TECH: Sharewood Picnic #72 — Three maybes

Sunday, October 1, 2006

http://www.masternewmedia.org/new_media/new_media_tools/best_new_media_tools_of_the_week_20061001.htm

October 1, 2006

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 72

1. Rebtel http://www.rebtel.com/ is a VoIP service that allows you to call international numbers at $1.00 per week.

Nah, don’t call international!

2. iBloks http://www.ibloks.com/ is a service that enables you to edit your digital photos and mix music, videos, and games in 2D and 3D environments.

Nah, don’t do that.

3. Approver http://www.approver.com/ is a web-based service that allows you to share documents and ideas with friends and colleagues.

Maybe, That’s probably useful!

4. ZYB https://zyb.com/ is a online service that creates a backup of your mobile contacts and calendar and allows you to share them with whomever you want and manage your mobile.

Nah, doesn’t work with my phones.

5. iPrioritize http://www.iprioritize.com/ is a web-based service that lets you set up simple to-do lists to organize your tasks.

Nah, not free enough.

6. ImageSquash http://www.imagesquash.com/ is a web-based tool that allows you to upload images, resize them, and change their format.

Maybe, might be useful.

7. YouRep http://www.yourep.com/ is a site that allows upload, store and organize your photos.

Nah, too many photo sites already. And, now Kodak is saying you have to but one photo a year from them. Argh. Rules change.

8. SnipShot http://snipshot.com/ is a browser-based tool that enables you to edit big pictures (up to 10 MB, or 5000×5000 pixels).

Nah, no need.

9. PixSense http://beta.pixsense.com/main.ps is a web-based service that lets you share your photos and videos with your friends and family directly from your camera phone, from the web, via email or SMS.

Nah, no need.

10. Bloginfluence http://www.bloginfluence.net/en/ is a web service that enables you to check the popularity status of your website by providing traffic details and sites linking to it.

Maybe, Hmmm. I’d like to know some of that stuff. But, it might require more understanding than I have.

I love the weekly thought provoking from the Sharewood Picnic.

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LIBERTY: Homeland Security goes after Keene NH man for silent protest

Sunday, October 1, 2006

http://digg.com/politics/Homeland_Security_and_Petition_for_Redress_of_Grievances

Homeland Security goes after Keene man for demonstrating at IRS office
By SON HOANG Union Leader Correspondent
9 hours, 30 minutes ago

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Nashua – A Keene man had a run-in with the United States Department of Homeland Security in the parking lot of Building 19 yesterday morning.

Dave Ridley, 40, said he met with an official from the Department of Homeland Security in the parking lot, located at 420 Amherst St., who repeatedly tried to give him a $120 citation for handing out handbills at a federal office.

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Interesting about this is that the story is unavailable from the Union Leader (a traditional newspaper).

Now, if you’re a regular reader of NHFREE (http://www.nhfree.com/) or a regular listener of FTL (http://www.freetalklive.com), then you’ll already be aware of the revolution going on.

In this episode, the force of gubamint are made to look exceptionally stupid.

(It’s hard to be feared when you’re being laughed at!)

The story of Ridley’s protest, if you could call it that, as if standing silently with a sign in a federal office is much compared to the 60s civil rights demonstrations led by Martin Luther king, makes them look stupid.

And, what happened to the First Amendment? Certainly, this activity is well covered by that.

And, where did the news story go? Did DHS pressure the Union Leader to pull it?

It would seem that non-violent non-cooperation, in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, is making waves.

Even over and above the value of protest, I think every time the gubamint is made to look stupid, stupid enough to make people laugh, that we become freer!

The Free State Project (http://www.freestateproject.org/) is making NH a very interesting place to be.

So those of us, who are “stuck” in the various Peeple’s Republiks around what used to be the United States of America, need to support our fellow revolutionaries in the battlefield that is NH.

So read the stories, digg the story up at the above link so others see it, blog about them, and send them to all the usual suspects!

Make them aware. Make people laugh. Make them mad!

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JOBSEARCH: A funny guideline for seekers

Sunday, October 1, 2006

http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2006/09/marketing-lessons-learned-from-dating_30.html

Saturday, September 30, 2006
Marketing lessons learned from the dating world

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5) After a long night of striking out with every girl we approached, my friend Aaron decided to call it quits. “No, we’re not giving up. Come on, let’s try something else,” I said. We went onto the floor all by ourselves and started dancing like complete idiots who didn’t have a care in the world. (And at this point, we really didn’t.) Before we knew it, girls were actually coming up to US and saying hello. A few hours later we ended up at a 24 hour diner on an impromtu double date. One of the girls is still a good friend of mine today!

LESSONS LEARNED: don’t sell, enable people to buy; don’t market, position yourself

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I liked this one. Struck me as a job seekers guideline.

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