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Latoya Peterson
A certified media junkie, Latoya Peterson provides a hip-hop feminist and anti-racist view on culture with a special focus on video games, film, television, and music. Skilled in interviewing and creative non-fiction, Latoya Peterson spends her time editing the award winning blog Racialicious.com – the intersection of race and pop culture. She is a Contributing Editor for The Root.com and Content Producer for the Online News Association.
Her work has been published in Spin, Vibe, The American Prospect, The Atlantic Blog, Bitch Magazine, Clutch Magazine, the Women's Review of Books, Slate's Double X, The Poynter Institute, The Root.com and the Guardian. She was a contributor to Jezebel.com. Her essay, "The Not Rape Epidemic" was published in the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (Seal Press, 2008). She also contributed "The Feminist Existential Crisis (Dark Children Remix)" to the anthology Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism (CCPA, 2011).
As a digital media consultant, Latoya Peterson has worked with brands like NPR, Wikipedia, and Weber-Shandwick to provide demographic analysis, ideas on improving user experience, and specialized outreach. She is also a guest host for WEAA's The Michael Eric Dyson Show and a contributor/substitute digital producer for Al-Jazeera's The Stream.
Her perspectives have been quoted in Essence, The Boston Globe, CNN, the Guardian, the Austin Chronicle, and Newsweek and she regularly speaks on topics of race, gender, and social media at conferences like Women, Action and the Media and South by Southwest Interactive.
She is currently working on projects related to race, pop culture, and video games, and will speak for a fourth time at SXSW Interactive 2011 on issues of technology and social justice. She is a Poynter Institute Sensemaking Fellow, and one of the inaugural Public Media Corps fellows. Latoya is based in Washington, DC.
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Managing Editor
Arturo covers the geekier side of the spectrum for The R, but his interests literally span the globe: international cinema, swing-dancing, mixtape-crafting, podcasting, sci-fi, comic books and all-around snark. He has also branched out into the DJ world, spinning at local goth events, at the 2010 San Diego Geek Pride Festival; events hosted by Geek Girls Network at the 2010 and 2011 San Diego Comic-Cons, and most recently, he's part of the team behind Bootie San Diego, a spin-off of the international mash-up event chain. Besides his own columns, Arturo has also collaborated with the group of contributors known as the Algonquin SnarkTable, dissecting shows like Heroes and Flash Forward. He broadcasts from San Diego, but likes to note that as with empires of old, the sun never sets on him.
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Andrea J. Plaid
Sexual Correspondent
Andrea (AJ) Plaid writes as the official Sexual Correspondent at Racialicious, where she explores the crucial nexus of race and sex in popular culture from her homebase in Brooklyn, NY. Her perspectives on race, gender, and sex have been featured in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Bitch Magazine. She was a contributor to Change.org. Her work has been republished at Penthouse, Wiretap Magazine, and RaceWire.
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Jessica Danforth
Special Correspondent
Jessica Danforth is the Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice throughout the United States and Canada.
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Fatemeh Fakhraie
Special Correspondent
Fatemeh Fakhraie is an editor, author, and blogger who writes about issues from her perspective as Iranian-American Muslim woman. She writes about Islamic feminism, Islam, and race for several online and print outlets, including Racialicious, Bitch Magazine, and AltMuslimah. In 2007, Fatemeh founded Muslimah Media Watch, a website dedicated to critically analyzing images of Muslim women in global media and pop culture. She is editor-in-chief of the website, in addition to serving as an Associate Editor for AltMuslimah. In 2009, Fatemeh published her first book, Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Hijab Styles in Urban Iranian Women, a textbook version of her master's thesis.
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Joseph Lamour
Fashion and Entertainment Editor
Joseph Lamour not only writes about Scandal happenings and Vogue foibles for Racialicious, but he also does art direction, graphic/web design, illustration… basically anything arts-related. He's even styled nominees for The Grammies.
A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Joe spends his time drawing, writing articles and lyrics, (he's a singer too,) and designing. His clients have included Smithsonian Latino Center, Pace-Wildenstein Gallery, The Kennedy Center, The Pentagon, and The White House, among others.
Joseph would like you to know that he enjoys a good mystery, including Harlan Coben and Charlaine Harris novels. His love for the latter led him here: First talking about everyone's favorite telepathic waitress for Racialicious' True Blood roundtables, and now for a more in depth look at fashion, entertainment, and their relation to the racial landscape. He also posts at his own blog, Joe Lamour Everyday.
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Carmen Van Kerckhove was the co-founder and president of New Demographic, a consulting firm that helps people learn about the real issues behind race and racism. She published Racialicious, an award-winning, influential blog about race and pop culture. Van Kerckhove was a regular commentator on NPR and wrote for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) web site. Her perspectives on race and racism were featured in Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Crain's New York Business, and The Nation magazine. Carmen has appeared on MSNBC, Al-Jazeera English, Washington Post Radio, American Public Media's Marketplace, and PBS's Asian America. She hosted Addicted to Race, a podcast about America's obsession with race, and published Anti-Racist Parent (now Love Isn't Enough, run by Tami Winfrey Harris), a blog for parents committed to raising children with an anti-racist outlook, and Race in the Workplace, a blog that explores how race and racism influence our working lives.
Carmen decided to retire from public activism in May of 2010, though her commitment to racial justice remains strong.
She now runs Urban Martial Arts with her husband Serge. They live with their daughter Sean in Brooklyn, New York.
Jen Chau, co-Founder, Racialicious, New Demographic, Mixed Media Watch, and Founder of Swirl Inc.
Jen Chau is the Founder and Executive Director of Swirl, a multiracial community committed to initiating and sustaining cross-racial, cross-cultural dialogue. She is also an independent consultant focused on supporting non-profits with their efforts around organizational development, change management, building HR processes, diversity work, and executive coaching. Jen's perspectives on race and racism have been featured in such publications as The New York Times, USA Today, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Additionally, Jen has appeared on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and PBS's Asian America as an expert on topics surrounding diversity, race issues, and mixed race identity.
Jen received her BA in Women's Studies at Wellesley College and her MS in Organizational Change Management from Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy. She currently lives in New York City and writes about her experiences in activism, leadership, and life at The Time Is Always Right.
Wendi Muse, Former Special Correspondent
Wendi was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and moved to New York to attend NYU's Gallatin School for Individualized Study. At NYU she was a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar and did a concentration on "legal and cultural studies of oppressed and marginalized people," which she sometimes abbreviates on her resume as "cross-cultural analysis" as to not confuse employers or the weak of (bleeding) heart. When not globe-trotting or planning her next move, she's killing time blogging about -ISMs, dancing up a storm, and studying Portuguese.
Wendi Muse was with Racialicious from 2007 to 2009, and is known for her work on race, beauty, and her series The Brazil Files. Now a writer, music afficionado, and everyman sartorial critic living in NYC. She has since moved on to start RetailDJ.
Thea Lim
Former Deputy Editor
Thea Lim grew up in Singapore and Toronto, and she now lives in Houston. Her writing has been published by the Utne Reader, the Atlantic Monthly, Bitch Magazine, and Jezebel, and in 2007 her novel The Same Woman was released by Invisible Publishing. She is also pleased to report that her ideas on race and culture have started to infiltrate college textbooks. She co-facilitated the famed Asian Arts Freedom School in Toronto, she was poached from the award-winning Shameless Magazine blog, and she moonlights as a nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast. She is a (anti-imperialist) Third Culture Kid. She really likes Mariah Carey, but she won't be upset if you don't.
Thea is currently writing the next great Singaporean-Canadian-American novel, and is the non fiction editor of Gulf Coast Journal.
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Nadra Kareem Nittle, Former Special Correspondent
A Chicago native and Occidental College graduate, Nadra Kareem has written for a wide range of print and online publications. She currently writes about diversity issues at racerelations.about.com for New York Times company About.com. Her writing has also appeared in The Source magazine and Outreach magazine, as well as the Los Angeles Times, the El Paso Times, the Santa Fe Reporter and the L.A. Watts Times. In addition, an essay she wrote can be found in the new book Mezcla, available from Mouthfeel Press. She lives in Los Angeles.
Nadra Kareem was with Racialicious from 2008-2010. She now writes for About.com and runs their Race Relations section.
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Even if I could develop a morality engine and install it in every device, system, and process I've ever worked on, I don't think I would. Not only is it too comnplex a problem, it subverts the morals of the user and substitutes my own. And I Know I don't have the far ranging vision to appreciate the fine points of every potential future situation to evaluate them properly. It is hard enough to do that well in real time, with all or most of the facts and evidence present for examination.
Any engineer, actiing responsibly, can take or refuse a job based on the knowledge at hand, and whatever moral framework may seem to apply. But predicting the future uses as well, no. It has been generally ruled out and rightly so. To do otherwise assumes people of the future are incapable of seeing their own situation and evaluating it for themselves. That kind of deprecation is as bad or worse than the kind of ancestor worship that says our forebears were smarter, wiser, more moral, etc than we are today. Still wrong, but at least in looking back we have evidence to back up (some of) the claims.

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by Chris Lake 27 July 2006 14:03pm 0 comments
Here's LOVEFiLM's Craig Sullivan's weekly digest of the key news affecting the digital media sector.
by Chris Lake 26 July 2006 11:43am 0 comments
Wow, what a week for customer services. First we had the now-infamous Vincent Ferrari call to AOL. Then we noticed a press release on E-consultancy that painted a bleak picture of online customer services among retail companies.
Vince wanted to cancel his account and having heard "the nightmare stories" decided to record his phone call to AOL Member Services. Some 21 frustrating minutes later he finally managed to achieve his goal… not entirely helpful.
International fame followed after the AOL tape went viral – the combination of Digg and the New York Times channelled 700,000 visitors to Vince's site in rapid succession, forcing him to temporarily remove the recording (still offline).
If you didn't hear it you can watch him being interviewed about his AOL experience on TV via YouTube – the interview has excerpts from the cancellation call. Too funny, unless you're an AOL executive...
by Chris Lake 07 July 2006 18:29pm 2 comments
The nearest thing the videoblogging arena has to a superstar has quit her show in a move that leaves its future uncertain.
Amanda Congdon has cut a dash at the anchor desk of Rocketboom, helping make the snarky, daily net culture news roundup amongst the highest-profile video blogs in the world with around 300,000 downloads per episode.
by Robert Andrews 06 July 2006 13:53pm 0 comments
YouTube has settled a six-month dispute with NBC, after the TV network decided to relax and climb into bed with the video-sharing behemoth.
The turnaround is unbelievable, and a huge positive for YouTube. Some months ago NBC's legal department forced YouTube to remove the 'Lazy Sunday' sketch, taken from NBC-owned Saturday Night Live. Like much of the content on YouTube, the clip was used without the permission of the copyright owner, in this case NBC.
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Want another example of how your customers can communicate your message for you? Check out upcoming new Australian band Wolfmother, which is asking fans to snap and send mobile video clips that will form the basis of the act's next promo.
It's supported by a moblog powered by the London-based moblogUK service, which was popularised when survivors of the city's 7/7 bombings posted camera phone pictures to the site last summer.
by Robert Andrews 28 June 2006 17:08pm 0 comments
It used to be that there was this top down content pyramid in operation (operated by traditional media and the big online players), where the quantity and quality of news / content was controlled by relatively fewer organisations.
This is changing rapidly, becoming flatter and more diverse (we're not really interested in the why's right now), which can either be seen as an opportunity or a threat. Organisations that embrace this change are going to benefit (think Murdoch buying MySpace), so the question then becomes how one capitalises on the opportunity...
Let's look at some of the key strategic issues to consider.
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Ben Metcalfe reports British TV channels are now showing a Welsh spoof of the increasingly-infamous Sony Bravia commercial.
For the sunny slopes of San Francisco and an avalanche of bouncing balls, swap with the hills of Swansea and a cascading torrent of fruit, complete with that beautifully sleep-inducing Jose Gonzalez backing track.
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It started with a Facebook "friend" request.
"I was just, 'oh, he's cute, I'll accept him,'" a 22-year-old called "Nina" recalls.
She was 18 at the time, and didn't imagine that clicking "accept" would start her on a path to four years of prostitution across the country. "Nina" is a pseudonym; CNNMoney agreed to change the names of the victims in this article to protect their privacy.
Upper middle-class and college-bound, Nina had her plans derailed in her senior year of high school after her mother was sentenced to two years in prison for financial crimes. Lonely and looking online for male attention, she started messaging back and forth with a man who said he was falling for her. They talked about trips they'd take together as a couple, and about marriage, maybe kids.
"He sold me the biggest dream in the world," she says. "I thought he really did like me and we were going to live this fairy-tale life together."
They exchanged online messages for about a month. That September, while Nina's friends went off to college, she traveled the two and half hours from home to meet her Facebook beau in person.
The fairy tale ended fast. Almost immediately after she arrived in Seattle, he dropped her off on a street where prostitutes troll for customers and told her she was going to "catch dates."
Many would have run, but Nina says her deteriorating family life left her with a sense of desperation. She was smitten, and willing to do anything for the man she thought loved her. So she stayed.
Keeping the attention of her "boyfriend" required selling herself for sex, Nina learned. He was a pimp -- and she was one of a growing number of women recruited on social networks for sex trafficking.
There are no hard statistics on the scope of the problem. Law enforcement officials don't track how sex workers are recruited into the field, and unless the victims are underage, prostitution is typically a low-priority crime.
But recent prosecutions in California, Virginia and Washington, along with interviews CNNMoney conducted with victims and those investigating these crimes, illustrate how social networks are helping traffickers lure in victims like Nina.
"Pimps are professional exploiters," says Andrea Powell, executive director of Fair Girls, an organization that helps victims of sex trafficking. "Often they're just spamming a whole bunch of girls with messages like, 'Hey, you look cute. I could be your boyfriend.'"
That's one way Justin Strom -- aka "J-Dirt" -- recruited the high-school girls he and his followers trafficked in Alexandria, Va., an affluent suburb on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. For six years, the members of Strom's "Underground Gangster Crips" gang operated a prostitution ring that ensnared at least eight 16- and 17-year olds, according to court documents.
The girls were rented out to five to 10 customers each on a typical night. The going rate was around $30 for 15 minutes of sex.
Social networks were among Strom's preferred hunting grounds.
The group "searched Facebook for attractive young girls, and sent them messages telling them that they were pretty and asking if they would like to make some money," one witness told a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent investigating the case. The court records include a trail of those messages.
Strom had a collection of fake Facebook accounts. On one of them, for "Rain Smith" investigators found more than 800 messages sent out to potential targets.
If a girl expressed interest, a gang member would arrange to meet up. At that point, participation stopped being voluntary.
One 17-year-old solicited on Facebook allowed Strom to pick her up in his car at her home, but when he spelled out what he expected, she told Strom she wanted out. In response, he "slammed her head against the window of the vehicle," forced her to ingest cocaine, and slashed her arm with a knife, according to court documents.
That night, he took her to an apartment complex and rented her out to 14 men. The encounter netted Strom $1,000. It left the victim with a collection of physical scars.
"He's a con artist, a monster and a manipulator," another victim testified at his sentencing. "I was brainwashed into believing that having sex with men for money was normal, an everyday thing."
An FBI operation shut Strom's gang down last year, and in September he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Four of his associates were also convicted.
But FBI cybercrimes supervisor Jack Bennett says Strom's tactics are becoming more common. Part of the problem, he says, is that minors will accept friend requests from strangers just to appear to be popular. Photos, personal information, and friend lists are then out in the open.
Pimps "start looking for the cracks where they can fill the holes, whether it be a father figure or a boyfriend," Bennett says.
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Boko Haram terror designation plan misses point
By Shobana Shankar, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Shobana Shankar is a visiting assistant professor in the History Department of Georgetown University. She is finalizing a book, 'Who Shall Enter Paradise? Christian Missions and the Politics of Difference in Muslim Northern Nigeria.' The views expressed are her own.
The violent Islamist group Boko Haram has escalated attacks throughout Northern Nigeria since last year, murdering civilians and destroying government and private property. Understandably concerned by news reports and appeals from the expatriate community, members of the U.S. Congress have proposed designating Boko Haram a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), a label that would trigger actions affecting business and aid that could hurt many Nigerians. It would also exacerbate religious tensions that Boko Haram itself has fomented, which all who seek peace in Nigeria must steadfastly contest if its people are to rid themselves of violence and fear.
Capitol Hill certainly has cause for concern. Attacks on Christian churches have intensified in the last six months, yet leading traditional Muslim leaders have not publicly condemned Boko Haram since May of this year, when the Sultan of Sokoto -- one of Nigeria's most prominent Muslim leaders -- denounced the group. No Muslim authority has emerged to clearly champion the rights of both Muslims and Christians to live together peacefully in Northern Nigeria. A great responsibility rests on the shoulders of Muslim leaders to speak out against Boko Haram at this critical moment.
Christianity in Muslim areas is historically complex. Southern Christians began to settle in Muslim towns over a hundred years ago. Hausa-speaking Christians, belonging to ethnic minority communities, have lived peacefully under Muslim rulers. A small number of Muslims have even converted to Christianity, and traditional Muslim rulers -- emirs, their councilors -- have historically had religiously mixed subjects.
During the British colonial era, Muslim rulers played key roles as facilitators of interreligious cooperation. In 1937, the emirs of Kano, Katsina, and Bauchi, along with the Sultan of Sokoto, negotiated agreements with North American Christian missionaries to cooperatively undertake a massive leprosy control campaign. To be sure, white missionaries and Muslim elites forged alliances out of a shared paternalism and arrangements of mutual benefit.
After riots broke out in Kano in 1953, ostensibly over North-South disputes regarding constitutional negotiations, the government investigation concluded that religion was not a catalyst for the violence. Notably, it found that religion did not prevent Muslims and Christians from sheltering one another. Mutual assistance has occurred in the midst of Boko Haram's bloody assaults, but religious separatism has grown since the 1960s. Unlike Muslim nationalists of that era, like Sir Ahmadu Bello, prominent Muslim leaders today have not offered sufficient shelter, even symbolically, to Christians in the North today.
Northern Nigeria's ancien regime can and should use its authority to press for peace. Today's interfaith efforts in Nigeria are commendable but do not go far enough if Christian and Muslim leaders only take care of their own. Muslim leaders should embrace Christians over Muslim extremists now. Christian leaders in Plateau State should also denounce vigilantes who attack Muslims, but they have no influence over Boko Haram, which has captured a monopoly on violence in parts of the country. Most of all, Muslim leaders must accept Christians as genuine Northerners, worthy of their affection, and protection.
Although Washington is a long way from Abuja and Kano, actions on Capitol Hill could further inflame tensions and isolate some of the least developed regions of Nigeria from national and international development. The House and Senate narrowly avoided a crisis this week when the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013 wisely abandoned provisions that would have pressured the State Department to designate Boko Haram an FTO. But efforts to designate Boko Haram an FTO are likely to resume in 2013. FTO designation would sideline the U.S. government and American experts and scholars from contributing to efforts towards disarmament and peace. The most effective tools to defeat militant violence and prevent any escalation in northern Nigeria are diplomacy and development that involves Muslim-Christian cooperation.
Rather than focus on a short-sighted FTO designation, the U.S. should actively seek ways to support productive dialogue with and among traditional rulers and Northern Nigerian officials at the state level. International Muslim bodies, such as the Organization of the Islamic Conference, should do the same.
Most importantly, Muslim moderates must restore their credibility wherever non-Muslim neighbors are under attack, whether in Nigeria, Kenya, or Pakistan. If they refuse to act, history will not look kindly on their silence.
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Posted 15 November 2003 - 02:30 PM
Did anyone experience this. It seems there is an algo change in google and many sites are jumping around in the rankings. Some top ranking sites have dropped to 30s and 40s and some have sudden boost in rankings. I have 2 have of my clients sites which were up there on the rankings for the past 3 months have taken a nose dive. And couple of other sites are now on top of the SERPs. I think it happened yesterday.
Some sites which were ranking high on the SERPs for the keyword "website hosting" are nowhere found. Top 5 sites are now in 40s and 50s. I cant believe this. Did anyone else experience this or I am the one who is seeing these changes. Please share it here. This is the first time I am facing an algo change in google,
please share your experiences,
Posted 15 November 2003 - 02:59 PM
Posted 15 November 2003 - 03:00 PM
I've also seen many of my clients that are now in the Top 10, but I'm quite sure that is due to my SEO efforts!
I'm in a holding pattern to see what shakes out with Google. I'll wait a week or so before I start jumping for you!
Posted 15 November 2003 - 03:02 PM
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Posted 15 November 2003 - 03:06 PM
Maybe it's just a temporary shakeup.
Posted 15 November 2003 - 05:21 PM
I noticed it on one of my sites this morning. (The rest seem to be unaffected from a quickie look.) Pretty funny actually, since it's not a "whole site" kind of thing, at least in my case. One single keyword phrase I happened to check this morning went from #5 yesterday to #86 this morning. But other (related) keyword phrases on that same site are pretty much right in the same range they're normally in.
Just the one phrase is affected. Strange.
Maybe they're testing something and it'll go back to the old algo in a day or two. Maybe a new algo is in effect and something on this one page for this one phrase (density perhaps?) is stepping over some new line in the sand that never existed before.
Either way is fine by me. Especially if it means G is going to start cleaning up the SERP's again. Woohoo!
Posted 15 November 2003 - 05:26 PM
Posted 15 November 2003 - 07:23 PM
I just got my New Results email from GoogleAlert for today where I track a few keyword phrases for new competition.
On the phrase I first noticed this on early today a rocking total of 22 sites are new to the Top 50.
The other two phrases have a total of one new site in the top 50 combined.
Don't ask me what they're doing, but they're definitely doing something!
Posted 15 November 2003 - 07:25 PM
Posted 15 November 2003 - 09:06 PM
Think of the web as an ocean, and consider websites as but krill or plankton floating, drifting along, being tossed about with the ever changing currents, water levels and tides. Who then can control the seas or stop an ocean's waves?
Once the turbulence has subsided and permanent "anchor" links are established, order will again return.
...that is, until the next storm.
Posted 15 November 2003 - 09:08 PM
Posted 15 November 2003 - 09:49 PM
It is funny, for some of our keywords we are still on the same position. It is as if Google only affected a lot of keywords but not all. What a disappointment. Many of the results in the top ten are not the most optimized sites or the sites with the most content related to our business. That stinks!
I don't know if there was an algorithn change or something, but the results are really bad. It is horrible if Google plans to get away with this. I hope that it is just a mistake or a temporary test.
What can we do? I know that Google has sort of like a monopoly in Spider land and they can do whatever they want, so I guess all we could do is wait.
Posted 15 November 2003 - 10:04 PM
Actually, I've been thinking for some time that it's more efficient to let spammers do a bunch of garbage, maybe test out new algos on test boxes, then post all at once, rather than trying to react piecemeal.
In my more paranoid moments, I've been thinking that letting spammers get comfy would draw them out so you can get more with one shot. Or even that by doing it all at once instead of continuously, they are able to avoid spammers just watching the action/reaction of what they are doing in order to figure out what's going on behind the scenes.
But that's only when I've had too many beers...
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Senate Republicans blocked ratification of a United Nations treaty aimed at promoting the rights of disabled people around the world, despite an appearance on the Senate floor by former Republican Sen. Bob Dole, in a wheelchair, making a last-minute effort to garner GOP support.
Conservatives warned it might allow the U.N. to impinge on the rights of disabled people and their families in the United States.
The measure - known as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- needed 67 votes for ratification but only got 61.
Dole, the 89-year-old former Republican senator from Kansas who is disabled from a war injury, lobbied his GOP colleagues in a last-ditch effort to persuade more Republicans to back the treaty.
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SHREVEPORT JOURNAL Tuesday PM Your Health SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY, LA., Make your home poison proof By BETH SMITH Journal Medical Writer Sue Jones brought some of her 2-year-old daughter's toys to the dining room and settled her down to play so she could keep an eye, on the child while she ran the voicuurh in the adjacent living room. She looked in on her often as she worked. Several minutes had passed since her last check, and Sue was preparing to turn off the vacuum and go into the dining room when she heard a painful cry. "Hot, Mom-my; hot,'' the little girl sobbed. Sue rushed iwto.her and found the toddler rubbing her mouth. Beside her was a leaf from the large Dieffenbachia (dumb cane) plant that sat on the floor by the dining room window. It was a warm spring day, and 4-year- Qld-Johnny was delighted to get to play outdoors on his swing set. The back yard was fenced, and Johnny couldn't reach the latch on the gate, so his mother wasn't worried about him being alo^e, though she did check on him from time to time. Suddenly, she heard him scream and ran out to find that Johnny had discovered a bottle of pesticide that had accidentally been left on a window ledge. He had swallowed some of the liquid, and part of itnad spilled on his bare legs. * * * These two incidents are fictitious, but they are representative of the 2,497 calls concern-ing children under 5 years of age received during 1981 by the LSU Medical Center Poison Control Center in Shreveport. Maurice A. Hawley III, poison information pharma-cist, said this represented 47 percent of the calls processed by the center last year. Theme for the current observation of Na-tional Poison Prevention Week (March 21-28) is "Children Act Fast... So Do Poisons." Pa-rents are reminded that spring cleaning time is a good time to clean closets and cabinets where potentially poisonous substances are stored. Medicines, cleaners, solvents and pesticides, for example, should be disposed of if no longer useful, or they should be securely sealed and stored where children cannot reach them. Hawley suggested the following good house-keeping rules for avoiding accidental poison-ings among children: • Store internal medicines separately from household products. • Avoid taking medicines in front of chil-dren; they imitate grown-ups. • Never refer to medicine as "candy." • When household substances are in use, never let them out of an adult's sight. • Keep poisonous substances in their ori-ginal containers with labels attached; never transfer them to cups or soft drink bottles. • Keep all products properly labeled and read labels before using. • Always keep the light on when giving or taking medicines. [ The Poison Control Center also urges that parents of young children keep at least one ounce of Syrup of Ipecac, which induces vomiting, in the house, but cautions that it should never be given without instruction and should be kept out of the reach of children. The syrup is available at local drug stores and costs about $1.20 plus tax for one ounce. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Poison Control Center maintains a Poisondex system, with some 200,000 products and plants recorded on microfilm. Hawley said the center can provide information in five to 10 minutes on what is in a product, its toxicity, symptoms to watch for and how to treat them. Some situations can be handled at home, but some require emergency room treatment or evaluation by a physician, Hawley said. The information is compiled by a group of board certified toxicologists and comes from the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center in Denver, Colo. Information is updated every quarter. Hawley said the local center, which has been in operation since March 1977, averages 10 to 15 calls a day. A total of 5,880 calls were received in 1981; the largest percentage of calls concerned the ingestion of (1) prescrip-tion drugs, (2) over-the-counter drugs and (3) household products. The center is supported by grants from the Department of Health & Human Resources, Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse and the United Way Fund. Clip and post the first-aid chart shown, or order one by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Poisoning First Aid Chart, Poison Control Center, LSUMC-S, P.O. Box 33932, Shreveport 71130. • • * The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Com-mission has compiled a Poison Lookout Checklist, which should be completed by an adult. A "yes" answer to all the questions means a home is poison-proofed. Any "no" answers should be corrected immediately. Kitchen • Do all harmful products in cabinets have child-resistant caps? Products such as furniture polishes, drain cleaners and some oven cleaners should have safety packaging to keep little children from accidentally opening the packages. • Are all potentially harmful products in their original containers? If not, there are two dangers: Labels on the original containers often give first aid information if someone should swallow the product. And, if stored in containers such as drinking glasses or pop bottles, someone may think it is food and swallow it. • Are harmful products stored away from food? If not, someone may accidentally get a food or a poison mixed up and swallow the poison. • Have all potentially harmful products been put up high, out of the reach of children? Make sure it is impossible for children to find and get at poisons. Locking all cabinets is the best poison prevention. Bathroom • Did you ever stop to think that medicines could poison if improperly used? Many chil-dren are poisoned each year by overdoses of aspirin. Just think how many other poisons might be in the medicine cabinet. • Do aspirins and other potentially harmful products have child-resistant closures? • Have you thrown out all out-of-date prescriptions? As medicines get older, the chemicals inside them can change and once-good medicine can become a dangerous poison: Flush old drugs down the toilet, rinse the container and discard. • Do you only give medicine to the person for whom the doctor prescribed it? • Are all medicines in their original con-tainers with original labels? Without the ori-ginal label, you can't be sure of what you're taking. Garage or Storage Area • Did you know that almost everything in your garage or storage area that can be swallowed is a terrible poison? Horrible reac-tions occur when everyday substances such as charcoal lighter, paint thinner and remover, antifreeze and turpentine are swallowed. • Do all these poisons have child-resistant caps? • Are they stored in the original con-tainers? • Are the original labels on the containers? • Have you made sure that no poisons are stored in drinking glasses or pop bottles? • Are all these harmful products locked up and out of sight and reach? SIOP'S POISON FIRST AID CHART This publication is made available by the E.M.S. Foundation Inc.. as a public service for the citizens of Northwest Louisiana. If a poisoning occurs, follow these steps: 1. CALL A PHYSICIAN OR POISON CENTER IMMEDIATELY! 2. Administer first aid treatment as listed below. 3. Do not force liquid or induce vomiting if the patient is unconscious or convulsing. 4. Keep the poison container. Bring it with you if the patient is to be treated REMEMBER: Speed is extremely importanf in treatment of accidental poisonings. COSMETICS — Give water — Induce vomiting if recommended by Poison Control Center* PLANTS — Give water — Induce vomiting if recommended by Poison Control Center* MEDICINES —Give Water — Induce vomiting if recommended by Poison Control Center* INSECT AND RAT POISONS — Give water — Induce vomiting if , recommended by Poison Control Center HOUSEHOLD CLEANING, POLISHING, AND PAINTING AGENTS —Give water or milk — DO NOT induce vomiting ACIDS AND ALKALI — Give water or milk — DO NOT induce vomiting FOOD POISONING — Give water — Induce vomiting if recommended by Poison Control Center* GASOLINE AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS — Give water or milk — DO NOT induce vomiting on your own, call Poison Control Center for instructions POISONS IN THE EYE — Flood affected eye with gentle stream of water. , POISONS ON THE SKIN — Remove affected clothing, flood involved body parts with water then wash using bland soap. When dealing with insecticides, strong acids, or alkalis (bases) use protective rubber gloves. POISONS INHALED — Move person to ventilated area. Resuscitate (mouth to mouth) if not breathing. Keep Ipecac Syrup on hand to induce vomiting. Follow physician or label instructions for use. PHYSICIAN. PEDIATRICIAN. EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS PHARMACIST FIRE r 1980 By Happy. Normal. It SIOP and SIOP symbol are Trademarks of HAPPY, Normal, III POISON CONTROL CENTER AMBULANCE 318/425-1524 HOSPITAL POLICE MARCH 23, 1982 B 318 / 425-1524 LSUMC-S POISON CENTER
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"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
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But twice I have seen the first line debated in internet chatrooms, the verdict each time being that telling a falsehood is always bad, opening a Pandora's Box to all manner of disaster. How do I respond to this? I respond by coming down coming squarely on the side of kindness. I believe this puts me on the side of the God of both testaments of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, – the God who gave us the Ten Commandments and the God who gave us the Sermon on the Mount.
To my ear, the commandment against lying seems to have been carefully crafted to exclude the lie of kind intent: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The God of Moses had no trouble with clarity. He was explicit in saying "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not steal," these being clear assaults against one's neighbor. But had He said, "Thou shalt not lie," his law might have been construed to condone an assault of truth against one's neighbor. Instead, His commandment puts the emphasis clearly on the consideration of our neighbor's welfare. The short form of the commandment is not "Thou shalt not lie" but "Thou shalt not harm thy neighbor by thy word." It is a corollary to "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ spoke of those "who say all manner of evil against you falsely." He did not condemn those who say all manner of good of you, in the interest of your welfare, be it false or otherwise. Here is the God who reduced the commandments to two: Love thy God and Love thy neighbor. In giving us the beatitude, "Blessed are the merciful…," did He intend to exclude from the merciful those who bend the truth so as not to hurt their neighbor?
I think of it this way – there is a distinction between the facts that we discern as truth, and the Eternal Truth which is God Himself, to whom our only allegiance is owed, and who has provided us the model of kindness and understanding that should inform our lives. And so, for myself at least, the rule is simple:
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I have written extensively about how dot-govs are passively listening to all that happens on social media. They mine way more data being passive than they would by any active engagement as Jason suggests. I am currently writing about many of the social media's transparency reports, including Twitters.
The phases of cyberwar: first comes the passive-aggression. Statements that seem to be not directed at anyone in particular, but in fact, they really are. Second, the insults and direct verbal war. And third, as Mitch has said, the hacking begins.
I'm sure the US will someday use Twitter, Tumblr or whatever the latest social media platforms are to influence and inform. What fascinates me is the pooling of information, okay - propaganda, that collectively results from several sources pushing out content via social media. The varying views en masse have the potential to tell the holistic truth with the result leading to more global transparency than we've ever experienced before.
@Jason The cyberwar. I've seen so many takes on this, and some, like Social Warfare: Israel Live-Tweets Its Military Campaign Against Hamas, really fail to see the forest (real war) for the trees (or, in this case tweets and status updates). Today Tablet ran a piece called "The 'Kids' Behind IDF's Media"
The goal, as Dratwa explained it, is twofold: to get Israel's narrative out in real time, as people read about red alerts in Tel Aviv and rocket landings in Gaza on Twitter, and to cut out the middleman of "old media" in communicating with pro-Israel activists. "What we try to do is to be fast and get information out before the old media," Dratwa told me. "We believe people are getting information from social media platforms and we don't want them to get it from other sources—we are the ones on the scene, and the old media are not on the scene as are the IDF."
It's not immediately clear what concrete impact the IDF's Twitter battles are having on the course of public opinion. Foreign journalists have been allowed to enter Gaza during Operation Pillar of Defense—a change from Israeli policy during Operation Cast Lead, when foreign journalists were barred from Gaza—resulting in a steady stream of gripping footage and images from the territory. But the IDF boasts 185,150 Twitter followers viewing its stream of videos, photos, and updates, which includes information from the front and frequent reminders of Israel's ongoing provision of food and medical services to Gazan civilians.
From my own perspective, I think there is a serious downside to that approach as a number of articles like http://readwrite.com/2012/11/15/unbelievable-the-idf-has-gamified-its-war-blog, put a spin on the whole thing and the encouragement to share as treating war like a game.
As for questions of censorship, Mathew Ingram brought up that question in http://gigaom.com/2012/11/15/israel-and-twitter-where-does-free-speech-end-and-violence-begin/:
And while they have all expressed their commitment to free speech in some form or another, they have absolutely no obligation to uphold that, or to tell users when information has been removed, or why.
We may have disrupted our old information gatekeepers — newspapers, television, even governments — but in many ways we have just exchanged them for shiny new ones. And they are just as inscrutable, if not more so.
I expect we'll see denial-of-service and other attacks directed at both the Israeli and Palestinian accounts.
Wars have always involved propaganda fights; this is the latest iteration.
One of the big dangers of social media in combat is that soldiers might accidentally reveal confidential information that can help the enemy.
Good point, if the U.S. government does one day engage in image engineering via say live-blogging military actions on Twitter/Tumblr, then it could be accused of pressuring such services (as they're domestic) to skew the coverage.Of course I would be high wary of such claims given that I think the companies involved would complain -- just look at how vigorously Google resists DMCA takedown notices and other forms of potential censorship.I do think, in a sense, such image engineering is somewhat inevitable for the U.S. military as it becomes more ubiquitous...


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This system also features an auto sleep mode that reads the temperature of the room and powers down once the ambient room temperature is reached, while the auto restart ensures that the system will restart with the same settings after a n unintended power interruption. The temperature display on the front of the indoor unit displays the current room temperature, giving you an opportunity to change or adjust the temperature to your preferred setting. A 24 hour on/off timer enables you to power the unit on or off on a timer, which means you can have the unit off during the day to save energy, then have it turn on right before you get home to create a comfortable atmosphere for when you walk through the door. Complete with a remote control for convenient use, this mini-split system creates a comfortable environment throughout the home or office for a long time.
Dual Temperature Modes:
This mini-split system ensures that you can get comfortable cooling and heating throughout your home or officeDehumidifying Mode:
A featured dehumidifying mode allows you to remove up to 5.7 pints of moisture in the air every hour, so your surroundings will stay crisp and coldEnergy Saving Settings:
Features such as the auto shutoff & restart, as well as the 24 hour on/off timer, helps you to conserve energy and save money
NOTE: All LG mini-split air systems should be installed by a professional HVAC technician
- Model: LS246HV
- Brand: LG
- Cooling capacity: 24,400 BTU
- Heating capacity: 26,000 BTU
- Dehumidification: 5.7 pints/hr
- Four (4) air speeds
- Gold Fin anti-corrosion
- Cooling & heating mode
- Dehumidifying mode
- Fan mode
- Air circulation (CFM): 530/450/370
- Cooling temperature range: 64°-86° F
- Heating temperature range: 60°-86° F
- Indoor dB: 45/40/37
- Outdoor dB: 54
- Warranty: 3 years parts; 5 years compressor
- LG 24000 BTU Single Zone Heat Pump Mini-Split System with Inverter Compressor
- Inverter system
- Auto changeover
- Temperature display
- Manual power switch
- Defrost control
- Auto sleep mode/restart
- 24 hour on/off timer
- Evaporator frost control
- Plasma air purifying system
- Complete with remote control
- Freon: R-410A
- Input voltage: 230 V/60 Hz
- Indoor weight: 28.7 lbs
- Outdoor weight: 132 lbs
- Indoor dimensions: 11.81" H x 42.94" W x 7" D
- Outdoor dimensions: 31.5" H x 34.31" W x 12.63" D
Indoor dimensions:
11.81" H x 42.94" W x 7" DOutdoor dimensions:
31.5" H x 34.31" W x 12.63" D
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Are You A Constitutional Ignoramus?
Below are the questions from a midterm exam I prepared for a civics class for homeschooled teenagers. Every American voter should know the answers.
1. Name the three classes of citizens in Plato's Republic.
2. According to Aristotle, what are the three proper forms of government?
3. What are the perverted forms called?
4. What is the difference between the good and bad forms?
5. What is the essence of Locke's "social contract"?
6. Why does treason never prosper?
7. Cite one significant difference between the American & French Revolutions.
8. What historical event is commemorated by "World Freedom Day" (November 9th) ?
9. Why is our government divided into three branches?
10. Name the three branches.
11. Which branch is mentioned first in the Constitution (Article I)?
12. What's the minimum age for President?
13. How long is a Representative's term?
14. True or False: The terms of all elected Representatives expire at the same time.
15. How many Representatives does each state have?
16. How long is a Senator's term?
17. How were Senators originally chosen?
18. Which chamber of Congress has the power to impeach the President?
19. In which chamber do revenue bills originate?
20. Why does the Constitution distinguish between "raising" armies and "maintaining" a navy?
21. What was the fractional value of a slave in the antebellum census?
22. What incentive did this valuation offer?
23. Which presidential candidate won the popular vote in 2000?
24. Who's more likely to become President, Sean Penn or Arnold Schwarzenegger?
25. How long does a Supreme Court Justice serve?
26. Cite three restrictions on suffrage.
27. Name the four freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
28. What is "double jeopardy"?
29. True or False: The federal government can exercise any power not expressly denied to it by the Constitution.
30. True or False: The Declaration asserts that "all men are equal."
31: Which of the following men did not sign the Declaration: George Washington, John Adams, John Hancock, Ben Franklin?
32. Cite three infringements on the rights protected by the Bill of Rights.
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Helloooooo to you all, hope you are well and are on target (for whatever it may be -seriously, I'm curious now, what are you all up to these days? Leave a comment below and let's have a conversation ). If you all are asking about moi, these past few weeks I've been busy spending time with my family/friends (and Megan), writing, resting and snapping away taking pictures and editing them to my hearts' content and then sharing them on instagram and here (when I have the time to do so). This has fuelled my creative drive somewhat and other than the odd spurts of dizzy spells (which forces me away from my laptop and any long-burst of writing) I have been feeling rather positive about what is in store for me. Getting back to my art and photography has become a blessing in disguise (as had my writing last year); being able to visualise and bring together images and create imagery which people appreciates' has been extremely satisfying -as well as it has reminded me how much I missed just doing arty stuff. So, this is me -in addition to my writing; I will be designing visual artworks when I cannot write anymore due to my dizzy-spells; hopefully my art will spur on my writing and vice-versa.
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Facebook Graph Search
Have you heard about the new search feature being rolled out by Facebook?
This search feature is not yet available to everyone, not me either!
In this Hangout, Borius Savransky gives us a tantalising taste of how fantastic this new feature is, especially for network marketers like me.
Boris must be one of the most knowledgeable people on this outside of Facebook employees, having been a beta tester for Facebook for many months.
And he releases his knowledge of Facebook Graph Search freely here on this Hangout - just amazing!
You will be amazed to see how intuitive this feature is. I think it is a result of the competition between Google and Facebook where both companies are trying to dominate the search world online.
Use this information to help your team, just like Boris, Alex and Anna do.
I can't wait to use this training as soon as Facebook Graph Search becomes available 'downunder'.
This is what Wikipedia has to say:
Facebook Graph Search
is a semantic search engine that was introduced by Facebook in March 2013. It is designed to give answers to user natural language queries rather than a list of links.[1] The Graph Search feature combines the big data acquired from its over one billion users and external data into a search engine providing user-specific search results. In a presentation headed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was announced that the Graph Search algorithm finds information from within a user's network of friends. Additional results will be provided by Microsoft's Bing search engine.[2] In July it was made available to all users.[3]
Don't treat this video as just another Hangout - it has information there that can really help you in your online business, no matter what business that is.
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Hi guys, i came up with a couple of ideas that would help getting that feeling of playing a song in real life.
1- First of all, a new block should be added. I mean a new color for the notes. It could be hollow blocks and they should be used when you play strings but don't push any fret. You do this a lot of times playing real guitar and making the new songs with this feature would give a feeling much more realistic and dinamic to game.
2- As an add-on there should be a stompbox peripheral. Used when distortion or any significant effect is turned on. This could be represented with a horizontal line in the fretboard and if you activate the effect right on time it should increase your OD meter.
3- Career mode shouldn't be just play this song, now play that one... It should really be a rock band career game. You should manage your band, meaning starting from scratch practicing looking for members (better or worse) if you don't have enough players, looking for places to have shows, recording your album... This has a lot of possibilites. You could try to get signed by a label but then you would have to give them part of your benefits from the shows and probably play songs you don't want to. Or you could perform a lot (meaning you have to repeat the same songs) to get enough money and pay a studio for yourself. It could be fun to have to deal with internal crisis like making your drummer go to rehab or that kind of stuff.
What i mean is that this would make a really interesting and funny career mode and it's something rock games haven't even tried.
4- Also, before you play a song you should be able to choose your instrument AND if you also want to be the singer. This would allow you to plug a headset in your instrument or to use rock band mics under your profile and not use two different profiles. I've played a lot guitar + vocals and it just feels dumb watching two different people on screen.
I ended up playing rock band over guitar hero because it felt more like a real rock game. But it's mechanics haven't changed for too long. It's time to evolve.


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How to Price New Services
It appears to me that many business owners worry more about how to price a new product/service than they do learning about how to do it in the first place.
How do we price something that we've never done before? It appears to me that many business owners worry more about how to price a new product/service than they do learning about how to do it in the first place. Web sites, social media, QR codes, email broadcasts, shopping carts as well as Twitter, Facebook Business Pages and LinkedIn pages all come to mind. How do you price such a service for customers? First, understand you can never accurately price something you haven't done before. Second, you need to know how to do it before you worry about pricing. And third, it's hard to learn on the customer's nickel but that's been the tradition in the printing industry. Going far afield however requires a better approach and I have a suggestion of how to do that.
So what do we hear in the trade press about pricing social media? Hum, value to the customer and substitution pricing are the primary responses. Charge what the market will bear. Hum. Okay, I agree, but how do know what that is? Well, bear with me and I'll give you one way of getting there.
Are you old enough to remember your first coated offset job on your AB Dick 360? If you're not, then you don't know that coated offset had a nasty habit of sticking to the blanket cylinder, being projected into the ink train and wrapping tightly around ink rollers which created that irritating slappy sound.
Well, if that didn't happen to you I'm sure you have had an equally interesting training experience. You see, we small business owners (not just printers) train on live jobs. We simply do not allow training time for anyone to actually gain skill in whatever it is we're doing; rather, we buy a piece of equipment and then expect it to produce saleable work instantly.
I was in a plant installing a multi-million dollar six color press and the owner was pressuring the installers to cut short their test runs saying he would sign whatever they needed just so he could get the press online and get the work out that needed to go that afternoon.
On the flip side, I know printers who have always stayed with what they've always done because they were fearful of losing money by doing anything else. And since they didn't know how to do that anything else, they didn't and aren't around because the processes passed them by.
Nether life or printing should work that way, but it does.
Okay, how do you break the logjam?
Start with the premise that you really don't know how to do it. Even if you are just buying a different press, schedule your operator to run enough jobs so they can become proficient. In the real old days we would save a pile of photos so the newbie would have photos to learn how to shoot halftones. Add to that a box of film and lock them in the darkroom until they knew how to "bump" one appropriately. Usually took about a day or so. Point is, in learning to do anything it is the intensity of the effort that is required especially if no one in the shop knows how to do the new task, let alone price it.
Let me admit one thing here. If we are expanding into familiar territory such as buying a press; it's far more doable to stretch and learn on the customer's nickel.
What do we do when it comes to a real game changer like: the Internet, social media, Twitter, etc. All the gurus are yelling at us to become marketers and social media experts. Let's assume they are right for now. How do you do that?
Ground work: I assume you've gone through setting your website (hope you bought a canned program and made it work instead of building it from scratch) and you've begun using Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn and survey software and more. That's the first step.
Then you've also taken the second step of actually reading a few of the million or more books on the subject of social media. And you have even gone so far as to establish your own on-line presence (profiles including, yes, pictures of you) and set up a Facebook and LinkedIn business page and you feel comfortable with this and are ready to take the plunge into selling marketing services.
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