The other at an airport bookshop, I picked up the latest issue of TIME featuring Mother Teresa. The lead article discussed a new book based on documents from the Vatican that reveal that Mother Teresa’s spiritual life wasn’t the stable ship many would have thought it to be, considering her reputation as a saint of the […]
The Delights Of Open Source: Al Qaeda’s Recruiting On YouTube, Secret Agents Are Crowdsourcing
An Al-Qaeda-linked group from the Philippines managed to publish excerpts of a recruitment film for over 24 hours on YouTube, raising questions about the merits of online safety. YouTube took the video off the site after pressure from security officials. But is that a bad idea? Terrorists resorting to YouTube surely increase transparency? One way […]
The Bias of Mainstream Media
<h3>Conglomerate Media: No Room for in a Democracy </h3> <h3>Specific purpose: To persuade my audience to use other sources for their news and information besides mainstream media.</h3> <hr /> <p>Our new conglomerate media is limiting our news and sanitizing our wars and disasters</p> <p>A video called Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4">Learn what is really […]
Why Facebook is Growing Faster Than Other Social Networks
So much has been written about Facebook over the past several months that it is almost easy to forget that there are other social networking properties available to the internet community. The meteoric growth that Facebook has been enjoying has made headlines in traditional media and across the blogosphere – and this kind of attention […]
The 7 Lazy Man’s Way to Market on Flickr.
The 7 Lazy Man’s Way to Market on Flickr. First, let me emphasize that it’s against the Terms of Use to “exploit for any commercial purposes” the Flickr/Yahoo service. Posting a photo specifically for the purposes of advertising your company, your products/services, etc., would be against the TOS and would turn off the Flickr […]
Successful Self Employment on a Budget for Artists and Other Freelancers
Being a business takes a lot of hard work, to put it mildly. Artists generally have experience in creating beauty, but are usually less than knowledgeable about the world of business and self-employment. It pays to work hard, to avoid that horrible starving artist cliche. Who needs to starve? By spending a lot of time […]