TECH SERVICE:Testing WORDPRESSDOTCOM — test #1
April 30th, 2007
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TECH SERVICE:Testing WORDPRESSDOTCOM — test #1
Monday, April 30, 2007Try to get data for the WordPress support staff. (They’re the best.)
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RANT: Serfs! Clear the road for his highness the Guv!!
Monday, April 30, 2007DRUDGE: CORZINE MOTORCADE CAUGHT SPEEDING — ON ROAD TO RECOVERY!
Corzine Leaves Hospital After Accident
The governor of New Jersey acknowledged today that he was negligent in not wearing a seatbelt.
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Published: April 30, 2007
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No one in the motorcade used emergency lights, as his driver had been doing at the time of the accident. They kept to a pace of about 70 miles per hour, even though the posted limit is 55 on the stretch of Interstate 295 that leads to Drumthwacket, the governor’s official mansion in Princeton, where Mr. Corzine will spend the next stage of his recovery.
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What a joke! Hope everyone remembers this when they get their next fund-raising invitation labeled seatbelt or speeding (aka a ticket)!
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LINKEDIN: Why some people conceal their connections
Monday, April 30, 2007>the underlying theory behind the concealment of connections to invitees.
Here’s a swag:
I believe I have seen (can’t prove it) a recruiter create “strawmen”. A fake online identity in LinkedIn. The profile was relatively complete. But, when you ping the person, you get no response. Since this particular “strawmen” and I were relative tight when we worked together. And, I’m kind of distinctive (gobble gobble big fat old turkey are easily identified), I’d have expected a response. There was no other introduction path to him other than thru this recruiter, the recruiter had contacts cloaked (so I couldn’t confirm others), and nobody responded to an inmail. Eventually the profile was deleted. So there’s one reason, “fraud”.
My lawyer has a LinkedIn persona, but cloaks his clients for fear of violating privilege.
A VC I know cloaks lest he give away anything accidentally
>It seems that the purpose of networking is to get and give contacts.
I don’t agree with the premise.
My purpose in networking is to “learn stuff”. That maybe to give and receive contacts, but not necessarily.
I believe that the PRIME DIRECTIVE of networking is to first seek to understand “stuff” (i.e., what can I do that others value; wisdom in using it to achieve my goals; how to establish the “weak ties” that are so valuable), then to be understood (i.e., let me tell you what I think I need).
The law of weak ties says something like “people are generally good; if they can help you, then they will; sometimes you need a spider’s web of “listening posts” around the globe that when trigger get you the needed information; that gets you a new job”. So, if I know what you want, say via a networking profile, (mine is at http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/DATA/Reinke_2005_networking_profile.htm), and I hear something that “fits”, then I’ll contact you.
So for example, when I am networking with a newly axed turkey, I get his networking profile and put it on my wall by the phone at work and my home office. (I use it as a reminder that I too will soon be out of a job and to pay attention to what is important!) We may never talk again, but as long as that profile is on my wall, that turkey has a chance of hearing from me.
That’s what I think networking is about.
Now some people will do nothing, but most will try to help. (In all the time I have been doing this, I have only had 4 people tell me to “buzz off”. Of course, I have put them on my “S” list. … … “S” is for “Special”!)
As long as you’re “easy to do business with”.
In terms of LinkedIn, even the Zero Help people, by the fact that they connect, even if those connects are hidden, they have made their contacts findable by you in search. You can connect to them with an InMail for a few bucks. So, unlike the old days, where Zero Help could frustrate you from looking their rolodex. With LinkedIn, that can’t happen. So Zero Help IS valuable, in that, his network is in LinkedIn!!!
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TECHNOLOGY: My “ftl” idea
Monday, April 30, 2007It’s no secret that http://www.freetalklive.com is may favorite podcast. It’s the number one podcast on podcastalley. At least it was last month.
And, we don’t get their radio broadcast here in Central Jersey. It would be a good libertarian outreach and may we could change some minds about big Gooferment.
As a EE, I know that the FCC allows low power local radio. So I had a vision of FTL everywhere on low power boxes.
When FTL was live, the inet feed would be passed to the transmitter. Other times, it would play a loop of the weeks shows.
6 nights a week times 3 hours = 18 hours of live content.
7 days per week times 24 hours equals 168 hours. Minus the 18 live hours. Equals 150 hours of rebroadcast. So about 8 rebroadcasts in a week.
You’d have to figure the schedule so that each time block played a different section:
So, now I need an appliance that will, given a stream, transmit it at a low power. I’m assuming that a pc properly setup could either pass along the live feed or create a stream from the downloaded mp3 files.
Maybe FTL could put some “special commercials” in the feed. Like, “You are listening to a (live / recorded) broadcast of FTL over low power community radio from your neighbor who thought this was entertaining.”
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MONEY: Retirement risks
Monday, April 30, 2007http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/26/
ten-years-left-for-social-security/
Ten years left for Social Security
By Michael Hampton
Posted: April 26, 2007 3:01 am
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By 2017 Social Security will begin paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes and will have to begin redeeming bonds from the Social Security Trust Fund. Worse, Medicare is expected to cross the same line later this year, resulting in a massive fiscal crisis.
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Well, this certainly has to be added to the list of risk that the retiring baby boomers face.
Inflation is always the number one risk. You have to worry about a “wealth tax” that simultaneously devalues your savings, reduces the buying power, raises prices, and (usually) decreases your Social Security Insurance (a Ponzi fraud on a mammoth scale) earnings (i.e., the Gooferment calculates the inflation rate that it has to pay you based on?). Now you have to throw on the concern that you’ll get nothing for your SSI “contributions”! Look for lower benefits, increased taxation of benefits, means testing, making it more into a welfare program, and — when the Ponzi scheme breaks — the Gooferment walks away from the obligation.
That might be the thing that brings out the pitchforks and torches. Like during the French Revolution, that might not be a good time to be an aristocrat.
“Let them eat cake” might be superceded by “the Social Security trust Fund is broke”!
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TECH SERVICE: WORDPRESS DOT COM comments off
Monday, April 30, 2007It’s come to my attention that for some reason “comments are off”. I don’t think I did anything to close off communication. This has turned into a real “monologue” I just thought no one had anything to say back. The last comment was entered 21 April 07. I have feedback into the operators. It’s free so one cna’t complain. Argh!
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TECH SOFTWARE: Joomla is content management that covers a lot of ground
Monday, April 30, 2007http://www.joomla.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Cutting Edge Content Management
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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
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I think the blogging metaphor was a good first step.
But when one thinks of the web as a personal tool, you need more. Sometimes you need a simple blog, sometimes forums, maybe a wiki, and of course there are always websites and webpages.
What attracts me to “content management” is that it is sort of the web version of the “unified field theory”. You can pull all you ever create into it, never lose a bit or a byte, and reuse it as you see fit. You can’t be held hostage to an ISP by free space (space is now so cheap), a WSP (that induces you to use its free tool that locks your data, or any number of lesser lockins by client-side software (i.e., Publisher, FrontPage).
It’s more work than a free blog at WordPress. But, as I am learning, free can be very very expensive.
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PRODUCTIVITY: free is very very expensive
Monday, April 30, 2007http://www.carolynnduncan.com/2007/04/27/
wow-weeblycom-is-a-sexy-business/
Wow! Weebly.com Is a “Sexy Business”
Writing by olynnduncan on Friday, 27 of April , 2007 at 1:55 pm
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What options does a small business have to get an easy, cheap, non-blog web presence? Sans web skills? Good luck.
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May I call your attention to “Google Apps”?
http://www.google.com/a/smallbiz/
I used it to “throw up a business idea” quickly and cheaply. My expense was registering a few domain names.
(My hero is the fellow who made grazillions selling 5 biz ideas a day. He got it going and sold out. The inet model: get a spark, throw up something, hockey stick the popularity, and sell it off.)
You asked for alternatives. Google Apps is still free. But I have reservations in NOT paying the piper for an idea. Don’t think you want to be beholden to a free service? A cheap equivalent at reputable hosting service is chump change (under a hundred a year).
Just a thought.
ALSO: I looked a Weebly a while ago. I’m not sure you want to take the Weebly route, or for that matter the Google App one either.
Your time is valuable. You’ll spend a lot of it developing your “content”. Then it, and all the effort getting it right, is locked up on a free sites.
No, I have already paid tuition at that school. In my case, I developed a “good enough” site for my consulting business using a WSP’s free web site building tool. When I merged all my stuff on various WSPs to get control and save a lot of money (Some WSP prey on the novices and really stick it to them!), I paid special attention to my sites that were in some one’s proprietary format. (It was NOT HTML.) And, this one site built with their tool did have HTML that look moveable. And, it was. I moved it and everything was hunkey dory at the new site. Until I pulled the plug at the old site, and my modest effort was gone. Apparently, stuff pointed to the old WSP. Argh! Now, I don’t use the WSP tools. The WSP is paid for raw service. I build in NVU and such.
So, I’m not sure that “free” isn’t very very expensive.
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