Gadget Lab Podcast: Tweeting From Jail, Ping and the Ugly iTunes Icon

In this episode of the Gadget Lab podcast, Dylan Tweney and yours truly gawk over the amazing story of an abducted Japanese journalist who tricked his captors into allowing him to tweet from a soldier?s Nokia cellphone. Clever stuff.
In less impressive news, Apple?s new social music discovery Ping recently debuted on iTunes, and we?re not fans. The feature requires too much manual work, as it doesn?t automatically analyze your music library to generate recommendations like other services we?ve seen (e.g. Rdio). Lame!
While we?re on the subject of lameness, we?ve found that a number of Wired.com readers are hating on the new iTunes logo. (Only Apple fans would nitpick this sort of stuff.) So we?re hosting a contest asking you to redesign the iTunes logo for a chance to win a snazzy new iPod Shuffle.
We top off the episode with a weird case that turns your iPad into an expensive refrigerator magnet, enabling you to tweet whenever you grab a beer or watch YouTube videos while you?re cooking.
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