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Why Aflac Firing Gottfried over Tweets Sets Troubling Social Media Precedent

03.17.2011

Gilbert Gottfried, in case you didn’t know, has been the voice of the Aflac duck for years, lending his trademark loud, grating vocals to that of their famous mascot. And thanks to Twitter, the duck is getting a new voice. Companies are still trying to get a grip on just how to handle the new [...]

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6 Sure-Fire Ways to Instantly Lose Your Blog Readership

03.11.2011

When we write blogs, we want people to read them. Ideally more and more people every time we post a new blog. We want those people to keep coming back for more and to tell their friends about it and to share the links to our posts on Facebook and Twitter. If we didn’t want [...]

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Blog Swap: Guest Blogging on 2011 Next-Action Steps

12.21.2010

Guest blog on what to do in 2011.

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How to Start Blogging: Read Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish

10.12.2010

Andrew Sullivan celebrates 10 years of political blogging. Along with John August, he’s one of the prime reasons why I’m even blogging today.

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How to Turn the Political Tide: Reward Rational Thought

06.26.2010

From the blatant lies passed off as truths by Arizona’s governor to the Rolling Stone reporter whose article ultimately led to Gen. McChrystal’s forced resignation, the question raised by The Economist, Andrew Sullivan, and others seems more relevant than ever now: do intelligent arguments make a difference? With so much of the blogosphere ripe with [...]

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Political Blogging: The Power of the Premises

06.19.2010

What’s more important to an argument — a solid set of premises leading up to a logical conclusion, or the conclusion itself? The political blogosphere is mainly just opinion writing, most often by non-professionals — myself included.  People take a stance on a law, bill, event, political figure – anything at all, really – and [...]

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The Total Irrelevance of Beauty Pageants

05.20.2010

Rima Fakih, an Arab-American woman from Dearborn, Michigan, won the Miss USA contest this week so naturally, right-wing bloggers cry foul, some suggesting that she won because there’s an unwritten form of affirmative action taking place in these beauty pageants, while others go much further, claiming that Fakih is a Hezbollah propagandist. I really don’t [...]

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Obama Shockingly Out of Touch with Technology and Social Media

05.10.2010

These latest comments from President Obama seem rather odd considering he blasts the very media that helped spread his hugely successful grassroots, Web 2.0 campaign that got him elected less than two years ago. President Obama: “With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information [...]

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Three Months of Agreeing to Disagree

04.30.2009

Hard to believe, but I’ve been ranting and raving on this blog for over three months now.  My first official post was on January 23rd, 2009.  Lo and behold, here we are marking the end of April 2009 and the third full month of blogging. For my three monthiversary, I’d like to say thanks to [...]

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Not Surprising…

03.25.2009

When I don’t post, I get hardly any views to my blog.  I suppose it’s not all that shocking.  Although it does prove that most of my readership comes from my friends on Facebook who click on the links that I post to my profile page.  It also means I have a much smaller core-following [...]

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