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As a professional travel photographer with nearly four decades of experience under my belt, I never thought that I'd be interested in capturing my travels in video. But when HD video became part of my DSLR's feature list and I began to realize the awesome storytelling potential of the moving image, I was hooked.
This video discusses night-vision videography and takes a look at two cameras, Sony's HXR-NX70U and HDR-PJ760V, both of which have built-in infrared modes. You'll learn the basics of working with infrared light and how to improve your night-vision videos with special, infrared light kits, like the Sima SL-100IR and the Litepanels MiniPlus IR.
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New Delhi, Jan 22: Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) today said the company has entered into an agreement for acquiring the KINKY hair business in South Africa.
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Erica Campbell has come under attack by many of her loyal fans because of her album cover, shown above, in which she is wearing a beautiful tight white dress that hugs her curves. Is her dress too tight for a Christian artist?
Campbell, 41, announced last year she would be launching a solo career.
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Studio of Jean-Marc Nattier (Paris 1685-1766)
Portrait of a gentleman, said to be baron de Thiers, seated, half-length, in a brown velvet jacket
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The sitter of the present work is thought to be Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers (1700-1770). His uncle, the noted collector Pierre Crozat (1667-1740), was the principal patron of Antoine Watteau and other early Rococo artists. During his lifetime Antoine had a reputation for exquisite taste and added considerably to his uncle's collection, which he partly inherited. In 1771, two years after his death, the collection, which comprised of works by artists such as Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt and Poussin were bought, through Denis Diderot, by Catherine II of Russia and went to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
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How Seagate achieves the Cheetah's fast rotation speeds is by using platters that are actually smaller than those in standard desktop hard drives. The drives are physically similar, at 3.5-inches like most desktop hard drives, but inside the platters are small, allowing the fluid-bearing motor to whip those discs around at record speeds. The problem in the past with this is that Cheetah drives have been quite limited in size. You could use them for speed-focused applications and scenarios, but if you wanted space, you were out of luck unless more drives were purchased -- and these drives don't come cheap.
With the new Cheetah 15K.5, Seagate has moved the Cheetah family to perpendicular recording for the first time. This allows Seagate to pack more bits in less area, achieving greater capacities. The new line comes in 73GB, 146GB and 300GB capacities. The following are some of the Cheetah 15K.5's specifications:
Max capacity: 300GB
Seek Time, Read/Write (average, msec.): 3.5/4.0
Transfer Rate, Sustained (MB/sec.): Up to 125MB/sec
Reliability rating at full 24x7 Operation (AFR), chance of failure: 0.62%
Non-recoverable Read errors per bits read: 1 sector per 10^16
Power consumption SCSI (Watts at idle): 12.5w (300GB), 9.6w (146GB), 8.1w (73GB)
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The 3-storey hotel offers 63 rooms of which 1 is a suite and facilities include an inviting foyer with a reception desk, an in-house bar and a restaurant offering a selection of culinary delights.
This pleasant hotel lies amidst wonderful gardens at the heart of Rome Française. It is just a short distance (150 m) to the Jardins de la Fontaine, the Maison Carrée and the Modern Art Centre. It is just 200 m to the nearest links to the public transport network.
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In the vigorous debate over guns sparked by the murder-suicide committed by Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs last weekend, Charles Barkley and James Harrison have spoken out in favor of responsible ownership. On the other side, John McEnroe's views are more aligned with those of Bob Costas.
"I think, especially in the black culture, it's a crime culture," Barkley said in tonight's episode of "Costas Tonight" on the NBC Sports Network. "We, as black people, and I always say we, we don't have respect for each other. We got more black men in prison than we do in college, and crime in our neighborhoods is running rampant. I know everybody reacts when something like the Belcher thing happens, but being black, this is something you deal with all the time, and it's just sad. I'm a guy and I carry a gun. I carry a gun."
Barkley, who will turn 50 in February, said he has carried a gun for about 30 years and has never used it.
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"I carried a gun in my car, every year of my life since I was 20 — never had to use it," he said. "I just feel safer with it because we have jocks who get robbed all the time, road rage and things like that. I feel a sense of peace when I have it with me, but it would take extreme circumstances for me to even touch it."
The Belcher issue, for Barkley, is domestic violence. Belcher shot and killed his fiancee, then headed to Arrowhead Stadium, where he committed suicide.
"I hope people don't [emphasize] the gun situation. I'm very sensitive to domestic violence because I have a daughter [who is 23 and that's just one thing that I cannot accept in any shape or form whatsoever. It's just a crazy situation.
"I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop [gun control] at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns. … Let's not make this thing about guns. Let's make this about mistreating women. That's unacceptable."
John McEnroe, a lifelong New Yorker, feels safer without a gun. "I've got to say I think that there are just so many bad things that could happen. That's why someone like Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg in New York City, where I live, has advocated, I think rightly so, that we get as many guns as possible off the streets," McEnroe said. "There are too many scenarios…that would make it that much easier to pick up a gun and do something."
Last year, Harrison posed with some of the guns from his collection for a Men's Journal story. He takes Barkley's point that the issue is larger than firearms ownership.
"It's a big issue as far as what happened and everything, it's a sad story," Harrison told USA Today. "But the fact of it being part of the guns … "They want to say its guns and all this other stuff. It's ridiculous. He did it. And he alone is responsible for it. It has nothing to do with the guns.
"Somebody goes out and kills somebody with a knife, you going to blame the knife? Somebody goes out and kills somebody by pushing somebody in front of a train, you going to start cutting off the guy's arms? You going to start blaming people's arms now? It's the person who did it who is responsible."
Harrison, 34, got his first gun when he was 18. "It's not an athlete thing," he said, "it's a human thing. …
"If you go and say, 'All right, now we're going to take guns away from everybody, and the only person who is going to have guns are the police … if that was a good thing and that's actually how it would go, then that would work.
"But the two people who are going to have the guns then are the police and the criminals. So now I know I can break into every house in the country that doesn't have a gun in it because they're no longer allowed to carry handguns. That's not going to solve things. It's only going to cause more problems."
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Sail Date: August 21, 2010
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MONTEREY, CA, For a Southwestern California spin on holiday fare, check out Rio Grill in the Crossroads Shopping Center in Carmel. If you want to reserve the newly refurbished Sante Fe Room and Barrel Room for a private function, Chef Cy Yontz offers a $65 per person plus tax and gratuity four-course pre-fixe holiday dinner menu, featuring creative twists on standards - sweet potato and raja chile empanadas with cinnamon crema, or turkey breast with cranberry-ginger compote, red chile mole and tortilla-squash chilaquiles. Patrons in the main restaurant can expect similarly inventive dishes, such as wood-grilled veal Delmonico with cactus salsa and a cranberry-pinon tamale. Your standard family roast never looked so boring.
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- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
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94 yj, beggining to now
okay so i have some spare time and decided i would put my whole 'build' in order before i start finnishing up the stuff that im building. ill start with the before pictures...
this was the first day when i went to look at it, but the price was to high so i decided to sit back and wait, and eventually the guy lowered the price, and i went back and got it... this is a picture of how it looked that day
33s, with a 31" spare, shackle/suspension lift, k/c cold air intake, 2.5L 4cyl, new paint, half top, half doors, no back seat, no carpet, rough wired KCs on the front, and plenty of other bad stuff. but its my first jeep, and all i saw was big tires... but thats where the fun begins
once i got it home i realized how bad it really was... the 4cyl still haunts me to this day, the engine had some sort of problem where it would randomly shut off, the wiring harness was all messed up, the front axle didnt connect in 4wd, ect. but ill get to all that... the first night i got it home i decided to put the full top on because the owner had that apparently. when i went to put it on i realized there was no back window. greattt. then i realized it didnt fit properly... thats when my friend suggested the soft top frame. i guess the previous owner forgot to give me that as well. so i went on craigslist to see what i could find...
day 1. in the drive way, first jeep...
this is a picture with the ghetto soft top setup. and i forgot to mention this is the background information before i started building stuff
around this time it started randomly shutting off on me, so i decided to change the oil, oil filter, fuel filter, and coolant. took it for a test drive, and it continued to die. so i checked all the wires, spark plugs, distributor, ect. nothing. eventually i took it to the mechanic out of frustration, and he said they found a piece of wood jammed into somthing that was causing it to shut off when it over heated or somthing. guessing previous owner spite...? but i overlooked it and kept going
after i fixed it i decided to celebrate, and got my friend who has a stock tj, and found a little bit off mud, and such and took it to the trails
first time offroading in MY JEEP, and i loved every second of it. til i realized i had the parking break on the whole time... :facepalm:
at this point i found a soft top frame on craigslist, and decided to go buy it. i got it, no problem, put it on the jeep no problem, and tried to attach the top to it... apparently there is multiple soft top hardware for yjs... we learn something new every day. lovely. so i dumped it in the garage. haven't touched it since. also around this time i drove home from work with no top on, and it rained. decided i needed a top, and instead of screwing with the soft top again i decided i would try to get a hardtop.
i talked to a fellow jeeper on this forum, b67cuda i believe was his name, he lived in PA, and he had a white hardtop that he said he didnt use and he would sell it to me for $250 if i drove up there to get it. so i got my father to borrow his friends truck, borrow his other friends trailer, and we set out at 4am, got there at about 3 or 4, picked up the top, turned around and drove back. we got back at around 10, reattached the seal on the bottom, cleaned it, got new bolts, and put the top onn finnishing at about midnight. here is a picture of how it looked right then, and then the next day...
once i got the top on i went to my friends house to show him, and he has a pond in his front yard. he guarenteed me the jeep could go through, so i decided to try it out. i put it in 4hi :facepalm: and attempted to drive straight through. 4hi isnt the way to go. i got stuck very fast, and didnt know about 4lo. also at this point i had no recovery points, so i was in trouble. luckly he had a suburban, and a tow strap, so we tied it to the front axle, and pulled it out.
unfortunatelly i have no pictures of the recovery because it was dark out, but i have a pic the next day at the car wash... :D
shortly here after my wiring harness failed.
not a great day. the mechanics couldn't fix it for about 2 weeks, because neither me nor them knew it was the wiring harness...
once i got it back i decided i needed a back seat... so i forum hunted until i found NHrubicon who happened to have a spare yj back seat that he sold to me for $25, but he did not have the brackets. out of luck, another member saw this post, and sent me a spare pare of brackets he had for $10 shipping costs. so i got my back seat for $35 once complete...
then the interior needed a change so i bedlined it. started work at 10am
at this point i had been running half doors with the full surrounds that had the angled corners rather than circular, so they didnt fit right, and with the winter it was getting cold so i began looking around for full doors until i found a set of cj7 doors, in very rough condition, but they were for $120 so i bought them.
Sounds like you've had about as much fun as I have, lol. Nice looking Jeep though :thumb: I'm going to be doing the bed liner in mine soon as well.
this is where i started to actually 'build' anything
Yup my 2.5 liter was haunting me too. Had a bottom end knock, I replaced nearly every gasket and seal there could be on the damn thing. Then one day I had 400$ and saw a sbc and trans sitting in my neighbors garage offered 400 bucks for the combo and now that 2.5 is long gone in the junkyard. Its pcm and wiring harness is about to be sold too :rofl:
heres the short not of the doors... i got them with lots of rust, so i sanded them, bondo'd them, steel brushed them with the drill bit, painted over the rust with rust paint, primed them, then painted them :D
they came out good i think...
wish i could get a deal...
after doors i decided it was time for armor. i knew i wanted rock sliders, with the tube steps, some sort of front bumper, some sort or rear bumper, and a spare tire carrier on the rear bumper so i can get a full sized spare. when i started looking around i couldn't find anything that was exactelly what i wanted so i decided to make it. i have a buddy who has a shop, and he has welders, metal saws, drills, plasma cutter, and all kinds of other tools, and i had a friend lend me his pipe bender. so i went down to the local metal shop and bought 21 feel on 1" tubing, 21 feet of 1.25" tubing, and a 4'x8' sheet of 11 gauge steel, the total coming to about $300. then we started working...
this is my buddy grinding the base bumper
this was the result of day 1
another pic... very simple.
then we bended everything...
these are the side step rails
this was the first try with the stinger, but i didnt like it so we decided to use it on the spare tire carrier
my buddy with the bender
the plasma cutter
another pic of the back...
the back...
the most recent pic of the back...
and ill finnish updating a little later, have to go run an errand... enjoy :thumb:
That's beautiful ZK, love the ideas you used.
alright so at this point, this is recently, i got upset at somthing, so i decided to buy some offroad lights. after buying them i realized i didnt know where to put them. so i got together with my buddy, and we built a hood mounted light bar. then i realized it would be a waste to just put the light bar on, so i bought some entry guards, and tail light guards to also install. pics...
me and my other buddy wired the hood-mounted-light bar, and it only took us about an hour or so which surprised me because nothing goes right with jeeps.
then i went offroading again in Raleigh. http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/...nking11/me.jpg
i was going up a particularly easy hill, and having a huge amount off difficulty when one of the guys realized my front tires weren't spinning even in 4lo. so after getting stuck multiple times we finally got it out of there, and i got it back home to trouble shoot. turns out the vacume hoses in the shift fork were bad, and i needed to take the housing off, and put a spring on it to push the shift fork over slightly locking it permanently. after that i took it out in the woods, and did a burn out in some mud. all better.
i forgot to mention at this point i had no recovery points so getting me unstuck involved us tying a tow strap around the front axle and pulling it. we broke my tie rod. 300$ later my tie rod is fixed, and the tires are re-aligned. now onto recovery... http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/...11/jeeep11.jpg
i bought 2 tow hooks, currently i have one on the jeep. i cant get the bolt off the other side so that brings me to now. hopefully i will get together with my buddy with the shop at some point today and we will get the other hook on and get some more work done on the armor and such. this brings me to now. future plans include making my own corner armor, and some flat fender flares like the ones bushwacker has, jsut made of metal rather than plastic. and now we can see how that goes... updates on how it goes later later on :D :thumb:
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Dorn, who is not running for re-election as superintendent, would add a credible, informed voice to the gubernatorial debate stage.
This encouragement should not be read as an endorsement by The Seattle Times. Dorn himself admits he has never aspired to the governor's mansion. He would be a long-shot candidate
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Dorn publicly echoes other Democrats' private frustration with the governor. "If it comes to global warming, ocean acidity, carbon, he's all-in, no matter what," Dorn told The Times. "But it's not the paramount duty as a governor to solve global warming."
The leading Republican candidate, former Seattle Port Commissioner Bill Bryant, hasn't yet presented a coherent McCleary plan.
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I don't know about you, but my stack of holiday cards is starting to get out of hand. I always display my cards, but that display changes from year to year. For a while I did the long ribbon hung on a door and then double stick taped the cards to the ribbon. But then the kids started to pull on it so I scrapped that idea. Last year I stuck them amongst a holiday display I had on the foyer table. But this year I am still not sure what I am going to do, so I turned to Pinterest to help me find some creative ways to display Christmas cards and I was not disappointed. I thought it would be fun to share my favorites with you so you too can be inspired by some glamorous displays.
Here is the easiest of all the presentations. Essentially all you do is stick the cards around a door frame. I like how festive it is and from a distance it looks like decoration around the door.
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I saw a display like this at Anthropologie many years ago and have always wanted to recreate it. The problem is I don't have a large mirror anywhere but in the bathroom. But if you have a display mirror you can easily achieve this look. Very glamorous!
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Warsaw (Poland), Dec. 21 (ANI): The infamous sign over the gates at Auschwitz, which reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) has been found in damaged condition.
Polish police found the sign that was stolen from the gate of the former Nazi death camp after an intensive three-day hunt.
Five suspects have been arrested. The sign was found cut into three pieces Sunday night in northern Poland, the other end of the country from the southern Polish town where the Auschwitz memorial museum is located and where it disappeared before dawn Friday.
Police said that detained five men are aged between 25 and 39 and have been taken for questioning to Krakow, which is the regional command of the area that includes the Auschwitz museum.
Police spokesman, Dariusz Nowak, was quoted by a foreign news agency as saying that the 16-foot (5-meter) sign, made of hollow steel, was found cut into three pieces, each containing one of the words.
The cruelly ironic phrase means "Work Sets You Free" and ran completely counter to the purpose of Auschwitz, which began as a concentration camp for political prisoners during the Nazi occupation of Poland and evolved into an extermination camp where Jews were gassed to death in factory-like fashion.
The police refused to divulge any details of the circumstances in which the sign was found or to speculate on the motive of the perpetrators. They were expected to disclose more at a news conference in Krakow on Monday.
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Confidence returned to the Australian share market because of positive signs from the world's biggest economy, such as a surprise increase in US home sales. But it's too soon to declare that the worst is over.
The Murray Darling Basin Commission has bought back 11,000 megalitres of water to save a colony of water birds in central New South Wales. Summer rain prompted the birds at the Narran Lakes wetland to breed in large numbers for the first time since the year 2000.
While the Australian Medical Association says a national registration scheme for health professionals won't work there are senior medical academics who believe it can and say the AMA's stance is not in patients' interests.
Swimmers at the current Olympic selection trials in Sydney love the buoyant suits, but former swimmers and coaches say they are creating inequality in the pool. One of Australia's most successful former Olympic swimming coaches says the credibility of recent world records has been severely damaged and the world governing body for swimming only has itself to blame.
Pakistan's newly elected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has just been sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf, in what must have been an uncomfortable moment for the long time Head of State. The ceremony happened less than a day after Gilani challenged the President's authority by freeing judges sacked and put under house arrest during emergency rule last November.
The commander of US forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has accused Iran of making and supplying rockets that killed fifteen civilians on the weekend. His comments have thrown a light on the Quds Force - an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, responsible for training and arming terrorist groups in the region.
Motoring group the NRMA says oil companies 'gave in' over the weekend and dropped petrol prices after dramatic rises in the lead up to Easter. But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says petrol prices weren't too high over the weekend and were in line with the normal weekly price cycle.
The newly-elected member for the southern Sydney electorate of Cook, Scott Morrison has been refused membership by a branch of the Liberal party in his own electorate. Some Liberals say it's an embarrassing example of factional infighting, but the Federal Opposition's Spokesman on Family and Community Services, Tony Abbott, says the New South Wales Liberals are now more united than they have been in years.
Critics of the Victorian Government are trying to label the Premier, John Brumby, as the state's 'great problem gambler'. It's not a reference to his personal habits, but his policies. Mr Brumby today announced a new round of measures which he said would reduce problem gambling. Among them, new technology which gamblers can use voluntarily to limit the amount they pump into poker machines. The State Opposition and anti-gambling campaigners say it's a token gesture.
A South Australian man has overcome his own personal tragedy by creating an interactive website to help victims of trauma. Dale Elliott recalls when he was seriously injured in a country motorbike accident - his family's lives were suspended. But he now hopes the "I'm Thinking of You" website will reduce the stress for other families thrust into similar situations.
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Getting three points from the bench play of Cook, Lighty, Terwilliger and Hunter and zero points from starter Ivan Harris could have proved to be the difference if not for the great performances of Ron Lewis and Mike Conley Jr. as both scored well over their season average. The fact Greg Oden fouled out for the first time this season just proves the refs were looking hard at the inside play. But while some may ask how strong the Big Ten really was as all but the Buckeyes have bowed out, this is still a team with great depth and the ability to take their game to another level on both ends of the court.
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Virginia Tech running back Ryan Williams is the ACC's Rookie of the Year, the conference announced on Tuesday.
He received 34 votes from 40 voting members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association to edge out Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly, who had 29. Separate votes were held for the offensive and defensive rookie of the year awards, and those vote counts were combined to determine the overall award winner.
"This is something that is totally unexpected, but feels great," Williams said in a prepared statement. "I have to give a lot of credit to the offensive line and the wide receivers and the fullbacks because they helped pave the way for a lot of the stats I got this year."
Williams tied the ACC season record with 19 rushing touchdowns. His 20 overall touchdowns set the league's scoring record for freshmen.
Williams has rushed for 1,538 yards this year, shattering the ACC's freshman rushing record of 1,265 yards set last year by his teammate, Darren Evans, who is sitting out 2009 with a knee injury suffered in preseason practice. It is also the fourth-best single-season rushing total in ACC history.
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Luke Kuechly, LB, Boston College (29)
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Kyle Parker, QB, Clemson (4)
Steve Greer, LB, Virginia (3)
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As has been our practice, AOL is continuing to publish the number of demands for data we have received from government authorities. The first table below includes information on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA") orders that AOL has received for non-content and content information. The second table provides information on the National Security Letters ("NSLs") that AOL has received. The third table provides information on the legal demands that AOL has received from federal, state, and local authorities in criminal investigations (outside of the national security context). It is important to note that AOL vigorously contests on behalf of our users any demands that we believe are ambiguous or legally defective.
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As an editor of an online publication and principal writer of its blog, I have to pay attention to social media. And, I'm the first to admit I spend more time reading social media content than contributing to its wealth.
In the past few months I've run into a few social media quandaries. I want to discuss them since I suspect many in our industry are starting to face the same issues. The first one relates to LinkedIn.
To Link or Not on LinkedIn
I've got about 170 "connections" from my 25 years in the industry. I've met nearly all of them in person and the few I have not, I've connected with enough to feel as though I have.
So, when I received a request to connect with someone that I didn't consider to fall into the "I've met you or feel like I have" category, I tried to decline respectfully. I explained that I really wanted to use LinkIn to connect to people I knew well. That did not go over too well. The response was akin to, "But you do know me! I run [this company]." Yes, I did indeed know the individual ran that company, but I still didn't feel a connection at the level I required. The requestor left in a "huff" and noted he'd learned a lot about me.
At first that bothered me since I thought it implied I was a jerk. Looking back, the comment was exactly correct; the requestor did learn a lot about me! He learned something those with whom I have those connections may already know: I don't have a lot of casual business relationships.
I learned (okay, was reminded) from this exchange that everyone uses social media differently. For some, Facebook is for business. For others, it's for friends. For some Twitter is about sports. For others, it's a publishing medium. It's up to each individual (and organization) to decide which platforms to use and for what purpose. I also learned it may be best to ignore such requests rather than trying to explain "it's not you, it's me..." which never works.
Getting the Conversation Going
Social media is often defined as a conversation, one with two or more participants. Some geospatial blogs (one of the earlier forms of social media) have reverted to a single voice, more of a broadcast model because comments have dried up or been turned off. I attended PodCamp Boston 5 this fall to explore the demise of blog comments. It's been suggested (on social media, where else?) that geospatial discussions now takes place on Twitter. While I see a lot of disconnected discussion on Twitter (which may or may not relate back to blog posts or articles or other tweets), I've always felt strongly that comments should travel with the original content. (It's just like how metadata should travel with data...)
As I noted on All Points Blog, I didn't get too much of a chance to discuss the issue at the event. And, over on the geospatial front, there was a watershed event in the blogging world: James Fee, who works at WeoGeo and blogs at Spatially Adjusted and had turned off comments, turned them on again. I can report that commenting continues on our properties and that the use of Disqus (a moderation tool) has made our lives much easier.
I saw a tweet recently from a geospatial organization asking that readers of its content "like" it, retweet it or comment on it. I appreciated the sentiment and wondered if imploring followers in that way would cause the desired action. I also wondered if "do as I say, not as I do" works in social media. The organization didn't seem to be a big "liker," retweeter or commenter itself. When I looked further into opportunities to comment on its content, I found a very long and detailed comment policy that may, in itself, put off potential commenters. Further, the policy didn't seem to be implemented based on the comment spam on the blog.
I draw two conclusions from these experiences. First, if you want a conversation, raise interesting topics. Which are interesting? I will admit I am never 100% sure which topics will spark discussion on All Points Blog, though I was spot-on regarding the story blaming GIS for slicing houses in half during the redistricting process. It currently has nine comments, far more than average on our, or most, geospatial blogs. Second, if you want social media attention, give some. This takes a lot of energy and time and I applaud those who do it well. The rest of us should simply do our best.
E-mail is Social Media
While most social media has a public face (i.e. sending a tweet to the world), it also has a private one (sending a direct message tweet, or limiting who can see a photo on Facebook). E-mail has those same qualities, especially when it's used to alert the media. I'm typically one of many people (sometimes among my colleagues, sometimes among hundreds of people on a press list) receiving an e-mail pitch from a press person. Last week I received an e-mail, as did my colleague. Then we each got a phone call asking to confirm receipt of the press release and offering an interview. I really thought every PR firm in the world had realized the return on a targeted, snappy electronic pitch was far higher than a press release followed by a phone call. I was apparently mistaken.
Sometimes the e-mails are a bit more customized. Here's a hard to believe, but true, example. I received an e-mail from a manager who runs a site hosting listings of nursing schools. She asked me, by name, to add the site to an article on All Points Blog. Which one? The one titled: "Slightly Off Topic: Link Bait Hitting Geo: Why?" The e-mail was titled: "Nursing Question."
The function I most often wish for in e-mail is the "unfollow" or "unfriend" button. Now, due to the CANSPAM Act and other factors, I'm sure, more and more e-mail marketers are providing a way to "opt out" of e-mail notifications. Some, however, perhaps the same ones who follow up by phone, do not. In one case I had to request removal three times (the final time with a blatant threat to call him out by name on Twitter) to ensure removal.
It's clearly still early days, aka "The Wild West," in social media. Not only are the hosts of these services working out the kinks (and sometimes shutting the services down entirely) but we the users are determining best practices and etiquette to achieve our goals. In many ways it's like going through high school a second time and having to commit all those faux pas all over again until you learn to fit in.


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Groupon's IPO is the largest for an Internet company since Google in 2004, which raised $1.7 billion
Back in September, Groupon delayed its initial public offering
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and the dismal outlook of developed economies' stock markets. Now, Groupon has raised $700 million after increasing its IPO size to become the largest for an internet company since Google in 2004.
Deal-of-the-day website Groupon increased the size of its IPO by 5 million shares to 35 million total, with each priced at $20 when they were originally around $16 to $18. Groupon is now valued at about $12.8 billion.
Groupon's public float represents just over 5 percent of the company, and has helped increase price and demand. According to analysts, it will also support Groupon's share price Friday when it starts trading under GRPN on the NASDAQ.
However, some worry that Groupon will need to spend more in order to drive subscriber growth, and won't be able to compete with larger players like Amazon and Google. In addition, there are accounting-related concerns due to Groupon's altering of its IPO filings in order to "change the way it accounted for revenue."
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason and his team spent nearly two weeks on the road meeting with investors to address such issues. The long term is a concern for most in regards to growth and revenue.
"The post-IPO investor will be taking a risk on this deal," said Josef Schuster, founder of IPO research and investment house IPOX Schuster. "It's maybe a good trade for a day trader, in and out in a single day, but I don't want to be in it for the long run."
According to
, Groupon cut its valuation by nearly half to make the deal.
If underwriters ended up buying just over 5 million more Groupon shares in the IPO, the company will raise more than $800 million.
"[Groupon] is a company with permission to market to 150 million consumers daily," said Boyan Josic, chief executive at Daily Deal Media. "No other company in the world has ever had that type of reach. Investors who truly understand this business model and the position that Groupon has in this market are buying."
Groupon, which fell under SEC questioning due to an internal memo sent by Mason in August that "lashed out" at company critics and discussed August revenue growth before the planned IPO, is asking more than twice what
offered to pay in order to buy the company last year with its $12.8 billion price tag now.
Groupon's IPO could set a trend for others, such as Zynga, which filed an IPO in June and is expected to start trading this month.
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Check out this comment, which is "merely critical of Israel's policies":
Now, I'm not a liberal (I'm extremely moderate), so I don't always get what it means to be liberal or leftist correct. But I thought one of the basic tenets of liberalism is that no one is "evil," everyone just has different perspectives and different experiences and the only way to make peace is to sit down and talk and understand each other's point of view. The notion of "good" and "evil" went out the window along with religion.
But apparently, when it comes to the Jewish state, it's OK to just declare it to be evil and "rotten at its core"
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I could go without jewelry, salon haircuts and new clothes for a year… EASILY. I would have a little more trouble giving up hair dye, which I assume she did as well. As for make-up, I don't wear much more than mineral powder and mascara. But, I find none of these things to be a hindrance to my inner beauty. In fact, I think they enhance it.
It would be interesting to get the author together with Stacy London whose book, "The Truth About Style" talks about the philosophy of the healing power of personal style. Clearly two very different takes on finding what style means, or doesn't.
I could do all of this except the clothes. I buy between 3 and 6 new shirts a year and a new pair of pants or two, simply because my old ones wear out. You can't go without ever acquiring new clothes or you would be wearing threadbare, hole-filled clothing, and most of us have jobs or other responsibilities which require clothes that are free of holes and stains. So I suppose I could last a year, but then I'd need to buy some things before going another year.
More telling is the fact that this experiment might seem impossible to some.
I think Phoebe's thought about the message she'd be passing down to her daughter is a very wise one. As someone who grew up in a home where my mother would stand in front of the mirror saying how ugly she was, I had a skewed sense of what beauty is supposed to be. Thanks to strong women in my life who grasped the concept of aging gracefully, I was able to get a proper perspective. Even today though, I struggle when I find a gray hair or notice another wrinkle because my mother's own internal issues ring in my ears. One of the greatest things a mom could give her daughter is the example of a solid identity and confidence in herself regardless of her outward appearance.
Nothing says to the world "I am myself and that's good" like actually letting the world see your face (the one you wake up with, not the one you "put on"). Men do it all the time and it works famously for them. It won't work for us until more of us are doing it. Go PBH!
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