tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:06:40 +0000facebookCow-human embryoThe New IndividualistPersonal BrainEconomyinteractivesenatorsGravitate Design StudioLeslie Laredodrupalcamp ashevilleMartin ActFedNicholas Thompsonpoetrydrupalmarketinglynda.commoral hazardhuman-animal embryoEliot SpitzerRoger DonwayMetal Toad Mediainsider tradingWalter Donwaywords & webhttp://digital-dope.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)Blogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-752442743601854944Sun, 01 May 2011 07:16:00 +00002011-05-01T15:09:41.929-04:00marketingfacebookPaired up with the popular "like" button, the new "send" button allows you to send a web page to a select list of your fb friends. So, it's similar to an "email this" button, but it's connected just to your list of facebook friends. That's the marketing potential behind it: the power of word-of-mouth recommendation.Just as when you send a message from within fb, it will intelligently complete http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-facebook-send-button.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-4337119293457836898Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:34:00 +00002011-04-27T00:55:35.650-04:00lynda.comdrupalWant to get a Drupal site up quickly, without having to deal with code, installation, maintenance, etc.? there are two good solutions: Drupal Gardens (from Acquia) and buzzr.com (from the good folks at Lullabot). Both offer intuitive admin functions and pre-built templates which can easily be customized. Great way to benefit from the powerful SEO boost Drupal offers as well as its versatile http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2011/04/pop-top-drupal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-8124218348972707482Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:42:00 +00002010-11-16T08:52:01.823-05:00Roger Donway blogs today: Are Congressional Staffers Engaged in Insider Trading? Brings to mind a 2004 study I read that "showed that Senators' stock sales and purchases combined outperform the market by 97 basis points per month, or 12.3% per year." Read the conclusion of that study here. Related: Insider Trading Inside the Beltway. http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2010/10/capitol-of-insider-trading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-2648902927746568960Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:34:00 +00002010-09-22T03:39:22.531-04:00drupaldrupalcamp ashevilleUseful and fun. Enjoyed meeting the folks from Top Floor Studio as well as Doug Vann, John Paul McNeal, and many others. I often find that at conferences, sometimes the most valuable information exchanges are the casual ones that transpire during breaks. Heard DrupalCon Chicago '11 is expected to draw a ridiculously large crowd. (Reserve early). And the NYSE, which dropped some expensive http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2010/09/drupalcamp-asheville-thumbs-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-7015131569040318430Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:29:00 +00002010-04-12T15:33:46.607-04:00For those who haven't seen it yet, this is the "Asia" section of our new website, scheduled to launch this spring. Right now the posting process is underway, with the large amount of content we have being posted, with SEO edits, to the site database. As you can see from the tabs at top, there are 4 main sections, including one for our magazine, The New Individualist, a new Business Rights Center http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2010/04/final-phase-of-website-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-6385344596832765472Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:23:00 +00002010-09-22T03:29:19.150-04:00(Content is placeholder content for now)http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2009/09/screen-grabs-of-new-website-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-5240944869193669003Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:04:00 +00002009-08-01T17:20:15.713-04:00This item, listed on the Drudge Report, TIMES sells, leases back part of building... , brings to mind the controversy over how eminent domain was used to obtain the site.If you missed the old story, here's a recap from Wikipedia:"The site for the building was obtained by the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) through eminent domain. With a mandate to acquire and redevelop blighted http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2009/03/for-nyt-building-story-sacrifice-begets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-134843926741538012Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:16:00 +00002009-08-18T19:18:20.172-04:00Jan. 20:During Barack Obama's inaugural address, his soaring oratory causes a woman to faint into the person behind her, leading to the other 4 million people on the Mall going down like dominos.--The Washington Post.http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/12/prediction-for-inauguration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-2838543054572148747Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:48:00 +00002008-12-08T06:49:47.947-05:00Good column by George Will.http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/12/fairness-doctrine-based-on-scarcity-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-9114345434047093317Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:24:00 +00002009-08-18T19:20:09.009-04:00According to the U.S. government, total charitable contributions in the United States amounted to over $240 billion in 2005. That didn't include volunteer work. which was estimated to include 44 percent of Americans producing a dollar value of $240 billion.But apparently it's not "enough."President-Elect Barack Obama's has asserted that America suffers from an "empathy deficit." This, in part http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/11/empathy-deficit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-5457248079641439198Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:01:00 +00002008-11-28T18:24:13.902-05:00I wasn't surprised by this story, "Indonesian AIDS patients face microchip monitoring", since years ago I had been contacted on a similar topic by mischievous short-seller and art dealer Timothy J. Miles. (Miles was later outed publicly in Forbes and elsewhere as the real identity of "Nick Tracy", proprietor of the defunct Our-Street.com).Miles, who relayed that he was once an advisor to Florida http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/11/micro-chipping-aids-patients-of-course.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-4580934958144495437Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:35:00 +00002008-11-11T21:07:53.255-05:00Click here to get some clues."During a forum hosted by National Journal at this summer's Democratic National Convention, Rep. Rahm Emanuel listed a series of legislative changes that he said would be easiest to pass if Barack Obama became president. As Obama's new chief of staff, Emanuel's laundry list of priorities might offer some insight into how the first 100 days of the new administration http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/11/last-summer-emmanuel-forecasts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-8004453416542844761Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:08:00 +00002008-11-04T20:08:14.606-05:00 Hero worship is an easier path than truth. So says Marc Fisher in this interesting column. I don't agree with every point of Fisher's, but the gist of his article is an important observation.Excerpt: "Lonesome Rhodes is a great American character, a work of fiction, from the movie voters most need to see in these last hours before we elect a president.'A Face in the Crowd,' a 1957 masterpiece http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/11/voting-for-lonesome-rhodes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-8735096801964832507Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:11:00 +00002008-10-28T13:13:42.467-04:00From a colleague:"My law school course in Equity was taught by an 80-year-old professor emeritus who graduated from the Naval Academy and he knew my name. Once when discussing an environmental case in which the judge was struggling to find a solution he asked, rhetorically, 'Where is a remedy if not in the courts?' I raised my hand. 'Well, sir, if there is no remedy in the courts, the remedy is http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/10/where-will-we-find-justice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-3728070579462294941Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:10:00 +00002008-10-16T20:16:45.251-04:00 Reuters goofs here when they report that Mexican kidnapping victims who have been implanted with a chip can be tracked via satellite. This is a common error made in news reports on the RFID chips -that they can be tracked via GPS. In fact, later in the story the article says the "Xega" chips are similar to Verichips, while the Xega website displays actual Verichips . Verichips can only be read http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-bogus-news-story-on-chip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-1826856144831260994Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:05:00 +00002008-07-21T15:10:34.503-04:00 As the government socks taxpayers with bearing the consequences of the reckless behavior of more financial entities, the Wall St. Journal asks, "Why no outrage?" Indeed, why?"America's 21st-century financial victims make no protest against the Federal Reserve's policy of showering dollars on the people who would seem to need them least."In his book 1936 book, Under the Axe of Fascism, historian http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-no-outage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-3874635738471680791Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:45:00 +00002008-07-18T15:56:09.079-04:00 A good summary, via my colleague Gene Holloway."The collection of ne'er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh,let's just be blunt and call them what they are -- total Idiots -- expands into an ever larger circle.While the Republic burns due to the unsavory combination of incompetence, ideological rigidity, and crony capitalism, the fools and assclowns seem ever more determined to http://digital-dope.blogspot.com/2008/07/idiots-fiddle-while-rome-burns_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sherrie Gossett)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10914573.post-5814733952327095550Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:52:00 +00002008-07-16T15:09:46.273-04:00