Here you go. Tired of doing the same search over and over. Now’s your chance to take control of your search engine for good. MSN will show you how to build your own search engine macro.Click on the title to go over to the MSN Weblog.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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It’s easy to get the people data. Just become obsessive. No, I don’t mean get clinical. Don’t be grabbing people off the street and pulling them in under interrogation lights. I mean get steeped in the culture, become a saturation learner. You can see it in trendspotters — Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Prince Campbell — that they live people. breathe what people think. People aren’t just information on paper to them. People are what trendspotters think about, talk about, even when you’re not around.
They do it so much their significant others say, “Honey, don’t make me live it.” [Read more…]
I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.
A think tank issues a report favorable to itââ¬â¢s funders? Shocking! by George
Can you believe it? The Heritage Foundation issues a brief against net neutrality without disclosing its relationship to companies also against it: . . .
Nothing Neutral about Net Neutrality
The issue is more complicated than this — and even goes so far as to granting corporations the same 1st amendment rights that individual citizens have. Just as a citizen has the right to disagree with something and to express that disagreement by NOT speaking in favor of it, so too a corporation can choose to NOT speak in favor of or support in any way something it disagrees with. A newspaper does not have to print an editorial it does not support. That sounds ok you say. But how about: An ISP does not have to deliver an e-mail it does not support?
Statistics Lie – Are They Alone?
Iââ¬â¢ll be damned! Thereââ¬â¢s the $200 Billion! Right there! Theyââ¬â¢ve been using it to eliminate competition and drive their argument that they need more to improve the infrastructure.
Donââ¬â¢t we feel good now that we have been giving them our money so they can screw us? Howââ¬â¢s it feel to have some arrogant human like Ed Whitacre tell us theyââ¬â¢re ââ¬ÅHIS PIPES.ââ¬Â Theyââ¬â¢re our damn pipes Ed – weââ¬â¢ve already paid for them and for your salary also!
Putting all the talk of packets, fiber optics, infrastructure, last mile, pipes etc. aside, the bottom line is that the Telcoââ¬â¢s have a money issue at stake. It isnââ¬â¢t about research and development, it isnââ¬â¢t about improvement, itââ¬â¢s about making more! And they donââ¬â¢t care about us. This argument that its about charging the content providers like Google? Just lame stuff because that will all filter down to you and I anyway.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question.
What do you wish someone would invent?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Yesterday, I got a haircut. While I was waiting I looked through a magazine and took notes. I took notes on articles and on advertisements. When I was through one magazine, I had complete ideas for four blog posts — not counting this one — and 27 phrases that I thought might spark ideas later.
Not bad for just sitting around waiting my turn.
I hate actually reading those magazines in places where I get my hair cut, and there’s never time to get into a good book.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Jason Boog at The Publishing Spot gave me a new name in last night’s post. I’ve never been called that before. I’m not at all sure that I can live up to it.
In any case, I’m wondering whether I should buy some new clothes for his interview that starts on Monday. His readers are going to have BIG expectations now.
What do you think?
Thanks, Jason. You’re too much!
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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