--- MTPlugins/Technorati.pm.orig	Tue May 13 19:59:58 2003
+++ MTPlugins/Technorati.pm	Tue May 13 21:30:26 2003
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@
     my $http_response = $ua->request($http_request);
     my $content = $http_response->{'_content'};
     $content =~ s/<[^\/]([^>]+)>\s+<\/[^>]+>/<$1 \/>/g; # convert nodes that contain only spaces to empty nodes
+    $content =~ s/&(?!#?[xX]?(?:[0-9a-fA-F]+|\w+);)/&amp;/g; #escape ampersands
     $content;
 }