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Try bohemian fashions with a twist,&lt;br /&gt;like strong bamboo rings, full of color and soul.  We love how it combines lightweight, easy-to-wear bamboo with sweet and classic floral motifs.  &lt;a href="http://click.discountclick.com/go/click.php?tid=824034" target="_blank"&gt;A FREE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY BAMBOO RING ($27 value) and FREE SHIPPING just for joining sneakpeeq!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing says Summer is here more than a beautiful MAXI DRESS!&lt;br /&gt;No one makes them softer and more flowing than Colorfast Apparel.&lt;br /&gt;We love the Mahalo Triblend Jersey Maxi in colors such as bluebird or safari!  A MUST HAVE AT&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 70% OFF&lt;/span&gt;!  These dresses retail for $103, but your price is only $34!  SHIPS&lt;br /&gt;FREE!  &lt;a href="http://click.discountclick.com/go/click.php?tid=824034" target="_blank"&gt;GO FOR IT!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-3412578365829509668?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/jmexk-j3aYQ/today-wednesday-30th.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vyZFeqz6hDc/T8YpjU6wEnI/AAAAAAAANPo/pbor7HvYrvI/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/today-wednesday-30th.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-5547991702634606269</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-30T06:52:09.688-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><title>Person of Interest</title><description>&lt;a href="http://http//2.bp.blogspot.com/_wxp-8ycRxxU/RsbaKTXc_tI/AAAAAAAABNE/f_8fFLR1VlQ/s1600-h/GEISAUGUST2005.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 92px; height: 99px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RzLIpZLwNoM/T8X7GYvAB1I/AAAAAAAANO4/Xpw3tR4g8s4/s200/1269.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5748276586545678162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cameras are watching you  - all of the time! &lt;a href="http://nyp.st/L3XQ9C" target="_blank"&gt;Ask this Beth Geisel wannabee!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-5547991702634606269?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/691yRyusUw0/person-of-interest.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RzLIpZLwNoM/T8X7GYvAB1I/AAAAAAAANO4/Xpw3tR4g8s4/s72-c/1269.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/person-of-interest.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-7321273693706070880</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-29T20:44:04.802-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Networking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MainStreamMedia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Internet Fraud</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Facebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bloggers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><title>Pop Clips » 29 May 12</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 20px; "&gt;Sources say that &lt;a href="http://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2012/05/summarypreview-of-my-post-how-brett.html"&gt;blogger Aaron Walker&lt;/a&gt; has been released from custody in Rockville, Maryland. He was charged with “incitement,” but released on his own recognizance. Readers are encouraged to &lt;a href="http://kimberlinfiles.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;donate to the National Bloggers Club to help support Aaron’s defense&lt;/a&gt; against Brett Kimberlin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Black Ops via Pinterest? If you want to ruin somebody's business, &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/16/BUVI1OGDAJ.DTL"&gt;here's how&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panafricanspacestation.org.za/" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 130px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yCtKRAtI1Bg/T8N5KflVl4I/AAAAAAAANLM/OugLvxqhxR0/s200/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747570770638641026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;"There are &lt;a href="http://www.panafricanspacestation.org.za/" target="_blank"&gt;other worlds&lt;/a&gt; they never told you about..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Senator Chuck Schumer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (NY) &lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AIRLINES_NO_SEATS_TOGETHER_SENATOR?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"&gt;Defends Parents’ Rights to Sit by Their Kids&lt;/a&gt; on Planes...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fish story&lt;/b&gt; ::: W.T. Eckert reported in The Daily Mail &lt;a href="http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2012/05/25/news/doc4fbf10f83ed01367847852.txt" target="_blank"&gt;the Dragon Garden restaurant of West Coxsackie is facing charges of poaching fish from the Hudson River&lt;/a&gt; following a raid by the state Department of Environmental Conservation last week. Following a weeklong investigation, DEC Police charged and ticketed Dragon Garden’s owner with illegal possession of untagged striped bass in a restaurant and illegal commercialization. More than 40 pounds of a variety of fish allegedly taken from Hudson River and Coxsackie Reservoir were found on the premises&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;a href="https://wlfriends.org/" style="color: rgb(68, 144, 237); text-decoration: underline; "&gt;Friends of Wikileaks (FoWL) &lt;/a&gt;is an independent social network for worldwide supporters of &lt;a href="http://wikileaks.org/" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Wikileaks&lt;/a&gt;. People who join the site are paired with twelve others who speak the same language. FoWL groups from different countries have issued a &lt;a href="http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,11500.0.html" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;statement of support for Julian Assange&lt;/a&gt; in advance of a United Kingdom supreme court judgement on May 30, 2012. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeAKJMXeFaWl7NThmHKpK6EceRfROum_0BULgCn_bu19ZKlgo8cA" width="200" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: monospace; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/us-facebook-shares-idUSBRE84S0VR20120529"&gt;FACEBOOK FREEFALL CONTINUES...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Did you buy Facebook stock? Maybe it is time to sell and take your losses? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-7321273693706070880?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/u3LxswM6xlc/pop-clips-29-may-12.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yCtKRAtI1Bg/T8N5KflVl4I/AAAAAAAANLM/OugLvxqhxR0/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/pop-clips-29-may-12.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-1270913285651833911</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-29T13:35:25.473-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">YouTube</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Music Monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entertainment</category><title>#MusicMonday ::: Madonna calls out copycat Lady Gaga</title><description>&lt;center&gt;Video shot May 27th in Tel aviv&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ToQnu34QygU?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" width="390" frameborder="0" height="290"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-1270913285651833911?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/nUScH8Q4YVY/musicmonday-madonna-calls-out-copycat.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/ToQnu34QygU/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/musicmonday-madonna-calls-out-copycat.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-6111126575448219734</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-29T06:29:23.897-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Networking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">web 2.0</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bloggers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Citizen Journalism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Buzz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Alternative Media</category><title>Springtime Blog Clean-up Do's and Don'ts</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jDMUrlHFDzU/T8N_NK6JgdI/AAAAAAAANL4/stLlpM0rB4Q/s1600/1271.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 146px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jDMUrlHFDzU/T8N_NK6JgdI/AAAAAAAANL4/stLlpM0rB4Q/s320/1271.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747577413698159058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Friends, I have nothing personal against author/blogger &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;melcrossman3&lt;/span&gt;, who recently wrote an article that appears elsewhere as a "guest post". But I feel it is my sworn duty to steer you away from blog-nonsense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mc3's very-clever "guest-post" hyperlinks readers to a veriety of services, perhaps with which she is affiliated and earns commission or other revenue based on referrals?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless... let us sift thru the "advice" - but before we do, I would like to quote blogger &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Lance Haun&lt;/span&gt; from his excellent piece entitled &lt;a href="http://lancehaun.com/why-i-stopped-taking-guest-posts/" target="_blank"&gt;"Why I Stopped Taking Guest Posts"&lt;/a&gt; ::: "Since Google’s “Penguin” update, &lt;a href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2012/05/googles-penguin-update-continues-to-smack-small-business.html" target="_blank"&gt;they’ve killed low quality writing with an irrelevant link back to your site&lt;/a&gt;. There’s no going back, either."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(1) Domain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I will ensure the continued registration of my brand’s domain name, and if I don’t have an exclusive domain name, I’ll secure one within the next week. ~ mc3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WRONG! &lt;/span&gt;Unless you are a niche "powerblogger" or famous person, you don't need this! Come to think of it, one woman who has been in the Blogosphere's Top 20 since 2005 is STILL blogging happy and healthy on the blog*spot platform!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(2)Metrics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I will consult with a qualified professional to guide the installation of one or more metric tools for monitoring my blog’s impact by the end of the second week from beginning my plan. ~ mc3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, keeping in mind this is really an advert for another site, most bloggers worth thier salt have already been doing this. 'Nuff said about that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;melcrossman3 &lt;/span&gt;actually offers &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;meaningful advice&lt;/span&gt; for bloggers trying to earn a little part-time income via blogging here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(3)&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Purpose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I will identify the specific landing pages or marketing tools to which readers are led by my blog within three weeks from my start date.  One of the main goals of having good metrics is to follow your blog’s traffic to subsequent pages and tools. You can have great content on your blog, but if you don’t move your readers from the blog into a sales stream, then you don’t have a useful purpose for having a blog.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;~ mc3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find the next two pieces of &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;melcrossman3&lt;/span&gt;'s advice most peculiar, because all the blogging guru-types are beating very loud drums about keeping your template "clean"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mc3 goes from a real nugget of advice in "Purpose" to a dangerous clunker in "Multimedia":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(4) Multimedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I will add videos and graphics to my regular mix of content by no later than the beginning of the fifth week. ~ mc3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;There is no quicker way to kill a blog &lt;/span&gt;(and get banned from certain affiliate programs and ad services) than to feature or otherwise present videos on the landing page. Videos from youtube, dailymotion, NBC news, etc. are OK in a post, but NOT as a component of a blog template!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(5)Swap Meet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I will identify and add to my blog roll at least ten quality, complementary blogs within two weeks of adding multimedia to my blog.   "The previous goals having been accomplished very early on, now is the time to organize information you probably already have. Look through your bookmarked blog pages from related companies, though not direct competitors, and list those sites on your blog’s roll..." ~ mc3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blog gurus are advising against linking to other blogs, but I am compelled to side WITH &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;melcrossman3&lt;/span&gt; on this one!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I added the next item in "comments" - but my "comment is awaiting moderation" at this time, so who knows if it will see the light of day or not? Here it is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(6) Pop Ups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will spare my readers the ill-mannered intrusions of popups/popovers (like the black transparent one that appears on this blog, despite any claim that it only does so once) and banish them from my blog once and for all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here are a few additional suggestions of my own&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;(7) Guest Posting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be careful! &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Do not allow any guest post on your own blog &lt;/span&gt;without thoroughly checking for text and image copyright violations, and for duplicates of the same post on other blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Inform guest-post submitters that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;  -their guest-post becomes YOUR property&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;  - you reserve the right to edit all content&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;  - you reserve the right to replace any image they send to accompany the post with one of your own choosing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Then, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;edit the crap out of their post&lt;/span&gt; so if it is stolen, it will never be detected. Create an original image by whatever means you are able to accompany / enhance the guest post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-6111126575448219734?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/es1xPmSYV_Q/springtime-blog-clean-up-dos-and-donts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jDMUrlHFDzU/T8N_NK6JgdI/AAAAAAAANL4/stLlpM0rB4Q/s72-c/1271.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/springtime-blog-clean-up-dos-and-donts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-3373933991735425309</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-28T15:05:31.965-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Lifestreaming</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Buzz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Events</category><title>Enjoy the BBQ!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THygn49Mayk/T8PMHuMlYTI/AAAAAAAANNc/Hor9h5U42Nk/s1600/1270.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THygn49Mayk/T8PMHuMlYTI/AAAAAAAANNc/Hor9h5U42Nk/s400/1270.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747661982486847794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-3373933991735425309?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/fxQwYWHXqjs/enjoy-bbq.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THygn49Mayk/T8PMHuMlYTI/AAAAAAAANNc/Hor9h5U42Nk/s72-c/1270.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/enjoy-bbq.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-4752311372300847179</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-28T10:47:22.844-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Networking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Facebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Twitter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cell Phones</category><title>Facebook Smartphone; Twitter Poll</title><description>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGUaoTNIv20/T8OPX2XVc0I/AAAAAAAANMs/ZtxNfanddDg/s1600/1268.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 124px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGUaoTNIv20/T8OPX2XVc0I/AAAAAAAANMs/ZtxNfanddDg/s200/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747595189348037442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Rumors about a Facebook smartphone began in 2010 (as did those regarding a "facebook sim card") - Facebook hasn’t had the best luck with mobile advertising attempts and now it appears the company may be hedging its mobile bets on a new Facebook smartphone (codename "BUFFY") that could be released by early 2013.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Would you be willing to give the Facebook Smartphone a chance?&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;What features would a Facebook Smartphone have to have to make you buy one?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may answer those questions by leaving your thoughts below under "comments" - you are also invited to take my twitter poll!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form method="post" action="http://poll.pollcode.com/tcp"&gt;&lt;table border="0" width="200" bg="" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;When is a tweet too old to bother reading?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" name="answer" value="1" id="answer1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;label for="answer1"&gt;More than 2 minutes from when it was posted&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" name="answer" value="2" id="answer2"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;label for="answer2"&gt;More than 5 minutes&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" name="answer" value="3" id="answer3"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;label for="answer3"&gt;More than 10 minutes&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" name="answer" value="4" id="answer4"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;label for="answer4"&gt;More than 15 minutes&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" name="answer" value="5" id="answer5"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;label for="answer5"&gt;More than 30 minutes&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" name="answer" value="6" id="answer6"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;label for="answer6"&gt;More than 60 minutes&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value=" Vote "&gt;  &lt;input type="submit" name="view" value=" View "&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" align="right"&gt;&lt;span&gt;pollcode.com &lt;a href="http://pollcode.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;free polls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-4752311372300847179?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/42vmYDqy0ig/facebook-smartphone-twitter-poll.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGUaoTNIv20/T8OPX2XVc0I/AAAAAAAANMs/ZtxNfanddDg/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/facebook-smartphone-twitter-poll.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-5773120810253048921</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-28T08:17:04.771-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MainStreamMedia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Censorship</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><title>One Direction, Malia</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/25/president-obama-one-direction-concert-secret-service/" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 95px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WCnFHT53isU/T8No0w_MT3I/AAAAAAAANKg/C5mecwCg7mc/s200/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747552805167320946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;More powerful than reputation.com ::: Several media outlets have again pulled or edited already-published articles about the youthful activities of President Barack Obama’s 14-year old daughter Malia , even though the stories appeared to pose no active security risk to the first family. &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/Read%20more:%20http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/27/media-hastily-erase-articles-about-malia-obamas-appearance-at-one-direction-concert/#ixzz1wACit1lv" target="_blank"&gt;» more&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://idolator.com/6538542/malia-obama-one-direction-concert" target="_blank"&gt;» more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday, the story was blogged by HuffPo, carrying the headline, “Malia Obama, One Direction Fan: First Daughter Attends Boy Band Concert with Secret Service in Tow.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few hours later the article vanished without explanation, and the post’s URL was redirecting users to the site’s celebrity section. You can't trust HuffPo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you see her, now you don't!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 11px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 11px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/25/president-obama-one-direction-concert-secret-service/" style="color: rgb(23, 123, 174); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; padding-right: 14px; background-image: url(http://cache.nymag.com/gfx/articlepx/ico-source.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; background-position: 100% 40%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "&gt;Can You Spot THE SECRET SERVICE??&lt;/a&gt; [TMZ]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; "&gt;(Related: &lt;a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-little-bizarre-media-ethics-experts-question-scrubbing-of-malia-obama-spring-break-story/" target="_self" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; color: rgb(213, 11, 11); text-decoration: underline; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;‘A Little Bizarre’: Media Ethics Experts Question Scrubbing of Malia Obama Spring Break Story&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/tag/malia+obama" rel="tag"&gt;Malia Obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Dave+One+Direction" rel="tag"&gt;Dave, One Direction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://rajdeepyadav.com/images/ppbe.gif" width="22" height="22" hspace="4" border="0" title="Print this page" alt="Print this page" onclick="window.print();return false;" /&gt;&lt;b&gt;PRINT THIS POST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Pinterest Start --&gt;&lt;b:if cond="data:blog.pageType == &amp;quot;item&amp;quot;"&gt; &lt;a href="javascript:void((function()%7Bvar%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)%7D)());"&gt;&lt;img src="https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b:if&gt;&lt;!-- Pinterest button End --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-5773120810253048921?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/dYmkHvSG3nQ/one-direction-malia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WCnFHT53isU/T8No0w_MT3I/AAAAAAAANKg/C5mecwCg7mc/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/one-direction-malia.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-6776530578228746341</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-27T09:44:55.497-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MainStreamMedia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Capital Region</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bloggers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Censorship</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Citizen Journalism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Buzz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Opinion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Saratoga</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">web 3.0</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Alternative Media</category><title>Newspapers vs Internet</title><description>&lt;a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2011/12/jim-morrisons-blog.html" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8CnBr7swyO8/T8IrVclvBwI/AAAAAAAANJM/BWdrlUMJ83E/s400/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747203721929885442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freedom of the press...&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Some folks believe newspapers will cease to exist&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;(along with the post office)&lt;/i&gt; in about 10 years. Hmmmm... Seriously, how long will the newspaper industry survive? Your guess is as good as the next guy or gal's. One way they WON'T survive is by restricting and/or charging for online content. I am blessed in that for me The New York Times and The Albany Times Union each are a mouseclick away. Sites that tell me "your free trial" is up, offer "pay per view" or display othersuch drivel, never see me again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the way, in a few minutes I'm off to the store to BUY copies of The Sunday New York Times, The Times Union and The NY Post. Weekend is the only time I can really "curl up" with and dive into mountains of newsprint!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;There is another battle brewing&lt;/b&gt;, and this little litmus test going on in upstate New York could have bigger implications for both newspapers and the cottage newsblogging industry. As this has the potential to unfurl rather quickly, consider all the players and what's at stake. Like one of the old NWA pro-wrestling matches, you never know who might turn on who. So, pop a cool one, enjoy the Memorial Day holiday weekend, thank those soldiers, sailors and airmen who gave their lives so you could be bar-b-q'ing without fearing for your safety, and let's see what happens next.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bloggers vs. Times Union vs. New York Time&lt;/b&gt;s ::: a "cage match" pits &lt;a href="http://www.newyorkcitizenone.com/index.php/home/7873-aco-investigating-the-conspiracy" target="_blank"&gt;citizen journalists&lt;/a&gt; against &lt;a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/when-newspapers-become-news.html" target="_blank"&gt;mighty metropolitan newspapers&lt;/a&gt;. The battle involves newspapermen, government officials, law enforcement authorities and others "in the public eye."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What to watch for&lt;/b&gt;: not the content, but the effect. In the end, this match-up will show whether bloggers can make any lasting impression, any impact on public opinion that measures up against the kind of public opinion newspapers were able to set, sway and otherwise preside over during the 20th Century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, 25 years from now, it won't matter what the story was about. 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Do you remember one of NewsChannel 13's most familiar news faces, Joe Moskowitz, and equally familiar WTEN anchor/reporter Pauline Liu?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ever wonder what happened to them? Click on the picture below and read all about it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.watershedpost.com/2012/fresh-arkville-cowdome-set-open-weekend"&gt;Now you know&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.watershedpost.com/2012/fresh-arkville-cowdome-set-open-weekend"&gt;, thanks to &lt;i&gt;me&lt;/i&gt;? &lt;b&gt;Nope! &lt;/b&gt;Let me pass that thanks along to the Watershed Post blog!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.watershedpost.com/2012/fresh-arkville-cowdome-set-open-weekend" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jUSwmvOTIXM/T8Ijdp3sHYI/AAAAAAAANIg/G_CM12UoVj4/s400/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747195066840784258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p xmlns="" class="poweredbyzoundry"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://www.zoundryraven.com/" class="poweredbyzoundry_link" rel="nofollow"&gt;Zoundry Raven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p xmlns="" class="zoundry_raven_tags"&gt;&lt;span class="ztags"&gt;&lt;span class="ztagspace"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Technorati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; 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: &lt;a href="http://www.zooomr.com/search/photos/?q=Albany%20TV%20News" class="ztag" rel="tag"&gt;Albany TV News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.zooomr.com/search/photos/?q=Capital%20Region" class="ztag" rel="tag"&gt;Capital Region&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.zooomr.com/search/photos/?q=WNYT" class="ztag" rel="tag"&gt;WNYT&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.zooomr.com/search/photos/?q=WTEN" class="ztag" rel="tag"&gt;WTEN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-8408567111070159102?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/HRC7Z7gXXlg/joe-moskowitz-and-pauline-liu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jUSwmvOTIXM/T8Ijdp3sHYI/AAAAAAAANIg/G_CM12UoVj4/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/joe-moskowitz-and-pauline-liu.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-6060840658732638427</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-27T08:42:22.262-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">YouTube</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Photography</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fashion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Africa</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Asia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entertainment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cell Phones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hudson Valley</category><title>Pop Clips » 27 May 12</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=86&amp;amp;articleId=811226" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 181px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SaFbEOm6rf4/T8IdzbA9EWI/AAAAAAAANH0/Ks0NswpOquI/s200/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747188843740467554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=86&amp;amp;articleId=811226" target="_blank"&gt;PHILIPPINE STAR chats&lt;/a&gt; with 2 "hot" American babes who are taking the stage with Filipina fashion models in Manila...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;Youtube user &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/niassatim?feature=watch" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Niassatim&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; uploaded a series of music clips by artists from the northern interior of Mozambique, in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_language" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Yao language&lt;/a&gt;, also spoken in Malawi and Tanzania. The videos depict a mixture of local realities and musical influences, and global elements. (To date, Niassa province's biggest musical export is &lt;a href="http://www.massukos.com/" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Massukos&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;In case you missed it, &lt;a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/swedens-loreen-won-eurovision-song.html"&gt;Sweden's &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;LOREEN&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; won&lt;/a&gt; the 57th annual Eurovision contest...   Following concern expressed in some quarters with how the international media has &lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/25/azerbaijan-more-arrests-despite-eurovision-effect/" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;covered the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku&lt;/a&gt;, East of Center looks at the geopolitical issues behind Western engagement of the oil-rich former Soviet republic, &lt;a href="http://eastofcenter.tol.org/2012/05/rewrite-the-azerbaijan-narrative/" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;arguing that policy towards Azerbaijan might not solely be confined to energy interests&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mark Haven&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remi Thornton&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’s photography shows went up last weekend at the &lt;a href="http://davisortongallery.com/contact-us/"&gt;Davis Orton Gallery on Warren St. in Hudson&lt;/a&gt;, and are on view until June 24. Haven was a guest on “BlindSpot Radio” on WGXC with host David La Spina, and &lt;a href="http://newsroom.wgxc.org/archives/19484" target="_blank"&gt;explained about his past, and this new show&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;It was 40 years ago today that comedian &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;George Carlin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; recorded the Class Clown album which five years later would inadvertently provoke the Supreme Court to canonize seven simple words as the apotheosis of American verbal vulgarity. That case, FCC v Pacifica, would come to be known as the “seven dirty words” ruling, named for Carlin’s routine. &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/05/the-7-dirty-words-turn-40-but-theyre-still-dirty/257374/"&gt;The Atlantic’s Timothy Bella marks this anniversary, while exploring the uneasy history of these words and their legal legacy.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chris Kirkley &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;presents &lt;a href="http://boomarmnation.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-saharan-cellphones" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;“Music From Saharan Cellphones”&lt;/a&gt;: The music on the compilation was collected from cellphones in the Northern Malian town of Kidal. In much of West Africa, cellphones are are used as all-purpose multimedia devices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-6060840658732638427?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/XNyE4uU8iaA/pop-clips-27-may-12.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SaFbEOm6rf4/T8IdzbA9EWI/AAAAAAAANH0/Ks0NswpOquI/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/pop-clips-27-may-12.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-3721999089035083384</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-27T08:25:25.705-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">YouTube</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Buzz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">TV</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entertainment</category><title>Sweden's Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest</title><description>&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreen_(singer)"target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RlRVz-gB9Vg/T8IZj9_JUJI/AAAAAAAANHI/TCTncXyzn0I/s200/1269.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5747184180203704466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;28-year-old Loreen won with the song "Euphoria" in the annual competition of 42 countries, delighting viewers and the contest's professional judges and dancing barefoot as she sang.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_4"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/russia" title="Full coverage of Russia" style="color: rgb(0, 110, 151); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Russia&lt;/a&gt; came second and Serbia was third ... Loreen won the title despite recently angering local Azerbaijani authorities by meeting with civil rights activists protesting ahead of the 57th annual awards event. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe width="390" height="290" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GqYtlpZ-9N4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/tag/Loreen" rel="tag"&gt;Loreen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Eurovision+2012" rel="tag"&gt;Eurovision 2012&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/tag/Eurovision" rel="tag"&gt;Eurovision&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Loreen" rel="tag"&gt;Loreen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-3721999089035083384?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/70-n0U5xjdc/swedens-loreen-won-eurovision-song.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RlRVz-gB9Vg/T8IZj9_JUJI/AAAAAAAANHI/TCTncXyzn0I/s72-c/1269.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/swedens-loreen-won-eurovision-song.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-4911562387155402181</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-25T22:15:00.980-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Capital Region</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Human Rights</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life-Lessons</category><title>Another Day In Paradise</title><description>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;"May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home." &lt;/span&gt;~ &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Marianne Williamson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Obw50UZXcSY/T8A7NbGPe8I/AAAAAAAANFE/ekl7_ktXzj4/s1600/1270.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Obw50UZXcSY/T8A7NbGPe8I/AAAAAAAANFE/ekl7_ktXzj4/s400/1270.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746658226323028930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;~&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt; image: WAMC Quail St. Bus Station, Wednesday May 23, 2012 0900&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-4911562387155402181?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/eIItaX-Bf4U/another-day-in-paradise.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Obw50UZXcSY/T8A7NbGPe8I/AAAAAAAANFE/ekl7_ktXzj4/s72-c/1270.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/another-day-in-paradise.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-1962690407135390437</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-25T12:43:09.673-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MainStreamMedia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mystery</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life-Lessons</category><title>Mysteries 25 May 2012</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/nine-petite-blonde-look-alike-females-have-gone-missing-and-nobody-has-a-clue-where-are-the-fbi-profilers/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 102px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bjLDc0CPxfs/T7-0c6YwYYI/AAAAAAAAND8/P49GO5tE3c8/s200/1268.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746510058350469506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/nine-petite-blonde-look-alike-females-have-gone-missing-and-nobody-has-a-clue-where-are-the-fbi-profilers/" target="_blank"&gt;Criminal Minds team needed for "real world" investigation!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;NBC4 SoCal &lt;/span&gt;reports that &lt;a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/New-Evidence-Manson-Family-Murders-Audio-Tex-Watson-153819745.html" target="_blank"&gt;several hoursworth of TEX WATSON audio&lt;/a&gt; never before heard by law enforcement has been requested by the Los Angeles Police Department: it could link followers of the Manson Family to unsolved &lt;a href="http://vanessawest.tripod.com/manson.html" target="_blank"&gt;murders&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps that of Albany's Doreen Gaul? Her killing has been linked to both &lt;a href="http://www.lermanet.com/scientologyscandals/more-charlesmanson.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Manson&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.thezodiacmansonconnection.com/fool_the_old_killer.html" target="_blank"&gt;Zodiac&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/bruce-mcgregor-davis-enforcer-for-the-manson-family-and-zodiac-killer-on-charles-mansons-orders/" target="_blank"&gt;Was a Manson follower the Zodiac Killer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://findmarizela.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 138px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NHph8jQop0Q/T7-1xKAtmBI/AAAAAAAANEI/4N2-BSjv9GU/s200/findMarizela.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746511505653602322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there a &lt;a href="http://www.hogueprophecy.com/2012/05/solar-eclipse-2012-and-%20%20earthquakes/" target="_blank"&gt;connection between SOLAR ECLIPSES and EARTHQUAKES&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;John Hogue&lt;/span&gt; builds a strong case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VnxjsHrdofY/T7-yabGbTjI/AAAAAAAANDw/z8ZEq4LP6dc/s1600/1268.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 116px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VnxjsHrdofY/T7-yabGbTjI/AAAAAAAANDw/z8ZEq4LP6dc/s200/1268.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746507816569097778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who done it? Who broke into the Mayor's place? Who? &lt;a href="http://www.watershedpost.com/2012/middleburgh-mayors-house-vandalized" target="_blank"&gt;?????&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a lighter note, I had no idea "the Iron Shiek" was still around...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://staree.com/ironsheik/about" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 131px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7zGHDDbb8qU/T79veJVt9II/AAAAAAAANCw/AFXVIlSd9M8/s400/1268.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746434213241812098" align="left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-1962690407135390437?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/Vryfzq9lgdM/mysteries-25-may-2012.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bjLDc0CPxfs/T7-0c6YwYYI/AAAAAAAAND8/P49GO5tE3c8/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/mysteries-25-may-2012.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-3857195028907443167</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-25T07:51:16.937-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MainStreamMedia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">web 2.0</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Capital Region</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New York City</category><title>When newspapers become the news...</title><description>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m-mBZqYTsY8/T79xA7wgaCI/AAAAAAAANC8/iXX3gAIj1Ew/s1600/1268.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m-mBZqYTsY8/T79xA7wgaCI/AAAAAAAANC8/iXX3gAIj1Ew/s200/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746435910403123234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hey look! &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/nyregion/albany-times-union-editor-says-police-targeted-his-wifes-spa.html?_r=1&amp;amp;pagewanted=print" target="_blank"&gt;The Albany Times Union gets "covered" by the New York Times!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/nyregion/albany-times-union-editor-says-police-targeted-his-wifes-spa.html?_r=1&amp;amp;pagewanted=print" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  (Hmmm...  wonder if this is why Albany Mayor Jery Jennings cancelled today's weekly radio show?) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While Albany makes for a good regional story, the national media spotlight is cast upon the New Orleans hometown paper as it &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/new-orleans-times-picayune-to-limit-printing-to-three-days-per-week/2012/05/24/gJQA8kSEoU_story.html" target="_blank"&gt;joins others in cutting back from publishing daily&lt;/a&gt; to just 3 days a week!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess we should expect that to happen. The newspapers follow the music industry and the post office as victims of emerging technology.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-3857195028907443167?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/816Uk-NX4hA/when-newspapers-become-news.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m-mBZqYTsY8/T79xA7wgaCI/AAAAAAAANC8/iXX3gAIj1Ew/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/when-newspapers-become-news.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-2578194166607326966</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-25T00:19:00.462-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Networking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bloggers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Experiments</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><title>Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day</title><description>&lt;center  style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2012/05/23/free-speech-show-solidarity-for-targeted-conservative-bloggers/" target="_blank"&gt;Free Speech Friday!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-2578194166607326966?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/8CSb2ZQE5h0/everybody-blog-about-brett-kimberlin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/everybody-blog-about-brett-kimberlin.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-7285942139217608129</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-24T19:14:00.232-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">YouTube</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Music Monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">China</category><title>China!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bl7j_uOOGaQ/T754XWsGncI/AAAAAAAANCM/u8p9P-pGIOg/s1600/CHINA.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 199px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bl7j_uOOGaQ/T754XWsGncI/AAAAAAAANCM/u8p9P-pGIOg/s200/CHINA.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746162517194218946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now, here's something that maybe you DIDN'T know:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Goods and services from China accounted for only 2.7% of U.S. personal consumption expenditures in 2010, of which less than half reflected the actual costs of Chinese imports. The rest went to U.S. businesses and workers transporting, selling, and marketing goods carrying the "Made in China" label.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the fraction is higher when the imported content of goods made in the United States is considered, Chinese imports still make up only a small share of total U.S. consumer spending. This suggests that Chinese inflation will have little direct effect on U.S. consumer prices." ~ &lt;a href="http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2011/el2011-25.html" target="_blank"&gt;The U.S. Content of “Made in China”&lt;/a&gt; By Galina Hale and Bart Hobijn, in the FRBSF Economic Letter. Check out the graphs that accompany the article. Eye opener!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p0_gxCLBsEU?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" width="390" frameborder="0" height="290"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uniquely poised to become the World's Dominant Nation! What an exciting time in global history!&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8eoqz6GfjTM" allowfullscreen="" width="390" frameborder="0" height="290"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/tag/China" rel="tag"&gt;China&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/China" rel="tag"&gt;China&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img onclick="window.print();return false;" src="http://rajdeepyadav.com/images/ppbe.gif" title="Print this page" alt="Print this page" width="22" border="0" height="22" hspace="4" /&gt;&lt;b&gt;PRINT THIS POST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;!-- Pinterest Start --&gt;&lt;b:if cond="data:blog.pageType == &amp;quot;item&amp;quot;"&gt; &lt;a href="javascript:void((function()%7Bvar%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)%7D)());"&gt;&lt;img src="https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b:if&gt;&lt;!-- Pinterest button End --&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-7285942139217608129?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/qwCVphYLFt4/china.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bl7j_uOOGaQ/T754XWsGncI/AAAAAAAANCM/u8p9P-pGIOg/s72-c/CHINA.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/china.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-5504899747229776963</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 22:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-24T18:02:00.212-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Religion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><title>La elah ela Allah, Mohamad rasool Allah</title><description>With the bad press that&lt;a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-vatican-legionbre84l0y9-20120522,0,4341450.story"&gt; continues to dog the Roman Catholic Church&lt;/a&gt; (some say the "bad news" goes all the way back to the days of Luther...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Digresses:&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Martin Luther &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;(10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;He kickstarted a revolution against  the Roman Catholic Church, who at the time would raise large amounts of  cash by allowing people to see relics, often unconfirmed pieces of  history, such as Mary’s milk and the bones of disciples.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;  He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses, which he posted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a landslide victory for Luther, resulting in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; a complete change in the process of certain church activities that continue to this day. The people who associated with Luther’s ideas became known as Protestants, which is a form of the word “protestor”, as the people protested against the Catholic church’s systems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Now, back to our post:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in 2000, &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105714/Secret-14million-Bible-Jesus-predicts-coming-Prophet-Muhammad-unearthed-Turkey.html"&gt;Turkey confiscated&lt;/a&gt; a leather-bound text, written on animal hide, during an anti-smuggling initiative. Turkish authorities are of the opinion that the text could be the authentic version of the Gospel of Barnabas, one of Jesus’ apostles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Basij Press claims that this particular version of the Barnabas Gospel seems to have been written in the 5th or 6th century. It foretells the coming of the Prophet Mohammad and the religion of Islam. &lt;a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=309"&gt;Catholics call it laughable!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;It further points out that Christianity denies that such a gospel exists.  From Barnabas 41: “God has hidden himself as Archangel Michael ran them &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Adam and Eve)&lt;/span&gt; out of heaven, when Adam turned, he noticed that at top of the gateway to heaven, it was written ‘La elah ela Allah, Mohamad rasool Allah,’” translation:  Allah is the only God,  Mohammad is his prophet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Turkish army has confiscated the Barnabas Gospel, BP says,  because Zionists and Western governments want it kept away from the public eye. The book purports to predict the coming of the last Islamic messiah.&lt;/p&gt;Barnabas says in the Book that Jesus was never crucified and that not only is He not the son of God, but that He himself predicted the coming of the Prophet Mohammad. &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;(That's an interesting take)&lt;/span&gt; The Basij paper proclaims that “...discovery of the original Barnabas Bible will now undermine the Christian Church and its authority ...  this Bible has predicted the coming of Prophet Mohammad and in itself has verified the religion of Islam, and this alone will unbalance the powers of the world and create instability in the Christian world.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The report sees the discovery as so immense that it will impact world politics.  I wonder. I can see it perhaps making a mark in the Middle East, but, everywhere else?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;According to published documents, Turkey will place the Bible on public display. There is a "bigger picture' here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;“The Iranian regime is committed to stamping out Christianity by any means necessary, whether that means executing Christian converts, burning Bibles or raiding underground churches,” according to Erick Stakelbeck, host of CBN’s &lt;a href="http://www.cbn.com/media/player/search.aspx?t=k&amp;amp;search=stakelbeckepisodes"&gt;“Stakelbeck on Terror”&lt;/a&gt; program. Stakelbeck keeps an eye on Iran, and muses that this "new Bible" is an attempt to discredit Christianity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The Vatican supposedly has asked to see the scripture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, in a &lt;a href="http://atimetobetray.com/blog/iran%E2%80%99s-grand-ayatollahs-earth-belongs-to-muslims-end-is-near/"&gt;recent statement,&lt;/a&gt; announced that since the Quran was the last holy book and provides the most complete religion to the world and Mohammad the last prophet as indicated in the Quran, there is no authority to abide by other books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://atimetobetray.com/blog/iranian-intelligence-agents-target-arrest-christian-converts/"&gt;Also reported recently,&lt;/a&gt; a former intelligence officer in the Revolutionary Guards revealed that tens of thousands of Bibles were confiscated and burned in Iran, under the order of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said the Bible is not a holy book and its burning is morally acceptable.&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reza Kahlili translated this Iranian video about Islamic prophecies of a coming messiah and the destruction of Israel:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WwiadYT-N9k?fs=1&amp;amp;feature=oembed" allowfullscreen="" width="370" frameborder="0" height="270"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;What are your thoughts on this? That's what "comments" are for!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-5504899747229776963?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/MRPxA32A0As/la-elah-ela-allah-mohamad-rasool-allah.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/WwiadYT-N9k/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/la-elah-ela-allah-mohamad-rasool-allah.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-2429271648031458850</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 23:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T19:40:42.723-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Networking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Facebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Twitter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cell Phones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Events</category><title>Pop Clips » 23 May 12</title><description>&lt;a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/search/label/Pop%20Culture" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-72BV3nL3hG8/T7lwxkPgsOI/AAAAAAAAM8M/zfTaJDtYWTI/s400/1269.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5744746796532412642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;The event ‘&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/04/16/ecuador-new-conectandonos-blog-announces-gathering-in-may/" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Conectándonos' Ecuador &lt;/a&gt;(”Getting connected Ecuador”), co-organized by Rising Voices and the&lt;a href="http://www.utpl.edu.ec/" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja&lt;/a&gt; [es] (UTPL for its initials in Spanish) will kick off tomorrow, May 24. You can follow the event on Twitter through the hashtag &lt;a title="#ConECU" href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23ConECU" source="hashtag_click" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;s&gt;#&lt;/s&gt;ConECU&lt;/a&gt;. Furthermore, a &lt;a href="http://www.conectandonos.net/ecuador/2012/05/mesa-redonda-nuevas-voces-en-la-comunicacion-digital/" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;roundtable&lt;/a&gt; [es] will be live-streamed tomorrow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; "&gt;Is &lt;b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facebook &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/b&gt;looking to make a change? 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border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;What is Microsoft So.cl? So.cl is a research project developed by Microsoft mainly for learning purposes by exploring social search possibilities. So.cl is a combination of social networking and search which enables user to find and share webpages. 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text-decoration: none; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;img class="post-thumbnail" alt="Read this post." src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/women-phone-doha-100x100.jpg" style="border-top-width: 3px; border-right-width: 3px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-left-width: 3px; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; height: 100px; width: 100px; max-width: 100px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="postmeta postheader" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;span class="credit-text"&gt;&lt;span class="contributor" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.01em; "&gt;Written for Global Voices by &lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/miran-hosny/" title="View all posts by Miran Hosny" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Miran Hosny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; · &lt;span class="primary-category" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.01em; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/middle-east-north-africa/" title="Show posts about Middle East &amp;amp; North Africa" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Middle East &amp;amp; North Africa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry excerpt-entry" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;p class="excerpt-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; "&gt;Netizens in Qatar have responded indignantly to an article published on the Sydney Morning Herald website, which claimed that Qatari women were not allowed to go shopping, and did not have easy access to technology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/23/qatar-shopping-and-phones-permitted/" title="read Qatar: Shopping and Phones Permitted!" rel="bookmark" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;read »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-2429271648031458850?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/W1CziWLHqhs/pop-clips-23-may-12.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-72BV3nL3hG8/T7lwxkPgsOI/AAAAAAAAM8M/zfTaJDtYWTI/s72-c/1269.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/pop-clips-23-may-12.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-6192405930665732659</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T16:42:18.370-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">YouTube</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entertainment</category><title>Meet HipHop's Royal DJ</title><description>&lt;center&gt;Prince at the wheels (no, not &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that &lt;/span&gt;Prince! This one!)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/y4O5c10tKd8?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" width="390" frameborder="0" height="290"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;While touring Canada, Prince Charles visited the University of Toronto where he demonstrated his mixing skills. All that scratchin' was makin' them itch!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-6192405930665732659?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/ByM8srB3GEc/meet-hiphops-royal-dj.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/y4O5c10tKd8/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/meet-hiphops-royal-dj.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-901225019066712812</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T14:02:14.684-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Facebook</category><title>Facebook in "self-doubt" mode?</title><description>Is the Social Network crumbling right before our eyes? And will it be &lt;a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/mcgrath/2012/05/did-somebody-say-bubble.html" target="_blank"&gt;taking down more internets&lt;/a&gt; with it? First, &lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/four-reasons-the-facebook-ipo-fizzled-2012-05-21?link=MW_story_insert"&gt;the stock&lt;/a&gt; - now a &lt;a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/22/facebook-testing-new-timeline-design-cleans-up-above-the-fold-output/" target="_blank"&gt;"retreat"&lt;/a&gt; - hmmmm... not good, Zuck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Facebook's Folly&lt;/span&gt; ::: &lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-america-loves-the-facebook-fiasco-2012-05-23?link=MW_story_popular" target="_blank"&gt;Main Street — got it right and Wall Street got it wrong&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-901225019066712812?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/L_EK-LFlkHs/facebook-in-self-doubt-mode.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/facebook-in-self-doubt-mode.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-3607170419440017661</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T13:20:13.087-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">web 2.0</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spam</category><title>about.me email spam</title><description>Hate spam? Me too! Unsolicited email via the about.me website has been invading my inbox. I'll stop short of calling it an infestation!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UJbtzJ5mEjw/T7o8xvz-ECI/AAAAAAAAM9I/wMgmoeLm-8A/s1600/AboutMEbloggerEMAILspam.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UJbtzJ5mEjw/T7o8xvz-ECI/AAAAAAAAM9I/wMgmoeLm-8A/s400/AboutMEbloggerEMAILspam.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5744971100010188834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-3607170419440017661?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/Jxi3gzxhxIs/aboutme-email-spam.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UJbtzJ5mEjw/T7o8xvz-ECI/AAAAAAAAM9I/wMgmoeLm-8A/s72-c/AboutMEbloggerEMAILspam.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/aboutme-email-spam.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-5454333683993407362</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T07:10:47.166-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Networking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Facebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Africa</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">China</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Asia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cell Phones</category><title>Around The Blogosphere 23 May 2012</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 20px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/22/south-africa-the-spear-freedom-of-speech-and-morality/" title="South Africa: The Spear, Freedom of Speech and Morality" rel="bookmark" style="color: rgb(68, 144, 237); text-decoration: underline; "&gt;South Africa: The Spear, Freedom of Speech and Morality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/22/south-africa-the-spear-freedom-of-speech-and-morality/" title="Read this post." style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;img class="post-thumbnail" alt="Read this post." src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Spear-100x100.jpg" style="border-top-width: 3px; border-right-width: 3px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-left-width: 3px; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; height: 100px; width: 100px; max-width: 100px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="postmeta postheader" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-bottom: 5px; "&gt;&lt;span class="credit-text"&gt;&lt;span class="contributor" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.01em; "&gt;Written for Global Voices by &lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/ndesanjo-macha/" title="View all posts by Ndesanjo Macha" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Ndesanjo Macha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; · &lt;span class="primary-category" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.01em; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/sub-saharan-africa/" title="Show posts about Sub-Saharan Africa" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Sub-Saharan Africa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry excerpt-entry" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; "&gt;&lt;p class="excerpt-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; "&gt;A South African art gallery that displayed a controversial painting showing the country's president with his genitals exposed announced Tuesday it was &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/22/MNED1OLUVS.DTL"&gt;closing its doors&lt;/a&gt; temporarily because of threats.  The decision came after vandals defaced the artwork. The painting by Cape Town-based artist Brett Murray depicting President Jacob Zuma's genitals ignited online debate about morality and freedom of speech in South Africa. The painting entitled “The Spear” is part of the Hail to the Thief II exhibition in Johannesburg.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/22/south-africa-the-spear-freedom-of-speech-and-morality/" title="read South Africa: The Spear, Freedom of Speech and Morality" rel="bookmark" style="color: rgb(68, 144, 237); text-decoration: underline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;read »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rjF2S8CE6A8/T7qmgjmOX8I/AAAAAAAAM-c/VVSfOP-EhGI/s1600/IMG00203-20120521-1353.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 90px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rjF2S8CE6A8/T7qmgjmOX8I/AAAAAAAAM-c/VVSfOP-EhGI/s200/IMG00203-20120521-1353.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5745087352906080194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Grrrrr! It's enough to make me wanna "juice" my BlackBerry! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bad enough the camera takes lousy pictures! Since Sunday the Virgin Mobile Network has been very shakey - &lt;a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/virgin-mobile-broadband-slow.html" target="_blank"&gt;my home broadband is now slower than my dial-up service&lt;/a&gt; - and the BlackBerry gets NOTHING - no signal at all - no updates all night last night! The accompanying photo is the one I would have preferred to use with the news &lt;a href="http://wamc.org/post/advocates-demand-farm-worker-regulations" target="_blank"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; I filed on Monday (hover and click for a larger view) but check out the "oops" in it! Hey, nobody's perfect! I'm thinking of jury-rigging my old kyocera wildcard to enable it to take pictures that I might retrieve via data cable. Will keep you updated on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 20px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/23/china-campaign-to-clean-foreign-trash-out-of-beijing/" title="China: Campaign to Clean ‘Foreign Trash' Out of Beijing" rel="bookmark" style="color: rgb(68, 144, 237); text-decoration: underline; "&gt;China: Campaign to Clean ‘Foreign Trash' Out of Beijing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/23/china-campaign-to-clean-foreign-trash-out-of-beijing/" title="Read this post." style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;img class="post-thumbnail" alt="Read this post." src="http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/chinageek-100x100.jpg" style="border-top-width: 3px; border-right-width: 3px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-left-width: 3px; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; height: 100px; width: 100px; max-width: 100px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="postmeta postheader" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-bottom: 5px; "&gt;&lt;span class="credit-text"&gt;&lt;span class="contributor" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.01em; "&gt;(Global Voices) Written by &lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/oiwan/" title="View all posts by Oiwan Lam" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Oiwan Lam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; · &lt;span class="primary-category" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.01em; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/east-asia/" title="Show posts about East Asia" style="color: rgb(14, 81, 178); text-decoration: none; "&gt;East Asia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry excerpt-entry" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; "&gt;&lt;p class="excerpt-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; "&gt;A campaign to rid Beijing of illegal foreign residents has created controversy in China, with Chinese people expressing widely differing viewpoints on social media. A famous television host has labelled a reporter for Al-Jazeera as 'foreign trash' and invited police to run background checks on the blogger who has criticised his xenophobic remarks  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/facebook-staus-critical-condition.html"&gt;Facebook Falls On It's Face&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;::: The Social Network’s May 18 IPO—which set the market value of the social-networking giant at $105 billion—sparked significant discussion on Twitter, blogs and Facebook itself, with more expressions of skepticism than confidence about the stock's value, according to a report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Users of Twitter were the most doubtful... &lt;a href="http://www.journalism.org/commentary_backgrounder/facebook_ipo" target="_blank"&gt;[read more at Journalism.org]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net/facebook-timeline.html" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 115px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-imAOD6Qe8nM/T7qMHiDJtQI/AAAAAAAAM-I/fxwO2-8e9hE/s400/Timeline.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5745058335691486466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LLsDg8WAfAc/T7pBZbdBAgI/AAAAAAAAM9Y/J1uFjt1Vqnw/s1600/Adrinka_SYMBOLISM.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 72px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LLsDg8WAfAc/T7pBZbdBAgI/AAAAAAAAM9Y/J1uFjt1Vqnw/s200/Adrinka_SYMBOLISM.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5744976179786482178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here's a fascinating article about &lt;a href="http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2012/05/adinkra-symbols-in-jamaica.html" target="_blank"&gt;adrinka symbols&lt;/a&gt; by Caribbean Blogmeister &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Geoffrey Philp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-5454333683993407362?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/alMYEULE9dQ/around-blogosphere-23-may-2012.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rjF2S8CE6A8/T7qmgjmOX8I/AAAAAAAAM-c/VVSfOP-EhGI/s72-c/IMG00203-20120521-1353.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/around-blogosphere-23-may-2012.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-3539268041561977146</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-23T19:43:06.251-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">web 2.0</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Facebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Social Experiments</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Rip-off</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life-Lessons</category><title>Facebook status: CRITICAL condition</title><description>&lt;a href="http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-status-married.html" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 130px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Edbbq4x1Ng4/T7zAiCJ1LaI/AAAAAAAANAg/NbUvn9V8fCI/s200/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5745678915544100258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hey kids! Time to bail!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;FORGET FACEBOOK :::&lt;/b&gt; MarketWatch analyst &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paul B. Farrell&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; warns &lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-facebook-could-destroy-the-us-economy-2012-05-22" target="_blank"&gt;the Zuckerdom could topple the US economy&lt;/a&gt; (gee whiz, haven't I blogged about this already, BEFORE the IPO? Everybody "forgot" toe dot-com debacle of the 90s! Fools!)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div id="drudgeTopHeadlines"&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-facebook-valuation-idUSBRE84L19B20120522"&gt;THE $40 BILLION VANISH...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/47523622"&gt;MORGAN STANLEY Under Review...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-facebook-galvin-idUSBRE84L1BS20120522"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Massachusetts subpoenas...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/47520037"&gt;Selloff Nearly Turned Into Bigger Run...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8c6c8890-a434-11e1-a701-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;Stock Loses 18% of value...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-22/facebook-investor-sues-nasdaq-over-delays-in-offering.html"&gt;Investor Sues... &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-usa-markets-facebook-idUSBRE84L0PE20120522"&gt;'The insiders got greedy'...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/facebook-i-p-o-raises-regulatory-concerns/"&gt;'They knew the jig was up'...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-zuckerberg-thiel-sell-shares-2012-05-22"&gt;Zuckerberg sell shares...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="drudgeTopHeadlines"&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;FORGET Instagram &lt;/b&gt;- look to &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pinterest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; for your online photo future: FamousBloggers writes "...the popular photo or image pinning social networking website with 11.7 million unique users." Image: ComScore’s report&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net/pinterest-money.html" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R9tDymh6HLY/T7y_9tIRg8I/AAAAAAAANAU/c3tiE51OyuE/s400/1268.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5745678291425133506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/tag/Mark+Zuckerberg+Priscilla+Chan" rel="tag"&gt;Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/facebook" rel="tag"&gt;facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-3539268041561977146?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/_AnUSv3TmvQ/facebook-staus-critical-condition.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Edbbq4x1Ng4/T7zAiCJ1LaI/AAAAAAAANAg/NbUvn9V8fCI/s72-c/1268.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/facebook-staus-critical-condition.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31704869.post-1882264189279268595</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-21T14:56:12.258-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pop Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Music Monday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">TV</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entertainment</category><title>SNL Jagger The Last Time</title><description>Here's the Saturday Night Live video without the annoying commercial that gets stuck in the player! You're welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xqxxvh" width="390" frameborder="0" height="270"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqxxvh_mick-jagger-the-last-time-snl-5-19-12_lifestyle" target="_blank"&gt;Mick Jagger - The Last Time - SNL 5-19-12&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/IdolxMuzic" target="_blank"&gt;IdolxMuzic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31704869-1882264189279268595?l=dave-lucas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/dFLpv/~3/jiNS0uwcmrQ/snl-jagger-last-time.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dave Lucas)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/05/snl-jagger-last-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

