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Leading intellectual property law blogger Steve Nipper had a great post the other day called "Five things I would do differently if I started blogging today" that I highly recommend to your attention. He has some wise observations and some great tips for both new bloggers and long-time bloggers.
I started this blog three years ago today. To help you understand my point of view, at the time I felt that I was starting my own RSS feed and that the blog was the vehicle for the RSS feed. RSS was the motivation and the driver for this blog. As I've mentioned before, I was soaking up everything I could about RSS at the time, Dave Winer's Scripting News was my prime and daily resource, and I spent much more time researching what the blogging tools could do in generating RSS feeds than I did in researching what they could do in terms of blogging.
First, let me concur that Steve's main points in his posts – portability and user friendliness – are ones that every blogger needs to think about on a regular basis.
Here is my somewhat iconoclastic list:
1. I'd Treat My Blog More Like a Website. I make no secret that my focus for my blog and the audience I consider when writing my blog is the audience that subscribes to the RSS feed. Even though I know that a huge number of readers visit my blog directly, I'm surprised when someone tells me that they "visited" my blog.
As a result, I think I underserve the non-RSS portion of my audience, don't think about the blog experience as much as I perhaps should, and have not explored what blogging software, such as Movable Type, can do as a content management tool for a combined blog/website experience. I'm intrigued by some of the things another RethinkIP guy, Matt Buchanan, has done and has talked about doing in terms of making his blog more webpage-like.
What does that mean? Updating certain posts with fresh information or lists of links. Using posts as repositories of information (say, a list of my articles). Fleshing out the "blog as mini-portal" concept. There are a lot of ideas there.
Once you move into a feed-dominant approach, I think that you focus primarily on content and less on the actual design and user experience of the visitors to the blog (do bloggers really understand what the message they are sending when they have a long column of not-very-relevant Adsense ads on the front page of their blogs or a blog roll in which there are hundreds of blogs and six of the first ten are either dead links or blogs which haven't been posted to in months?)
In retrospect, I might have decided to do the idea I had a few years ago to redesign my site and adapt it into Movable Type. RSS is still what interests me most, but I think I neglected some things that would have worked well for the large numbers of people who do not yet use RSS.
2. I Would Have Used More Emoticons and Humor Warnings. Many people still do not believe me that I started this blog not as a lawyer blog, but as an experiment in writing. I wanted to try different kinds of writing and let it find its own audience. As a result, I'll do things on my blog that I would not recommend that the standard lawyer blog do. But, I know that.
One thing that I like to do is write about subjects ironically or to attempt to inject some humor. One of my friends likes to tell me that my humor is pretty dry and it's hard enough to know when I'm not being serious in person, but it's even harder to know that in my blog writing.
Once upon a time, I used little "humor warnings" when I thought there was a good chance that people, especially lawyers, would not be able to tell from the context that I was joking around. I haven't done that in a while. I also use a lot of self-deprecating humor, which people don't always understand that I'm doing (that comes from growing up in small-town Indiana, where both self-deprecating humor and deadpan-delivery are admired traits).
The unstated rule in blogging seems to be that you not use emoticons (smileys) to let people know that you are joking. This, of course, preserves the "but I was just joking" defense if someone takes exception to your post, but sometimes leads to some misinterpretations.
This has become more of a concern as the blogworld has grown and not every blogger knows every other blogger. In the past few months, I've felt that too many of my comments have been misinterpreted and a smiley here or there would probably help matters.
3. I Would Have Done More Collaborative Blog Projects Earlier. The whole blogging thing is worth it for me just because it gave me the chance to work with Between Lawyers group. If you add LexThink!(R) to that, that's quite a "return" on my blogging investment. I'd like to do more of that, and to have done it sooner. The bloggers I've met over these three years are amazing people. I'm happy that they've let me join them in creating whatever blogging will grow into.
I'd still like to do that big collaborative project that a bunch of us have been talking about for way too long.
4. I Would Not Have Turned on Comments. I turned on comments on my blog after not enabling them for close to the first two years of my blog's life. Now that they are on, I don't really think that I can (nor do I really want to ) turn them off. But I have a lot of second thoughts about them.
I estimate that the ratio of comment spam to good comments is at least 50:1. It's part of my regular routine to clear out spam comments. On the other hand, one good comment from someone you respect makes all the hassle seem worth it – at least now that they are on. In retrospect, I would have left them turned off and ignored the people who like to say that you don't have a "real blog" if you don't have comments on.
5. I Would Not Have Spent Two Years Trying to Decide What the Right Thing to Do on Ads and Sponsorships Was and Then End Up at the Same Place I was at Two Years Ago. I used to write a lot on this topic. My feeling was that randomly-served ads really did not make sense for blogs (unless you have huge amounts of traffic) and that the National Public Radio sponsorship model was more appropriate for blogs. However, there was tons of discussion about ads on blogs, ads in feeds and related issues. I wanted to do the right thing and follow the model that the leading blog thinkers felt was best.
The blog world moved to server-based ads. I do some of that, through Blogads, in part because Henry Copeland was a speaker at our BlawgThink conference, but, now more than ever, I think that a tailored sponsorship model is the better approach. I'll consider any approach these days and it is clear that the ad-based model has become a standard, but I think I should have gone my own way from the beginning.
6. I Would Have Done More Experimenting. I'm really curious to see where today's generation of highly-focused, marketing-oriented blogs go. I think that many of them are great and I learn from them on a regular basis. I also know that most of the long-time bloggers are writing on topics and in ways that are far different and far broader than what they did when they started. It seems that somewhere between a year and a year-and-a-half, many bloggers start to write more personally or to explore new directions. It will be interesting, in a good way, to see what happens with the more corporate blogging efforts.
Some might say that I've probbaly experimented more than most with the blogging form. I still remember the negative feedback I got when I experimented with a blog post written in the third person.
However, there are many things I haven't tried and I'd like to have been more willing to experiment with new features, approaches, audio and the like.
So, I'd add to Steve's list of key points one thing – a willingness to experiment.
[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]
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Good insights!
I understand your position on comments–however, I think they are one of the things that makes a blog a blog. Without comments (and to some degree trackbacks) a blog is just a website that's updated more frequently. To me, it's the interaction between the author and the reader–to which comments are essential–that make a blog a *blog*.
The bigger name bloggers that don't take comments, to me, aren't blogging at all. They are just web based columnists with a very frantic publishing schedule. -
Dennis — excellent post. Steve put some great thoughts out there and you've added some good ideas to the mix.
You know that I've been experimenting at Promote the Progress…Here's some of my current thinking on blogs:
1. RSS — My site deals primarily with a very narrow topic – patent law and policy. The great majority of my audience comes to the site via direct visits and searches. Most of my audience has not adopted RSS. Because of this, I have designed my site for the web visitors. I still make RSS available, but I put the work into catering to the 95% that come to the site using traditional browsers. One great thing about blogs is the ability to tailor the actual site to web visitors while still providing content via RSS. You can have your cake and it eat too!
2. Blogrolls – I hate them. In fact, I have completely eliminated mine. The blogroll is an artifact of some blogging packages and, as everyone knows, is present primarily as a search engine manipulator. Anyone interested in the topics I discuss are probably already reading the same blogs that I read, so I don't think a blogroll provides much utility to my readers. The visual clutter created on the site by the presence of a blogroll is too great a cost for such a limited benefit, in my opinion. There's a side effect of blogrolls that is annoying too — every new blogger wants to be listed in your blogroll if you've got one…so they e-mail you and ask to be added. Arrrghhh.
3. Comments – I, like you, have struggled here. Comments are currently turned off at Promote the Progress simply because of the spam problem. The new version of MovableType does a good job of detecting comment spam, so I'm conisdering turning them on again. But, there's another reason underlying my decision to turn comments off – the blog is my face to the professional community. Some commenters, while not spammers, post things that I would not. When this happens, is it enough for me to respond to these comments to clearly spell out my thoughts on the matter? Maybe, but that creates an additional workload that I'm not currently willing to take on. So, for now, I'm leaving them off.
4. Design — make the website visually pleasing and easy to navigate and use. I have completed a major transformation at Promote the Progress that focused on the design. I eliminated "clutter" items like the blogroll and date-based archive links (does anyone ever navigate a blog this way? Did anyone ever ask "hmmm, I wonder what Matt said in March of 2004?" I don't think so….). Doug Sorocco is a design guru, and he helped me alot. Design is important and should be a primary concern for all blogs.
5. Architecture – What do I mean by this? Make the site (not talking about RSS here) easy to navigate and use. If a reader comes into an individual archive via a Google search, they should be able to jump to other related pages quickly. When visiting these archives, they should be immediately introduced to you and your site just like they would have had they come to the main or front page of the site. Keywords, tags and the like make this relatively easy to accomplish. Couple that with good design, and you've got a winning site.
I hope this helps. Make sure you let me know when you decide to redesign the blog!
Matt -
Regarding comment spam, you might want to look at using a "are you human" test in your comment form. I wasn't sure about doing it, but once I made the switch, I find that I've had to weed out far less comments. In fact, in the last month, I haven't received any spam comments and the number of real comments seems to have increased. It works so well that I've stopped pre-moderating comments.
Specifically, I started using HMPassphrase that works with MT. There is the small annoyance of having to modify your comment form (and the comment preview form).


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He is not the only one confused. Why do stats matter more for DEs than they do for QBs?
I'm going to take a stab at it.... & this is just for me, I have no idea what Texian is talking about.
A QBs stats usually has more to do with whether the game is won or lost. More so than any other position. I can look at a QBs stats, & think, "I can win a game with that dude."
Looking at a DEs stats... not so much. At best I can say, "He'll help my defense slow down an offense & make a game winnable for my QB."
If I had a DE put up one of the best seasons in NFL history, it wouldn't be far fetched to think we could still lose three of our last five games. If I had a QB put up one of the best seasons in NFL history it's not likely that we would lose three games in any 5 game stretch.
Another thing. 31 TDs & 4 Interceptions is great, but that doesn't make 29 TDs & 9 Ints horrible. Or Bortles passer rating, or completion percentage.
I don't have a problem with JaDaveon Clowney's production. I'm looking for a prospect & though his stats don't say he's the best, everything else does. The eyeball, his measurables, his combine, his attitude... I like everything about the kid. You won't hear me complain if you were to say he was the best prospect in this draft.
But his stats don't say that... not even close & I think you all agree, otherwise you wouldn't be making excuses... or rationalizing his poor stats.
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Pedestrian hit, killed west of Modesto
The California Highway Patrol is investigating an accident that left a woman dead west of Modesto early Thursday.
According to CHP officer Brandon Moore, a woman was walking north on Dakota Avenue near Blue Gum Avenue at 5:40 a.m.
"For whatever reason, she ended up in the northbound traffic lane," Moore said.
A man driving a Ford Ranger in the same direction hit the woman, who was declared dead at the scene. The driver, whose name was not released, did not see the woman and could not stop in time, Moore said. It was dark, and there are no lights along that stretch of road. Investigators are trying to determine why the woman apparently walked into traffic.
"We need to talk to a few more witnesses," Moore said.
The accident marks the seventh fatality on area roads this week.
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MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2006PITTSBURGH COMICON: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS PANELBrian Michael Bendis signs for fans Saturday at the Pittsburgh Comicon. MONROEVILLE, Pa. -- When it comes to films based on his properties, Brian Michael Bendis says, "I have no control, I just ride the wave."
He seems to be nativigating pretty well of late, providing an update on three projects during his panel at the Pittsburgh Comicon on Saturday.
The Torso movie got a positive jolt recently.
"To the shock of me and Marc Andreyko, David Fincher signed on to direct," Bendis said, "which is great because he is the only one who should direct it."
Fincher's signing cleared the way for a new deal with Paramount for the film's rights.
"I was at Paramount about a month ago and had an awesome meeting," Bendis said. "It sounded great."
Ehren Kruger is writing the adaptation, which will count Todd McFarlane among its producers.
Bendis said he recently handed in his screenplay for Jinx, which is set up at Universal. Charlize Theron has been attached to the project.
"Now we'll see how badly Domino killed our chances," he said, referring to a similarly themed film that tanked at the box office. "It was received well and now we'll see what happens."
Powers remains set up at Sony and Bendis admitted it would be an "expensive" movie.
"I might have some news soon," he said. "Something interesting happened last week and we'll see if it sticks."
Bendis, who was an executive producer on MTV's Spider-Man animated series, said he will never leave comics, but will take film opportunities as they are presented -- even though he said he thinks "it will be a miracle" if any of the movies actually gets made.
"I don't want to pull an Alan Moore and do another round of bitching every two years," he said.
In other notes from the panel:
* On the Ultimate Power series he is writing with J. Michael Straczynski and Jeph Loeb: "Just about anybody who's anybody will be showing up in it."
* Bendis said Civil War is "the best thing" Mark Millar has written.
* Bendis said he would like to see new series based on The Champions and Alpha Flight. "I'm also looking forward to Brian K. Vaughan's Doctor Strange," he said.
* Bendis on the Hulk after the Planet Hulk event: "I think you can count on him coming back a pissed-off Hulk."
* Bendis said working on the Ultimate Spider-Man video game was an "exceptional experience." He couldn't say the same about the MTV animated series, but said he did wish it would have gotten another season. "We could have done so much," he said.
* Ultimate Invasion is not the project he is working on with Marc Silvestri. "It's a slow burner," he said.
* Bendis said Ronan will be a "linchpin character" to the Avengers after Civil War.
"There's also going to be two great Avengers villains you haven't seen in a long, long time who you're going to see at the end of the year," he said.
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Quilters Newsletter creative editor Lori Baker is a perfectionist when it comes to making quilt tops, but when it comes to quilt backs, "Anything goes," she says. Well, almost. She does stay within the color scheme of the quilt top when making the quilt back. See some of Lori's fun quilt backs and learn her process for making them. Also see one of her actual quilt backs in progress. To watch more quilting videos of the Quilters Newsletter TV visit QNNtv.com and QuiltersNewsletter.com.
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I am so excited! I was looking on Craigs, and I came across a listing for folder games. This newly retired teacher wanted to sell all of her really nice folder games for $10. These games are amazing and I am just giddy! I have over 40 games geared towards math and phonics. She is also just starting to go through everything, and she said that she would contact me prior to listing on Cragis next time so I can go over everything and get what I want before she lists!!! Yahoo!!! She has lots of math manipulatives, tons of phonics stuff and so much more!
I have stood firm on buying new, but once I put everything together a few weeks ago for my DD's grade 1 curric, and her readers alone were almost $130, I decided to try e-bay... and really scored there with the reader set for less than $30, and they are like new :) Now it is like a game. Just got her math texts on e-bay today as well.
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I have purchased a lot of clothing from NG as I truly believe in sponsoring this great organization after travelling to Africa and seeing all the great work they have done to protect wildlife. I also love that NG supports a broad range of crafts people by selling higher quality, unique, and hand-made clothing/jewellery. This shirt was extremely disappointing- as others mentioned this shirt is NOT fitted, the material is poor and the colours are not as they appear in the photo-- I wouldn't even bother getting it tailored, the material isn't worth it especially if it doesn't wash well. I don't like being critical and always try to find something positive to say about things, but I am at a loss for words- other than to say if you are looking for a baggy shirt that you can do housework in and don't mind your neighbours seeing you in- this may be right for you.
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Maternity Rajasthani cotton blouse!!
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Well , I need to get clothes pins. Pinch the back of the blouse,That way the blouse will look just like the model. It is a very loose blouse. I shop a lot online, they need to tell the photographer to ease up on the clothes pin. Now, with that said I was offered a front seat in the bus! They thought I was expecting.


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Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
OK, you knew this was coming. With the Twins very close to a three-year, $21 million deal with Josh Willingham, let's insert his estimated $7 million salary into our 2012 payroll tracker.
By my calculations, this pushes the Twins projected 25-man Opening Day payroll to $95,720,000. The Twins opened the 2011 season at $113 million, and GM Terry Ryan has said he wants to trim that number to $100 million.
Internally, Twins officials speak as if they are determined to toe that line, but I still wouldn't be shocked if they wind up closer to $110 million, when all is said and done.
There have been several changes since we last did this exercise. Kevin Slowey, Jose Mijares and Jim Hoey are gone. Matt Capps is back, and I've added Rule 5 pick Terry Doyle to the bullpen because I think he's going to stick on the Opening Day roster, as a long reliever, at least.
You'll see some obvious concerns below. The pitching staff needs multiple upgrades, and if the Twins decide to go cheap, these will be coming from the scrap heap, with everyone's fingers crossed. I also think the Twins will look to add a lefthanded hitter off the bench, and without Michael Cuddyer, this person probably needs to play some first base, as Morneau insurance.
Again, nothing has been finalized with Willingham. I still haven't received an official word that the Cuddyer talks are dead, but with the information we have now, this seems to be where things stand.
Notes: Salaries with an asterisk by them are arbitration estimates. All players who aren't under contract or arbitration eligible are estimated to make $520,000 (the MLB minimum is $480,000). The $95,720,00 projection does not include Joe Nathan's $2 million buyout.
1. CF -- Denard Span: $3,000,000
2. SS -- Jamey Carroll: $2,750,000
3. C -- Joe Mauer: $23,000,000
4. 1B -- Justin Morneau: $15,000,000
5. RF -- Josh Willingham: $7,000,000
6. DH -- Ryan Doumit: $3,000,000
7. 3B -- Danny Valencia: $520,000
8. 2B -- Alexi Casilla: *$1,500,000
9. LF -- Ben Revere: $520,000
Total (9 starters): $56,290,000
1. RH -- Carl Pavano: $8,500,000
2. RH -- Scott Baker: $6,500,000
3. LH -- Francisco Liriano: *$5,800,000
4. RH -- Nick Blackburn: $4,750,000
5. RH -- Anthony Swarzak: $520,000
Total (5 starters): $26,070,000
RH -- Matt Capps: $4,500,000
LH -- Glen Perkins: *$1,700,000
LH -- Brian Duensing: $520,000
RH -- Alex Burnett: $520,000
RH -- Lester Oliveros: $520,000
RH -- Esmerling Vasquez: $520,000
RH -- Terry Doyle: $520,000
Total (7 relievers): $8,800,000
SS -- Tsuyoshi Nishioka: $3,000,000
OF Trevor Plouffe: $520,000/OF Rene Tosoni $520,000
INF -- Luke Hughes: $520,000
C -- Drew Butera: $520,000
Total (4 bench players): $4,560,000
(each would make about $520,000)
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OF -- Joe Benson
INF -- Brian Dozier
*INF -- Pedro Florimon
*C -- Chris Herrmann
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RHP Liam Hendriks
LHP Matt Maloney
RHP Kyle Waldrop
RHP Jeff Manship
RHP Carlos Gutierrez
*RHP Jason Bulger
*LHP Phil Dumatrait
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A month before it's scheduled to arrive in stores, the Oni Press graphic novel Down Set Fight is debuting digitally today on comiXology.
The publisher revealed this morning that the book, by co-writers Chris Sims and Chad Bowers and artist Scott Kowalchuk, will be serialized weekly on the digital comics platform in six installments, priced at $1.99 each, bringing readers to the Feb. 12 release of the print edition.
Announced at New York Comic Con 2012, Down Set Fight follows the adventures of fallen football star Chuck Fairlane in his cross-country battle against an army of mascots gone mad. Here's the official description:
Oni Press brought guns, war and webcomics to New York Comic Con today, announcing a new graphic novel from Joe Harris and Adam Pollina, a Sixth Gun spinoff miniseries and the transformation of their website from "a marketing resource for its print titles into a full-fledged content hub with comic updates five days a week."
Here's a rundown of the announcements ….
Wars in Toyland by Joe Harris and Adam Pollina
From the Slingers (hey, remember Slingers?) team comes an oversized graphic novel "darkly inspired" by Babes in Toyland. Per the press release, "this new book looks at the once wondrous and beautiful Toyland after the rise of the teddy dictator, Roxbury. After Matthew's brother and playmate, Alex, disappears, young Matthew finds himself carried into Toyland by his own loyal toy soldiers. Only Matthew soon learns that Alex has been here, too – and is now being held captive by Roxbury. Leading an attack on the teddy bear's fortress, Matthew never considers that his brother might be beyond saving."


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First mother-daughter womb transplant planned
STOCKHOLM — The world's first mother-daughter uterus transplant could take place next year in Sweden, the head of an international research team in the western Swedish city of Gothenburg said Tuesday.
"We have reached a stage where we have started to plan for a human transplant and we are investigating 10 pairs, most of those are mother and daughters," Mats Braenstroem told AFP, adding the first of such transplants could take place "hopefully at the beginning of next year."
He added that transplanting a womb from a woman to her daughter would be a world first, although a uterus transplant between two unrelated women took place in Saudi Arabia in 2002.
His international team of doctors at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital has been researching the subject for a decade and has tested it on animals, he said, explaining there were no particular complications in transplanting a womb from mother to daughter.
"There can just be an advantage because they are more similar in their tissues so there could be less rejection in that situation," he said.
One of the pairs undergoing the physical and psychological tests required ahead of a possible procedure were quoted in Swedish media Tuesday as saying they were grateful to be part of the project.
"I have been given an opportunity I did not think was possible," a 25-year old woman born without a uterus told tabloid Expressen.
"I have always loved children. Over the past five years I have felt intense sorrow over not being able to have children of my own," she told its competitor Aftonbladet.
The woman could receive a uterus from her 56-year-old mother, who said she no longer had any use for the organ and that it felt natural to do everything she could to help her daughter.
"I think all parents do what they can to help their children if it feels right," she told Aftonbladet.
The daughter insisted receiving the womb she herself emerged from was not a cause for concern.
"It's an organ just like any other and it has no genetic significance. I work as a biology teacher and I don't think its strange," she told Expressen.
The world's first uterus transplant took place in 2002 when doctors in Saudi Arabia transplanted the womb of a 46-year-old woman to a 26-year-old.
Although blood clots forced the doctors to remove the transplanted organ after 14 weeks, they claimed technical success in the procedure.
Braenstroem said such complications would be less likely in the Swedish transplants.
"We have optimised the technique in our animal models for such a long time. The Saudi Arabia team didn't have any experience at all in animal models before. They did it in humans right away," he explained.
In 2007, scientists planned the first uterus transplant in the United States, but the procedure never went beyond the screening stage.
"The research front has moved forward since 2007 and especially our group has taken big steps forward in this research, so that's why we think we are ready to do this," Braenstroem said.


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US companies are hiring! Only... not in the USMany U.S. companies are hiring ... overseas One reason why U.S. unemployment remains as high as it is By PALLAVI GOGOI The Associated Press 12/28/2010 Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn't anyone hiring? Actually, many American companies are — just maybe not in your town. They're hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat. Read more.
Re: US companies are hiring! Only... not in the USMore jobs created out of the country, than in. Maybe things will look up in '11 in this area.
Re: US companies are hiring! Only... not in the USWe all know that out sourcing has been going on for a long time and now there are reasons for it to keep growing. Big companies, especially the ones that are so big they're international could care less about what country they hire people from unless it is affecting profit. I'm sure if they can pay someone less in another country, they will hire that person. Maybe people in the US may have to start moving to other countries to get jobs, just like how people were coming to the US to get jobs. Who wants to come to the US now? That trend has been changing very fast. I guess it's all part of the "change" we kept hearing about.
Well, it looks more like the current out sourced jobs are not coming back to the US any time soon and more jobs will keep going out every day. Probably with the way companies operate in today's sickening climate, the only way for jobs to come back to the US is for the government and the banks to keep doing what they've been doing for a while.
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Google's Economic Impact Report: Just A PR Ploy?
Posted by Shar VanBoskirk on May 25, 2010
Today Google announced that it had generated $54 billion worth of economic activity in the US in 2009. The report, which shows state by state economic contribution, bases Google's total value on three factors: 1) Sales driven through AdSense and AdWords; 2) Ad revenue generated for publishers through AdSense; and 3) Google grants. As a research analyst, I'll admit that you can make numbers tell any story you want to, and my gut here is that this report is principally a PR effort to: 1) Communicate some altruism about the Google brand that has been getting some bad press of late; 2) Simplify the complex transformation Google has brought to advertising into a simple, single number; 3) Shift the focus away from questionable strategic decisions that Google has recently made. I wholeheartedly believe that Google has transformed advertising and is almost singularly responsible for the phenomenon of biddable media buying which I think will ultimately replace relationship-facilitated media buys across channels. But I don't believe that Google stimulated $54 billion worth of business. I think what Google did do is provide a new revenue stream to small businesses and site owners, catalyze some new sales, and take a share of commerce and media expenditures that would have happened anyway.
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Your points are right on. It helps also to see Google as the agent of productivity. Each month we are told by way of Gov't metrics whether productivity changes in the American economy. By creating a simplistic funnel through which to send the existing business and making it newly accessible to small businesses everywhere, Goggle has freed up different kinds of capital in many economies. This cuts both ways of course but over time it will focus incremental creative energy on innovation. And while everyone worries whether or not Google (and other innovators) have gotten too big, these benefits are being spread out to every economy that allows its people to Google freely. These benefits are very clear from the macro perspective and harder to see from the inside looking out. Search gave us Choice to do many new and old things easier. One brand is winning , for now.
So who would have belled the cat?
Anyone who reads the Google Public Policy blog at length will be able to discern that I am skeptical about many things that Google claims, particularly in the area of net neutrality. But as far as thinking that this would have happened anyway - I'm reminded of Wal-Mart's contributions during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The response of the government and virtually every other business was the same: it was an "ultra-catastrophe" that "exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anyone's, foresight."
Wal-Mart's focus on process led store managers to act on their authority to distribute diapers, water, baby formula and ice to residents. Ultimately Wal-Mart sent in a total of 2,498 trailer loads of emergency supplies and donated $3.5 million in merchandise to area shelters and command centers...while virtually every other business was still shut down.
I think of that story because I can't think of another company that would have had embraced the search paradigm so completely, acquired whatever IP was necessary starting with GoTo.com, and leveraged that model so completely and efficiently. Having met the early teams behind the search efforts of Microsoft, Yahoo, Excite/Architext, AltaVista, Idealabs and so on (many of whom drank deeply from the same Kool-Aide of local search), quite frankly I'm at a loss to think of who would have possibly picked up the slack with anywhere near the same singular sense of purpose and investment of capital.
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NCAA has no 'street' cred
The problem with the NCAA isn't its mission, but its credibility and believability. Its track record.
So after two years of investigating Oregon over its use of the supposed scourge of the world, street agents, the NCAA came out with a guilty charge Wednesday. Oregon's penalty? No ban from bowl games. Loss of one scholarship per year for three years. A few other little things.
This wasn't so much a slap on the wrist as a kiss on the cheek.
Also, Chip Kelly would have to go through a committee if he wants to coach in a college again before Christmas next year. Consider that he just started as the Philadelphia Eagles' coach. Basically, it's like grounding your kid for four hours just as he goes to bed at night.
All punishments are meant as statements, and reading this one's depends on your level of belief in the NCAA. It means:
1) The NCAA is changing its mind on street agents, deciding they aren't that bad after all and not worth serious punishment.
2) The NCAA is so weak and ineffective now, after botching the Miami investigation and facing the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit, that it couldn't risk showing that it doesn't have teeth anymore.
Or 3) No matter what the NCAA thinks of street agents, it couldn't send a strong message against them because it couldn't punish its own financial interest at Oregon, aka Nike University.
In any and all of those cases, the winner is ...
Sonny Vaccaro. For years, these have all been his fights. You remember Vaccaro, right? He might have been the beginning of street agents. He's the guy who started the shoe wars, getting big shoe deals for colleges and their baskeball coaches while setting up national high school basketball camps as showcases.
He talks about the benefits of street agents, and has all-but changed my mind on the subject over the years. He talks about the NCAA's conflicts of interest and its inability to punish some schools. And he has basically been trying to take down the NCAA.
Vaccaro wins. What did he think of the punishment Wednesday? Well, I told him about it in the morning. His first reaction was to laugh.
"I don't know if everything the NCAA says happened, happened,'' he said. "I don't trust the NCAA. But this verdict here gives credibility to my theory that maybe all these people (street agents steering high school players to colleges) aren't who the NCAA has always pointed them out to be.''
If the NCAA doesn't have the teeth to stand up for what its mission is, then I'm not sure what keeps the NCAA afloat.
But let's start with the street agents. They are just guys who somehow emerge from the underbelly of the sports world and steer kids. Oregon was accused of paying Will Lyles $25,000 for his recruiting service and getting special access to kids, whom he helped deliver to the Oregon football team.
Sounds slimy, right?
"Just because they're outsiders, close to the kid, that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for the kid,'' Vaccaro said. "Maybe people who help some of these kids or even people who help schools aren't the worst people in the world.
"They're termed street agents, greedy fathers, greedy mothers, greedy high school coaches. I don't know what crime they're committing, other than a self-made rule by the NCAA that they violated some self-made moral code.''
This is the argument Vaccaro has been pushing for years, that having a middle-man representing kids between high school and college could actually be a good thing for kids. I've actually argued with Vaccaro about this off and on for years, telling him once that we don't need these slimeballs getting their hands on our kids.
Honestly, I'm having a hard time remembering the rest of my argument anymore.
"You said a lot there,'' Vaccaro said.
This has been his message, and if it's not taking in the mainstream, it's starting to take with me. What exactly is the reason a high-school kid can't have an agent?
Are all parents equipped to best handle the onslaught of dozens and dozens of recruiters from colleges, all claiming they know what's best for their kid? All making sales pitches? There is a lot at stake here, and not just all the money schools and the NCAA are pulling in.
There is also the future of a child, right? Maybe a parent could use a little help figuring things out.
As Vaccaro says: No one else is looking out for the kids' interests. It's unclear exactly what bad things Lyles did, too. Yahoo! Sports reported how he maneuvered things around to help a few of them get into Oregon, including one who might not have made it to college at all.
I've heard worse.
The problem is that the college sports world is overwhelmed with slime, and maybe parents are going to have to get their hands dirty to do what's best. The NCAA rulebook is not set up to reflect modern reality. In fact, the NCAA knows that, but is so tied up in its own red tape that it's having a hard time making changes.
Maybe some more legit agents can pop up if the NCAA stops legislating this so heavily.
The question is whether the NCAA just gave up the fight against these agents. Next time a coach pays off an agent, how is the NCAA going to crack down?
Now, Vacarro has talked before about schools being too big. Untouchables. He has talked about Auburn being able to keep playing Cam Newton, and Ohio State allowed to play its bowl game.
He used to work for Nike. And he's a little hesitant to talk, as he's involved heavily in O'Bannon's antitrust suit against the NCAA.
So how about it? Is it possible that the value of Nike to college sports just happened to outweigh the negatives of street agents?
Nike U?
"I'm not going to get into that, OK?" Vaccaro said.
No, that's not OK. This is your fight, and you're winning it.
"My personal opinion, I just think that I can't believe the penalty for what supposedly happened,'' he said. "A lot of weight is carried from great universities. Not just Oregon. Whatever the penalty is, though, Oregon ... they're a hell of a university. They're powerful. They're good.''
So Nike U theoretically paid for a street agent. And it took the NCAA two years to claim "GUILTY'' and kiss Oregon on the cheek for it.
The NCAA is just so tangled up now that it's having trouble finding its own conscience.
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Head2Head: Should Bowyer leave RCR after this season?
August 29, 2011, , NASCAR.com
Clint Bowyer is a man without a home -- at least for now. Bowyer is still unsigned for the 2012 season, and while Richard Childress Racing is trying to keep the 32-year-old from Emporia, Kan., in its garage, another team has publicly announced its interest. Clint Bowyer has a tough decision facing him, one that could alter his career forever. And while change is sometimes difficult, in the final year of his contract, this is the time to make a move.
Now that Carl Edwards will remain at Roush Fenway, Bowyer becomes the hottest free agent in NASCAR. But that's relative because there aren't a lot of top rides available. It appears the two best options are for Bowyer to either stay at Richard Childress Racing, or make a move to Richard Petty Motorsports. If I'm Bowyer, I'm leaning very heavily to moving in with the King.
RCR might have a slight competitive edge, but that doesn't seem to be helping Bowyer at all. Kevin Harvick is clearly the face of the organization -- and he isn't going anywhere -- while Bowyer, Jeff Burton and Paul Menard all battle to be Harvick's right-hand man.
For a fourth consecutive season, Bowyer is on the Chase bubble, so clearly he's not dominating at RCR. A move to RPM could change all that.
Bowyer would join a team that is improving each year. A.J. Allmendinger and Marcos Ambrose are on the verge of career-best seasons, and adding Bowyer to the mix should push this RPM team to Chase contender.
Plus, Bowyer would be the top dog at RPM, not always playing second fiddle to Harvick.
Change is scary, but this could turn out to be a great move for Bowyer in the long run.
While Clint Bowyer certainly hasn't had the season he envisioned or desired, the home he has now is better than the unknowns of what could lie outside of the Richard Childress Racing stable.
Reports are circulating that Childress and Bowyer still have some work to do to extend their contract. Assuming they can reach a good compromise, Bowyer is in much better position to contend for a title with RCR than he would be with Richard Petty Motorsports.
Sure, as long as Kevin Harvick is with RCR, Bowyer will never be the headliner on that team. But Bowyer isn't the kind of guy who thrives on attention anyway. One gets the feeling he'd be just fine with running for the title and somehow missing out on all the hullabaloo.
At RPM, it would be a different story. Here's Bowyer, a guy who hasn't finished better than 10th in the points in the past three seasons and appears to be a very long shot to do so this year, taking over as the face of a franchise that just eight months ago was in danger of full-on liquidation?
RCR has had its problems this year, Harvick excluded. But it's the first year of the team's latest attempt at a four-car stable, and there are some growing pains to be expected. Those pains are nothing like what Bowyer would face as the focal point at RPM. Pick your cliché -- The grass isn't always greener; the devil you know vs. the devil you don't -- but Bowyer would be dead wrong to leave RCR.
Richard Petty Motorsports made news this past weekend when majority owner Andrew Murstein announced the team has offered Bowyer a contract and is just waiting to hear back from the driver. So, should Bowyer re-sign with RCR or make a change and go with a team like RPM? Bill Kimm and Jill Erwin have their thoughts, read theirs and weigh in with yours in the comments below. And don't forget to vote in the poll at the right.Should Clint Bowyer leave RCR at the end of this season?
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The "obesity epidemic" is constantly in the news. This year's CDC figures show that 1 in 88 children in the U.S. is on the autism spectrum. Childhood cancers and neurodevelopmental delays are on the rise.
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In the 1930s, Congress made a commitment to protect the soil and water resources on U.S. farms from massive, rapid losses (think dust bowl).
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In the last few weeks beekeepers have reported staggering losses in Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio after their hives foraged on pesticide-treated corn fields. Indiana too, two years ago. What's going on in the Corn Belt?
Today Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is releasing Pesticide Drift Monitoring in Minnesota, a report that documents multiple pesticides in the air near homes and farms throughout Central Minnesota. This report is the result of diligent, on-the-ground monitoring by a group of citizens who have directly experienced harm from pesticide exposure — and are refusing to let it continue.
Since joining PAN earlier this year, collaborating with this group of farmers and rural residents has been my absolute favorite work. Their persistence in shining a light on pesticide exposure in their communities has both given me hope and shown me the severity — and urgency — of the problem.
Part of my job here at PAN is keeping track of the latest research about how pesticides are harming children's health. This has kept me too busy of late, as studies seem to be coming fast and furious linking pesticides with childhood asthma, autism, birth defects, cancer and more.
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The controversial pesticide atrazine, found in U.S. drinking water and linked to cancers, birth defects and low fertility, is on the big screen this weekend. And Syngenta, largest pesticide corporation in the world and maker of atrazine, is fighting with fire.
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This week PAN released Honey Bees and Pesticides: State of the Science, a 22-page report on the factors behind colony collapse disorder (CCD) with a sustained focus on the particular role of pesticides.
I've been hearing through the grapevine that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was startled by the public uproar over Dow AgroScience's application for approval of its controversial new GE corn, designed to be used with the infamous and highly hazardous weedkiller, 2,4-D.
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| AbstractThis thesis presents an analytical study of the expression of evaluation in a highly opinionated type of discourse. This exploration, chiefly motivated by a concern with pedagogical issues, sought to identify and describe some of the strategies used by writers to convey explicit and implicit interpersonal meanings in order to help non-native learners read more critically. In particular, the study attempted to account for some resources of indirect evaluation which have been little described so far. The analysis is on the one hand based on some aspects of the Appraisal Theory, especially on White's (2004, 2005/6) notions of naturalisation and unarguability, and on the other on evaluation conveyed through attributed material. It is argued that such resources indirectly position readers in a stance similar to the writer's own, which places him/her in control of the material and thus, ultimately, of the readers' views. The study concluded that none of the individual strategies was significantly powerful by itself, but that they all interact and reinforce each other's meanings, adding to the cumulative attitudinal effect of the text. It is suggested that the strategies identified in this particular type of text are likely to occur in other text types as well. |
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KALAMAZOO — The idea of building relationships with the business community and the community at large — which of course includes thousands of potential new students — can never be too far from mind when John Dunn speaks.
But a recap of accomplishments made by the university this year, and the challenges it faces, may have absorbed his thoughts on what he thinks the university needs directly.
What does it need from area business people?
The affable president of Western Michigan University told me he wants the business community to embrace the university as he inspires WMU's 25,000-plus students to embrace them.
"This is their university," Dunn said of the business community, "and regardless of what affiliations people may have, this is where we live, this is our place and we want our students to be enormously respectful of that.
"We need to fly that flag. We need to tell people we are alive and well in this Kalamazoo/Portage area and in this region. We want to help Detroit and Grand Rapids, but we want them to know that this is a great place, contributing enormously to the state of Michigan."Part of his effort to promote the university and the community is having WMU recognized as one of the state's five top research universities. Typically people refer to the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University. But Dunn says WMU and Michigan Technological University in Houghton need to be included.
The establishment of a medical school should help, he said. "Forty-five percent of all federal research awards (grants) went to the 125 medical schools in the U.S.," he said.
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He invited business people to be involved in the selection process for the founding dean of the medical school. He said WMU has a rich pool of candidates from all over the nation. The first of three candidates to undergo second interviews for the post was in Kalamazoo this past week. Others are expected to sit for public meetings in December.
On Wednesday, the day before Veterans Day, Dunn also noted that WMU enrolls more veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than any other Michigan university. It has about 500. The Military Times EDGE magazine also recently named WMU among the top 20 schools for veterans.
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17.03.07 - By Wray Edwards, All Photos © Wray Edwards/ESB Last night at the Seminole Hard Rock Live in Miami, Warriors Boxing and Sycuan Ringside Promotions presented a full night of Boxing action. The main event was a very hard-fought WBA Super Bantamweight Championship contest between Champion Celestino Caballero (30) from Colon, Panama and Ricardo Castillo (28) from Kmpalme, Mexico. Castillo was assessed one point for low blows in round three, and though he fought his heart out, Caballero's height, reach and skill advantages were too much for the Mexican and his corner asked the ref to stop the fight late in the contest..
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The death of former enforcer extraordinaire Bob Probert saddened and surprised many an NHL fan. What fans may not have known is that the former Red Wings and Blackhawks pugilist was working on writing a book to talk about his days in the NHL. Today, Probert's family announced that they will go ahead with the release of the book in light of Probert's sudden passing.
"Tough Guy," due to be published Oct. 26, will recount his career with the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks when he was one of the most feared players in the game, and also delve into his off-ice troubles.
Porbert was co-writing the book with Kirstie McLellan Day before he suffered a heart attack and died last month.
"He was really excited and happy about the opportunity to tell it like it really was–behind the headlines," Dani Probert, his widow, said in a statement released by publisher HarperCollinsCanada. "After much deliberation, my family and I have decided to fulfil Bob's dream and publish the book."
You might know Kirstie McLellan Day's name already as she's the author who also helped write Theo Fleury's book which was released last year detailing his difficult story growing up with an abusive coach and his struggles with personal demons.
Needless to say, "Tough Guy" moves to the front of the list of must-reads for this hockey fan. Getting to read of Probert's life on and off the ice from the man himself should prove to be quite powerful.
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