ebong and others are still exciting and thrilling. The most profiled Nigerian female blogger still remains Sokari Ekine of Black Looks. . And Funmi Iyanda would be more enlightened if she spends some quality time with Sokari. There are Nigerian female bloggers as young as 11. Two of them have left comments on Nigerian Times since 2005. There are over 400 Nigerian bloggers and quite a small number for a nation of over 140 million people. Even South Africa and Kenya have more bloggers than Nigeria. There are over 5 mill...