FBI Goes Undercover On Social Networking Sites

The Federal Bureau of Investigations may use fake identities on social networks to investigate criminal activities, according to a redacted FBI document acquired by digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Specifically, the 33-page confidential presentation says undercover operations are helpful for communicating with suspects and targets of crime, gaining access to private information, and mapping social networks. However, the presentation expresses concern that undercover use may be complicated by the court’s decision in the trial of Lori Drew, who was acquitted of cyber-bullying a girl who later committed suicide, and that violations of terms of service by not using their own name can render access unauthorized.

The presentation instructs agents to investigate all witnesses on social networking sites, advising its own witnesses not to discuss cases and be careful about what they post online.

In general, the document, a presentation from the FBI’s computer crime and intellectual property section, details how federal agents should gather and use evidence found on social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn.

The bottom line is…If you are an honest law abiding citizen you have nothing to worry about…If you’re a criminal, crook, con artist you have a lot to worry about!

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Big Media innovations using Social Networks

NewsWire Daily provides an interesting article about how the entrtainment industry is innovating social networking on various platforms to build engagement marketing with fans.

” When fans connect to a company using a social network identity, they are establishing the basis for a longer-term relationship. The data shared by these connections will allow companies to better segment and serve their fans.”

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Grabbing An Authentic Football Jersey

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The NFL football is one of the biggest entertainment programs in the US. It is not only a form of entertainment, but it unites friends and families alike, amassing them into one big crowd of exited shouting fans. Authentic football jerseys are the symbolic part of this. Every true fan wants to have these relics in their wardrobe, the team jerseys of their favorite players. It is something which unites people even more.

These authentic football jerseys are part of our identity, they give us the social feeling of being together. We all love different teams, and are unified at the thought of being together at a football game. The most prevalent clothing is the football jersey. It is a way to show to others that you belong to a team, and a way to attract the attention of all. Jerseys can be really great when it comes to giving an identity.

Football jerseys come in both authentic and replica styles. There is a huge difference between an authentic football jersey and a replica. While both versions are embroidered with the player’s name, the authentic jersey also combines mesh sleeves, in comparison to the replica jersey which has both bodies and sleeves made of nylon mesh. The second difference is that an authentic football jersey also has an official NFL equipment logo sewn on. A replica can look like an authentic football jersey, but these subtle differences will always reveal the truth.

An authentic football jersey may also include an autograph, or it may come with a photo or other collectible if specially ordered in a sporting goods store. An authentic football jersey is a symbolic act to show to the world that you really belong to a team. You have no better means to do that apart from wearing the authentic outfit of the team. When you have an authentic football jersey on, you feel that you are a part of something bigger and greater than yourself, and become a better person.

You respect yourself more, and also have better understanding in others. It is extremely important a feeling for every true football fan. Wearing an authentic football jersey is not a fashionable trend or something. Casual fans are now more likely to purchase authentic jerseys. They want to feel part of the team. Authentic football jerseys are the most common sports outwear, bought by the fans. Not a single sporting activity has attracted bigger attention than football. That’s why wearing the jerseys is an important part of the fans’ lifestyle.

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Curse Of The Slain. "I'm gonna give you three seconds..."

The always intense, mind-fucking Curse Of The Slain released a new tune “Aesthetics Of Disembowelment” this past weekend.  This track is just a sample of what these guys have in store. Almost like one of those ladies in the grocery store asking if you like the smoked salmon she’s handing out. Only difference is, this is a little more brutal. Check out the song on the bands Space, keep your eyes open for new things form Curse Of The Slain!

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So Who Is This Dionyos R. Sylvester Guy, And What Can He Do For Me Anyway?

I must admit…I went to college and graduated with a bachelors degree only to come home to a “good” state job and college loans.

• I didn’t major in business
• I had no previous sales training
• I had never marketed anything before
• I hadn’t even heard of MLM when it was introduced to me

Here’s what I did learn when I opened my ears to the opportunity as oppossed to working 40 hrs a week for 45 yrs to receive 40% of my salary …. After working as a case worker and being surrounded by state employees who I thought had “good” career jobs, all I saw was people telling me not to get “stuck” in this “dead-end” place. “This job will suck the life out of you.”
“You’re young, don’t waste your best years working for the state.”

The end results summed up to be:

• 40-60 Hr work weeks

• No life outside of a job

• Dealing with co-workers that had no type of drive or vision

• Repeating the same mundane schedule until retirement

That wasn’t the life I wanted and I’m sure you don’t either. Bottom line, what I found was people often struggled for years before figuring out their formula for success; and lucky me, I got to plug into this phenomenal system that has helped me to generate hundreds of quality leads, earn multiple commission checks, and more training than I could ever imagine. Beginners and seasoned professionals who are serious about exploding their businesses need to sign up now and start enjoying their life!” I want to show you how an average 40 hr wage earner was able to say good-bye to Corporate America for good and replace his income working from home, spends quality time with his family, and still has more than just financial security!

I’m a top earner in the home based business industry and an internet master marketer. I am on course to become one of the top income earners in my primary company and build a financially successful business in 6 months… and I’m going to show you how. I’ve made the money and I’m very grateful for what I’ve been able to achieve in this industry. And now my #1 goal and my main focus is helping serious entrepreneurs achieve my level of success.

I will keep you on the cutting-edge of internet marketing and I’m going to reveal to you EXACTLY how the top earners DOMINATE and CRUSH the competition (hint hint** it has something to do with generating at least 100 leads per day and branding yourself as a leader… and I can help with both This industry doesn’t have to be a struggle… you now have a choice.

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Or Blogger Nazis?

Well, to their credit, MySpace actually replied promptly to my e-mail complaint about the link to this Blogger page being blocked. And, unlike the last time it happened, the response actually addressed the problem specifically. So I applaud MySpace for such improvements. Maybe they aren’t the problem after all.

The MySpace explanation for the blocked link is:

We’ve recently discovered that BlogSpot pages are being used by spammers to send spam, so all links to that site have been disabled. Although you or your blog may not be associated with or linked to spam or spammers, to protect all MySpace Profiles from spam, phishing, and online scams, all links to Blogspot are blocked.

Which now begs the question: If BlogSpot pages are being used by spammers to send spam, what (if anything) are the Blogger folks doing to fix the problem? And, if they’re not doing anything about it, why shouldn’t I take my millions of readers and move to a different blog site?

[Addendum: Apparently, the Blogger/Blogspot folks were really slack-assed about dealing with the spammer problem, when it first arose. So they're now having to play catch-up. What idjits. DEATH TO SPAMMERS!]

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As mobile traffic to social networks grows, how can brands reach this new audience?

Source:  NewMediaAge / www.nma.co.uk / By Sean Hargrave

Ever since MySpace and Facebook launched mobile sites in 2007, social networking has been tipped as the killer app that would get people using their phones to go on the mobile web. With February’s news that Facebook receives 100m visits a month through mobiles, that optimism appears well-founded. Indeed, figures from ComScore suggest a third of all internet activity initiated on a mobile phone is bound for Facebook, with Bebo on 3% of visits and MySpace and Twitter each on 2%.

However, ComScore’s senior mobile analyst, Alistair Hill, believes the huge opportunity this offers the social networks to raise revenue by allowing brands to interact with this massive mobile internet audience isn’t being used. “It’s surprising that Facebook doesn’t have a mobile sales offering,” he says. “You could argue it’s building the audience and refining what it does online first. But it means there’s a huge amount of traffic which isn’t being as well monetised as it might otherwise continue reading

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Today's Future Dance Artist/Video Du Jour

AND now for something completely different…

                                       While reviewing “MAVIS” with my co-editor, we heard from Reykjavik’s feathery-voiced Disa on track number four. The video is one of humble beginnings. Predicting a nice Dance music/House/Electro track or remixed version (I’ll remix it!) in her near future….PLEASE!! 

pickhitt: also check out “Sinful Love” on the new “MAVIS” album by K7…..sooothing.

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How to create creativity

Years ago I was a vivid photographer shooting film with my dads camera. The results were often horrible but sometimes I had some really good shots. Did those not so good looking pictures bother me? No! Why? Because every picture I took was in one way or another unique. Memories and expression of a very specific moment in my life. So with me bothering less I discovered a feel good feeling. My pictures became better from a pure technical point of view but my attitude hasn’t changed so far. Pictures can be holiday pictures, sport pictures, pictures from your friends birthday party or pictures you take in a supermarket, your home, your car.

Everywhere! So I started taking pictures with my camera. No I haven’t bought a digitial SLR yet but that’s not necessary. Simply because I do have a camera always with me.

My mobile phone camera! My old still working K850i is more than capable of taking high quality pictures of about anything in the whole wild world. Just take a picture of about anything and publish it. Share this with your friends on twitter, facebook, bebo, myspace and whatever pages are out there as well.

It’s not all about the location, it’s about the moment. Wouldn’t it be nice just to see what’s in front of your house, flat or even in your flat? Wouldn’t it be nice to share this to people out there? Just to be creative and take pictures because it’s fun and living on planet earth is a privilege that we take for granted? Just to go out and take pictures of whatever we like?

There are no wrong or right pictures and whatever we shoot shouldn’t we be happy about those memories / moments? You have probably seen a few pictures I took 3 minutes ago showing my book / DVD shelf and the view out of my living room window as well as the view on my garden. Come on people let’s share pictures. Send me links to your blogs and have fun!

And most importantly! Be creative!

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Kent Larson “Dip Shit” Teen Porn.. Granny’s sex site’s…One Sick Bastard

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BBQ Whores Marijuana

Looks, to me? that you were cooking up more than BBQ at the ranch with your Whores, Women on Dating Sites, Sex Clubs,  and growing Marijuana

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sMELLS LIKE a fRIEND!

So this week I set out to write two blogs, one on wednesday after church and a second on Friday. Well its early Saturday morning and I’m sitting  down to write my first blog of this week. I will try to fit two blogs in this week since I promised myself I would write two a week and haven’t been doing it!

Now that I’ve concluded my rambling lets move on. I wanted to talk to you for just a minute about friendship.

Meg and I just spent the last few hours with two couples who we are pretty close with, and it got me to thinking again about the time we spend, and what we spend it on. We are a closed off and alone society: texting, instant messaging, all of the connectivity, yet no true community. Only in our generations could a person say he had 450 friends and have never met another human being (thanks to myspace and facebook)! The friends, true friends, I have, I wouldn’t give up for anything; but this brings up a good question ‘who are my true friends’ who are your true friends? Are they the people that you can laugh with around some scrumptious Mexican food? (yes, i did use that word!) Are they the people that say they would help you move, but in actuality, you’re always the one doing the moving? Are they the people that you share your deepest dreams and fears with?

How can I have a relationship, if I fail to relate? If we can spend 10 minutes listening (not talking) listening to another instead of 45 minutes checking our friend status, we would begin the long journey back to community!

Til tomorrow or Sunday danieldunlop

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Hipnotized by HipGnosis

Sacred tones, busting sonic barriers, deep space explorations into the galaxies of glitch, idm, dubstep, ambient and beyond…One must be riding the stellar soundship, HipGnosis.  Colleague of Glitch.Fm’er, Sugarpill, HipGnosis (Eric Young) is an electronic music producer definitely worth having on your iPod: 5-starred.  Here’s a blurb about HipGnosis hijacked from his Soundcloud page:

producer/DJ from the US, focusing on experimental hip-hop/IDM/dubstep/glitch. independently released several albums on “virtual label” HipGnosis Music, one on netlabel Aleph9, and one “official” release on Lab Beat, entitled “Scientific Illuminism (Is For Sissies)”. http://thereisnotwo.tk for the blog to weekly show “Between Zero and One” on http://glitch.fm every wed 10pm-12 am Central time. New EP “What’s In a Name?” out Nov 19th on http://summerrainrecordings.net

Be sure to grab the free download from the player!

Links

• HipGnosis Official
• HipGnosis Soundcloud
• HipGnosis Twitter
• HipGnosis Myspace

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Reality Check: Social Networking Sites

Reality Check: Social Networking Sites

Recently, some trouble has been stirred with my actions on Facebook. In an effort to save this person (and myself) the embarrassment, I will keep it anonymous.

Everyone has differing opinions and perspectives. I believe social networking sites like Facebook, or MySpace are merely news applications from friends, groups, and favorite businesses in order to stay in touch or see the daily updates in their lives.

There is another perspective that people have. Some see these sites as a personal extension of their lives. They have such a passion, they feel it is less than an application, and more of a personal attachment.

I’m not saying this is wrong, as that would be judgemental, and I’m trying not to be. But it is my opinion, that bad things can (and do) happen with this perspective. The reason for this thinking is that status updates, like other news items, may not always be entirely accurate. Exaggerations, vague updates, and even manipulating words can confuse and change peoples minds. Bad language and hurtful remarks can result.

For example, recently, someone on my friends list in Facebook was posting updates that I would rather not see or read. Just like a news site in my online reader, if you don’t like it, you simply remove it. Unfortunately, removing someone from your friends list has the unfortunate side-effect, to those that see FB as more than an applcation, to be representative of removing them from their personal lives.

This couldn’t be further from the truth. This problem was the cause of differences of opinions on what social networking sites really are……Web applications displaying news.

In hindsight, I could have just asked that person to stop. But, then, who am I to change that person? Maybe I’m the only one? I certainly don’t want to think my parenting skills are better than others (their not, believe me). And then, who am I to say that the parents are wrong? These are just opinions, and I respect people and their parents too much.

Social networking sites are most definately useful, but can be dangerous if you lose too much of yourself in these virtual realities. Preying abusers, stalkers, and criminals also browse the sites. Putting too much of yourself and your trust on these public applications can be risky.

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MySpace Lost Faith For All Things Mobile; Former VP John Faith Gone

Troubled social networking giant MySpace has lost another key executive with the recent departure of John Faith, until recently General Manager and Vice President of MySpace Mobile. His resignation hasn’t been announced yet (nor has his LinkedIn profile been updated), but we’ve confirmed hallway rumors that he jumped ship at the end of January 2010 both with the man in question and the company he used to work for.

Faith has moved to Austin, Texas – just in time for SXSW – where he has joined local startup WhaleShark Media as SVP of Engineering.

That company’s still in stealth mode, but was founded by former Bankrate COO Cotter Cunningham, so we’ll be keeping a close eye on that one.

It’s worth noting that another key member of the MySpace Mobile team, Ulf Waschbusch, also left the company in July 2009 – he recently landed at gaming startup Garena.

I asked MySpace who was running all things mobile now that both employees walked away from the company, and they informed me that stepping in for Faith is Nat Brown. In case you’re not familiar with that name, Brown was once one of Microsoft’s foremost technical minds – he created and evangelized the ActiveX/COM object model in the early nineties and went on to play a crucial role in the creation of XML, DHTML, and the first Xbox.

Brown went on to do a brief stint as CTO at CAC Media before serving the same role at online music startup iLike, which was acquired by MySpace in August 2009.

MySpace says Brown will henceforth be taking charge of the Mobile division, and that we can expect a lot from that particular unit in the “very, very near future”.

We’ll see.

CrunchBase InformationMySpaceJohn FaithNat BrownInformation provided by CrunchBase

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Are you tired of your MySpace profile look?

Jazz up your MySpace profile and make it stand out! Your personality can shine through your profile, and your interests, mood, and hobbies can be the inspiration to customize your MySpace profile. Also referred to as MySpace wallpapers, the backgrounds are the basis of a custom MySpace profile design. There is no need to be stuck with the default background. There are tons of colorful and exciting MySpace backgrounds that can be easily applied to your very own profile.

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Children of the Cybercorn

Remember back in the day when MySpace was the shit? Remember when we lived in caves and ate big ass mammoth steaks?

MySpace brought social networking and blogging to the mainstream. People will argue that LiveJournal did this, but only homos and douchebags use LJ. MySpace made it possible for anyone and everyone to whore themselves on the internet without having to go through the trouble of uploading nude pics of yourself to everyone of your email contacts or making a website titled lookatmeimdesperateforattention.com.

The history of MySpace is pretty simple. This hipster douche named Tom Anderson (an assumed alias I’m sure) woke up one day in a Boone’s Farm-induced stupor, pulled his cock out of his boyfriend Chris DeWolfe’s ass, and exclaimed “OMG DOOD! I just totally thought of a way to get the whole internet laid!” and SHAZZAM! MySpace was born.

For awhile, MySpace dominated the Social Network scene, allowing any Joe Schmoe to create a page to fill with half-brained blurbs, worthless blogs, and all the odd-angled camera captures you could handle. MySpace had gajillions of users while the now vastly-superior Facebook was still only available to Harvard students and the cast of Revenge of the Nerds.

As time progressed, the quality of MySpace took a huge turn for the worse. An army of 13 year olds posing as adults started making a plethora of pages, turning the site into a pedophile’s dream. The website became all about stupid “application games” like Mobsters and Vampires, and all the personal pages became more glittery than Edward Cullen’s dick. Thankfully, it was around this time the yokels at Facebook stopped being elitists and started letting normal people make sites there, free from the wasteland of preteen cleavage and fat-old-men-posing-as-young-boys MySpace had become.

Before I continue, allow me to give you some insight on Facebook’s history. Facebook was started back in 2003 by this guy who, after being laughed at and ridiculed by emo hoodrats on MySpace, decided to start his own Social Networking site. Back then it was called Facemash, and it was similar to Hot or Not in that it would allow you to judge people’s looks anonymously while also providing good beat off material for the nerdlings at Harvard, for whom the site was initially designed. There’s alot more to it than that, but due to apathy, I’m gonna cut it short. Let’s just say eventually Mark Zuckerberg got off his llama and gave Facebook to the common man.

As of September of 2006, Facebook has been available to anyone, not just Ivy League cornholes. It gave social networkers a better place to try to get pussy, with a sleeker design, easier to use functionality, and less customization options (THANK GOD!). Every page looked the same, and finally, all social networkers were considered equal.

All was well. God was pleased.

Slowly, Facebook, just as it predecessor had, slowly began a decline into shit. The cause for this can be summed up in one word: Applications.

Applications are a double-edged sword. On one hand, they’re a fun way for people who are too unintelligent to play real games to pass the time (and let’s be honest, the only people who play these apps are people who can’t tie their own shoes, let alone operate a console controller). Not everyone has a set of keys to have dangled in front of their face, or a ball of yarn to roll around, so these apps fill that void in the little mongrel’s life.

On the other hand, due to the popularity of these apps via the stupidity of the typical social network site user and their lack of intelligent thought, my Facebook (and yours too, I’m sure) are getting constant streams of spam from such gems as Vampire Wars, Farmville, and CafeWorld. It’s enough to drive a man to homicide!

Which reminds me… Farmville? Seriously? You’re so desperate for something to do that you’re playing a game that simulates working on a farm? And you don’t even get paid for it? What’s next? Sweatshopville?

This is getting way too long. Like Jim Bob Duggar should have done, I’m going to wrap this up.

Zynga is the Al-Qaeda of the internet, and those of you playing these apps are terrorists. Thanks for ruining social networking for me.

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Navy Seals - What the hell is our government thinking???

Thursday, January 14, 2010 This was sent to me in an email, but I wanted to share it with all of you. There were more pictures, but I didn’t get them all on here. Like I said, I was not there. I wish I would have been, so I could show support for our brave young Seals who are being flat out screwed by their leaders. I don’t know how else to put it.

Symptoms of Corrupting Sickness

It would be interesting to create a poll with these two photos and have people guess what’s happening.

I suspect that most would never assume anything close to the real story. It appears to be a joyous homecoming, a reuniting of mother and son. The truth is not so heart warming.

The lady in the picture is the mother of an American that was ambushed in Fallujah , Iraq. Her son was murdered. His body was dragged around in the streets of the city, then burned and hung from the upper trusses of a bridge. The murderers gathered to celebrate and have their photos taken with the trophy.

The young sailor in the picture is one of the Navy SEALs that later captured the leader of the band of terrorist butchers and brought him to justice.

If the story ended there, it would still be an acceptable feel-good, good-guys-win story. Unfortunately, that’s not the case – this Navy SEAL is facing criminal charges.

Because, somewhere along the timeline of his capture, the terrorist murderer suffered a school-yard fat lip, his captors are now being charged with nothing short of war crimes and facing discharge and imprisonment.

So, instead of celebration of justice served and heroes honored, these photos record betrayal, compounded mourning and the effects of a corrupting sickness.

This is another example of the corruption within the Obama/Holder “Injustice” Department.  Be clear the current administration is no fan of the military. How difficult would it have been for Holder to issue an order to the Military to stop the trial.  The SEAL’s were in effect offered a lower form on non judicial punishment, such as an Article 15.  In their thinking they did nothing wrong. Why accept a plea bargain when you have done nothing wrong.
What is a fat lip on a terrorist compared with the mutilation and desiccation of the bodies of the Black Water Contractors hung from the bridge? Have we forgotten Daniel Pearl? No this administration is more concerned with how the world will view us, translate (the chosen one) that a charade like this is allowed to proceed.  There is no place for political correctness or Washington conceived rules of engagement for our troops in combat. Will we ever know the results of these rules, requiring the enemy to be showing a weapon or shooting first on the number of dead trying to protect our country.  It is this exact administration that has labeled combat veterans potential terrorist.  You bet they are, when they return from eating sand in far away deserts to find out what you and your ilk in congress have done to their country, they will rage.  Of course you had a plan an Unconstitutional, one million person civilian trained corp, of Americans to eventually protect you?  It ain’t going to happen, we The People will refuse to serve you.  You are not our king, nor our master, you work for us, and we will be showing you the door in November 2012.  We believe in our Constitution and the Republic for which it stands, you sir apparently don’t. Random thoughts while observing the passing parade, J.C.

From WAVY.com: SEALs assault case goes to court NORFOLK, Va. – “It’s been very stressful,” said Navy SEAL Mathew McCabe, 24, moments after his arraignment in military court at Naval Station Norfolk Monday on charges that he allegedly mistreated an Iraqi detainee.

The mother of slain Blackwater guard Jerry Zovko drove from Ohio to give each of the accused SEALs a blessed rosary and lend them her support. “These young SEALs are in this situation because they caught the mastermind behind the death of my son, and not only my son and his co-workers but also the marines who went into Fallujah after their death,” said Donna Zovko. “I am very proud of these young SEALs and thankful to them. They did not do anything wrong.”

May I ramble a bit? Think out loud, so to speak? I’m trying to make some sense of this. What title can I give to the mentality of a people that send their best to defend the whole and then betray them?

To what shall I attribute the attitude of a people that habitually prosecute their heroes while defending their enemies? What creates a culture that allows people to vilify and isolate their most noble and deify their most corrupt?

I perceive more symptoms of a sickness, a corruption of the nation’s heart and soul. I am tempted to label it ‘liberalism’ or ‘progressivism’, but those too are just symptoms of the infection. But this is nothing new, I recognized these symptoms four decades ago in the shameful treatment of our warriors returning from Vietnam, in the acceptance of Marines bombed in Beirut, in the ho-hum yawn of media coverage of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down), in the return to mental numbness after 9/11, prosecution of the Marines of Hadith, assault of recruiters across the country, anti-war protesters at the gates of Walter Reed Army Hospital…….

This sickness, this infection has gone untreated for far too long. Americans are a tolerant bunch. We’ve patiently waited for the ingrates among us to grow up and develop a sense of pride and awe in the greatness of America. It’s not happening.

I’m tired of waiting. I’m fresh out of tolerance. There comes a time when the treatment for an infection cannot be postponed any longer, lest the patient die. Through history how many nations have habitually betrayed their defenders and survived?

Donna and I left our home at 4:00am, Monday morning and drove to Norfolk …. We were in the company of four other patriots from the Raleigh area: Don Gray of Military Appreciation Day and NC Gathering of Eagles.

Patrick Holbrook, NC Gathering of Eagles.
Russell Pope, NCFreedom.us
and Randy Dye, Randy’s Right Blog and NCFreedom.us

We joined a hundred or more others at Gate 5 of the Norfolk Naval Base to demonstrate support for Navy SEAL Mathew McCabe.

Here are my photos.

Above: I met the SEAL’s father, Marty McCabe.

After the arraignment hearings, McCabe came out to meet his supporters

Thank You Mathew McCabe for your service to our country.

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Seven Muslims Charged with Illegal Export of Electronics to U.S.-Designated Terrorist Entity in Paraguay

ACT for America February 22, 2010 Dead terrorists tell no lies. Shoot them in the knees, throw  them in a six-foot deep hole with wild pigs they don’t get to Allah that way. Sucks to be them.  Shall we talk about water boarding? As one Jihidast martyr’s mom said to the other, they blow up so quickly don’t they?  Rules of engagement, enhanced interrogation hell let them have at least one virgin, throw in Nancy Pelosi, after ObamaCare goes down like the Titanic, she will need some serious action.  Sadly our anti-war but can’t do a damn thing about it administration is clueless that war is all about killing people and breaking stuff. Night, going to bed, J.C.

[Excerpt: "On Feb. 18, 2010, ICE special agents along with agents and officers of CBP, FBI, DOC, OFAC, and the Secret Service, executed arrest and search warrants as a result of this criminal investigation. Cedar owner Khaled Safadi and Transamerica owner Ulises Talavera were arrested in Doral, FL, Jumbo owner Emilio Gonzalez-Neira was arrested in Sunny Isles, FL, and Jomana Import Export owner Samer Mehdi is still at large. Safadi, Talavera and Gonzalez-Neira had their initial appearances today. Gonzalez-Neira was held in pre-trial detention, and Safadi and Talavera are being held in pre-trial detention pending their bond hearings, which are scheduled for Monday, March 1, 2010, at 10:00 a.m."]

FBI Miami
February 22, 2010
Department of Justice Press Release

Great job with the masking tape

Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations; John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; Harold Woodward, Director of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); Michael Johnson, Special Agent in Charge, Department of Commerce (DOC); Adam J. Szubin, Director, Department of the Treasury’s, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); and Michael Fithen, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, Miami Field Office, announced the indictment of four individuals and three Miami businesses on charges involving the export of electronics to a U.S. designated terrorist entity in Paraguay. Complete Story

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MySpace Launches An Activity And Content Stream

MySpace has launched an activity and content stream, which they are calling simply the “Stream.” Previously they showed a feed of status updates from friends, but the new feature shows a lot more content, including things like music your friends are listening to on MySpace Music, video they’re watching, links they are adding, etc.

The company hasn’t formally announced the product, which sort of makes sense since they’re still playing catch up with similar features on Facebook. But it’s an important beachhead in their go-forward strategy, we’ve learned. More on that in our next post.

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While the night is still young...

Titled is just one of the many songs I feel a very deep connection to, and, an over-all feeling about the last 24 or so hours. Today, I feel my age, and then some. Yesterday I got up at around 6:30am and got to work at about 10am, which is early, but, I wanted to clean the DJ booth really good as it was a hot mess. I am not even going to go on a rant right now about how much it pisses me off that I even had to do it, though, when I say I “had” to do it, it was not required of me, but, I “HAD” to do it… Damned O.C.D.. Anyway, as I was saying, I got there at 10am and was prepared to work my shift and go home at around 7pm, and I say around because, for whatever reason, night shift DJ’s, with few exceptions, are notoriously late for work, again, no rant. I had probably 10 to 12 beers and a couple of shots throughout the day and had stopped drinking and ate my food that I brought with me at around 5:30pm so that I could drive home without being intoxicated. Well, the combination of alcohol and food and a long day meant that I was ready to go home at 7pm. It was about 6:50 that the DJ that was supposed to work that night called me, not the manager, not the general manager, and said that he was not going to be able to come to work and asked if I could call the other DJ to fill in. First off, I don’t mind doing a favor, after all, I got this guy the job, but, this is not my job to call for him. Plus, the other DJ was on the schedule to work the next morning and that just wasn’t going to work. I, being one of three DJ’s on staff, was going to have to pull a double shift and work until close.

I cannot begin to tell you how long it’s been since I had to do a double shift, and I will say at this point that I understand that I am not doing real manual labor, but, it still kicks your ass to be there for that long. I can attest to that fact because when I woke up this morning I could barely move and my head was pounding and my throat was all scratchy. Before you go and start saying something like, “well, with 10 to 12 beers and a couple of shots, I would be hung over too”, let me be clear in telling you that I was not hung over. I, in my years of drinking, have not been hung over more than, I would say, 5 times. I am not typically one that will feel bad the day after, and this was not one of those times. I really think that my general malaise was brought on by the extended hours, coupled with the atmosphere of cigarette smoke and loud music and people for over 14 hours.

I had planned on attending the 2010 Clearwater Blues Festival today with Kelly, but, as dodgy as I am feeling, I had better stick to getting my two weeks of laundry piles done and general cleaning. I don’t think that I would be very good company today anyway, but, I am going to go tomorrow instead. I am looking forward to have a couple drinks and listening to some good blues. I am usually really good at getting things done in a timely manner, but, for whatever reason, I have really been putting off going to get the laundry done. I actually have a pretty good idea as to why, and that is the fact that I have to go buy more detergent, and this will likely lead to a visit to Wal-Mart, the bane of my existence!

While the night is still young… I gotta get motivated and get it over with… so, on that note… and with one hell of a rant on the way… stay tuned!

Thanks to all of you for your continued love and support.
As always, take care and remember…

Every day is a chance to turn it all around!

- Kenny

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Google v Facebook. This time it’s personal

How Orwell would have delighted in satirising today’s tech titans’ perpetual war. Remember when Apple v Microsoft was the defining Oceania v Eurasia battle for supremacy? If so you’re experiencing a doubleplusungood false memory: both are now unimpeachable allies, working to replace Google with Bing as the iPhone’s default search provider. Likewise, you would simply be mistaken to recall Google’s chequebook-wielding flirtation with Facebook three years ago.

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Google and Facebook, as every goodthinker knows, are dangerously implacable enemies.

That war entered a venomous new stage last week, when the internet’s biggest search company announced that it had also become a Facebook-style social network. Google Buzz, launched on Tuesday, intends to turn Gmail’s 150 million users into a vast pool of shared personal information, building on similar initiatives such as Google Wave and Google Social Search.

Then it emerged last week that Google had bought the social- networking start-up Aardvark, which lets users “tap the knowledge of people in your network”. In other words, it was advancing its tanks even farther across Facebook’s lawn.

What we are witnessing is the ultimate battle for control of the internet. Google, employing the world’s smartest software engineers, has dominated the desktop-internet era for a decade through its unbeatable algorithm-based computing power. But now we’re into the mobile-internet era, Facebook intends to dominate by knowing what we are thinking, doing and intending to spend — wherever we happen to be. As Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg sees it, this “social graph”, built around our friends, family and colleagues, will determine how hundreds of millions of us decide on everything from holidays to cosmetic surgeons. And with Facebook the proprietary gatekeeper — its mobile-phone applications already attracting extraordinary engagement from members — that’s a potential advertiser proposition that Google can only dream of.

It’s not that Mr Zuckerberg is still only 25 and naively arrogant that annoys Google, nor that his company has enticed swaths of senior Google talent. It’s that Facebook’s fast-growing dominance of the “social” internet threatens its rival’s entire business model. If it can sell advertisers access not just to what you’re thinking, but to where you are, who you’re with and what you plan to do, Facebook’s revenues from individually targeted “behavioural” advertising could increase exponentially. And it knows it.

“Google is not representative of the future of technology in any way,” a Facebook veteran boasted to Wired recently. “Facebook is an advanced communications network enabling myriad communication forms. It almost doesn’t make sense to compare them.”

The mobile internet changes everything — how we behave, spend, declare our intentions, and consume content. That’s why Google is pushing so aggressively its Android smartphone platform and Nexus One handsets. It’s also why Apple has helped software developers to distribute three billion iPhone apps. “That mobile device is never more than a metre or two away from my body, even when I’m asleep,” explains Android’s Eric Tseng. “It knows all my friends through contacts applications; it knows where I am because it’s got a GPS chip; what I’m doing as I’ve got my calendar on it; and it’s got all this contextual knowledge about me. That’s very powerful.”

Already 16 million Britons access the internet through their phones, with five million doing so to visit Facebook — putting it comfortably ahead of Google traffic. And we’re just at the start of this revolution: 3G mobile penetration in Western Europe rose from 17 per cent in 2007 to 29 per cent in 2009, and is forecast to reach 67 per cent next year; in Japan it is already 91 per cent. The lesson from Japan is that, unlike the desktop internet, where people are averse to paying for content, the networked mobile phone is a consumer goldmine. Morgan Stanley estimates that $43 billion was made from the mobile internet in Japan in 2008. Proportionately, Europe today is where Japan was almost a decade ago.

Why is Facebook so well positioned? Because , when all your friends are on Facebook, it makes no sense to go elsewhere.

Mr Zuckerberg’s human-powered view of the internet also taps into our yearning, as social creatures, to climb Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to attain self-actualisation: of the 400 million active Facebook users (up from 200 million last summer), half log on in any given day; they share five billion pieces of content a week and upload more than three billion photos each month. On average, they spend more than 55 minutes a day on Facebook. Those who access it via their mobile devices are “twice as active”. Now do you see why the search gurus in Google’s Mountain View headquarters are so anxious?

So it’s a slam-dunk that Facebook, quickly emerging as the repository of all human intentions, will trounce Google, right? Well, possibly — except for two teeny details. The first is money. Google has $24.5 billion in the bank, after making $6.5 billion profit in the past year. And Facebook — although Mr Zuckerberg predicted a 70 per cent revenue growth this year — only went “cashflow positive” last autumn. There’s a lot you can do with the odd $25 billion: from writing open cheques to YouTube until it can dominate the market in online TV and film distribution, to saturation- advertising its Chrome browser on London buses. Don’t be surprised if Facebook announces a public share offering soon to build a war chest.

Mr Zuckerberg’s second challenge is to convince his customers to surrender their privacy. A business based on giving advertisers access to your personal data must somehow convince you that it’s in your interests to do so: and so far, his repeated clumsy attempts have met a substantial consumer backlash. Early reactions to Buzz have also reminded Google that many of us are unhappy ceding vast amounts of personal information to a private business.

And never forget how quickly fashions change in the online ecosystem. Remember Friendster, Friends Reunited, even MySpace — owned by this newspaper’s parent, and currently struggling in between CEOs? All were the next big social thing once. That’s people for you.

You never can rely on them.

David Rowan is editor of Wired

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STUDY: Australians Are The Most Active Social Media Users In The World

I always had the perception that Americans are the most active social media users because Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are all based in the United States. However, a recent study by Nielsen proved me wrong. Apparently, Australians spend the most amount of time on social media websites as compared to any other people in the world for the month of December. Analysts at Nielsen have concluded that 9.9 million Australians on average spend nearly 7 hours per month on social media sites. This translates to a 13 minutes a day, which constitutes to 0.9% of our time everyday.

Meanwhile, the United States clinched the second placing with Americans spending an average of 6 hours and 9 minutes per month, followed by the United Kingdom (6 hours and 7 minutes), and then Italy (6 hours). To my dismay, Japan, which is one of the most technological-savvy countries in the world, only managed to hit 2 hours and 50 minutes, far behind the Oceania, American and European leaders. On the hand, Brazil, the only developing country in the list, made it to the sixth placing with 31.3 million Brazilians surfing Facebook and Twitter for 4 hours and 33 minutes in December last year.

The study also noted that Americans continue to spend more time on social networking and blog sites as well, with total minutes increasing 210% year-over-year and the average time per person increasing 143% year-over-year in December 2009. The top five most popular social media sites in December are Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Classmates and LinkedIn. Among these sites, Twitter has been touted as “the fastest-growing in December 2009 in terms of unique visitors”, increasing 579% year-over-year, from 2.7 million unique visitors in December 2008 to 18.1 million in December 2009.

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local grass: Portland’s Black Prairie

photo by Tucker Martine

Black Prairie, a new collaboration out of Portland, Oregon made up of three members of the indie-rock band The Decemberists and two other Portland-based folk stars, will release a bluegrass album on Sugar Hill Records in April. The new band’s debut, Feast of the Hunter’s Moon, is produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie) and features Decemberists guitarist Chris Funk, bassist Nate Query and Jenny Conlee on accordion.  

There are a couple of songs already on the band’s MySpace page. “Red Rocking Chair” has a slow, ominous mountain sound, while “Back Alley” sounds like straight-up traditional bluegrass. Both tracks left me longing for the other 11 songs on this 13 track album that Sugar Hill says will embody “the rich sonic landscape of the Portland music scene while integrating the diverse backgrounds of its members.”  

Check out the first two tracks below and stay tuned for more.

Black Prairie on MySpace

Black Prairie on Sugar Hill Records Web site

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Become a fan

Nowadays, Facebook is becoming mainstream. Almost everyone has a Facebook page even my mom has one. And companies are not the exception either. Companies are seeing Facebook as a way to communicate, engage with its audience and ultimatly driving sales.
Last year Razorfish, a digital marketing company, developed its third annual FEED survey of 1,000 “connected consumers”. The survey focused on online consumer behavior. Some of the results: ”40% of respondents “friended brands on Facebook “, while 25% of respondents said they follow brands on Twitter. They also found that consumers follow brands on Twitter and Facebook mainly for deals and promotions. “On Facebook or MySpace, 37% said that access to exclusive deals or offers was their main reason for friending brands.”

Furthermore, 40% of respondents have “friended” a brand on Facebook. Taking into account these statistics it is important that companies realize the role that Facebook is playing nowadays and that Facebook is not only for young people to network it is a way to engage consumers and build communities. According to these results if a company wants brand recognition on the Web, there is a good possibility that Facebook is the right place to be.

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/survey_brands_making_big_impact_on_facebook_twitter.php

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/survey_brands_making_big_impact_on_facebook_twitter.php

I am a fan of a couple of products through my Facebook page. Often I find people being reluctant to become a fan. Either they have to be friends of someone that works for the company or they are extremly loyal to that brand/product.  At the end of the day people do not have time to follow lots of brands. Do we?

Are you a fan?

 

 

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Timeline: A history of social networking sites

In a nutshell, social networking sites are web-based services that enable people to create a public profile, allowing them to communicate with both strangers and people already in their existent social network (Boyd & Ellison 2007).

They began in 1997 with the birth of SixDegrees.com which encouraged people to send messages to each other electronically.

From there they blossomed and became one of the world’s most popular ways of communicating, particularly among young people.

Here is a timeline detailing their relatively short but intriguing history.

1997: SixDegrees.com

Although it was innovative in that it combined many features other social networking sites did not, the site failed to sustain itself in the long run. This was partly due to the low number of people with an online presence and partly to the site’s limited interactive applications.

2001: Ryze

A niche business-oriented social network site, aimed at strengthening professional and personal bonds across companies, without that air of competition. Yet the site’s personalization caused its downfall and it never attracted mass appeal.

2002: Friendster

An online dating site which focused on introducing friends-of-friends rather than strangers because it believed they would prove better matches. Although the site was initially popular boasting 300,000 users, it encountered many technical and social difficulties. These included slow servers and a restrictive design, which led users to create fake profiles of celebrities and fictional characters, to expand their reach. The site’s deletion of these ‘Fakesters’ caused an outrage and resulted in many users leaving the site permanently because of its failure to meet user interest.

2003: MySpace

Hit off by indie-rock bands alienated by Friendster, MySpace rapidly grew by accommodating a band-and-fans relationship, creating a personal ’space’ for this. Users needs were also met, unlike with Friendster, by allowing them to personalize their profiles using HTML. In 2004, teens started joining Myspace en masse which was accelerated by News Corporation purchasing the site for $580 million in 2005 and attracting mass media attention.

2004: Facebook

Initially intended for college networks (Harvard, US) to create a sense of an intimate online community, Facebook spiralled into serving mass communities in 2005. Unlike other sites, Facebook allows users to determine the extent to which their profile is public, assigning them their long sought after independence and flexibility. Much like MySpace, users can also personalize their profiles through ‘Applications’ such as the sending of virtual gifts. It is now the most used social networking site, boasting over 350 million users worldwide.

2005: YouTube

An Adobe Flash video sharing website, displaying a broad range of user-generated content including film and TV clips, music videos and original, amateur blogs or videos. Although unregistered users can still watch content, registered viewers are free to upload, rate and also comment on videos of their choice. Bought by Google in 2006, media companies such as the BBC and Universal Music Group (UMG) also share their material via the site. It has been ranked the fourth most visited website, following Google, Yahoo and Facebook. Despite some of its copyrighted material and inappropriate content, its simple interface and diverse collection of topics has won it many awards including the George Foster Peabody Award (2008).

2006: Twitter

A new microblogging site, originally called twttr, allowing users to send messages of up to 140 characters known as tweets to their subscribers, known as followers. Like Facebook, Twitter accommodates restricted and open delivery. Another attractive quality of Twitter is its intertexuality; the ability to send tweets via the website and Short Message Service (SMS) – it’s been crowned ‘SMS of the Internet’. Although it has been labelled ‘modern narcissim’ and an absurdity which drains phone credit, Twitter has proved immensely successful, with a ‘remarkably simple’ interface and 14 millions users in the US alone.

2010: Google Buzz

Building on the idea of Twitter, Google Buzz targets a more niche market of Gmail users, allowing them to automatically and conveniently follow existing friends. Like Twitter, intertextuality is integrated in the form of photos (Flickr), videos (YouTube) and links (Twitter) where privacy can also be altered accordingly. With its recent extension to Google Apps and mobile phones, you can now tag your exact geographical location with Google Maps and easily, yet uncomfortably, track your friends. However, this concept of privacy settings has already been heavily criticised, attacking the way that Google Buzz publicly lists the user’s Gmail contacts by default. Within just days, thousands have been manically blogging on Technorati; most arguing that the concern over privacy is a ridiculous overstatement, revealing people’s ignorance of the way social networking sites truly operate.

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