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Local Marketer Summit Announced for October
Local Marketer Summit is October 2-4, 2014 in Phoeniz, AZ. The summit is a leading event that teaches all aspects of local marketing to beginners and experienced pros. With sessions divided amongst the 7 key areas of successful local marketing, ranging from keynote presentations, how-to training from industry leaders and top agency owners, and hard-hitting topic specific panels… you will be able to learn (and implement) more in these 3 days then most people can do in 12 months sitting at home.
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Tucson, Ariz. ?- National Coach of the Year Dan Tobias announced the Arizona women's soccer awards on Wednesday. Junior Althea Jones was given the academic excellence award, seniors Lindsey Peeples and Candice Wilks were named co-most valuable players, in addition Peeples was named Defensive Outstanding Player with Wilks being named Offensive Outstanding Player. Freshman McCall Smith was named the rookie of the year, and juniors Jennifer Klein and Courtney Moseley were named most inspirational.
As the Academic Excellence Award winner, Jones played in all 21 matches for the Wildcats this season and contributed one goal and one assist on the season, including the lone score in the Wildcats' 1-0 victory over then-No. 5 UCLA. Jones was also named as a second team Pac-10 All-Academic selection this season. She also earned a Pac-10 All-Academic honor in 2003 when she was given honorable mention accolades. She is a general biology major.
Peeples earned the team's most valuable player award as well as the team's most valuable defender award. Peeples was named to Soccer Buzz's All-America third team as well as a first-team selection for the West Region. The All-America honor is the first for a UA player in the 10-year history of the program. Starting 18 games as a defender, she led a Wildcat defense that allowed only 11 goals all season. She was one of three co-captains for the team and also earned All-Pac-10 first team honors, as well as NSCAA/Adidas West Region second-team honors.
Wilks was named the team's most valuable player in addition to being named the most valuable offensive player. Wilks was earlier named to Soccer Buzz's West Region second team. She led the Wildcat offense this season with seven goals and four assists. Posting four game-winning goals, she was a vital part of the Wildcats' first-ever postseason team. She was also a first-team All-Pac-10 selection making her the first player in the history of the program to earn conference accolades in all four seasons as a Wildcat. Additionally, she also earned NSCAA/Adidas West Region second team honors.
Smith, who was named first team freshman All-America by Soccer Buzz earlier this year, has been named the team's most valuable rookie. As the starting goalkeeper, she recorded 11 shutouts while only allowing 11 goals against. She played every minute of the season and posted a 0.52 goals against average. She also earned honorable mention All-Pac-10 honors and was a third-team received a third-team NSCAA/Adidas selection.
Klein and Moseley both earned the team's most inspirational award. Klein served as a tri-captain of the 2004 squad and started 18 of 20 games for the Wildcats. She had three goals and four assists on the season, including the lone goal in Arizona's 1-0 victory over Colorado College. Her area of study is general biology. She also earned Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention honors this season. Moseley participated in seven games for the Wildcats as a midfielder. She recorded an assist in Arizona's match against Fairleigh Dickinson on Sept. 3, 2004.
The 2004 Cats set or tied 31 school records, including most wins (15), most Pac-10 victories (6) and fewest opponent goals scored (11). Additionally, the Wildcats won the program's first Pac-10 Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.
Team Awards
Academic Excellence ?- Althea Jones
Most Valuable Player ?- Candice Wilks and Lindsey Peeples
Most Valuable Player, Offense ?- Candice Wilks
Most Valuable Player, Defense ?- Lindsey Peeples
Rookie of the Year ?- McCall Smith
Most Inspirational ?- Jennifer Klein and Courtney Moseley


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The quest for power is the primary driving force of history, always has been, always will be. Those who fail to recognize this principle are not spared in the grand chess game, but rather are moved and manipulated by forces that they do not understand.
From the perspective of those who dominate the board it is obviously preferable to have a population of ignorant pawns than it is to have an array of opponents which are capable of mounting an effective resistance. To that end it has always been in the interest of the ruling class to cultivate illusions which obscure the true nature of the game.
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Next up for UFC 166 here at the Toyota Center is a lightweight tilt between two former title challengers in Diego Sanchez and former two-time Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez. Melendez is looking to position himself for another shot at UFC gold while Sanchez is looking to show everyone that he deserves a spot in the UFC's lightweight top 10.
This fight could be the fight of the night.
Sanchez rushes to the center of the cage to start the first round. Sanchez scores the takedown and has the back of Melendez. Melendez stays calm and shakes free. Both men are back to their feet. Melendez works the jab and Sanchez lands a leg kick. Sanchez misses with a high kick. Melendez catches Sanchez coming in with a right. Melendez stuffs a takedown. Right hand by Melendez glances Sanchez. Melendez catches a kick but Sanchez works his way free. Sanchez comes up short again with the takedown and has a cut above his left eye. Nice body kick by Sanchez. Both bring the crowd to their feet as they trade toe-to-toe. Melendez wobbles Sanchez but the round is over. This one goes to Melendez 10-9.
Sanchez calls for Melendez to bring it. Melendez is being very patient. A fast exchange and Sanchez lands a big shot. The ref stops the fight and calls for the doctor to check the cut. It could be bad enough to stop the fight. The doctor says Sanchez is good and this fight will continue. Sanchez misses with a flying knee. Melendez moves forward and is doing a good job of going to the body. Nice counter right landed by Melendez. Front body kick by Sanchez. Sanchez gets the takedown but cannot keep Melendez down. Sanchez grabs a single leg but takes a knee to the head. The round ends and this fight is a war. Melendez gets round two, 10-9.
Round three begins with the crowd on their feet. Melendez is very calm. Neither man looks tired. They trade in the center with Sanchez getting the upper hand. More back and forth at a fast pace. Another huge exchange and the crowd is chanting for Diego. The pace of the exchanges are so fast it is hard to do them justice. The last exchange stunned Melendez a little. The ref brings the doctor in again to look at the cut. Again the doctor says Sanchez is able to fight. Sanchez is fighting on pure emotion. Sanchez drops Melendez with an uppercut and tries to secure choke. This crowd has erupted. Melendez is free and both men are back to their feet. The 10 second snap sounds and Sanchez and Melendez go into a huge exchange. This fight is over. Fight of the night, easy. This is the fight of the year. Sanchez may have won that round 10-9, but the fight will go to Melendez.
The official decision goes to Melendez. Everyone in this place is going berserk. Words cannot properly describe this fight. This fight could easily be one of the greatest fights of all-time.


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The mission of the SAISD Foundation is to support SAISD to become one of the nation's leading urban school districts through educational excellence and innovation.
We hope you will take time to learn more about our growing Foundation and how, together, we can reach our mission.
About the SAISD Foundation
At the SAISD Foundation we invest in students one classroom, one teacher, and one school at a time. Operating as a 501 (c) (3) public charity, The Foundation serves as a catalyst for the District, igniting innovation and passion for student success across San Antonio ISD. In this role, the SAISD Foundation supports programs that aim to increase student achievement, recognize staff and teacher excellence, increase and strengthen business and community partnerships, and celebrate success in San Antonio ISD. The SAISD Foundation invests in Innovative Grants, Spotlight Schools and Strategic Initiatives. Click here for an article in the Rivard Report on progress in San Antonio ISD and how the SAISD Foundation is contributing to this success. Our 2013 Annual Report also details how we are making a difference for students in the heart of San Antonio.
In our short history, the Foundation has quickly become an active and vibrant partner for San Antonio ISD and is proud to have awarded more than $2 million dollars to enhance academic achievement and student success in our schools. Visit our upcoming events to see how you can get involved, or read on for more ways to support our 54,000 students across our 93 schools in the heart of San Antonio.
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The Single Black Chick, Married Black Chick Experience
February 13, 2014 at the Sky Bar located in Downtown Detroit AJ Williams, Tish Prater and Krishawn Peace hosted the release event for their two websites, the first being The Single Black Chick. The Single Black Chick is a site dedicated to educating, empowering and uplifting the single black woman. The second site is The Married Black Chick providing the same experience tailored to the married audience. Both sites provide a unique interactive experience for woman to share and engage one another about their struggles and triumphs in their respective situations. This newly formed community will help and hopefully provide a different point of view for women seeking answers.
The event featured specialty drinks and a lovely décor with vendors providing health and beauty advice to the attendees, just a sample of what you will find on each site. The ladies took a moment to surprise their partner, Tish Prater, with a birthday cake and song. Please check out both sites and subscribe to stay up to date with their promotions, events and surprises.
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eBay is the only website on the internet where buyers can make a purchase but don't actually have to pay for the item at checkout unless the seller takes certain steps to require immediate payment. This is frustrating for sellers because they have to spend their time dealing with buyers who don't pay, or sellers have to start over with a listing and wait for a new buyer to come along. There are several ways to prevent situations with non-paying bidders and to handle buyers who don't pay.
The easiest way to prevent dealing with buyers who don't pay is to add Immediate Payment to listings. This is a free option. Even if the buyer chooses "Buy it Now," the item remains for sale until payment is actually made. Immediate Payment only works on Buy it Now items without Best Offer. Immediate Payment does not work with auctions unless the customer chooses Buy it Now. So if non-paying customers are a problem, don't run auctions and don't use Best Offer. Learn about requiring Immediate Payment here.
eBay also offers a free feature called Unpaid Item Assistant. When turned on, this feature automatically files Unpaid Item Claims on the 4th day after the sale if the buyer has not paid. The Unpaid Item Assistant automates the process of dealing with buyers who don't pay. If the buyer doesn't pay within another 4 days, the case is automatically closed and Final Value Fees are refunded. This is the most hands-free way to deal with buyers who don't pay if a seller isn't ready to give up running auctions or using Best Offer. Learn more about the Unpaid Item Assistant here.
eBay has systems in place to track buyers who repeatedly don't pay. By using the Unpaid Item Assistant, or manually opening Unpaid Item Cases on buyers who don't pay, repeat offenders will eventually be suspended from eBay and the selling community won't have to deal with them.
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Design of EHV substations:
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Construction – Transmission Lines
- Preliminaries – Survey, Optimization of Tower Position, Soil Investigation, Foundation & Tower etc.
- Procurement of other materials – Conductor, Insulators, OPGW, Aircraft Warning Beacons etc.
- Installations of Foundations, Earthing, Towers, Conductors (Stringing) and OPGW (including Splicing)
- Testing and Commissioning of Transmission Lines
- All the above activities as applicable can be undertaken for Microwave / Telecommunication Towers.
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- Construction of station buildings and switch yards,installation of primary and secondary equipment
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Scrabble word: CHANGING
In which Scrabble dictionary does CHANGING exist?
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Definitions of CHANGING in dictionaries:
- verb - cause to change
- verb - undergo a change
- verb - become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- verb - lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- verb - change clothes
- verb - exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- verb - give to, and receive from, one another
- verb - change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- verb - become deeper in tone
- verb - remove or replace the coverings of
- adj - marked by continuous change or effective action
There are 8 letters in CHANGING: A C G G H I N N
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word CHANGING plus a wildcard: CHANGING?
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UK: HTC ChaCha now available at Virgin Mobile, free on £30 per month, £209.99 on PAYG
After previously having become available at Vodafone and Three, the Facebook-centric HTC ChaCha Android-powered smartphone is now also for sale at Virgin Mobile, both with a contract as well as on Pay as you go.
Virgin Mobile will give you a ChaCha for free if you opt to sign a new two-year contract that's at least £30.64 per month. For that amount of cash each month, you get 800 minutes, unlimited texts, and 1 GB of mobile Web. If you're already a Virgin Media customer (having TV, broadband, or home phone service from them), then the cheapest contract to get the phone free on costs just £25.53.
There are, of course, many other plans to choose from. Some more expensive, that will get you more bundled stuff, where you still get the phone for free, and some cheaper plans that require you to pony up some upfront cash to get the smartphone. To see all the plans and pick the one that suits you best, go to Virgin Mobile here.
If you'd rather not sign a contract at all, you can also get the HTC ChaCha on Pay as you go for £209.99. That amount even includes £10 of credit added to your PAYG SIM. You'll also get 300 free texts. If you're interested, go to Virgin's site here.
The HTC ChaCha has a 2.6-inch 480×320 capacitive touchscreen, a full physical QWERTY keyboard underneath that screen, an 800 MHz processor, a 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash, 512 MB of ROM, 512 MB of RAM, microSD card support, HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, a 1250 mAh battery, and that all-important Facebook touch. The ChaCha runs Android Gingerbread.


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Medical Marijuana Legal in Virginia Since 1979
Recently, a reader left a comment on an article stating that his state has had legal medical marijuana since 1979, but his state still hasn't implemented a program. I had never heard this before, so I had to research it. Technically, in Virginia, medical marijuana is legal, and has been since 1979.
In 1979, the Virginia General Assembly passed the following law:
Virginia Code § 18.2-251.1. Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes permitted.
A. No person shall be prosecuted under § 18.2-250 or § 18.2-250.1 for the possession of marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol when that possession occurs pursuant to a valid prescription issued by a medical doctor in the course of his professional practice for treatment of cancer or glaucoma.
B. No medical doctor shall be prosecuted under § 18.2-248 or § 18.2-248.1 for dispensing or distributing marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol for medical purposes when such action occurs in the course of his professional practice for treatment of cancer or glaucoma.
C. No pharmacist shall be prosecuted under §§ 18.2-248 to 18.2-248.1 for dispensing or distributing marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol to any person who holds a valid prescription of a medical doctor for such substance issued in the course of such doctor's professional practice for treatment of cancer or glaucoma.
In 1998, a bill was introduced to repeal the medical use provision, but it was defeated after opposition materialized from Virginians Against Drug Violence. So, from what I can see, doctors can legally prescribe medical marijuana in the state of Virginia. However, if this is true, I don't know why it's not more widely known.
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Fruita to Moab in 4 Days!
The Kokopelli Mountain Bike Trail, the epic ride of a lifetime, the one you'll never forget.
142 miles of linked singletrack, jeep trail and retired wagon road traveling from Grand Junction to Moab, crossing an amazing and untainted part of the desert southwest.
The Kokopelli Trail is a fully-supported event covering just under 50 miles per day. Waiting for us at the halfway point every day is a water & lunch stop, and at the end of each day, a fresh camp.
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Automate Filling in WordPress Comment Fields
Automate Filling in WordPress Comment Fields
One of the more annoying things about visiting blogs is having to fill out all the comment fields. They are the same on every blog (including this one). Sure, you can hit the down arrow key and Firefox might remember what you typed last, but it's still a pain, especially as a blogger when you want to leave a lot of comments.
A much simpler way is to use an application to fill out the fields for you. I've chosen the Texter application, just because it's the latest software that I've been playing with.
Download and install the software, and go through the tutorial on the download page. Once you've got it installed, hit Ctrl+Shift+H to bring up the Add new hotstring dialog, and enter the following, making sure to set the dropdown to "Script", or else it won't replace the {Tab} with an actual tab key.
My firstname.lastname@example.com{Tab}http://www.mysite.com{Tab}My Message Here
You'll want to give it a unique hotstring, something that you wouldn't need to use in other applications. I chose wp1.
So now just type in wp1 into the name field in any comments box:
Hit the tab key, and you should see it auto-fill in the fields, and position the cursor in the comment box so you can write a personalized comment.
This tool is unbelievably useful.
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Nominal is an adjective that, in general, means that the number or concept it is modifying has not been adjusted for changes such as inflation.
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When making comparisons, make sure you know whether figures (GDP, yield, interest rate …) are being reported in nominal terms, or in "real" terms that have taken into account factors such as seasonality, stock splits, and changes in purchasing power.
It's easy to figure out the nominal increase in the price of something like a movie ticket over the past two decades, but the usefulness of that figure is limited beyond wowing youngsters about how things were "in my day." It does take more dollar bills to see a movie in a theater now than it did in the late 1980s. But is it taking a bigger percentage of your paycheck? Has the relation of the ticket price to the price of a loaf of bread changed?
A nominal yield, also called a coupon rate is the interest rate printed on the front of a bond that you will get throughout the life of the bond.
In a commodities market, the governing board could give a nominal quotation for something that hasn't been trading a lot and therefore doesn't have a current quote based on bid/ask action.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- James Ennis had 26 points and 15 rebounds and Long Beach State won its 24th straight conference game at home, defeating Cal State Fullerton 85-65 Wednesday night.
It was also win No. 100 at Long Beach for coach Dan Monson (100-86), whose victory total trails only Jerry Tarkanian (122-20) and Seth Greenberg (105-70) at the school.
Tony Freeland added 13 points and 12 rebounds for the 49ers (15-9, 11-2 Big West), who haven't lost a conference home game since 2010. Dan Jennings and Peter Pappageorge each scored 12 points, and Keala King had 10.
Sammy Yeager and Kwame Vaughn scored 18 points apiece for Cal State Fullerton (12-12, 5-7).
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I know which application created the global hotkey. This application does not have any settings which allow me to disable or change the hotkeys (unlike the above question).
It is also really useful so I don't want to disable it, however it's getting in the way of working with other applications.
Is there a way I can force the global hotkey to be disabled? Preferably all hotkeys by this application.


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Divorce Corp., a documentary billing itself as "the groundbreaking expose of the US Family Law System," will premiere in theaters on January 10, 2014. According to a press release about the film, "Dr. Drew Pinsky, the host of "Dr. Drew" on HLN, narrates with interviews with fifty-four family law experts and people who share their stories." The documentary opens in fifteen cities in: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Washington. A trailer is available to view on youtube.
Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Founder and Chair of National Parents Organization is quoted in the release as believing, "This film has the potential to accelerate the family court reform movement. This is an opportunity for people of good faith to unite to save our children from the ravages of a morally corrupt system.We need to rally around this opportunity to tell the story so many of us know all too well."
"Divorce Corp is the most powerful cinematic indictment of the family courts yet produced. It is especially strong in tracing how high attorney fees, custody evaluation fees and other fees corrupt the original intent of the family courts. If you ever wanted a lesson in how the family courts create a winner-take-all siege mentality among divorcing parents, here it is.
The film is directed by Joseph Sorge, a first time writer/director who became interested in the subject of divorce after experiencing the family court system first hand. The film is produced by Philip Sternberg.


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* This sort of thing tickles me pink: Political bloggers Jonah Goldberg, Robert Farley, Spencer Ackerman, Robert Farley again, and Matthew Yglesias discuss recent developments in the world of Battlestar Galactica. There's something really funny about people who normally write about the Middle East policy or the stimulus package addressing in-world politics like dudes in the Android's Dungeon on New Comics Day arguing over whether or not Wolverine would really say that. The second Farley post in particular is gloriously nerdy in that regard. Also, this reminds me that I have a theory regarding the changes in behavior amongst the Cylons that I need to explore here on the blog at some point.
* For me, the appeal of a second Hobbit movie that fleshes out the stuff going on off-page during and after Bilbo Baggins's journey There and Back Again centered largely on the image of the White Council--Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast, Galadriel, Celeborn, Elrond, and Cirdan, if I'm not mistaken--pulling a Magnificent Seven and kicking Sauron (then still known as the Necromancer) out of his Mirkwood stronghold, Dol Guldur, which is what Gandalf was busy doing for much of the time Bilbo and the Dwarves were mucking about with the Elves, the Lakemen, and Smaug iirc. With that in mind it's a bummer to hear Christopher "Saruman" Lee say that his advanced age would probably prevent him from traveling to New Zealand to take part in the filming, should his character be required. I'm sure he'd like to portray Saruman's last act of benevolence just as much as I'd like to see him do so. Still, maybe they could film him in London, as the interviewer suggests? (Via The One Ring.)
* Hey, it's the teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Yay, war crimes! (Via AICN.)
* Kiel Phegley talks to Ed Brubaker about that "Marvels Project" thing I mentioned the other day. Sounds like Bru and artist Steve Epting will more or less be doing exactly what they did with Captain America, only telling the full story of Cap and the Invaders back in the past. Sign me up.
* Becky Cloonan says that Tokyopop is more or less sitting on East Coast Rising Vol. 2. Travesty.
* Eric Reynolds laments Reed's move to make Book Expo America a permanent NYC fixture, since that's hella inconvenient and expensive for non-NYC-based (read: non-corporate) publishers.
* Back when I was at Wizard, one of my favorite tasks was helping to assemble a publication called PosterMania, which was nothing more or less than a collection of pullout poster versions of various covers and occasionally splash pages from various publishers. Comic Books! is essentially the exact same thing in tumblr form. Its taste and mine don't line up perfectly, and it's virtually all Big Two stuff, but frankly there are a lot of cool covers from those companies around, so this was quite a find for me. I'd imagine there are plenty of people reading this blog who would be perfectly happy if there only interaction with these properties were things like this Mark Chiarello Two-Face: Year One cover, for example. (Via Sean B.)
* Ladies and gentlemen, in honor of his uncredited cameo as General Zod in this week's Pablo Raimondi-illustrated issue of Action Comics, a young Ian McShane. Break open the fuckin' canned peaches indeed.
* Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman follow up on disturbing recent moves by the Obama administration regarding state secrets & extraordinary rendition and indefinite detention respectively.
* Finally, I support this idea of Heidi MacDonald's:
* Fist bumping should replace handshakes as the official con greeting to slow spread of Con SARS.
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The White Council's core members were the ones you just gave, minus Celeborn; the other members are all speculative. I'm sure there's something on Wikipedia.
Also we should start a rumor that the second Hobbit movie will be all about the Blue Wizards, played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as lovable scamps that refuse to grow up. They almost marry Entwives!
"Disturbing recent moves by the Obama administration regarding state secrets & extraordinary rendition and indefinite detention."
That's where the "Yay, war crimes!" punchline would have really sold it. Timing, boyo; it's all about the timing.


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A group of approximately 20 bright eyed volunteers descended on the O'Dell House Museum early this morning. This was the day where we attempt to bring various bags full of greenery together in an attractive and festive manner. This is perhaps the busiest day of the entire Victorian Christmas season. With pruning shears in hand our volunteers clipped, tied, wrapped and hung. Soon swags were hanging over the doors, paintings were draped with garland and the museum smelled like a forest. Just when the activity was reaching a frenzied peak, someone determined that the tea was ready and everyone sat down to a very pleasant lunch.
Once the laughter of lunch had subsided, the crew were quickly back to work. Two Christmas trees were put in place and cherished decorations were brought out of storage. By the end of the afternoon the museum was looking like it was indeed time for Victorian Christmas. The decorating fun will continue at a slower pace over the next few days. I will be making another trip to the woods to collect fir boughs because we did not quite have enough. By the time we open to the public on Friday evening we should be in full splendor. Thanks to all of our talented decorator elves who make this event possible.
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Transcript of the live chat session that took place Thursday, October 2, 1997. These sessions are normally scheduled for 12 noon-1 PM Eastern Time (GMT -5) every Thursday.
These sessions are hosted by Richard Seltzer. If you would like to receive email reminders of our chat sessions, simply send a blank email message to email@example.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/businessonthewebchats and sign up there.
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Since the chat itself happens at a rapid pace, it's often difficult to note interesting facts in particular URLs as they appear on-line. Here's a place to take a more leisurely look. I've rearranged some of the pieces to try to capture the various threads of discussion (which sometimes get lost in the rush of live chat).
Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, and suggestions for topics we should focus on in future sessions. So long as the volume of email responses is manageable, I'll post the most pertinent ones here for all to see.
The URL for last week's chat is http://www.samizdat.com/chat57.html You can get to all the back transcripts at http://www.samizdat.com/#chat
Richard Seltzer -- All -- we'll be starting in about 5 minutes. As you connect, please introduce yourselves and let us know your interests.
Richard Seltzer -- Hello, Dan Jones and Kathleen Gilroy, glad you could make it. Please introduce yourselves.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Hi, I am the President of OTTER (Online Training Technical and Educational Resources)--a distance learning company.
Dan Jones -- Hello, I am the president Of Internet Pro's which is an online retailer of computer software. I am also the director of sales for WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM which is a virtual server provider.
email@example.com -- Hello - I'm an independant consultant in Texas, USA.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Bob Zwick (@Cottage), glad you could make it.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- we're expecting Chris Locke and Howard Rheingold to join us shortly (barring all the unexpected circumstances that might come up). Their both community/Web-social gurus, and I'm looking forward to learning from them.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Andy Morrison, please introduce yourself.
Andy Morrison -- Good Morning/Afternoon, Andy Morrison Project Analyst for a VAR in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- we had several interesting followup messages to our last session (when you get a chance please check the transcript at http://www.samizdat.com/chat57.html In particular, Tracy Marks sent a message with a link to a very rich, large list of community hyperlinks. I haven't had time to check them all, but want to.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Tony Alvarez, please introduce yourself.
Howard Rheingold -- Hi! Just got here!
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Howard. I'm a long-time fan of your. Loved your book on Virtual Community.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- you'll note, that as in all live chat sessions the questions and answers will fly back and forth at rapid clip and only in the order that folks happen to post. Afterwards, I will edit the raw transcript to try to sort out the threads and make it more readable. Many more people see the transcript that can come live.
Todd Moyer -- Hello, I'm a developer at DIGITAL and a web fanatic.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Todd. Howard Rheingold, author of Virtual Community and founder of Electric Minds is with us now. We're still hoping that Chris Locke will be able to join us.
Blair Anderson -- Hi Folks.. jumping in a tad late.. very slow link..
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Blair from New Zealand (do you ever sleep?)
Richard Seltzer -- Blair -- just imagining you there in New Zealand at about 1 AM tomorrow, perhaps in a comfortable recliner with a laptop perched on your knees... seems like a very social Web environment.
Blair Anderson -- "perhaps in a comfortable recliner with a laptop perched on your knees..." Ah'wish....
tom dadakis -- Hi Tom Dadakis here joining late. I am developing some online learning intiatives which will use chat and community functions as alternatives to classrooms. I'm just catching to gist of this discussion for now.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Tom, glad you could make it.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Chandler, please introduce yourself and let us know your interests.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Marianne. Please introduce yourself and let us know your interests.
Sudha Jamthe -- Hi Richard. Sorry I am late. Looks like you have many interesting threads going on.
Christopher Locke -- oh damn, I have this dyslexic sort of thing wrt to time zones. 1000 pardons...
Richard Seltzer -- Chris -- Welcome, glad you could make it. Maybe we'll try to stay connected a little longer than usual today to take advantage of the fact that you and Howard are both here (if you can do it).
Greg Sherwin -- Hi -- Greg Sherwin, net dinosaur here.
Tracy -- Hello all. I'm afraid I missed almost all of the chat...could only just get here. Am very impressed with Electric Minds, Howard.
Dan Jones -- Richard -- Yes, we are a web hosting company. We have not really done a value added services as I just took over the company about one month ago.
Richard Seltzer -- Dan -- any interest in growing the route of Geocities or Tripod? using Web hosting as a basis for community?
Howard Rheingold -- Electric Minds is an example of how the Web can be used as a social medium. In particular, a place for knowledgeable people to have intelligent conversation about technology.
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Welcome Howard - I visited your site and was curious about the OS that is mentioned. Is that a client program that must be installed on an end user PC ?
Howard Rheingold -- No you don't need a client program. Just a Web browser.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- Can you tell us something about CommunityWare? What it is and how you use it? And what constitutes a user-initiated community at http://www.minds.comhttp://www.minds.com?
Howard Rheingold -- CommunityWare is the platform provided by Durand Communications, which acquired Electric Minds. It's a place where anybody can start a community.
Howard Rheingold -- For $3/month, you can set up your own webconferences and chat room and use instant messaging and email services. It's a way to outsource your Intranet or build your own community, without having to create or license expensive technology.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- What constitues a "community" at Electric Minds? What are the pieces of it? I believe that hosted personal pages and the opportunity for forum/bulletin board and chat discussions are part of it. Can you explain what the pieces are and how they fit together -- why it is referred to as a "social operating system"?
Dan Jones -- Howard -- Is Durand Communications the same people who developed the WIP protocol?
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- One thing I noted that may be slowing down the social aspect of your site is that people have to enter with a password. This means that only your introductory pages get indexed at AltaVista and the other major search engines. And (I believe) the personal pages that people have at your site don't get indexed at all. (I tried host:minds.com at AltaVista and there were only three pages from your site in the index). I think of search engines as THE major driver of Web traffic today. You might want to find a work-around for that.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- you mention that "It's a way to outsource your Intranet or build your own community..." But isn't there a disk space limitation? One that feels much more appropriate for individuals than for companies. Do you have a different kind of offer for companies?
Howard Rheingold -- There is no disk space limitation, only a nominal charge.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- do I understand you correctly that for $3/month you offer "unlimited" Web space? That doesn't seem practical. How can you do that? Do you have companies that have taken you up on that?
Howard Rheingold -- There is an additional surcharge for web storage over a certain number of megs. But I am not a representative of Durand. Electric Minds is my baby.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- when a person or company gets Web space at Electric Minds, can they have a virtual address? And can visitors get to their pages without going through the Electric Minds password process? Hence do their pages get indexed by the search engines?
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- I'm still trying to sort out what you offer at Electric Minds. It sounds too good to be true. Are you telling me that for $3/month a company or individual could have unlimited Web space at your site plus the ability to set up chat sessions and forums plus some special instant message system? Please clarify. That just doesn't compute. There has to be a catch (or how could you ever hope to make money doing this?)
Todd Moyer -- Howard: what is the business model of Electric Minds? That is, how do you make money with it?
Howard Rheingold -- Electric Minds is a community that runs on the CommunityWare platform. CW does indeed offer all those services at that price -- the price goes up for larger communities. But I am not an employee of Durand. I consult for them, and help them run the social side of the operation.
Howard Rheingold -- Electric Minds was acquired by Durand Communications. Their business model is to be THE place to outsource Intranet and virtual community services. They hope to have hundreds of thousands of customers.
Howard Rheingold -- One of the things I am doing for Durand is providing a place where people can learn the social nuances of designing, launching, and maintaining good communities -- a kind of Host University. So in addition to the tools, Durand offers a number of ways to learn how to use them.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- excellent. It's a long-standing gripe of mine that software doesn't do it all -- especially when it comes to "community" and "social-type" activities at a Web site. There's a huge need for consulting, moderating, etc. Peopleware. You're saying that Durand has that to offer?
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- So the "intranet" type community would be something for Durand. What are the limits on the low-cost communities that people can build at Electric Minds?
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- as a test case, consider Kathleen's business -- Otter, a distance learning company. Could she set up a $3/month account at Electric Mind and have all kinds of student support and student community activities running there? Or at what point is the size of the site or the volume of the activity such that a new pricing algorithm is triggered and you deal directly with Durand rather than Electric Minds?
Howard Rheingold -- Again, Electric Minds is one of many communities. It's the showcase community. CommunityWare is the platform. Anybody can join Electric Minds, but only our hosts can create conferences. If you want your own conference, you start your own community. There really aren't any limits on the communities you can build as long as they are legal.
Howard Rheingold -- Yes, Kathleen could have a community on CommunityWare running this afternoon. I am sorry, but as I said, I am not an employee of Durand and am not conversant with all their pricing policies. You can email firstname.lastname@example.com for info.
Electric Minds is one of many communities. Come there to have intelligent discussions about technology, the future, and the media. If you want to talk about other things, there are other communities.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Howard, do you feel that CommunityWare is the best platform for these activities? I tried to log on and found the process terribly slow.
Sudha Jamthe -- Howard: Are the communities in Electric Mind built on loyalty? My question is what makes them a community?
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- I'm still confused. I understand that Durand provides you with the CommunityWare software. I understand that Electric Minds is a showcase of how this software can work. But I don't understand the limits and the costs. If I would like "unlimited" Web space, the ability to create chat sessions easily and quickly, the ability to create conferences, etc. are you saying that all I have to do is join Electric Minds for $3/month? And -- very important -- will my content be accessible to the world without a password/signin barrier and hence be indexable by search engines?
Howard Rheingold -- Since merging Electric Minds, CommunityWare has been in need of a redesign. Try it again in a month, Kathleen, when we have completely integrated the different components. I am confident that when the redesign is completed, this will be the best way for people to set up communities. Where else can you get conferencing, chat, instant messages, newsletters, and web-page hosting, complete with help on the social aspects?
One other thing: Jennifer Stone Gonzalez, whose book on "The 21st Century Intranet" will be published next month, is running an "Intranet Institute" for Intranet champions to learn the social side of installing and running successful intranets.
Durand has all the elements, but now those elements must be put together in a way that makes it easy for any person to use it.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- Does CommunityWare only run on Durand's machines? Or are they selling the software as well?
Howard Rheingold -- Durand is not selling the software now. It only runs on their machines. Theey are beefing up their hardware and bandwidth right now.
tom dadakis -- Howard - Who keeps the discussion on track? Could they degrade to the level of AOL with time?
Kathleen Gilroy -- I'd love to be able to find something that would faciliate all of these activities for a global audience of students. The human component is still critical in how effective these tools are...without Richard, I'm sure these discussions would not be so vibrant and interesting. This is a new set of skills for the future that we think about building into our staff--running thoughtful, engaging short-term communities.
Howard Rheingold -- Kathleen, I have just started a "community of hosts" to talk about the social nuances of hosting communities, dealing with both conferencing and chat.
Kathleen Gilroy -- My bias is to use chat in an educational setting, but I would be interested in joining such a community.
Howard Rheingold -- One of the reasons I started Electric Minds is my belief that knowing how to design, stimulate, maintain, nurture, grow online conversations that can establish relationships that can grow into communities is a key skill. You don't just put some people and software together and expect good things to happen automatically.
Richard Seltzer -- Kathleen -- I agree that the Web is excellent for fluid, fast-changing "communities" and that sustainable relationships are hard to find.
Howard Rheingold -- One must be careful about generalizing about online relationships -- there is such a wide spectrum of conversations and types of social committment.
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Kathleen - I agree that since the Net is so new and so unorganized in it's infancy stage, that relationships are short term now. However, I think that the Net will augment if not compete with the telephone which is currently the most prevalent "community" ( family & business ) tool in the world.
Dan Jones -- Bob -- I don't think that the net will be like the telephone is today for some time. Even though I love to chat on the net I still find a direct telephone call much more productive.
Howard Rheingold -- Can you pick up the telephone and ask to be connected with a group of Alzheimer's caregivers or people who are trying to debug a LAN or people in Atlanta who like Italian cooking?
Kathleen Gilroy -- Yes, it will compete with the telephone--it may become the telephone or merge with it (with a videoconferencing component added in.) Given the ephemeral nature of communication on the web, should we try and build long-term communities, and invest in what it takes to build and sustain them?
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Kathleen - I believe that communities will evolve on there own. We should at least provide a means to congeal people into communities. The investment, at first, could be minimal.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob -- interesting way to put it "community tool". Yes, the telephone is a tool for facilitating community and social activity, but it is not itself a "community". Likewise a Web site is a means of facilitating such relationships and not a community itself. (Perhaps). Relationships might start there, or might be carried farther along there, but they exist outside of the site itself. Does this ring true to you?
Kathleen Gilroy -- I feel that the web is an amazing way to start relationships. We are in the process of completing negotations with a woman in Kuala Lumpur who will become our distributor in Southeast Asia, whom we met through the web. I describe this as the 1990s equivalent of being discovered at the counter at Schwab's drug store.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- What is your experience in this regard? Not the Well, which really got started quite a few years before the Web. Today -- what are you finding in your community work at Electric Minds? How do you cope with all the enormous choices that draw your audience away elsewhere?
Howard Rheingold -- Sustainable relationships are hard to find EVERYWHERE, and you certainly can't expect ephemeral online conversations to be the basis of deep relationships. However, OVER TIME, people do build strong relationships -- under the right circumstances -- online.
Howard Rheingold -- We cope with all the distractions by offering something that isn't easy to find elsewhere: civil, intelligent conversations by knowledgeable people, sustained over time.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- while strong relationships can be built on-line, it feels like the link is among the individuals who meet on-line, and they have enormous range of choices for how to continue the relationship that need not be linked to a particular Web site. Hence the medium is very social, but we see little in the way of true communities build around Web sites. Unless your combination of software is taking your members to experiences they've never had before -- an ease and richness of communication that they can't get in other ways.
email@example.com -- Exactly, Richard. Relationships begin at various places on the internet, then they will adjourn to community social centers that are provided, either by the particpants or by businesses providing a public service. ( with business interests of course ).
Howard Rheingold -- You don't build a community in a day or a month. And decent conferencing software for the Web is only about a year old. I think it's way too early to make any judgements about social communications on the Web.
Howard Rheingold -- Which brings me to the MAIN problem in any discussion that connects the Internet and business: the need for results and profits NOW NOW NOW. It's a murderous way to deal with innovation.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob and Kathleen -- yes, I believe we get this mix of long-term relationships started on-line and transitory relationships at particular Web sites. We're using all the capabilities of today's Web -- including instant messaging and email and chat and forums and personal web pages and search engines -- to find and connect with one another. But can a site like Howard's add a new dimension by putting these social tools all together in one place and making them so easy to use that you would be inclined to carry on your relationships there rather than by other means?
Kathleen Gilroy -- If the technology is quick and easy to use, there are many, many applications to my business that could be facilitated by these types of tools. For example, students and teachers can hold conferences, office hours, work on team-based assignments. These are all tools that we have built into our business model. But we still will maintain satellite connections for high quality video and audio for the main course distribution.
Howard Rheingold -- The management at Durand is very sensitive to privacy concerns, and one of the terms of the acquisition of Electric Minds was that they had the right to send one message -- no more -- to the 70,000 people who had registered for Electric Minds in our first six months of operation.
Kathleen Gilroy -- The big six accounting firms see the "assurance" aspect of the web as a very big business opportunity.
Howard Rheingold -- One of the longest-running and most heated conversations in Electric Minds is the "Psychographic Privacy?" topic.
Dan Jones -- Todd -- Do you feel that the ability to say in email what you would not say directly could become a bad thing? I mean sometimes we don't say things because they are best not said.
Howard Rheingold -- Todd, You could use CommunityWare to build a private or public conferencing system, complete with chatroom, email newsletter, instant messages, and web page hosting, for that group of friends.
Todd Moyer -- Dan - there are things that I don't write in e-mail, but have never regretted anything I have written. It's like a letter, except more convenient.
Donna Hoffman has just released an interesting URL discussion the merits
and marketing of push technologies that may be of interest to the group
(Vanderbilt-Nashville) This URL is one of the must reads.. IMHO (aside
from some of the other quality stuff Prof Sunil Gupta and his team have
put out.. ) See
Hi Howard.. read your book.. well parts of it.. it was a well thumbed copy.
Sudha Jamthe -- Richard: Have you covered 'push' aspect of reaching community members? I mean, mailing lists which create many online communities.
Christopher Locke -- as to push: EGR is a website, but I take subscriptions so I can send ASCII versions of new stuff. This occasional touch has kept things alive I think, whereas a plain old web page might get buried in the ol' bookmarks file.
Richard Seltzer -- Sudha -- indeed, we depend on mailing lists to keep this chat going -- the chatreminder list I've built over time, the web-net list, the isig list (left over from the Boston Computer Society), etc. I tend to distinguish between push for distributing information and push for distributing reminders. (Also, of course, your Coola! service for letting people subscribe easily to receive the transcripts by email.)
Sudha Jamthe -- Chris: Have you seen Richard's transcripts come by Coo!a? Its my service to send online magazines/sites as HTML mail. If you'd lie I can include EGR in there. Take a look athttp://www.coola.com Also by push, I am thinking about mailing lists. I consider myself an 'online citizen', if I may say so, primarily because of the zillion mailing lists I am on.
Richard Seltzer -- Push-wise, I also do a not-so-regular newsletter, free, Internet-on-a-Disk, about Internet trends and directions. I have built a list of over 10,000 direct subscribers (believe it or not, I handle that list by hand), and send it out by email to them, and also post the issues at my Web site. You need a mix of methods to reach people.
Tracy -- My experience is that mailing lists CAN create very strong community. I've been on a few mailing list "support group" or "online group therapy" experiments that have really been powerful. Case in point is a current offshoot mailing list support group run by the NetPsy list...
Christopher Locke -- tracy -- I agree about mailing lists. yes. not as sexy as some of the interactive stuff, but you have more time to consider what's flowing by -- often without having to read it all, which is also important.
Richard Seltzer -- Chris -- Just dive in and say your say. Tell us about your community experiences. What has worked and what hasn't and why. And what you're up to these days.
Christopher Locke -- experience for EGR: working for several buttheaded Fortune 50 companies for starters... seeing how clueless Korporate Amerika has been about the whole net phenomenon...
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Welcome Christopher - I read your article pointer that Richard sent. I have to compare your to a sports caster in Dallas who calls his commentary "No Whimp Sports" He tells it like it is and doesn't try to be politically correct. You come across as a "NO WHIMP" Internet discussion person.
Christopher Locke -- I tried using a conferencing system on the zine site, but actually ended up taking it down for multiple and complex reasons. we could discuss that...
Richard Seltzer -- Chris -- seeing your site and the kinds of things you do, it would seem natural for you to join in at Electric Minds and maybe start a community over there. (I'm tempted myself. I tend to do all the "social" things at my site simply by brute force and sweat -- entering "letters to the editor" and "followup" notices rather than using an special conferencing software.)
Christopher Locke -- I used the WELL a lot in 92 -- was a host of a conf on collaboration. more recently though, I found that online discussion did not lend itself to extended explication (or the kind of ranting I've grown so fond of).
Christopher Locke -- too many threads end up being "yeah, what she said" kinds of things.
Richard Seltzer -- Chris -- My inclination is to set up a "modular distributed Web site" -- fancy term for just doing the different pieces of you site at different places and linking them together. Hence I run my personal Web site at Acunet (in Marlboro, MA), and I also host these chat sessions at the Web-net server (which happens to be physically in Maryland). And I could conceivably add a conference/forum at Electric Minds. That way I don't have to mess with the software. And I get to do interesting things at low cost.
Christopher Locke -- an interesting and very unexpected effect emerged within the EGR readership. I generally mistreat and malign readers -- it's a "branding thing" ;-) plus, it's a one-way street for the most part; I write, they read. finally, there is ZERO buy-in to any notion of community. yet some very strong bonds have been forged behind the scenes. i find this fascinating...
Sudha Jamthe -- Chris: I am back. Had to leave and missed some good discussion. Just saw your EGR page and hope to find out more about what you do (For intros:I manage web-net where this chat is hosted)
Christopher Locke -- always happy to talk about EGR. it's sort of the DON'T EXAMPLE of all the best online "rules" -- but something about it works. even Microsoft thought so.
Richard Seltzer -- Chris -- speaking of your newsletter (EGR) and search engines, I checked at AltaVista url:www.panix.com/~locke/EGR and saw that only six of your pages were indexed there. You might want to go to AltaVista and do an ADD/URL for the rest. It could drive more traffic to your site. (I get about 500 visitors a day at my little no-graphics sandbox, and all but about 10% of it seems to come by way of search engines.)
Howard Rheingold -- Richard, People in Electric Minds objected to letting search engines index conversations for two reasons:
They want their conversations to be available to those people who come to this specific site and show enough commitment to register.
Many people said it really is a disservice to the Net to muck up searches with hundreds of thousands of postings that might have no more than a word or two in common with the subject of a search.
I happen to agree that it's a great way to market the community and draw in new people -- but you can't expect to make decisions dictatorially and have a vibrant community. I have to honor the wishes of the eMinders.
Blair Anderson -- I concur with Howard on the search engine "relevancy" issue. Some things just dont lend themselves to searching.. which is why we should be looking to virtual communities.. once the relationships are forming (do they ever mature), much can be unsaid.. relevent only to the participants, and where the "here and now", fails to encapsulate the "there and then" which is only known to the participants. (>Yammy3 dialog to any AI buffs reading this)
Kathleen Gilroy -- Richard, this should be the subject of your next book.
Greg Sherwin -- I think search engines are a nice, automated tool for finding things. But to rely on them heavily for the publicity and promotions for online communities or content is rather short-sighted, don't you think? One of the problems with the Web now is that the majority of sites are for PR, and yet very few know or practice PR basics. They leave it to search engine indexing. They think that PR is just something anyone can do without any guidance or training.
Richard Seltzer -- Howard -- when you get a chance take a look at the intro to my new book The Social Web http://www.samizdat.com/socintro.html It explains the principle of "flypaper" which is key to driving traffic to a Web site. I wouldn't want to index random chatter. But I would hope that someone there takes the time to edit the raw transcript of conversations to make them more generally useful. That should be indexed.
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Richard
- your concern with search engines is valid, but don't always count on
BOTs. There are programs that publicize protected sites with with phantom
URLs that work great for getting into specific engines ( or all engines
We have to put the effort in to get the results we want instead of letting the big boys control our destinies.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob@Cottage -- I don't depend on the bots finding my pages. But I do make sure that they can get to my pages, and then I submit each one by hand with ADD URL. As for the tricky methods of using phantom URLS, the folks who run the Web sites really don't like that and are developing techniques to sniff that out and eliminate all that material from their indexes. The folks at AltaVista call that approach "spam" and they have a major effort underway now to eliminate it form their index. Keep an eye out. They want to make sure that the content at a specific URL is the content that their index says is there.
email@example.com -- Richard - the phantom pages I mentioned are "real" and point to the actual sites. I don't believe it is spam if they exist.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob -- you're right -- if they are real pages, that's a smart way to operate. I misunderstood you. There are a number of sites that have tried a bait and switch technique, trying to be indexed as having one kind of content and actually offering something else.
Greg Sherwin -- Given that I have worked closely with Barry Rubinson and have discussed these issues at length, it became pretty obvious that he felt -- at least at one time -- that one of Alta Vista's top priorities was to "punish" the spammers. They only serve to diminish the value of the service.
Richard Seltzer -- Greg -- as Bob pointed out, it's sometimes difficult to define "spam". Some perfectly reasonable practices that are actually in the best interests of users can be misinterpreted and "punished." It's tricky. Might be worth a future topic for chat.
Tracy -- On the searching issue....people should be informed at any site if a search engine can access what they write...Sometimes forums etc. can get very personal, and one may not want to know that what one writes will show up in search engines.....
email@example.com -- Spam and the Net is definitely a good topic. It will have an effect on the future of communications on the Internet.
Richard Seltzer -- Tracy -- I agree that for conferences/forums/chats it should be clear up-front what is going to be indexed and what not. With robot exclusion, it is a relatively simple matter to allow the bots to certain directories and documents and not to others. It isn't a one-size-fits-all situation.
Greg Sherwin -- Richard -- there is definitely a delicate balance between when something in a header or META tag is of benefit to those seeking the resource ... and when it's used deceptively. But on the subject of search engine indexing of online communities, I don't see search engines as an entirely helpful applciations. Web page content and community content can be very different in its breadth, edited focus (as someone else had mentioned), and even timeliness. While it might make sense to have a search engine crawl some overall, useful information that can be targeted to someone seeking the community, what goes on inside the community is rough and voluminous at best, off-subject and stale at worst.
Richard Seltzer -- Greg -- that all depends on the community. Case in point, this chat session. There's lots of good content here, contributed by folks like yourself, from all over the world. As soon as I edit (for threads and continuity) and post the transcript, I ADD URL at AltaVista. Because of that anyone searching for anything related to business on the WWW is likely to get matches from chat transcripts at my site. Since the end of May, when I moved to Acunet in Marlboro and began benefitting from their excellent statistics, some of the old transcripts have had as many as 1000 visitors each -- almost all from search engines.
Greg Sherwin -- Richard -- I think you touched exactly on my point. The fact that you carefully take the trouble to edit the content makes it valuable to outside search engines. Otherwise, I'm sure you know how much B-roll and interview footage ends up on the cutting room floor (or in the trash can on their Avid for that matter) because the spontenaiety of conversationalism doesn't lend well for viewing as a whole. That is a great success story re: your transcripts however. Do you follow the traditional search engine submitting tips before you ADD URL (e.g., META tags, word choice and placement, etc.)?
Howard Rheingold -- Good human editors are expensive, we discovered. I would love nothing more than to pay a good editor to index the stuff worth indexing. But there is a point of diminishing returns when the conversation volume grows large enough.
email@example.com -- Richard - I noticed you always mention AltaVista. Do you also regularly post to other engines i.e. HotBot, Excite, YaHoo ? Seems like search engines are personal preference and you may not reach all of the audience you want to.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob -- I only add URL at AltaVista. I make sure that everything is there. And I have links from my site to make it easy for users to use AltaVista as an index of my site. I also check my logs for traffic from other search engines. (Excite seems to hit all of my pages about once every 3-4 weeks.) If this were a commercial operation, I probably would add URL for each page at the top 3-5 sites. But not having time for that, I go for my favorite and the one I know best -- AltaVista.
Tracy -- Richard, one of the things I'm finding frustrating is that I've been putting up notes for all my Internet classes and my bookmarks on my geocities site, to avoid traffic charges, and the search engines won't accept my pages...
Richard Seltzer -- Tracy, -- I spoke to the AltaVista folks just a couple days ago about problems with Geocities pages. Apparently, there are some folks hosted there who have attempted some very nasty spamming tricks with AltaVista, and the spam-resistant software just shut down all submissions from Geocities. They are working on making the software more discriminating so only the those who are behaving badly are punished. Meanwhile you might try duplicating or moving your pages to Tripod, which has a similar free space service. Pages there are indexed.
Tracy -- Thanks, Richard. It occurred to me that I could put up an entry page on my Windweaver site which leads to Geocities...could also try Tripod.
Tracy -- Sudha - I haven't done an online class yet though I am offering a four session class on Internet chat and conferencing and IRC in November...Am struggling with the time involved in online teaching...it appears to be about five times as much work and time as f2f....don't know how to make that cost-effective....
Sudha Jamthe -- Tracy: We are learning about online classes too. I think it's time consuming to offer class notes, keeping them current to net speed as compared to regular classes. Then, we setup a chat room which we use as a class room where the teacher lectures and students come with questions after woring on a pre-assignment and this seems to be working fine.
Tracy -- Sudha and others, I recommend the online course on Teaching Online at http://www.cybercorp net. However there, as in other online classes and groups I've been on, communication is 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and everyone expects and hopes for immediate responses from the teacher or moderator... Would like to hear more about what you're doing, Sudha.
Sudha Jamthe -- Tracy: Thanks. I'll check Cybercorp. As for what I do: I work doing Intranet architecture and management (real job). I manage web-net, where thsi chat is hosted where we try to find out where teh web industry is going in terms of new technology, services and companies. Most of our initiatives are volunteer driven, revolve around using the internet and keep us going. Online classes is one of them. We have real meetings with speakers at MIT Sloan once a month. We are looking to suuplement it with online meetings using Placeware audi. Its fascinating how we wor as teams with people who we've never met and who are at different time zones across the globe. Thats what I call a community.
Christopher Locke -- what builds community. I think we have at least 16 versions of what people mean by that term, which makes answers difficult at best.
Christopher Locke -- I think many begin by expecting too much. communities evolve. I don't trust "planned communities" very much. they seem so. . . planned!
Tracy -- About what builds community: A compelling common purpose, and a sense that the people at a given place can meet one's needs...share valuable information or moving personal statements....and help make it safe for one to express oneself openly....Stimulating discussion on subjects of deep interest, and a welcoming stance of members. Making it easy for newcomers to participate and oldtimers to deepen relationships and continue to learn and grow...
Richard Seltzer -- Tracy -- No fair -- you come up with these seminal stimulating observations just as everyone is leaving :^) At least I'll be able to catch it in the transcript, but I'd like people to be able to react live...
Howard Rheingold -- I gotta go. I'm email@example.com and Electric Minds is http://www.minds.com It's been fun. Thanks, Richard and the rest of you!
Christopher Locke -- bye Howard, sorry I missed most of it.
email@example.com -- Richard -sure would be nice if you had a substitute host while you are away.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob -- I tried a "substitute host" about a year ago, when I had to be away for a couple weeks. But it didn't go too well. I need to stay open-minded however. I'm hoping that when I return with can get a fresh start with fresh enthusiasm and new topics. Suggestions welcome.
Christopher Locke -- I'm sticking around if anyone wants to talk about less lofty stuff.
tom dadakis -- Tom Dadakis email@example.com
Kathleen Gilroy -- Bye everybody. It's been fun. Thank you Richard.
Tracy -- Tracy Marks firstname.lastname@example.com Hope to catch up with what I missed via the transcript.
Todd Moyer -- Great chat, but I have to cut out. Hopefully Howard, Chris and the other newcomers (to this chat) will come back when we pick up in a few weeks. firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, http://www2.cybernex.net/~tsm
Richard Seltzer -- All -- who is still here? And how would you like to continue?
Tracy -- I'm here...and just wish I didn't miss it all!
Richard Seltzer -- Tracy -- glad you could make it. Sorry you connected so late. Can you stick around a few more minutes? I believe that Chris Locke is still on (he too joined late).
Tracy -- I can stay....
firstname.lastname@example.com -- I'm here and staying for a while.
Blair Anderson -- Richard: I'm happy to stay on.. still half a pot of coffee left!
Sudha Jamthe -- Richard: Hope to catch up on the transcripts. Would like to stay on.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- I see that it's almost 1:30. We should probably wrap this up. Please post your email and URL addresses before leaving. Chris -- is there any chance you could join us again on Thursday Oct. 30? (We're going to have to miss three weeks as I go on a speaking trek for Digital Equipment. I'll be in Vienna and Moscow. Never been there before and looking forward to it.)
Christopher Locke -- yes, I could
come back. I really do aplologize for being late.
email@example.com http://www.panix.com/~clocke/EGR
Richard Seltzer -- Lots of good stuff today. (It's going to take some time to edit this one.) Look for the transcript at http://www.samizdat.com/#chat
And all the things that you meant to say but didn't get around to, please send me in email at email@example.com for inclusion in the transcript as followup notes.
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Thanks
Richard - Have a good trip. email@example.com
Cottage Micro Services, 103 Vinyard Drive, Waxahachie, TX 75167, http://www.cottagemicro.com
Tracy -- Good trip, Richard....Sorry I missed most of it but at least I finally did get here!
Greg Sherwin -- I'll
definitely have to check in earlier in the morning on the left coast here
for this next time. Thanks, Richard. Greg Sherwin firstname.lastname@example.com
http://www.connectingonline.com (But more often known for my day job the past couple of years: http://www.cnet.com, http://www.news.com, http://www.snap.com, etc.)
Tracy -- Will do my best to get here earlier another time....time management problems. Nice to meet all of you....
Blair Anderson -- Richard: Enjoy Moscow et all.. Bye all.. Thanks to Howard and Chris.. Cheers email@example.com
Christopher Locke -- ditto on the thanks and good wishes. send mail if you feel like it. seems like a great bunch! firstname.lastname@example.com
Tracy -- For the record my cybercommunity bookmarks are up at http://www.geocities.com/~webwinds/classes/cybercom.htm ...And my primary site is Windweaver http://www.windweaver.com
Sudha Jamthe -- Thanks Richard. Will you resume the chat back on Oct 30th or 23rd? Sudha Jamthe email@example.com http://www.web-net.org Bye folks: 'See' you online again.
Richard Seltzer -- Sudha -- It will have to be Oct. 30. My plane won't get back from Moscow until the morning of Oct. 23, and I'm not likely to be too coherent at that point.
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