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Can you tell me what are the Criteria of a Quality Article?
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Can you tell me what are the Criteria of a Quality Article?
Very simply:
- Enticing title, you have to make the reader want to click that link
- Don't babble on, make the first sentence very good. People have small attention spans, make sure you start well
- Make it easy to understand, not everybody will be an expert on the subject matter like you (might?) be, so if there are any ambiguous terms, explain them.
Another perspective, a quality article generates links, reducing the need to SEO the life out of your site.
If the objective is sales, the quality article moves the sales process. And you should be able to test the contribution to sales.
Every article has quality, it's the level that varies.
For me a high quality article gives me the information I need in a concise fashion (without the babbling that battye mentioned). It's structured well so the material is presented in a logical sequence and the different subtopics within are easy to locate.
I suppose quality means different things to different people though. Like DCrux says, if the goal is sales an article has high quality if it meets that goal and generates those sales.
my criteria:
1. title should be catchy- no need for a long one, 4-5 words is enough
2. the first paragraph should be meaty- the gist of your article must be included in there
3. ending should be related with your first paragraph- for uniformality
A great article makes the reader sorry that it has ended.
You win or lose in the way you write your title. After you won in the title war, maintain the momentum in the first two paragraphs.
My idea of a good article:
* Good title: It should be enticing, and it should let the reader know what to expect. Bonus if it uses strong keywords that people do searches for every day.
* Interesting: If it's boring and doesn't hold your reader's attention, he's going to hit the back button.
* Easy to read: Basic language that anyone can understand.
* Informative: The article has the information your reader was looking for. It solves a problem or answers a question.
* Concise: Most people on the web do a lot of skimming as opposed to careful reading. They're usually turned off by gigantic chunks of text, which does not encourage skimming. Rambling kills readability, too.
* SEO friendly: This is more of a search engine thing than a people thing, which is why it comes last. Slipping in a few strong keywords can help it get found. Overdoing it makes your article an unreadable mess and could get you slapped around by Google.
I paid money for the answer to this very question once.
Interesting enough it was exactly what my 5th grade teacher taught me.
Title - Straight to the point, so the reader knows what to expect.
1st paragraph - outline your article, share the points you are going
review in the article, and state why these points are important.
2nd paragraph - review point one
3rd paragraph - review point two
4th paragraph - review point three
5th paragraph - restate the points of your article and reiterate why those
points were important.
Articcle should be informative and interstting to its users. Having a summary in the start will be better so that a use can understand what is in the article all about.
Article should also includes a little bio about the author.
Normal writing conventions suggest you should have 5-6 or more sentences per paragraph. In writing online, I find that I often write 2-3 sentence paragraphs.
Sentences should also be short and to the point. Avoid complex sentence structure and excessive commas. Dashes are your friend - they help emphasize points and break longer sentences up into smaller bits.
- Walkere
Title, content, zest, own thought are desirable...Simple style...design...
Depends on if your looking for SEO or more for quality. You don't have to necessarily sacrifice SEO though for good quality, its just that it means you have to slightly change some things to make it more seo friendly.
I think all of you have listed some of the important facts.
Besides, I would like to add on to this thread, you should also consider to properly insert your keywords in your articles so that it could rank higher in the search engine as well....
May success with you...
A Quality article should comprise of the following:
Valuable information
No grammatical errors- try to use short and simple sentences. Check for run on sentences.
Should have small paragraphs
Should a catchy title that indicates the substance of the article
At the end, put a conclusion.
Hope that helps. If you need more information, please free to drop me a PM.:)
The article's purpose determines the criteria for high quality. It's impossible to list criteria in a comprehensive manner that would work across the spectrum. There are a few general guidelines though.
(1) Be concise.
Your articles are read for entertainment or educational purposes. It's difficult to entertain when rambling or to inform with words without substance. This rule should be occassionally broken, though. Your reader might have emotional ties to the subject so dissent could hit them forcefully. Think of dissentful points like punches in the boxing ring: sometimes it helps to slow the pace. Be wordy when necessary, otherwise be concise.
(2) Be grammatically correct.
The purpose of rule (1) is to compact your information but compactness is not the primary goal. The length of your article doesn't matter if there are grammatical errors. Grammatical errors make you stop and reread the sentence, which should be considered as a form of redundancy that should be eliminated.
(3) Use the shortest word that covers your meaning.
If the same meaning can be expressed with a long word and a short word, use the short one. When choosing between a long word and a short one, always be careful to not confuse their meaning. Do not use may when you mean might. Can is about capability; may, permissibility; and might, probability. Again, use the shortest words that cover your meaning.
(4) Be cautious of arbitrary rules.
The number of sentences per paragraph should be determined by the subject. When I skim an article to determine if it's really worth my time to read, or to refresh my memory, I tend to look at the first and last sentence of each paragraph to get the gist of the article. Arbitrary paragraph breaks make skimming more difficult. Use as many sentences per paragraph as necessary to introduce the subject, make relevant points, and to present a conclusion.
Also, be cautious of arbitrary rules about the length of a sentence. The most important thing about sentences is not their length but their complexity. Arbitrary sentence breaks to make all of them short leads to monotony. Long sentences allow information to rapidly flow into the reader's mind. Short sentences pop. Like firecrackers, a pop alone will startle and awe but a predictable series of them are bland and monotonous. If a sentence is complex and difficult to understand, or is wordy, then you should rewrite but do not concern yourself with the length of the sentence if it covers a single point and is easy to understand.
Article Writing is not that much typical I say---
The thing should be kept in mind is that UR Grammar, u should be to the point....means if writing to a topic then be on that topic dont move to anywhere....
for eg. I have seen some examples ..like an article on women....means todays women.the article started from women and after 5-6 line it moved to politics and ends in the history of that country....
so be to the point.....
grammaticaly correct.
I hope there are lots of point but these things to be kept in mind....
I would like to ask a question more related to a "store". Let's say I'm trying to sell widgets .. and considering perhaps 9 items on a page with a "more information" or "detailed description" link that goes to an individual page. Is 9 too many? Or should there be one dominant widget and smaller displays beside or below?
And how long can the description be before shoppers get overloaded?
I know this is as much about marketing as "writing".
I agree with kennick. The quality of the writing can't be overestimated. You don't need to be an English Lit major, but if people like reading your voice, they'll come back.
I've found Poynter's 50 Writing Tools to be a great guide to improving my writing skills. I'd recommend that anybody that blogs also pick up a copy of Zinsser's excellent "On Writing Well", which is a classic, and rightly so.
Most articles are way too eloquent. If want to read a novel, I will pick up War and Peace. Give it to me in 100 words or less. Use links to explain keywords or elements. If I don't understand it, I can educate myself on the specifics.
Too many statistics cloud the story. It can also make it look like you are cherry picking your facts. And make sure your facts are backed up by good sources. Just because you can link to somebody's two page website doesn't mean it is worthy of inclusion.
Bullets. Concise statements. No need to build a table, just show me the food.
Humor. Even a touch of it shows a sense of balance. On how you are unbalanced.
And for the sake of all the retired English teachers out there, spell check.
An article is of high quality if it meets the following:
1.The article should have been written not only for the spiders but for actual readers as well who are browsing through the Internet to find information.
2.The information that the article holds should not read as if it were some scholarly document nor a product manual. It should have some human touch to itsense, humor, and most readers much like conversational articles. And please avoid technical jargons.
3.Basically, if from the summary alone, I'd be barraged with wrong grammar and misspelled words, I would definitely not continue reading it. So be extra careful about these mistakes.
4.Almost everything about the article should be enticing from the title down to the resource box.
5.The article should possess an enigma which makes the reader go through it entirely.
6. Shorter but meatier paragraphs are the way to go. Aside from people are more attracted to more white space, it would make the flow of the article more lively.
Pay attention to title...It should be attractive and not long...
Of course the gist of your article...Not monotonous, not very formal. People like interesting articles with humorous moments...
Criteria of a Quality Article:--
1) Well-written
2) No Grammatical-error, no typos
3) 100% original should pass copyscape.
4) Word count 300-500 words minimum
5) Informative and interesting to read.
Hope it will help you.
i rate articles for its length and the simplicity to follow the examples or ideas expressed.
i usually hate looong and boring articles that only have a single thought and idea to it. i would consider a manual, but not an article. there are times i read articles with too much words, i may consider it a speech which is again boring. that is just my opinion anyway.
but pertaining to grammar, if it has a bad grammar, it fails to be an article, its garbage, they're not even supposed to write them in the first place.


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comes quickly as a thief, to bring the fall
of what the world's become, and dying of.
Behold how quickly comes, from Alpha's flame;
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These words were said--to write--Omega's near.
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Peak Redux
I'm going to keep the sidebar mp3 player up indefinitely, and change the song as conditions warrant. It won't ever play automatically, so you don't have to worry about getting in trouble if you're reading this at work (you know who you are). Sometimes the song will relate to a post I've written, but other times, it's just something that I've been spinning a lot on my audio systems lately. That's the situation today – so if you're interested, click on the player and enjoy the Silversun Pickups.
Secondly … this wasn't my scheduled post for today. I wrote a whole article last night, but the subject matter is somewhat delicate, and I'm not certain that I expressed exactly what I intended. It's hard to explain – but I'll tinker with it for a bit and hopefully post it in the next day or two, and then you'll see what I'm talking about.
So I was scrambling for something to post today instead, and thought back to a phone conversation I had last week with my father who lives in Colorado Springs. He was telling me details from this month's Pikes Peak Marathon, a race he has watched me finish twice.
Until he reminded me, I had forgotten that the race had already happened this year. It got me to wondering … why does Pikes Peak generate so little buzz around the blogosphere? For my money, there isn't a more beautiful, more challenging, or more captivating event out there. It should be on any serious runner's short list of must-do events across the country – and it's on my list of races to revisit one of these summers.
And yet, despite all of the blogs I surf, I didn't hear one mention of Pikes Peak this year. The race sells out in less than 24 hours, so it isn't a question of the race being unpopular. I guess it's just one of those freak things where I saw two very similar subgroups, and just assumed they would overlap – like when Fox News broadcasters keep taking jobs with the Bush Administration.
Except in this case, there wasn't any overlap – so that's what I'm doing today. I revisited my race report from my first trip to Pikes Peak in the year 2003 B.B. (before blog), and decided I could post it here as a space filler for the week until I hammer out the kinks in my other post.
In other words … yes, it's a repeat. But it might be one you haven't seen. And there are worse ways you could spend your next five minutes. I'll be back later this week with new stuff.
Approximately 500 vertical feet below the 14,115' summit of Pikes Peak stands a sign that says "16 Golden Stairs" – which is both a welcome and foreboding sight for weary runners.
The term refers to the final 32 switchbacks (a stair is one pair of switchbacks) before reaching the summit. Fred Barr, the main developer of the trail that bears his name, chose the Biblical allusion for this final, steepest portion of the ascent, symbolizing a golden stairway that climbs to heaven.
After climbing for over 3 hours and 7300' to reach the signpost, I faced about 20 more minutes of struggle before reaching the summit that is the turnaround point of the Pikes Peak Marathon.
All of the course descriptions I read in preparation for the race gave similar advice about what to do after reaching the summit: get out of there fast. Spend as little time in the thin air as possible, so your body doesn't become too oxygen-starved for the second half of the run. Get your bib marked, fill your water bottle, and start quickly back down the mountain.
But I had trained for too long, traveled too far, and worked too hard in the race to reach this point. I couldn't simply turn and leave the summit behind without taking its proper measure. So after clicking my watch at 3 hours, 40 minutes, I moved off to one side and stood quietly, taking in as much of the scene as my aching, dizzy, lethargic brain could absorb.
For some people, the vantage point of tremendous height opens the mind and stimulates creative passion. Ancient philosophers and gifted artists have wiled away hours atop high mountains, seeking inspiration or enlightenment. The songwriter (not the actress) Katherine Bates wrote the lyrics to "America the Beautiful" on the summit of Pikes Peak, probably very close to the spot upon which I now stood.
From this perspective, it was easy to see that God did indeed shed His grace on this majestic purple mountain. The vastness of the splendor all around me was overwhelming, and I gazed in awe of the surroundings, whispering the word "beautiful" more times than I can remember.
In typical fashion, as I contemplated all of these lofty ideas, my thoughts eventually turned more inward and introspective. I couldn't help but ponder all of the gifts in my life that helped me reach this point.
I have been blessed with a body that is capable of running (well, mostly running…I needed some walking breaks) up the grueling trail, despite my frequent neglect of its basic needs like good nutrition and adequate rest. I thought of my wife, and all of the years she has patiently supported my obsession with running, and my constant pursuit of newer, more time-consuming challenges. I pictured my young children, hoped for a day when they feel the happiness and satisfaction I felt at that moment, and wished there was some way I could capture a small measure of this experience for their limited comprehension. I thought of all of my training partners who have encouraged me as I prepared for this day.
I concluded that there is great beauty to be found within my own life, comparable to the natural beauty of the mountain, but more intimate. It was there with me all along my journey, and burst into the open like a song at the top of the hill.
The summit of Pikes Peak is possibly the closest I'll ever come to glimpsing Heaven while standing on Earth. Before leaving, I vowed that I would have to return there someday, lest the vision ever diminishes. I filled my water bottle, asked a volunteer to take my picture, and picked up two rocks to carry down the hill with me- one for each of my kids' rock collections. I clicked my watch, noted the elapsed time- 2 minutes, 48 seconds - and started my long descent of the mountain.
Despite the thin air, despite the increasing pain in my legs and feet, and despite the creeping exhaustion of mind and body, I smiled nearly all the way down.


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EyePlay! An interactive virtual game system. Look for it here at Jump City, where everyone can play and have fun.
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand defeated Republican challenger Wendy Long Tuesday, winning her first full six-year term.
Gillibrand, 45, was appointed in 2009 when then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State and won an election in 2010 to fill the remainder of Clinton's term.
"I can't thank you enough for the honor and privilege of continuing to serve this state and to fight for New York families," Gillibrand said in a victory speech at a state Democratic Party celebration in Manhattan.
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During the campaign, Gillibrand touted her role in the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The bill, passed in 2010, provides medical coverage to 9/11 rescue workers who became sick after working in Ground Zero.
"My record is really about making sure there is a voice for the voiceless, to make sure those that don't have advocacy groups are heard," Gillibrand told Newsday in October.
Long, 52, a Manhattan attorney who defeated two challengers in the Republican primary, had described her race as "an uphill battle," but said she had hoped to stage an upset running on a platform calling for tax cuts and smaller government.
In a 10-minute concession speech delivered at the state GOP election gathering in Manhattan, Long said she was "disappointed" that Gillibrand "never really engaged on the main issues that confront New York and Americans in this campaign -- our crushing national debt, taxes, spending, the state of our economy, jobs."
Gillibrand raised $15.5 million and spent $14 million on the race.
Long raised $722,020 and spent $614,798.
Polls consistently showed Gillibrand with a wide lead over Long.
An Oct. 26 Siena College Poll showed Gillibrand ahead by 67 percent to 24 percent.
Gillibrand previously served in the House, and as special counsel to then-U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew M. Cuomo. Gillibrand, a graduate of Dartmouth College and UCLA School of Law, began her career as a corporate attorney. She is married and has two children.
Long was a spokeswoman for two U.S. senators and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Northwestern School of Law. She is married with two children.
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2 Samuel 1:26, Was King David Gay?
I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.
//This is a long-standing debate, and while I don't pretend to have the answer, I will weigh in with my guess after presenting some of the verses Bible readers point to.
1 Samuel 18:1, After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. (NIV)
1 Samuel 19:1, And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. (RSV)
1 Samuel 20:30, Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? (RSV)
The ambiguity of these passages is evident. The problem, of course, is that homosexuality is a sin in the Bible. Leviticus 20:13 states this plainly: If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death. This new law was recorded hundreds of years after David lived, and as such, the law could not have impacted its past, but it could have impacted the time in which the scriptures were written down! At the time the stories of David were collated into scripture, a definite anti-gay bias existed, and this may have affected how the stories were presented. The language may have been purposefully toned down.
I promised my own guess, and it's this: David should not be called gay. As best I can tell, there simply was no clear distinction at the time he lived; no designation of gays or straights, simply a sliding scale of preference, and everybody fell somewhere on that scale. How gay sex grew into such an abomination in the eyes of Israel's later lawmakers, I don't know.
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It today's world, David would have been called Gay. Yes or No?
David was not gay. He was a Holy King, and would not have been chosen as the apple of God's eye if he were gay. Homosexuality always was and always will be an abomination to God. Homosexualtiy was first mentioned in the book of Genesis, when the men of the city of Sodom preferred to have sex with the male angels than over Lots daughters. It was a sin then, a sin in David and Jonathan's time, and a sin now. God has never chosen abominable leaders, and never will. David was NOT gay. Jonathan and David were best friends. They shared a deep brotherly love for one another. Nobody on earth had David's back the way Jonathan did. Jonathan betrayed his own father to help protect David. David appreciated and cherished this in Jonathan. This friendship had no jealousy, no fight for the throne, no selfish love. It was genuine, and for people to use this to say Homosexuality is okay because David was gay is beyond a misinterpretation of scripture. It is ridiculous.
The biblical word wor sexual union is "knowing" , why misconstrue. It never says David knew jonathon, people in this modern era are sick.you confuse your readers with trash.
Know refers to sex between a man and a woman. It doesn't doesn't use that term for other sexual activities.
Your right. People think intimacy equals sexuality. They had a deep friendship, brotherly love. This sex crazed society sees even the most innocent thing as sexually. Their minds are the problem.


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LIVEBLOG: i can haz dream?: race and the internet
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i can haz dream?: race and the internet
Baratunde Thurston- The Onion
Teresa Wu (My Mom is a FOB)
Serena Wu (My Mom is a FOB)
Christian Lander (Stuff White People Like)
Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois – Champaign) [Moderator]
The internet is often painted as white and nerdy, but that's just not the case. This panel will discuss the history, current status, and future of race on the internet. How is race signified online? Is the internet segregated? How are we doing on that digital divide? Why do black people take over Twitter at night? What DO white people like? Can non-Asians laugh at "My Mom is a Fob"? Will it ever be possible to have a rational discussion about race online??
Recorded by: @wphillips49 & @devanjedi
Edited by: @alexleavitt
NOTE: This is not a full transcription of the panel. If you have any corrections, please contact email@example.com.
Lisa: An amazing panel who have managed to make race funny. Race is really difficult for Americans to talk about. With the end of multicultural education. Race has become a really contested, hot button issue especially with new Arizona law. Now the Internet causes a digital divide; people of color don't have the same access. People used to think that the Internet would make things more civil; but when people are anonymous things does not remain civil. The internet is a place where internet memes are becoming political. When something claims to be apolitical "just for the lulz" have the potential to be racially transformative. Couple of questions: the way that internet memes have become platforms for real conversations about race (not just for the lulz). High school students just cannot talk about race. Often begin sentences with "I'm not racist, but…." MySpace suffered white flight, fragmentation by race on the Internet. The panelists should talk about real conversations of race that have come up through Internet.
Baratunde: It's a pleasure to be surrounded by Asians. Give it up for the Asians. Give it up for Lisa. I gave a talk at SXSW called How To Be Black Online. My name is Baratune, web editor for The Onion, co-editor of a black political blog and science show. How to be Black, also name of my book. Why are black people important? Assertion. Proof: we look good. History proves black people are the future. Rock N Roll. Hip hop. Ass/lip injections. Black people spend $. My qualifications: 32 years experience being Black. Lifetime experience. Some of my friends are black. I've watched The Wire.
Baratunde: Imagine there was a white racial profiling cookie that followed you around the internet and asked you if you belong there.
[Shows a chart of home broadband by type of folk, by race. Mobile internet use in another chart.]
Baratunde: When tethered and wireless access are considered together, the gaps in online engagement disappears. Black people on Twitter, the tweets come out at night. At night, you will see black people! They're everywhere. The dozens is a tradition where people diss each other. [quotes Wikipedia on the dozens] The dozens: ribald banter, gives examples of the dozens on Twitter…"how black are you" Twitter mini-war. Back and forth about who is blacker. A couple thousand Tweets, a fun game between two dudes trash-talking in public.
Baratunde: On Twitter, at night you can find a bunch of Twitter #hashtags like #IfSantaWasBlack. Because of the nature of the Internet, everyone can see what you're doing. Like "I don't think this is a very good neighborhood."
Baratunde: According to Edison Research, of the monthly Twitter users, 24% are African American. 3% Asian, apparently you guys are right here (pointing at fellow panel members). Twitter users are very frequent SMS Users. Most popular TV shows in US, #9 is BET Awards.
Baratunde: Maybe black people are not building, just using technology. I was in NYC in SoHo. She was looking for 80 Van Dam St. The address she had was wrong. She said "They don't want us to use this stuff. How do I figure it out?" At the same time, in the barbershop all the people had smart phones, arguing about Androids, iPhones.
[Baratunde plugs @BWBconference and Jack & Jill politics]
[Baratunde makes a joke about how the Asian girls have a notebook/pen and him, a black man, has a laptop.]
Theresa and Serena Wu: We are not sisters. We have two blogs, My Mom Is A Fob and My Dad Is A Fob. DOT COM. But what's a FOB? Fob is more of a concept, if you take 24 napkins from Chipolte, if your mom wipes your dog's feet before it walks into the house… then your mom/dad is a fob, that's fobby. Stands for "fresh off the boat," we've taken it and repossessed it, from derogatory to something endearing. Cute. No longer a slur, is about pride in bridging cultures. We both grew up in the Bay Area, all parents from Taiwan, we are second-gen Asian Americans. On the blog we talk about communication/language barriers. Even though we're technically minorities, we NEVER felt like minorities (85% Asian high school). We didn't have a football team… even PTA newsletter was bilingual. People say it's easier for us to embrace culture, since we were the rule, not the exception when we grew up. Blog is a collection of stories, photos, whatever, because they want to share these experiences, not mock. We are NOT just making fun of our parents — it's about sharing these experiences. The question is, are we furthering stereotypes? We don't think so, we show how parents are fun, we're dispelling the notion of a "typical" Asian American household. These stories are unedited, content from all backgrounds, unbiased, first-hand-accounts. The website makes people appreciate their parents, and as long and you're not laughing maliciously we're ok with it.
Christian: Writes Stuff White People Like. It's 150 things that white people like, so you can infiltrate and exploit white people. MySpace is digital Detroit. A place where only minorities and indie bands remain. My background, this panel reminds me a lot of my high school. Two year on my high school football team. With Sri Lankans and Chinese, I was one of the fatter guys. We practiced when the transvestite prostitutes "shift" ended. They were Canadian, so they had a good sense of humor. As a 15 year old boy, you realize you have options! I went to Jarvis Collegiate– for the richest neighborhood, public housing, new immigrants. Kids from all those neighborhoods went to the same school. It was an interesting experience. We had a cricket team. And an awesome badminton team. An interesting mix of race, class, immigrant. Rich white kids, poor white kids all in one school. Stuff White People Like was from this experience you were called a banana or a coconut or a twinkie or an oreo, based on your skin color and the white inside. That's where it came from. The concept that things you like could be branded as white came from my experience in high school. I'm really familiar with derogatory terms for white people in Chinese and I can order dim sum. That is the extent of my language knowledge. That portal was closed.
Christian: Has a white person ever had TMobile Sidekick?
Baratunde: danah boyd did.
Audience man: Paris Hilton!
Lisa: When you do that, what is the response and most shocking thing that has been said to you? RaceFail is a genuine aspect of this. What is the impact from public?
Serena: When people first respond to the site, they aren't sure how to use the word. "Do we say f-o-b, or fob." Once we were interviewed by a guy in Seattle, every question was asked really carefully… whenever you put something racial out there, people get nervous. So non-Asians aren't sure if they are "allowed" to laugh at the stuff on our website.
Theresa: We have gotten really positive feedback from the Asian American community, in the 2 years since we've had the blog we've mainly gotten positive feedback. Maybe 5 negative emails, but otherwise it's been really positive.
Baratunde: I've gotten a wide range of feedback. YouTube has been the best, most "intelligent." They called me a dumbass, liberal, welfare sucker. Most interesting are through email — they feel safer. Europeans ask over email, where they see me as an American commentator — how is it different? There is often a knee-jerk reaction of "Why are you talking about that?" People are very annoyed that these things keep coming up. People would rather avoid it, do we have to do this again.
Christian: I got hate mail 20 minutes ago. Title: Please Shut the Fuck Up.
[reads the entire, hate-filled email.]
Baratunde: He called you "chief."
Christian: Yeah, it's derogatory like calling me "big guy." I get more anonymous comments that are really angry that want all these diseases to befall me because I said white people like yoga and expensive sandwiches.
[Talks about another email he got that he got]
Lisa: What does anonymity do?
Christian: Didn't the clan wear hoods?
Baratunde: How do you deal with race on Twitter? All the ugly boils out to the surface. Even a debate about healthcare ends in the N word or you're gay or something because there is no accountability. I'm not saying we shouldn't have anonymity, but it's the price you pay.
Lisa: Can you talk about why Stuff White People Like crossed over?
Christian: It's hard to figure out why it crossed over, and I got lucky I think… it's hard, it's an update on what people consider white humor. People knew all the old ones, mayonnaise, golf, and dancing badly, I mean I know white people like these things, and then when I made the list, put it online, and the white people actually get there, they saw more than the standard jokes and got really weirded out by what they saw… they also go click, yep yep, I know this asshole. Also on the race aspect, I put my own picture up there, wanted people to know I was also making fun of myself. Until then people assumed I was black and they were SO disappointed to finding out I was white, it would be so much more subversive if I were black. We even pitched a show to FOX; they passed though.
Lisa: How has your life been since then?
Christian: My life since then has been awesome, I get to travel around, it's been amazing. Fantastic.
Lisa: How has the segmentation been on the internet?
Baratunde: We are making a false separation between races. "Why do black people use Twitter disproportionately?" It's possible that it's 1/4 black. I don't think the question is different because of the technology. Twitter is ready made for things like 'the dozens' to have a high velocity dissing circle, like a chat room or a school yard where we live out who we are. It doesn't surprise me. Certain video games or certain movies have the same kind of correlations.
Serena: I don't know why more Asian people like using Xanga. I think it just spread virally, friends share stuff with their friends.
Christian: The white people like The Huffington Post.
Lisa: Why is race an issue on the internet? Isn't everyone on equal footing? Because of anonymity?
Christian: I know what we get OFF the internet. The internet, even though it's a huge part of our lives, we still meet in person… like this conference. Then when you put in the anonymity things change. So there's a ton of horrible racist stuff in the comment section on my site. If I were to delete it, I'd be deleting the person who posted it. I figured that you needed to put it out there and confront it. It's all there, all the time — no matter what video you put online, almost immediately all this racist stuff comes out, and I think it's important to show that. Confront it.
Theresa: In your book (to Christian), you mention cyber types. You say the internet is privileged, a white space, and so most people assume authors online are white. A lot of online blogs that deal with race, especially Asians who blog, actually want that voice, they actually want to be visible, not be anonymous.
Lisa: When you publicly put out a discourse about race, you are now a forum for where that will happen. There is a lot of shocking stuff, Christian has a 100 this minute. Have you had the opposite where someone had an epiphany.
Baratunde: A year ago New York Post published police shooting a gorilla and saying someone else will have to write the stimulus. I went on MSNBC to talk about if it was racist. And to talk about the psychological effects and why it was important. We were on air in 4 minutes which is long for TV, then we did 2 rounds each on YouTube 7 minutes, then 5 minutes, creating a debate in the infinite YouTube. He blogged it on all of our sites in our own communities, at least if there are people who are decent you can have a dialogue.
[Baratunde and Christian go in to a mock fight about bicycles -- fixed gear vs. free gear]
Serena: While we didn't set out to teach people about our culture, it does make people more aware of the dynamics within our families, and the complex nature of Asian American households.
Theresa: And some Asians may have been stereotyped, may have tried to assimilate completely. So we've gotten emails what say "Oh thank you for showing me this, my mom does that too, and it makes me feel less alone."
Serena: I've also gotten an email from this white guy that used to hate Asians, and when he stumbled across your blog it reminded me of that transition period.
Christian: I've had a lot of professors and TAs write and say… the book talks a lot about white privilege, and white people HATE talking about this, it's really hard, and the profs and grad students send their students to the site, which forces the students to confront the class issues. Like, REI is white, you're pricing kayaks, come on. And at least then the conversation is easier, and humor is the entry point. Not jammed down their throats with critical theory.
Lisa: We all know that the lulz is a really affective tool, attention is the scarce commodity. Ethan talked about memes from other countries. We may end up with many local internets. I'm wondering about who the audience is, is it a broad audience, is a racialized audience. Is that a good or bad thing?
Theresa: Our audience is a little more racialized, though we never intended to target a specific demographic. But we do talk almost exclusively about Asian American experiences…
Serena: We don't say "only Asians invited," it just ends up that way. We get submissions from other groups, about Russian moms…
Baratunde: For J'n'J politics, which is a black political middle class blog. Jack and Jill was an organization for upper middle class blacks. J'n'J politics is not affiliated with that; it is 40-50% black. I'm honestly trying to talk to everybody. The black people are more like a sigh of relief, confirming their existence. For others, it is more accessible. When it works. When it doesn't, the "Asians don't get it".
Christian: I cast the widest net possible, since everyone on the internet is either white or annoyed with white people…
[crowd laughs]
Lisa: Is there a difference between how racism and homophobia is dealt with on the internet?
Christian: The racism stuff's for the internet, the homophobia is for the X-box live…
Serena: On My Mom's a FOB, you see that a lot of Asian American parents are afraid of gay people, which is a stereotype that sometimes gets undermined by the site itself. One of our highest-rated post was about some kid's mom, who was finally starting to understand her kid was a homosexual…
Baratunde: J'n'J politics was started because there weren't a lot of black political blogs, but there were gay black blogs. It has come up some on our blogs, but not a lot. More on our comments.
Lisa: Do you moderate comments?
Baratunde: We try. In the beginning, we were happy to get comments. 2008 was our big swing year because we were saying things about race. And things got out of control. I shouldn't have to tell you what not to say. Grownups are worse than kids, because they know they shouldn't do it and still do.
Serena: We used to moderate comments more. But now the community self-moderates. Actually I'm surprised by the lack of hate.
Theresa: Plus we have loyal readers, they back us up whenever someone posts mean stuff anonymously.
Lisa: Is there going to be a 2nd generation my mom is a FOB? Like drives a Camry and watches ice skating.
Serena: Maybe at some point… but I don't know.
Lisa: Can a fixed gear helicopter be a meme?
[Christian laughs about that]
Lisa: What about avatars and race, people changing their appearance in avatars of other races? What does your Mii look like?
Chriatian: Exactly like me, I go for accuracy. It also depends on who you play in a video game, as a white male I don't need an avatar, everyone looks like me already. They're trying to change that, but the protagonist is almost always white anyway.
Baratunde: I will tag on to Christian. Resident Evil featured slaughtered black people by a white protagonist. Wouldn't it be a more educational game if you had fighting colonialism? I don't have an idea about the people who use avatars.
Serena: I'm just here to talk about my website, I don't know about avatars. I just use my face…
Baratunde: I was once the_swine_flu on Twitter, which was a picture of a pig who did not like people.
Audience question: What do you think about someone acting a different race online?
Christian: At least they won't end up on Dateline…
Baratunde: We should do that. We should show up at their house and say "You are not really Indonesian".
Christian: You're the racist one now.
Baratunde: It does bother me. Hip Hop group said "Blackness isn't a race, it's a state of mind." No, bitch, it's a race. Socially, economically, it is a race. There are more productive methods of understanding people of other races like talking to them.
Audience: What does your family think because the previous generation had this minefield that you are now frolicking in.
Christian: My dad tries to take credit for everything. Well — I'm Canadian, and we've been making fun of white people for a long time. But my dad says I steal all his jokes. The thing was, growing up, his neighborhood was so diverse… race was something people talked about.
Serena: My mom laughs even though I don't think she knows what any of it meant. My dad just says he doesn't get it, looks once and then never looks again. But my mom doesn't really understand why it's funny, I have to explain it to her.
Baratunde: My mother, when she was alive, was great. Was born in the 1940s, was in the streets marching, made me memorize all the countries in Africa before you can have fun outside. When I was doing public things, she was very supportive. Her big concern was remember why you are doing it because it's easy to get sucked in to the machine. I try to keep it in mind but it's not all in my hands.
Christian: I just have to say, Question 6 is brilliant, "Let's talk about Jersey Shore; does it propagate stereotypes about orange people?"
Lisa: You all chose to write about race, how racist do you think things are these days and the Internet is helping?
Serena: For Asian Americans, I think it's improving. Not because of our website, that's what people do at work, but like other Asian American blogs, they discuss identity in an open honest way…
Baratunde: It's hard to know. Writing about race chose me. With the Obama thing, it's uncovered a lot of ugliness. Pew Study that I read, because I'm a nerd: white people get really angry with Democrat president. But with Obama this is the angriest they have ever been.
Christian: The wrong kind of white people… that's what we call them.
Baratunde: It's been worrying to see ugliness. When you normalize and mainstream ugly ideas it's a bad thing, like Glen Beck. In some ways the Internet makes things better in some ways worse. It's more about change.
Christian: What I see is, the changes that happened in the '60s, the institutionalized racism, has been "fixed." But at the tea parties… what people don't understand is that what they're doing is also horribly racist, but they don't see it that way. Because it's not institutional in those ways it used to be. As far as the internet goes… it brings out the best and the worst… my site got linked to a white supremacist site, they added things like "ethically pure babies," "Mein Kampf," etc.
Baratunde: The beautiful thing about the Internet is that it gives everybody a voice. The problem is that it gives everybody a voice.
Audience: I wrote the original hate speech policy for YouTube. How do you balance the freedom of expression and preserve that dialogue. Where do you draw a line between hate speech and offensive speech. It never felt right to completely sweep it under the carpet.
Serena: Some companies are overly sensitive… we tried to submit our website to Apple but they rejected the request for an app because of "objectionable content…" and there was no objectionable content.
Baratunde: You say Apple Hates Asian People!
Baratunde: The policy in YouTube, how was it implemented.
Audience guy: The scale is very hard.
Baratunde: I'm very loathe to promote restrictions on speech. Personal attacks, threatening comments, lives or safety. Our own blog policy is being refined.
Christian: I have to say, hatred towards white people has actually worked out pretty well for us.
Baratunde: I don't know. I've drawn a few lines about personal threats, but I don't know. I think there is value in seeing beauty and horror. Free speech is a part of what we need.
Christian: And a failure to recognize these people, you get the (false) sense that they don't exist…
Audience: How does this translate from race to religion? Muslims face the same issue. On ChatRoulette either I see dicks, or I get called a terrorist because I'm brown.
Baratunde: Show them your dick.
Christian: It's tough. It's hard to say how that plays out.
Baratunde: Part of my frustration with raise is that we've done shit. Now it's white people's turn. Similarly, we need to stand up for people you are being confused with.
Lisa: Serena and Teresa said that it's just something for people to look at at work. The things that people choose to look at is what these people have accomplished so let's give them a hand.
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Another potential earnings short-squeeze trade is branded footwear, apparel and licensing player Wolverine World Wide (WWW), which is set to release its numbers on Tuesday before the market open. Wall Street analysts, on average, expect Wolverine World Wide to report revenue of $631.52 million on earnings of 55 cents per share.
The current short interest as a percentage of the float for Wolverine World Wide is pretty high at 10.9%. That means that out of the 44.90 million shares in the tradable float, 5.29 million shares are sold short by the bears. Any bullish earnings news could easily spark a decent short-covering rally for shares of WWW post-earnings.>>3 Tech Stocks Spiking on Big Volume From a technical perspective, WWW is currently trending above both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, which is bullish. This stock has been uptrending strong for the last few weeks, with shares ripping higher off its 200-day moving average at $42.83 to its recent high of $46.80 a share. During that uptrend, shares of WWW have been consistently making higher lows and higher highs, which is bullish technical price action. That move has now pushed shares of WWW within range of triggering a near-term breakout trade post-earnings. If you're in the bull camp on WWW, then I would wait until after its report and look for long-biased trades if this stock manages to break out above some near-term overhead resistance at $46.80 a share and then once it takes out its 52-week high at $47.99 a share with high volume. Look for volume on that move that hits near or above its three-month average volume of 511,000 shares. If that breakout his, then WWW will set up to enter new 52-week-high territory above $47.99, which is bullish technical price action. Some possible upside targets off that breakout are $55 to $60 a share. I would simply avoid WWW or look for short-biased trades if after earnings it fails to trigger that breakout and then drops back below some near-term support levels at $45.50 to $45 a share with high volume. If we get that move, then WWW will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major support levels at its 50-day moving average of $43.73 to its 200-day moving average at $42.85 a share.
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Recession Mama: I used to always pack my kids' lunches, secure that what I could give them was healthier than what they would get at school and was saving us money, too.
One day, as a math exercise with my oldest, I worked out how much an average lunch cost me to make. First, the sandwich: two slices of bread (10 cents, if twenty slices in a $1.00 loaf); 2 oz. of deli turkey (38 cents, if on sale for $3.00 a pound); 1 slice of cheese (17 cents). Next, the fruit: a banana (15 cents for an average-size banana, if bananas are 50 cents a pound) and a tangerine (if $1.00 a pound, 26 cents for an average-size one). Now the extras: a fiber bar (39 cents each for Target brand, box of six for $2.34) and a cookie (a splurge, I realize now -- a Girl Scout Do-Si-Do, $4.00 for a box of 18, so a whopping 24 cents a cookie). Total price: $1.69 -- but wait ... the milk. I buy shelf-stable box milk, so I don't worry how long it stays unrefrigerated. I get it delivered by the case from Gossner Foods in Utah; total cost is 34 cents for an 8-ounce box. That brings the total for my school lunch to $2.03.
Fantastic! Then I remembered that our public school lunch offers a choice of two hot entrées, a cold entrée, and fruit yogurt, and includes a salad bar with garden vegetables, fresh fruit, and milk. Sometimes they have a cookie, too. School lunch total: $2.00.
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if i only sent my kids a sandwich and a water….they would think their FATHER packed the lunch!
I volunteer and work sometimes in my kids school and it amazes me how little of their lunches that the kids actually eat. I have always packed my kids lunches so I know that get want they like and will eat it but the kids who buy lunches may spend $2.00 and only get a slice of pizza and milk and then only eat a bite or two of the pizza and threw the rest away. If you get a chance to go by your kids school at lunch time, do it and you too will be amazed that the amount of wasted food that ends up in the trash cans.
I want to know where in the country can you get a loaf of bread for $1?
I find it cheaper to pack their lunches. My younger kids only have 1/2 sandwich, a couple cookies, and a juice box or yoohoo OR a string cheese, cheese pretzels, fruit cup, and drink. Packed lunches range from about .60 (yup that's 60 cents) to about 1.50. The hot lunch is $1.85 a day so it can really add up to a lot of savings.
Stacey, have you checked out your stores clearance bins? Mine often have loaves of bread for 50 cents and we go through it so fast I grab extra if I can. They also have bulky rolls and buns as well as sweets (the only way I will indulge), although the sweets aren't as abundant.
We are in California, too, but our school district's lunch price is $2.00. I buy my bread on sale at the supermarket, at the 99 cent store and believe it or not, my local Big Lots sells Sara Lee 100% whole wheat bread for $1.00. It is close to the expiration date, but bread freezes very well!
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Sen. Mike Duffy is trailed by media as he arrives at the Senate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press
Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended himself in question period on Wednesday against accusations made yesterday by Senator Mike Duffy in the ongoing Senate expenses scandal.
Harper denied Duffy's allegation that he was more concerned about the perception of Duffy's expenses in the media than whether or not they violated parliamentary rules because the expense rules were "inexplicable to our base."
"The issue is not a matter of perception… you can not claim an expense you did not incur. That is not right, that is not proper, and that will not be tolerated in this party," Harper said during question period on Wednesday.
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Harper reiterated his position that he knew nothing about the $90,000 cheque Nigel Wright, the prime minister's former chief of staff, gave to the senator to repay his ineligible expenses.
"Any assertion that I was in any way consulted, or had any knowledge of Mr. Wright's payment to Mr. Duffy, is categorically false," Harper said.
The prime minister said, as has in the past, had he known about Wright's decision to give Duffy the money he would not have permitted it, and that as soon as he was made aware of the $90,000 cheque on May 15, he revealed it to the public.
Harper answered every question put to him by NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau — unlike the day before, when Paul Calandra, the prime minister's parliamentary secretary, answered many of the questions in his place. He also answered every question put to him by opposition MPs.
Duffy alleged on Tuesday that he had a meeting with the prime minister and Wright after caucus on Feb. 13 where Harper ordered Duffy to repay his ineligible expenses.
Harper did not deny having asked Duffy to repay his expenses.
"Mr. Duffy now says he is a victim because I told him he should repay his expenses. You're darn right I told him to repay his expenses," Harper said.
The prime minister said he made his statements "not just to Mr. Duffy and Mr. Wright but many others who were present and who heard them."
According to Duffy, it was Harper — not Wright — who provided the political solution that Duffy's expenses must be repaid.
The prime minister has consistently maintained that Wright acted alone when he decided to cut Duffy a cheque.
Harper said he did not threaten Duffy with expulsion but he did expect the senator to repay his expenses "and not Mr. Wright to repay them for him."
Earlier in the day, Conservative MPs emerged from their weekly caucus meeting said the believed the prime minister's version of events over Duffy's.
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But NDP Leader Tom Mulcair told reporters after a meeting with his caucus that Duffy's speech in the Senate on Tuesday puts the prime minister directly at the centre of the Senate expenses scandal.
"This is a profound scandal that directly implicates Stephen Harper," Mulcair said during a scrum on Parliament Hill.
Mulcair said the Senate expenses scandal is no longer about the $90,000 cheque Nigel Wright, Harper's former chief of staff, gave to Duffy to repay his ineligible expenses.
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After a meeting with his caucus, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said it was time the prime minister showed some leadership.
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Coast Guard dive teams are planning to try to drain the remaining fuel from a shrimping boat that caught fire late Tuesday night in Tarpon Springs, partially sinking the ship.
A Coast Guard spokesperson said crews had cleaned more than 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel from the Anclote River as of late Wednesday, but he was unsure how much more might leak out of the boat, called the "Skye Marie."
Firefighters aren't sure what sparked the flames on the ship, which was sandwiched between two other boats, one of which was docked alongside a Chevron refueling station. It took crews three hours to put out the flames; investigators aren't yet sure what started the fire and won't be able to determine a cause until the boat is moved.
Witnesses said they saw the flames shoot high into the air and across the river, briefly igniting some of the historic sponge docks. Officials said the fire caused minimal damage to the docks.
The family of the boat owner, who had just put 5,000 gallons of fuel in the boat before the fire started, said the loss of the ship is emotionally and financially devastating.
"You look at something that's been in your life this whole time, something you've grown up on, played on, went fishing on, went shrimping on and then you go from having it to seeing it just gone in a second," said Carly Caza, the owner's daughter. "It's your whole life gone right there. How do you rebuild?"
The ordeal also left members of the community in disbelief.
"This poor guy, it's over. The boat, he had no insurance and...his livelihood is over," said Shawn O'Keefe, a neighboring boat owner.
"It's a crying shame. The boat was getting ready to go out to work, that's why it was sitting where it's sitting," said Lloyd Decker, a Tarpon Springs resident. "The guys that work on the boat, it's just shut them down too."
Authorities haven't yet determined when they'll attempt to move the boat.
The boat owner's family said they plan to hold fundraisers at Pelican Point Seafood and Rusty Beillies, two restaurants in Tarpon Springs; the details haven't yet been ironed out.
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