Jack had a good time. He said so.
Jack won a visit to his blog Blog 4 Bloggers and suggests you go see Get a Grip on Life.
More winners still to come. I don’t want to overwhelm you with links at once. Every winner should have his or her own limelight, center stage.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the Link Leaking Blog Rally.
Think we should do it again? Have any other ideas?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.
Peter Svennson, Hack AP Reporter, Screws Up Net Neutrality Story by Mark Stoller
The public deserves real discourse about this issue. People care about the internet. We should have a real conversation about the public policy implications of what we do with this platform upon which millions rely. And if we decide to hand it over to the telcos, so be it. But the press delivered first apathy, and then warmed over spin and lies. That’s not democracy. That’s not journalism. It’s stenography.
I wanted to believe that the press were working the public’s interest. I really did. I no longer believe this, because of writers like Peter Svennson.
Telecoms Create Front Site to Combat Net Neutrality
Basically, what follows is my analysis of a little site called “dontregulate.org”. They seem inocuous. They’ve got ads going through blogads.org, which, MLW, Booman, and other lefty sites, including ActForLove, use to get ads based upon their sites. Now, they’ve got this fascinating flash video to start the site, and from there, it just turns into arguments against net neutrality, looking all like it’s a regular internet site that regular people put up, with regular drawings and Flash movies…
For more info, SaveTheInternet has also made it the big lie of the week
Soon, The New Design Wonââ¬â¢t Matter
But, in a couple of months time, itââ¬â¢s likely that all TechCrunch will have to do is pi** off a large Telco or two (or a congressman in a back pocket) and, ‘voilaââ¬â¢, you and I wonââ¬â¢t be able to visit them anymore, anyway.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Hope you all had fun!
Ann Michael won a visit to her blog Manage to Change and wants you to go see John’s Blog Make Marketing History. She found him through Seth Godin’s blog.
More winners still to come I’m sure. You’ve got to 11p.m. tonight Chicago time before the rally is over. Click the link to see how to play the Link Leaking Blog Rally.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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If you’re following the soap opera that is Successful Blog, I’m halfway through writing Critical Skill 5 on Originality, as you might know, but along the way I was interrupted with a challenge. Ariane Benefit from NeatLiving.Net wrote an in-depth comment about process and how it works for her, which ended with these statements.
So basically I see the rules you presented that work so well in a corporate setting actually have their counterpart in the virtual, ultimately highly democratic world of blogging.
. . . if my post inspires you to write the virtual version . . . it was worth it. — from a comment exchange on Critical Skill 4: Part2-Designing a Complex Process
I really wanted to leave them on the page and continue on with the piece on originality. It was hard enough writing about process in the brick and mortar world. Still the comment stayed with me. It followed me around the house . . . and popped into my mind every time I went to write about anything else. After all, it had two things going for it. Ariane Benefit is a reader and I have a really hard time walking away from a delicious challenge like that — even when I know it will involve close contact between my head and a few brick walls I don’t need. [Read more…]
I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.
Other mistakes we insist on making over and over. For example, thinking that:
…the Web, like television, is a way to hold eyeballs still while advertisers spray them with messages.
…the Net is something that telcos and cable companies should filter, control and otherwise “improve.”
… it’s a bad thing for users to communicate between different kinds of instant messaging systems on the Net.
…the Net suffers from a lack of regulation to protect industries that feel threatened by it.
When it comes to the Net, a lot of us suffer from Repetitive Mistake Syndrome. This is especially true for magazine and newspaper publishing, broadcasting, cable television, the record industry, the movie industry, and the telephone industry, to name just six.Thanks to the enormous influence of those industries in Washington, Repetitive Mistake Syndrome also afflicts lawmakers, regulators and even the courts.
Telcos Seek to Deceive Bloggers with Cartoon
Coming to a blog near you is a telecom-sponsored advertisement dressed up as an underground cartoon. It’s the latest in the ongoing campaign by large phone companies to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public.
The cartoon is a product of a front group funded by AT&T and BellSouth. The group, Hands Off the Internet, is headed by Mike McCurry, the former Clinton Press Secretary who has been widely discredited for selling out his integrity to become the telephone industry’s spokesmodel.
McCurry’s group is now attempting to buy its way into the blogosphere, spending tens of thousands of dollars on a misinformation campaign against network neutrality — the principle that keeps the Internet free and open to all.
Hands Off The Internet is a nationwide coalition of Internet users united together in the belief that the Net’s phenomenal growth over the past decade stems from the ability of entrepreneurs to expand consumer choices and opportunities without worrying about government regulation. We believe consumers across America see the results of this “hands off” approach – through such benefits as expanded distance education opportunities, improved access and speed to almost any information, on-line commerce, and an easier and inexpensive way to communicate with family and colleagues.
[All links today via The Advice Library]
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Whatever you did today — enjoy a cup of coffee reading the paper, watch TV, work on your computer, clean the house, go to the mall, drive a car, eat lunch, read blogs, take a shower — you used a product. You were a customer.
How was your customer experience? Did anything about it leave you wishing that some business knew you better?
What percent of your experiences leaves you feeling more than satisfied, makes you want to tell people what a great experience you had?
It’s hard to miss when you’ve bumped into a business that values a customer. It’s hard to forget the name of their brand.
Brand you and me.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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