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[Wal-Mart Watch] Blog: Wal-Mart Watch Focus Group: Which Message is Most Dishonest ...: In the spirit of Screwed and Dave’s original posts, it seems some here are completely missing (or ignoring?) the point—this site can go for weeks with the same people posting the same stuff, then, out of the blue, we have this flood of people who are more often than not, “commenting” on a single topic (when there are no less than 4 blog entires by the editors on any single day—yet folks can’t (or won’t) see that something’s wrong with this picture…

[SCRIPT-ed] The Internet: Where did IT all go wrong?: Who are these “hackers”, “crackers”, “virus-writers”, “spammers”, “phishers”, and why do they want to attack your network?6 For many, hacking was once a method of studying and a fun way to impress friends (and girls, occasionally), but in recent years, as networks have begun to hold information that is much more valuable, those who still indulge in the practice are less interested in boosting their ego or showing off and more interested in compiling money.7 DDoS are less likely to be a college student wanting to learn whether it’s possible; they’re more often the result of a company refusing to give in to a blackmail threat.

[Microsoft Watch] Microsoft Watch - Operating Systems - My Mother is a Software Pirate: i really really hope this was a fake article because once you get passed the premise of it and read into it you see things like "If experienced Verizon technicians couldn't solve the Internet connection problem over the phone, I'm unlikely to do better." The only thing the Verizon tech wanted to do was get your mom off the phone. Well have fun blaming micro$oft for all your problems.

[TechSoup: Active Threads] What Web-based event-registration tools have you tried? - TechSoup: I am glad to hear there is a reasonable explanation for the board censorship. However, the postings where I had mentioned a site which was filtered, were deleted within hours - I hadn't violated the Terms of Service, and did not disparage Eventbrite - but simply answered someone's question.

[Tweet Channels] Twitter Tweets about #twitter as of March 10, 2009: bsalley: A question for all you hard core Twitter users. How many of you that follow over 200 people .

[Top Web Resources] 100 Cool Facebook Applications | Top Web Resources: There's nothing more likely to cause Facebook Suicide than a box full of terms like 'smelly', 'consistently dishonest' and 'fugly'. Get it.

[Keeping The Bastards Honest] Keeping The Bastards Honest » Hey ! Nick Marks I am confused.: I purchased the 49.95 deal that was supposed to start making you money in minutes even for the newbies(which is me), after spending 2 days trying to understand what to do, I emailed a dispute to Paypal and the next day he refunded my money to me!!! I do believe it is set up to get you frustrated and walk away, but by using Paypal you are safer!

[Political Animal] The Washington Monthly: If you start posting news stories and shit that backs up your tenuous hold on reality, you're spamming the thread whether you realize it or not. You're spamming the thread with this shit about France--it has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand, which is "Bush in the Bubble."

[TPM Election Central] TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Latest McCain ...: Folks hate telemarketers, and doubly hate robocalls. This could be the campaign's attempt for free MSM coverage, they had a neat trick with web ads before the MSM caught on, and then released ridiculous television ads to get MSM coverage before the media caught on to the fact that these television ads would only air a handful of times.

[Earthling - EarthLink blog] Earthling - EarthLink blog: Update on Dead Domain Handling: EarthLink is confusing the telephone handset with the phone network: "People sometimes dial wrong numbers because they forgot the right one. Even though some more advanced phones offer ways to store commonly used numbers, lets change the "Number not in service" tones and message on the network to an advertisement followed by a Voice Jail menu to select what to do next." Now you have ad revenue coming in, but you have caused immense problems for the systems that depend on the standard tones.

[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] Webspam in 2009?: Sure some spammers would more easily slide their sites back in, but as long as Google’s algorithum catches spammy sites they’d just get quickly thrown out again. And there’s probably lots of folks like me who just run a few sites in our spare time for fun and would be happy to make any changes if we just knew what they were and had a real way to request reinclusion.

[JeffCroft.com: Latest blog entries] JeffCroft.com: 1&1 Internet is the devil.: Google Juices = Free/Discounted Hosting - There are a lot of people singing the praises of Dreamhost because, well, they offer $97 per referral! So far, my next year of hosting is already paid for and I still periodically get random search engine visitors who click through the link in my footer and signup.

[insignificant thoughts] Cancelling AOL : insignificant thoughts: AOL needs to learn a lesson from this: berating, browbeating, and lying to customers is strictly unacceptable in an industry where every customer counts and word of mouth is King when the customer isn’t treated like one. In a day and age when you can record a phone call to AOL and publish it quickly on your own website and on huge social networks like Digg and Slashdot and see it run on thousands more sites within minutes, they must realize that they can run but they can’t hide, so they need to treat their customers with respect, listen to what they have to say and respond to them without lecturing, lying, yelling, mumbling, or bossing them around.

[Market Manila] Market Manila - Don't Send Me Ridiculous Emails”¦ - General: I am a graduate of both UP Diliman and UP Manila (and I have once been a student of one of your regular readers here, ntgerald, hehe, and I know he knows me through a close connection), and I can honestly say that there are still a lot of UP students whom our kababayans can proudly call as “Iskolars ng Bayan”.

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