TECHNOLOGY: My 5 reasons to start a Blog

Sunday, May 13, 2007

http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/05/12/link-o-byte-4/

Link O! Byte cited

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http://www.whoismadhur.com/2007/05/10/top-5-reasons-to-start-a-blog/

Top 5 reasons to start a Blog

For all the people who are still reading blogs and still wondering whether to start a blog or not, Madhur has listed Top 5 reasons why you should be starting a blog.

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People bandy the word “top” around a lot. If one had “research”, “evidence”, or “facts”, then I wouldn’t be writing this. What the blooger had was really “His Top 5 reasons”. No research, evidence, or facts to substantiate that title.

So, I’ll just give my opinion which is just as valid. Maybe less so, since no one reads me, except 3 relatives and 3 friends. (Yes, I have three friends — OLDEST, OLDER, and just OLD!) Oh, and yeah, that nice spammer who keeps placing all those excellent comments wanting to enlarge a body part that polite people don’t discuss. (Think he will get the idea since ZERO of his comments have slipped thru moderation. Has to be a bot; no one is that persistently annoying. Not even me! Even so, running a bot has to cost something.)

My Top Five Reasons To Start A Blog

(5) You have nothing else to do. Just as “a boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money”, so to “a blog is just a hole in the internet into which you throw time”. (Made that up all by myself!)

(4) You think that you can earn a buck drawing readers and selling advertising.

(3) You can sell your version of the “great american invention” for 19.99 if people would just listen.

(2) You can have that next great job served to you on a silver platter when an employer read your witty insightful drek.

(1) If the Universe is truly one song, then you want to sing yours in such a way that it is never lost. Each of us has unique insights that we have a moral obligation to pass along. Sort of like the frozen mountain climber’s body on Everest warning the next climber of danger. The internet is the closest thing to immortality that we’ll ever have. The pharos had their pyramids. The Eskimos had their totem poles. We have blogs. Your words will live forever,

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MONEY: Panama Has Thrived Without A Central Bank

Sunday, May 13, 2007

http://www.masternewmedia.org/information_access/
central-bank-federal-reserve/panama-has-no-central-bank-20070512.htm

http://tinyurl.com/25db5o

May 12, 2007
The Federal Reserve – Who Needs It? How Panama Has Thrived Without A Central Bank
David Saied is head of National Public Policy for the Government of Panama
and also directs the National Competitiveness Program.

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The Federal Reserve is America’s Central Bank, owned by an unnamed corporate cartel, given a license to print money, and holding significant sway over the national government and economy. If it were dissolved tomorrow, the average tax-payer would doubtless be a lot better off. But we couldn’t do that, could we?

The Republic of Panama has managed just fine without a Central Bank for over a hundred years, and in actual fact, if you compare the rate of inflation between Panama and the USA over the last twenty years, Panama comes out a lot better off every step of the way.

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I’m just an injineer; not one of them there highly educated highly compensated ekkynonnymists. BUT, it seems to me, that you are tying yourself to the USA Federal Reserve Bank Note and the rate that they choose for inflation. That “tying” can become a hangman’s noose when “helicopter ben” starts dropping FRBNies from the sky. ALSO, it would seem that shifting from the “US Dollar”, which is really the FRBN not a real Constitutional Dollar, to a gold / silver standard for a Panamanian currency could make you the darling of all the gold bugs in the world. A national currency redeemable in gold might well be a great growth industry. But then, I’m just an injineer.

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LINKEDIN: My “granfalloon” won a prize in the recent “group hug” about LinkedIn

Sunday, May 13, 2007

http://www.linkedintelligence.com/smart-ways-to-use-linkedin-prize-winners/

May 13th, 2007
Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn – Prize Winners

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I’d like to thank everyone who participated in the Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn Group Blogging Project, and especially the people who stepped up and donated over $4,000 in prizes. I was overwhelmed by your generosity. It enabled the start of what I hope will become a valuable resource for all LinkedIn users

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reinkefj
May 13, 2007 at 5:27 am

Thanks. It’s always nice to “win”, BUT I think the real winners are:

(1) all the people got new ideas;

(2) all the people who showed themselves to be the generous experts they are; AND

(3) YOU for creating a new paradigm. (I call it “rally a group hug” with prizes.)

Even a grizzled big fat old turkey, like me, learned some “new tricks”, as well as some interesting new ideas.

Only time will tell if those ideas “were actioned”, but they are out there forever for the taking.

And, in some sense, there are future readers who have “won” by having a “blazed path” to follow in exploiting LinkedIn.

Thanks for pulling this together. Do it again next month? :-)
fjohn

p.s., Is there a “wining” logo? (Yeah, I know. What an ego!)

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But I was really hoping my “dog” would be awarded “best in show”! I thought it was one of my best posts. And I was hoping for a kool logo. But, I’m a “winner”. ;-) And I can make my own medal.

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