Here are some good reads today for hot topics on the internet. As usual, topics are centered on technology and entertainment. Our format is to follow the Technorati top 10 searches. Enjoy!

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1. The Social Customer has a good roundup of Kathy Sierra, a blogger who received vicious death threats and spoke out about it.

2. Annika’s Journal has the Youtube video of Evan Sayet exposing the warped minds of liberals. This video is getting a lot of play.

3. Mashable explains that Myspace will be issuing Amber alerts, a good idea that has been a long time coming.

4. Millions of Us explains the Twitter phenomenon.

5. And since we know you haven’t had enough of Sanjaya on American Idol, Andrew Sullivan has a link to a Crying Girl parody, you know, the girl who melted in the great Sanjaya’s presence. The greatest thing about this video is that you won’t see Sanjaya!

6. BritandGrit have the coerced letters “written” by Faye Turney to her family including her daughter Molly. She is a British sailor who was ambushed by Iranians while conducing boarding operations near Iraq and Iran.

7. You can celebrate the decision by Dell Computers to sell Linux-based systems over at Techchee.com

8. And for more from the technology world, Skype Journal explains what is behind Joost, the cool new way of watching TV on the internet. And view the first Joost commercial at ETTF.net.

9. And still more on technology, ZDNet has the statistics showing a high number of Web 2.0 surfers visiting social networking websites in the workplace.

10. Look Ma, I’m Famous has the cryptic note from Bryan Veloso’s fiancee explaining (sort of) why Avalonstar.com is down.

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