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Internet Daily: Podcasts come early to iTunes via BadApple software - Advertising - Airlines - Electronic commerce - Entertainment and Leisure - Internet Services - Internet Software - Media - Mobile phones - Retail - Travel - Wireless Technologies - Transportation - Internet - Wireless - General: "The Los Angeles Times' experiment with readers' comments on editorials came to a crashing halt over the weekend. Trouble occurred soon after the newspaper, owned by Tribune Co. (TRB: news, chart, profile) , posted an editorial about the Iraq war, and opened it for comments, additions and corrections. 'Unfortunately, we have had to remove this feature, at least temporarily, because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material,' said a message on the Times' Web site. Michael Kinsley, the newspaper's editorial and opinion editor, was pleased that hundreds of people did respond to the invitation to add their two cents to the paper's opinion. However, he added, the mischief was 'quite a strange thing.'"