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MILWAUKEE - A bishop in the Milwaukee Archdiocese says that President Barack Obama's recently-revealed stance in support of same-sex marriage is a dramatic departure from what he believes has been society's long-held moral stance on the issue.
"What President Obama is proposing is really a radical change to the building block of society as we've understood it," Auxiliary Bishop Don Hying told Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News."
"Through all human civilization, it's been understood and respected as a union between a man and a woman for the procreation of children. That's been humanity's understanding of marriage forever, really."
Bishop Hying also challenged the stance of a Marquette University professor who opposed former Milwaukee Archbishop and current New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan calling the President's comments "deeply saddening."
"The bishops will stand with Dolan and the U.S. Catholic Conference, but on this issue, they are in moral schism since most in the Church have moved on (to) a more humane view on the rights of those whom God has made gay," Maguire wrote in an e-mail to the Daily Beast.
"Most Catholic theologians approve of same-sex marriage and Catholics generally do not differ much from the overall population on this issue."
In response, Bishop Hying retorted "I would disagree with him that the majority of Catholic theologians would say that same-sex marriage is acceptable. I think he would be in the minority."
"Obviously, you'll find Catholics on the street that reflect opinions that are not of the Church. That does not make it right or wrong. Obviously, as Catholics, we believe that our doctrine comes to us as revealed by God. It's not up to a 51 percent majority vote."
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The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The Programme was launched in
2008 and builds on the convening role and technical expertise of the Food and Agriculture
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In my Unitarian Universalist tradition, when we pray, we often invoke the Spirit of Life. Life itself, that which dwells in, among, around, between us, is a wonder-inducing mystery, a sacred gift worth not only welcoming, but honoring in the self and others by recognizing and upholding their worth and dignity; by affirming the holy truth that they are both deserving of love, and capable of loving, and have the self-determination to decide when and how to do so. This is our task. The life-giving, life-affirming work of preserving and enhancing dignity, affirming worth, and making more space for love by empowering the self-determination of people to choose when or whether to create life.
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Academic Requirements
Students are eligible for participation in sports and extra-curricular activities if:They have passed at least four subjects (may include physical education) during the previous quarter.
- The student's GPA must be a 2.0 or higher
- Include no more than one "F" or more than one unsatisfactory mark in citizenship. (Student athletes tend to work hard to exceed the minimum requirements and their average GPA is typically over 3.0)
Athletic Participation
Participation on an interscholastic athletic team or in an extra-curricular activity at Simi Valley High School is voluntary on the part of the student. Therefore, when students participate in athletics or activities, they agree to follow the rules and requirements as established by the coaching staff and advisor and by district and school policy.
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I'm looking for the name of a small, indie RPG that I came across a while ago. The game used tarot-like cards instead of dice. When something in the game needed to be decided, then cards were drawn and the results interpreted. I remember the game dealing with a lot of abstract concepts and archtypes. Can anyone direct me to the name of this particular game?
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"Members of Congress every day hear from the monied side of the issue, and they must have this counterbalance by hearing from the grassroots….there is nothing more eloquent to a member of Congress than the voice of his/her constituent."
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Your elected representatives want to hear from you (and if they don't, that's all the more reason to be in touch!). The key to influencing them is proving that you are a well-informed, committed and persistent constituent.
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Online papers related to the statistical analysis of spatial data
You will find here links to papers and theses about spatial statistics that are published online and that can be freely distributed. If you wish to submit a link (Authors, title, date of publication, abstract and link), please get in touch with me. Documents should be written in English.
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2002 Mar 12
Spatial correlation analysis of nitrogen dioxide concentrations in the area of Milan, Italy
2006 Jan 18
(PhD) Design and analysis of environmental monitoring programs
2004 Sep 14
New challenges for predictive soil mapping
2003 May 13
(PhD) Spatial prediction of soil properties: the Bayesian Maximum Entropy approach
1998 Oct 17
Scale and the spatial structure of landform: optimising sampling strategies with geostatistics
2002 Oct 31
(PhD) Machine learning algorithms for spatial data analysis
1994 Oct 02
Geostatistics and the polygonal-method: a re-examination
1999 Jul 25
Investigating the Spatial Variation of Radon in Soil Geostatistically
1999 Jul 25
Geologically-Constrained Probabilistic Mapping of Gold Potential, Baguio District, Philippines
1999 Jul 25
Designing optimal sampling configurations with ordinary and indicator kriging
1999 Jul 25
Parameter Estimation in Neural Spatial Interaction Modelling by a Derivative Free Global Optimization Method
1999 Jul 25
Neural Network Classifiers for GIS Data: Improved Search Strategies
1999 Jul 25
Failure Prediction in Automatically Generated Digital Elevation Models
1999 Jul 25
Performance Comparison of Geostatistical Algorithms for Incorporating Elevation into the Mapping of Precipitation
1999 Jul 25
Measuring accessibility using GIS
1999 Jul 05
What's the point? Interpolation and extrapolation with a regular grid DEM
1999 Jul 25
Spatially assessing model error using geographically weighted regression
1999 Jul 25
Multiresolution spatial analysis
1999 Jul 25
Estimating a Non-Stationary Spatial Structure Using Simulated Annealing
1999 Jul 25
An Improved Algorithm for Calculating the Perimeter and Area of Raster Polygons
1999 Jul 25
An optimized cellular automata approach for sustainable urban development in rapidly urbanizing regions
1998 May 01
Spatial Interpolation Using Fuzzy Reasoning and Genetic Algorithms
1998 May 01
Nonparametric Spatial Rainfall Characterization Using Adaptive Kernel Estimator
1998 May 01
Geostatistical Classification and Class Kriging
1998 May 01
Mapping Precipitation in Switzerland with Ordinary and Indicator Kriging
1998 May 01
Neural Network Residual Kriging Application For Climatic Data
1998 May 01
Rainfall Estimation from Sparse Data with Fuzzy B-Splines
1998 May 01
Estimating Daily Regional Rainfall Fields by Multiquadratic Functions: Accuracy of Interpolation and Decision Making
1998 May 01
Interpolation of Rainfall Data with Thin Plate Smoothing Splines: I Two Dimensional Smoothing of Data with Short Range Correlation
1998 May 01
Interpolation of Rainfall Data with Thin Plate Smoothing Splines: II Analysis of Topographic Dependence
1998 May 01
Large-scale Versus Small-scale Variation Decomposition, Followed by Kriging Based on a Relative Variogram, in Presence of a Non-stationary Residual Variance
1998 May 01
Spatial Interpolation and its Uncertainty Using Automated Anisotropic Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) - Cross-Validation/Jackknife Approach
1998 May 01
Modeling of the Daily Rainfall Values Using Surface Under Tension and Kriging
1998 May 01
Rainfall Prediction using Artificial Neural Networks
1998 May 01
A Methodological Study of the Application of the Maximum Entropy Estimator to Spatial Interpolation
1998 May 01
The Estimation of Rainfall Distribution for Emergency Response to Chernobyl Type Incidents Utilizing Multidimensional Smoothing Splines
1998 May 01
Analysis of Rainfall Data by Robust Spatial Statistics using S+ SPATIALSTATS
2002 May 10
Bridging the Gap Between GIS and Solid Spatial Statistics
2000 Aug 23
AUTOCLUST: Automatic clustering via boundary extraction for mining massive point-data sets
2000 Aug 23
An inductive attack on spatial scale
2000 Aug 23
Multi-scale approach to measuring residential segregation and the case of Yaffo, Tel-Aviv
2000 Aug 23
Density Data Generation for Spatial Data Mining Applications
2000 Dec 23
An evaluation of the accuracy of the areal interpolation of data for the analysis of long-term change in England and Wales
2000 Aug 23
A semi-automatic method to build territorial partitions
2000 Aug 23
Using Genetic Algorithms in Clustering Problems
2001 Sep 24
The Effect of Spatial Generalisation on Filtering Noise for Spatio-temporal Analysis
2001 Sep 24
Raster Representations Of Spatial Attributes With Uncertainty Assessment Using Nonlinear Stochastic Simulation
2001 Sep 24
A Spatially Explicit Population Viability Model using GIS
2003 Sep 08
Assessing Accuracy of Land-Cover Change Data Aggregated to a Fixed Spatial Support
2003 Sep 08
Variable Resolution Spatial Interpolation Using the Simple Recursive Point Voronoi Diagram
2003 Sep 08
Sequential, Sparse Learning in Gaussian Processes
2003 Sep 08
Spatio-temporal difference in model outputs and parameter space as determined by calibration extent
2003 Sep 08
Assessment of the Production and Economic Risks of Site-specific Liming using Geostatistical Uncertainty Modelling
2003 Sep 08
Geostatistical Prediction/Simulation of Point Values From Areal Data
2003 Sep 08
Uncovering Spatial Feedbacks At Alpine Treeline Using Spatial Metrics In Evolutionary Simulations
2003 Sep 08
Surface Networks: Extension of the Topology and Extraction from Bilinear Surface Patches
2005 Jul 01
Support Vector Regression for Automated Robust Spatial Mapping of Natural Radioactivity
2005 Jul 01
Investigation of Two Neural Network Methods in an Automatic Mapping Exercise
2005 Jul 01
Spatial Prediction of Radioactivity using General Regression Neural Network
2005 Jul 01
Spatial Interpolation of Natural Radiation Levels with Prior Information using Back-propagation Artificial Neural Networks
2005 Jul 01
Automated Mapping using Multilevel B-Splines
2005 Jul 01
Interpolation of Radioactivity Data Using Regularized Spline with Tension
2005 Jul 01
Fast Spatial Interpolation using Sparse Gaussian Processes
2005 Jul 01
Bayesian Automating Fitting Functions for Spatial Predictions
2005 Jul 01
Automatic Mapping of Monitoring Data
2005 Jul 01
Automatic Mapping in the Presence of Substitutive Errors
2005 Jul 01
Mapping Radioactivity from Monitoring Data. Automating the Classical Geostatistical Approach
2005 Jul 01
Using Ordinary Kriging to Model Radioactive Contamination Data
2005 Jul 01
Introduction to the Spatial Interpolation Comparison (SIC) - 2004 Exercise and Presentation of the Datasets
2004 Sep 01
Some Theory for the Analysis of Random Fields - With Applications to Geostatistics. (MSc Thesis)
2007 Oct 29
A pilot project to determine the best available correction methods for NEXRAD radar rainfall data sets
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ICBA: Community Banks Central to Agricultural Economy
ICBA Community Banking Month Recognized in April
Washington, D.C. (April 25, 2011)-As the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) recognizes April as ICBA Community Banking Month, our nation's nearly 7,000 community banks continue to have a far-reaching positive impact on the agricultural and rural economy throughout America.
"Community banks are pivotal to the overall health and financial success of rural America as they provide financing for a significant portion of agricultural credit needs," said Sal Marranca, ICBA chairman and president and CEO of Cattaraugus County Bank, Little Valley, N.Y. "Many of our nation's ranches and farms are local small businesses, which employ local residents and help drive economic strength and prosperity within the community. ICBA Community Banking Month gives community banks across the country an opportunity to recognize their agricultural customers and the important role they serve."
Community banks stimulate rural economies in a multitude of ways, including creating off-farm jobs, maintaining the local tax base and facilitating development of the infrastructure and public services necessary to keep rural communities vibrant.
Community banks have consistently been the largest provider of agricultural credit within the commercial banking sector and are often the catalysts for new and expanded business opportunities within their communities to ensure long-term economic viability and vitality. In fact, community banks with assets under $10 billion provide more than 70 percent of all commercial bank agricultural loans, and banks with assets less than $1 billion provide nearly 60 percent of all commercial bank agricultural financing.
Community banks often use government loan programs for housing, small business and farm loans to assist borrowers who would otherwise have difficulty obtaining commercial credit. Continuing these programs is vital for rural America.
Each year, thousands of community banks recognize ICBA Community Banking Month in a variety of ways. Whether they host special events with local charities, promote economic development initiatives or offer programs to boost financial literacy, community banks continue to enrich their communities and lives of the customers they serve.
For more information about ICBA and ICBA Community Banking Month, visit www.icba.org. To find a community bank, visit ICBA's community bank locator by clicking here.


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ETSU Runners Turn In Strong Times At Florida Relays
Thursday, March 28, 2002Gainesville, Fla. (Mar. 28, 2002) - East Tennessee State's track team turned in some strong efforts tonight at the 59th edition of the Florida Relays in the Distance Carnival portion of the event. In the women's steeplechase sophomore Emily Chaney (Marysville, Tenn.) competed in the event for the first time this season, coming in fourth in a time of 11:34.31. In the men's race sophomore David Haefner (Hamburg, N.Y.) bettered his previous best this season by almost 12 seconds with a 9:20.64 effort, good for sixth in a field of 14 runners. In the final race of the evening, freshman James Grufferty (Galnmire, Ireland) had the best showing of the day for the Bucs, taking second-place in the 5,000-meter run. His time of 14:49.40 was 3.40 seconds behind the winning time set by Will Wyche of Army. More members of the ETSU team's will be in action at the relays on Friday and Saturday.
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The Community of Disc Golfers and About All Things Disc Golf
From Monsanto: The makers of "Agent Orange." For those too young to know the US military used it in Vietnam to kill off foliage, the jungles of Vietnam to get at the 'enemy.' Great stuff!
WASHINGTON -- The chemical at the heart of the planet's most widely used herbicide -- Roundup weedkiller, used in farms and gardens across the U.S. -- is coming under more intense scrutiny following the release of a new report calling for a heightened regulatory response around its use. Critics have argued for decades that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and other herbicides used around the globe, poses a serious threat to public health. Industry regulators, however, appear to have consistently overlooked their concerns.
A comprehensive review of existing data released this month by Earth Open Source, an organization that uses open-source collaboration to advance sustainable food production, suggests that industry regulators in Europe have known for years that glyphosate, originally introduced by American agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in 1976, causes birth defects in the embryos of laboratory animals.
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The problem with these poisons is they rarely stay put. If it rains, the stuff goes flowing all over the place. Down the street. Into the sewers, etc.
I dont use any chemicals in my yard. I'm not going to win any contests from Better Home & Garden. But I'm on well water & I dont want to comtaminate the ground with poison.
No shortcuts. Pull the weeds by hand or use hand tools.
I grew up in the summers in the Poconos in Pennsylvania....
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This is not anarchy talk, seen it myself.
Please, everyone as a consumer can make a difference.
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The recipe called for 1 cup of salt to 1 qal of vinegar and 8 drops of liquid laundry detergent.
I couldn't find my wife's stash of homemade laundry detergent...so I substituted dish soap. Dish soap is commonly added to fungicides, herbicides and homemade gardening formulas. It's there to aid in the contact time on leaves and stalks. So I just squirted about a tablespoon into it.
The recipe also recommends heating the vinegar with the salt so it mixes well. I just poured it all into a home garden sprayer at once.... shook the piss out of it...let it sit in the Florida sun for about an hour or so..than shook the piss out of it again.....and again during application.
What is important to know...is this formula will kill just about any plant/weed...so if you don't want to kill it...don't spray it. Plus....while the Vinegar and soap are biodegrade...the salt remains in the soil. Making it not a good idea to use it in planting beds....salt in the soil is not good for things you are trying to grow.....most of which will not tolerate an extremly high salt content in the soil.
Also, I believe, I read on that site that had the info....it was in the 'paranoia disclaimer' part of the page....that salt (sodium chloride) being caustic ....is considered one of those things you aren't supposed to contaminate ground water with....so in a sense you could feasibly get in the same trouble as if you were dumping toxic chemicals and waste.....something about using it in accordance with state and federal laws.....blah,blah,blah
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Time to Google "How to kill cocklebur" and see what comes up.
Just learned that seeds buried in the ground for 16 years still had a 15% germination rate. This stuff is tough!
And the recommended way to get rid of cocklebur is, you guessed it, pulling them out of the ground.
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Social media can amplify your voice but how come it doesn't happen very often?
You probably heard hundreds of times already about how social media can help you make your voice heard. One of the examples mentioned to prove this is the "United breaks guitar" video, which had 150,000 views in one day and 10 million in less than 6 months. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars
I know that there are thousands of examples, but considering that there are billions of Facebook posts and tweets every day, the number of the stories actually being amplified is insignificant.
Which made me think: how does this happen? Is it random? Do you need to have man followers, which will share your posts to their followers and so on? Should you post sensitive or controversial topics, which are more likely to make others share? Does it help to be aggressive and share the same post repeatedly on several social media platforms?
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May 27 2013: While I don't have a solution to make posts go viral, what I can tell you is that popularity for anything, social media or media obeys the power law.
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I however have a slightly different view about "amplification" which you refer to.
I'll give you an example using sound.
To amplify is to increase intensity of sound, and this can be achieved in two ways.
Add a whole lot more speakers so the amount of sound is increased and you hit everyone in sight.
Distribute wireless headphones to the few people who need to hear the message, and tune the crowd out. In both cases, your listeners will hear a loud message but in the latter you just save a whole lot of inconsequential onlookers the pain of listening to your music.
To relate this back to your topic, One way you can use social media is to find the few people who really matter, and use a facebook page, or twitter or whatever means necessary to amplify your voice to them. They will take your message to few more people who matter.
What you will have is a smaller more loyal crowd who will sustain your message instead of a high powered viral spread that has a shorter life span.Jun 11 2013: Social media is an enabler. It enables people to communicate. The advantage being that is much more accessible than other communication technologies. Reducing the economic restrains on the communicators. But if you don't have a communication strategy you won't communicate much. The democratizing nature of Internet provides people with the means. But not with the ideas, know how or capabilities.
Jun 11 2013: Very well put, Guido.
Social media offer an opportunity, not a certainty, to amplify your voice. The viral nature of the internet can allow for random messages, videos, etc. to reach a huge audience, but the random viral sensation is rare. In order to have an impact on a social network, you must create an engaged following, consistently curate interesting information, and ultimately find a way to stand out in a crowded sea of voices.
Jun 11 2013: Right. Current success stories were possible thanks to a group of people - who had already identified an objective, which choose social networks as their tool. For example the late events on Egypt. Seems to me we could find two different stages which responded to different objectives. First it was local organization through social networks. And later on it was the exposure of the situation to international public opinion. The orchestrators of these events had developed a strategy - independently of its formality.
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May 27 2013: Well, it looks like music gets the largest number of hits. Is this right, Questions, should music be the most popular thing in the universe?
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Arun Jose
May 27 2013: This might seem a strange association, but string theory suggests that the entire universe is nothing but a symphony of musical notes.
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I've often wondered if this fundamental association of frequencies of the universe manifested in our inexplicable draw towards music and its hypnotic effect when the music is just right!
May 28 2013: well, Arun, can't you differentiate between ideas and music? For example, if you watch a TED talk, doesn't it strike you as more intellectual than music? That is my question, should intellectual topics get more importance than music?
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May 28 2013: Instead of competing with music, maybe an ideal way to get an idea to spread is to sing it!
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In MJ's words, "heal the world..." An idea, intellectual and addictive. If only we could sing about everything!May 28 2013: well, Arun, you may be right, but one might ask why most people talk rather than sing most of the time? Even a professional singer spends most of their time talking, they sing when they are on stage, but when they are with their family, friends, business associates, they mostly talk. Would this indicate that talking comes more naturally to us than singing?
May 29 2013: Of course, speaking is the most obvious form of communication we have. We don't live in a musical! I agree with Arun, though, that the two need not cancel each other out. Can't you imagine a world, Greg, where music is a natural, integrated part of our existence, instead of a replacement for other natural aspects? It doesn't have to be one or the other, does it?May 29 2013: not necessarily. do you know the "Jesus Loves Kit Kat" story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCNu--fecco? or the Qantas campaign that backfired http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/fail-qantas-red-faced-after-twitter-campaign-backfires/story-e6frfq80-1226202445747?Jun 19 2013: Putting an idea to social media does not make it worthy, just like having a loudspeaker doesn't make you prime minister/president. People are less likely to respond to something aggressive and over-numerous, but quantity does count.
If you want to identify patterns - look at what you and your friends have shared. Those are the topics that have garnered your attention, and hence your voice.Jun 17 2013: Social Media is a fun-house mirror that amplifies the subset of society that chooses to engage in it. As such we are attempting to listen to a single voice in a cacophony that inevitably becomes an echo-chamber because of the people we "follow" and those that "follow" us.Jun 11 2013: i think that hidden in your question is a kind of an answer - all that seems to be driving towards the old 15 minutes of fame.
if you are aiming to sell something, then you need to know your audience and aim at them. this is, in my opinion, an arse-backwards way of going about creating any kind of content, but I guess that once you have the content, then you need to figure out who you're aiming at and so how to present the content.
Personally, I don't think social networks are as fantastic as everyone seems to be suggesting. They are the 21st century version of gossip over the tea-cups only it's possible that there may be several million peeping toms looking through the window and eaves-dropping..Jun 3 2013: Been offline for a bit and hadn't responded back to Lizanne's query re my last. Which in part said,
"To me there will be an evolutionary process whereby there will be a categorisation of internet inputs via niche interests of groups. In this regard, the cream will always rise to the top!"
So this isn't something I'm working on, however more an inkling for how I think things will pan out.
For something to STAND OUT, it needs to break free from the wallpapering constraints of mediocrity. It is when they do STAND OUT, that they then draw a lot of attention as it is obvious to all that they are interesting enough for others to want to be a part of it.
In my view, over time, there would be a crowd/group sourced repoitoire of MUST SEES, which would be subdivided into rough categories. In their own right, they would be a form of entertainment to watch, much as they are now.
The kicker I think is that technology will evolve so that, your habits and internet likes will be automatically sifted/sorted for you ( a bit like predictive text) and made as recommendations for you.
Likely that an autobot would speak to you and may follow something like,
Autobot:"Hello XYZ, what do you feel like doing now?"
User:"Oh, have a bit of a laugh"
Autobot:"Any particular preferences?"
User:"How about short comedy pieces?"
Autobot:"Okay sequencing flash run of comedy snippet samples"
User: "Give me 30 minutes worth"
Autobot:" Running samples, computating USER pupil dilation ratios to sort 30 minutes of short comedy pieces."
Further to this, a random input of comedy that was not to the usual tastes of the USER would be inserted to facilitate variety and potential offshoot interests that may have been unknown or thought of previously by the USER.
This is the development of Artificial Intelligence. Hopefully I haven't strayed too far off topic here! :D
Jun 10 2013: Hi TT!
Sorry for the late reply - I didn't receive a notification!
Which is very much in tune with your comment - artificial intelligence gives me the heebie jeebies.
Oh, marketing advertisers are so clever these days! I mention a name brand in a post, and suddenly I am enticed to 'like' that brand's page. I purchase a product online, so I need to see ads for that same product on every website I stumble upon. I am a 30-something female, so I MUST want to see ads for flowery summer dresses and pumps. This trend is degrading, it shows that I am not smart enough to find the things I want, because I don't know what I want, so the autobot will find it for me.
Your concept of the helpful autobot would be great - but the current predictions are so underhanded and sneaky, I feel like I'm being stalked.
Tying this back into the topic at hand, my voice is no longer being amplified, it's being silenced!
Jimmy Strobl
Jun 2 2013: Are you talking about going viral or building a presence?
- +1
There are no real guides for going viral (I've researched it somewhat) but there are elements that increase your chance, using animals, babies and old people have a really high viral score. you can find half guides if you Google it.
Now building a presence is totally doable but as with any marketing you have to give people what they want and you have to spend your time in the right way. There are a gazillion guides out there just Google it and you'll know what to do after some days reading ;)
But really it's quite simple and very hard, you need to CONNECT with people, that's it!
Have a TEDxTalk on the topic: Bobby Umar - The 5 C's of connection
*Edit: forgot to add link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKHZWhzTYU
Jun 15 2013: Thanks Jimmy. I'll listen to Umar.I'm doing fictional models of steady state economics so am trying to build a platform. I found that sticking to subject matter to establish expertise and credibility is fundamental. I like your difference between going viral and building a presence. As a student of complex systems, it reminds me that the market would love to know what makes something go viral. After years at it, the conclusion probably rests with the fact that complex systems have several sources of unpredictability and amplification is one of them.May 28 2013: I think social media is a storm in a teacup.
It's the 15 minutes of fame predicted by Warhol and reduced to a nano-sized version.
You either have pointless voices ("here's a HD photo of my dinner") or, in the case of businesses and bands, you get all the fake elements of advertising and the temptation to be another layer removed from your supporters.
It is still all about personal connection.
For my band, we use facebook like a 21st century poster-run. It's okay for covering a certain aspect of promotion but, as you say, it's like bit like a looking for a diode in an e-waste landfill ;)
May 29 2013: Indeed, Scott.
To be honest, I truly wonder if 'going viral' has any real lasting effect, at the end of the day. 15 minutes is, after all, 15 minutes. Is going viral the equivalent to a 'one hit wonder', only minus the royalties?
I truly agree personal connection is essential, which is that much harder to achieve when all we're given to work with are emoticons. Everyone has something to say, but much of it is still superficial.
Fritzie -
May 27 2013: I think you are right that catching the interested attention of people who have lots of social media followers is probably the most effective strategy, but your actual idea would need to be compelling to them.
- +1
Seth Godin, a very well known marketing specialist and TED speaker, often emphasizes the importance of addressing your message and delivering it in a tailored way to a niche of people who might be interested rather than trying to aim your message indiscriminately to the whole world. He has a blog with advice on getting your message heard. If you check it out, you may notice he presumes you have a high quality offering that people would find reason to share by word of mouth.
You might also check out our talks by Derek Sivers. One is specifically about the importance of first followers.Jun 17 2013: I believe in two things; one is purpose and other is seeding...the principle that supports my results are what you sow that you reap and well supported by the story of evolution...
So taking the things together: is my purpose is to create a number count or spreading something of a purpose? If purpose trees always take better time than a plant...
Be on your purpose...the spread is bound to speed till you are spreading...I have observed that Sun is seen when risen but it travels all the night...it may be the story of many fast spreads we have seen or acquainted...
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With regardsJun 17 2013: I've never been able to 'get' social media. I just don't see the 'what-for' of it! I remember back in the 1990's I put up a couple of web sites and tried to get some 'hits' to cover/view what I had produced. Not much luck there. "Hit Counters" were really big on web sites. Every web site seemed to have one. And I thought that was really cool . . .
But those hit counters taught me something important. I put a hit counter on my web site(s) and would check the counter once a week or so. I remember one week the hit counter read: "000004". I remember thinking, "Well, 4 is better than zero!" But then I realized: I had visited my site 4 times earlier that same week. So my visits to my site were ALL that were recorded by the "Hit Counter."
Ever wonder why social media does not put "hit counters" on their pages anymore? I'll be that's why! All your friends spend more time looking at their own Facebook pages, than they ever have looking at YOURS! Social media? Maybe more like Asocial media!
I am privileged to have a small circle of friends whom I respect and who respect me. That means a lot. But 'social media?' Yeah, it's big. It gets a lot of attention. For a handful of celebrities, social media can help sustain their fame and their fortunes. But for the rest of us? It looks like a scam.
Teenagers and college students might have a different (better) view of this. After all, today I am even OLDER than my grandfather was when I was born! That was several years ago and I am still trying to wrap my head around that one!Jun 15 2013: I love seeing People thrive on social media that will instill positive change in the world, I came across a request from a friend just recently about his Daughter starting up a web based business and I felt committed to help her out achieve some success.
Here is the page: www.e-vaporize.co.uk
this is not my page, but definitely if you can stop and visit that may make another little success story out there.
the good ones should be paid attention and brought above , is a constant fight between the irrelevant and the worthy not from the commercial side but from the synergic and for that the World will change.
Although social media is inundated is also our responsibility to promote that which is good and positive in any way.Jun 6 2013: I invite you to check in with the discussion on the debate section about whether the Internet is a facilitator or basically a pacifier. You may find we have a lot in common in wondering why things aren't much more productive than they are. The problem with so-called "social media" is that it is a product of pure opportunism which reflects no comprehension of social evolution. It merely gives you functionality to store stuff and calls itself a social medium. Just like forums, it offers a new form of entertainment that is quite engaging in that you get to interact with strangers and knock stuff around, but it is beholden to commercialism as its business model and therefore so centered on facilitating it's funding sources that it seems to have little if any want of anything but profit for itself. And when they went public, they showed they are mostly profiteers with no social or political interest. They are the establishment in revolutionary clothing.
IMO they have done no service to call themselves "social media" and sell people's information to advertisers, or "own" rights to it themselves. A real visionary social media product should cost some money and not be free of charge where the money comes from undercutting the user and benefiting corporate exploitation. It has to be understood that it's not "free" no matter what and that people are paying prices they don't understand. A social network should be 100% value-centric on the user community, not on the back end of some scheme to make a few billion dollars. I don't think you can "serve two masters" and that's why FaceBook is impotent. Twitter has some potential but again, it's the same business model of seemingly free functionality with a commercial objective its users don't contract into. And Twitter is elitist--it does not facilitate any vision of change itself. It just offers this new wrinkle on communications for it own enrichment. A "value renaissance" must be triggered by new players.Jun 2 2013: And it does amplify our voice we've never been this connected globally before, we simply reach more people when using social media. Now everyone doesn't become a rock star but that's not really possible either.
Every story is amplified when shared or commented.
How many voices do you amplify everyday? not billions i suspect? Maybe hundreds, and the reason you chose these are? the same reasons most other chose them therefore the not so good/nice/fun things get lost in the sea and we just save the most precious gems we can.Jun 2 2013: To have any social media material go viral,you must create an interest by presenting content that is fair,pleasing or seductive which can generate a persuasive urge for people to share it with others.May 30 2013: First of all to amplify your voice or to make someone hear you , it is not necessary that you make controversial posts.Today social media has been playing a key role in the society..Everyone are being active in social networking sites. To amplify your voice you must actively participate in different fields like posting your views about the current situations,etc. People always listen to one who makes sensible comments. And its obvious you need to make as many friends as possible and just be active in different groups, express yourself now and then , reply to others posts which may help others feel your presence. And last but not the least your post must really possess some content then your post will surely reach a remarkable mark!May 29 2013: Here's a video that makes me happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
These things happen in life. And most of the time, somebody gets away with it.
My dear, dear, AI -- these things ARE quite random. Furthermore, if someone could manage to create this phenomena intentionally, they would. Some major corporation (like a rental car company, or potato chip company) would create a social media storm about once a year. They would then ride that unearned fame to Billions of euros in profit!
Fancy that!May 28 2013: Hey there, QF!
Wow, as a struggling musician, I sure wish I knew the answer to your question!
Have you seen Alex Day's talk, "The Future of Music"? I just posted it on another conversation, but it seems relevant to this one too:
Alex describes how he managed to become the first unsigned artist to hit the number 1 spot in the UK Christmas chart in the shortest amount of time - 30 days to be exact. How he did it, was how a lot of folks do it. He chased his dream, was surrounded by support and believers, he could visualize his goal and found an unorthodox way to make it happen, despite the odds being against him.
He also had a tremendous, loyal following to begin with.
Another good example of how someone used social media to amplify their voice is Amanda Palmer, who also found an unusual path to success paved by the support of her loyal fanbase:
I think 'gong viral' has everything to do with luck and a loyal fanbase. The amount of 'likes' you may accumulate mean nothing if they are not genuine.May 28 2013: i think it mainly depends on the producer's view on the subject and what they choose to expose on their broadcsating systems.May 28 2013: The person who can answer why a tweet, or a video goes viral correctly, will be a mllionaire in no time.
If i knew it i will be tweeting away to glory.
I assume no body knows it exactly.
If some body claims to know it than let him produce a tweet or a video which will go viral.May 28 2013: I so just had to come here. The irony of your question compared to 4 responses was just such a contradiction. Look Fritzie has as usual smashed the answer, he is spot on. Tho that said, in all the hype surrounding something going viral it does start with your innovator/ first to market group who in turn lead others to a trend which then becomes mainstream.
Like minds it seems tend to think alike and more often than not I find Fritzie posts wherever I also go. In this respect I would postulate that he is one of the innovators and at a guess he probably has people who will follow him and also then contribute.
To go viral I think, you need to resonate with your audience, your message needs to be compelling. By this I mean truly funny, or talented or riveting. It needs to cut thru the ordinary and mundane. Achieve these milestones and I think you will get social media penetration. The reason it doesn't happen very often, is probably because it needs to be extraordinary.... whether it be in looks, talent, uniqueness or whatever other special differentiator! :D
May 29 2013: Hey TT,
I think you're right, that your message needs to "cut thru the ordinary and mundane". Unfortunately, in my opinion, many people interpret this as coming up with a 'gimmick'. Presenting yourself in the most bizarre way possible in order to stick out is to me the opposite of genuine, but it is often what attracts the most attention.
I can only imagine the amount of truly extraordinary talent out there, that just never reaches the surface...
May 30 2013: And you are right. people are going to further extremes to get themselves noticed, often with dire consequences.
The internet is really quite new. It is going to take a while for things to settle down.
What do I mean by this?
To me there will be an evolutionary process whereby there will be a categorisation of internet inputs via niche interests of groups. In this regard, the cream will always rise to the top!
Mark my words.... I'm the time traveller!
May 30 2013: That is such a good point, TT - the internet is indeed still relatively new! We've seen such an evolution already over the past decade or so, and it's only the beginning...
Is this idea something you are working on? Sounds like a great idea!


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