TECH: What happens when a web service doesn’t get traction

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

http://www.i-neighbors.org/index.php

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The FREE service that connects you with your neighbors and government officials. Click here to join.

Discover I-Neighbors communities near you.
Enter a Postal or ZIP Code:
Or Browse:
U.S.A and Canada

Over 6200 neighborhoods use I-Neighbors to:
# Meet and communicate with neighbors
# Contact elected officials
# Vocalize local concerns
# Organize events

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The answer is not much! It just languishes. A potential good idea that went no where. Who’s paying for it?

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RANT: Airline security? Re-arm the pilots again!

Monday, October 2, 2006

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2006/09/commitment-strategies-vs-highjacking.html#comments

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On the face of it, almost all of the precautions to keep passsengers from highjacking an airplane are unnecessary—all it takes is a reasonably sturdy locked door between pilots and passengers. One possible response is that highjackers might persuade pilots to open such a door by threatening to kill off crew and passengers one by one until they do. In the post 9/11 world I’m not sure that would work—but suppose it would.

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(1) It would seem that one could weld the cockpit door shut. Pilots could use a camping toilet if needed. Seems an easy fix to me.

(2) Armed pilots used to be an acceptable solution. Why not now?

(3) Leave it to the airlines to figure out. Get the government out of all the things that it should NOT be into. Shut the TSA, FAA, and any lots of others.

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FUN: Every jobseeker can use the lessons taught here. Especially fancy walking!

Monday, October 2, 2006

http://www.loadingreadyrun.com/

September 22, 2006
Job Hunt
Kathleen discovers that when looking for a job, it is important to play to your strengths.

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RANT: PAYTRUST has a dns problem

Monday, October 2, 2006

They are redirecting users to their small business subdomain and then suspending your user id when you try to sign in.

Arghhh!

And, this is my problem because?

Oh, I see. You screw it up. Inconvenience me. And, I have to call you, authenticate myself to you, to be told type in www.paytrust.com.

How about sending out an email and alert me to the problem so I don’t have to wait until your available?

Arghhh!

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RANT: Less 911 memorials and more 911 actions (imho)

Monday, October 2, 2006

From: BG
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006
Subject: powerful memorial of 9/11

I thought this was a very good and powerful memorial of 9/11.

http://www.wuzupgod.com/sept11/sept11_memorial_worldwide.html

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Nice, but it doesn’t express the rage.

We should have rebuilt the Twin Towers immediately and made them one story higher. (Is it possible to make them look like a giant middle finger?)

We should have started a program of reprisal; not war. If we identified you as an Al Quida leader, then they are just dead man walking. Period, quietly, preferable painfully.

We should have taken all our existing politicians out and collectively killed their careers on the dole. Put them out to pasture. (I have no use for either ilk D or R!) And, get some people who would return to our original Constitutional intent. The government has really only one role. That is to keep the peace. They’ve failed. So, we need to “help” them understand that they’ve failed, get them refocused on the goal, and put us back on track to peace.

Memorials are for the dead. Actions are for the living. We need to move forward in a way that makes us safe. And, it’s not by having a foreign policy where we are the world’s policeman, or in everybody’s business, or have troops in 140 countries.

I’d like to see us end welfare (corporate and individual). That solves the “immigration problem”. Shine up the Statue of Liberty. You come; you work. You don’t; you starve.

End the phony War on Drugs. We lost. You can’t change human behavior. Let WalMart take out the drug gangs. It’s hard to turn a profit competing against it. If you can go into WalMart and buy any drug, then there’s no need for violent turf wars. Pardon any non-violent prisoner.

Then cut the taxes. Washington is a cesspool of special interests. The original intent of the dead old white guys was a modest government to run a Navy and not much else. We can quibble about the right size after we cut it 90%.

That’s a fitting memorial to all the Americans who died in all the avoidable tragedies that we’ve gotten into over the decades.

imho
fjohn

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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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