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The last time gas prices spiked over $4 per gallon, the Tea Party exploded with rage against the sitting president, hanging the totality of the blame on his administration. Of course, by “exploded with rage,” I mean “didn’t exist.”

This time around, the Tea Party is taking action to draw attention to the fact that Barack Obama is gouging Americans by making sure gas prices are high by causing war in Libya, not opening Alaska to drilling and saving our national energy reserves to power Chinese tanks after China’s inevitable invasion of the U.S. We spoke with Chris Lotto, Arizona activist and co-creator of the “The ‘Hope and Change’ Sticky Note Campaign,” a movement that places anti-Obama sticky notes on gas pumps.

Yes, America, like a couple on the verge of divorce, can only communicate with Post-Its

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More weak tea from Gallup:

Gallup began tracking Americans’ views of the Tea Party in March 2010, when 37% had a favorable and 40% an unfavorable view. Those views stayed roughly the same through January of this year, but have now turned somewhat more negative. The April 20-23 USA Today/Gallup poll finds favorable opinions of the Tea Party movement dropping to 33%, from 39% in January, and unfavorable opinions rising to 47% from 42%. Twenty percent of Americans say they haven’t heard of the Tea Party or have no opinion of it.

Republicans and conservatives (i.e., tea party members) still like it, but you know what? They ain’t a majority. More and more of the rest of us think it sucks.

But here’s something you probably didn’t know.

The Tea Party has a relatively strong appeal to men aged 50 and older, 49% of whom have favorable opinions of the movement. By contrast, women aged 50 and older are the most negative, with more than half holding a negative opinion.

Once again, there’s strong evidence women are smarter than men. And don’t you be blaming all seniors for Tea Party support when it’s only the the menfolk who are deluded.

And while we are at it, note:

Southerners are most positive about the Tea Party across regions, with essentially equal favorable and unfavorable opinions. Americans living on either coast are the most negative.

Bottom line:

The data reviewed here demonstrate the nature of the political challenges Republican congressional leadership faces in responding to Tea Party-supported members. A majority of rank-and-file Republicans nationwide give the Tea Party favorable ratings, but a sizable minority say their opinion is unfavorable or do not classify themselves as supporters.

Further, the overall image of the Tea Party among all Americans has become substantially more negative than positive over the last several months, which could weaken its perceived clout among GOP congressional leaders. Americans’ negative views of the Tea Party contrast with their much more balanced views of the Republican Party, measured at 44% favorable and 47% unfavorable in the same April 20-23 USA Today/Gallup poll.

The Tea Party image is only going to get worse as it gets more and more closely associated with birthers, the Donald, and ending Medicare as we know it. The “nature of the political challenges Republican congressional leadership faces”, as Gallup puts it, is that their program will prove extremely unpopular.

Run on that, Republicans.

This week I was honored to guest lecture at the prestigious Monterey Institute for International Studies. The topic was nation building but because I am the founder of MicroCredit Enterprises, which finances microloans for poor women in the developing world, the discussion shifted to people building.

My talk was open to the public (what a splendid idea for all universities!) and in the audience a raised hand came from a gentlemen with deep faith convictions. He described how his church addresses the multidisciplinary nature of poverty in African villages by drilling wells, building schools, erecting health clinics, etc. while also distributing bibles and proselytizing the gospel.

photo credit: Danny Gallant

As I suggested to the class (pictured here) that all economic development promotes one sort of gospel or another. Microfinance, for example, inherently proselytizes the virtues of free market capitalism. Microfinance embeds gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights — development for the whole person, if you will. Enduring economic development upsets the status quo.

What disturbed me about this particular gentlemen was not his faith motivation which was genuine, but his unwavering conviction that his church’s time and money is actually doing good on the African continent. Whether it is or not, he is never going to know because he is not asking any self-examining questions about his impact on the lives he purports to save.

From beginning to end, he unconditionally follows the personality cult of his Savior and the doctrine of his religion. He is a change agent without doubts.

He not much different than the donors, journalists and other apostles who believed in Greg Mortenson, best-selling author of Three Cups of Tea and founder of a school-building program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His compelling (but allegedly hyped) personal story created a media blizzard of belief in him and a dearth of data about his impact.

For two very thoughtful commentaries read Three Cups of BS by Alanna Shaikh and It’s Not About The Tea by Kevin Starr.

One regrettable defense for Mortenson is that he is simply a bad manager. This narrative feeds an urban legend pushed by ideologues and market fundamentalists who want to believe an alternate reality. Nonprofit is a tax status, nothing more. It does not establish management quality or results. It is certainly not an excuse for anything.

Yes, some nonprofits are poorly run, as the Mortenson dustup and opulent church altars surely suggest. However, by the same fuzzy yardstick, British Petroleum confirms the mendacity of all corporate chieftains and Donald Trump is an icon of political truth-telling. We can reject the charlatans of social change without concluding that dedicated nonprofit executives don’t care a whit about the efficacy of what they do, wantonly waste money or poorly evaluate programmatic results.

Let’s reject social change by personality cult and embrace empowering the poor to speak up, speak out and speak for themselves. That’s what good nonprofit leaders have always done.

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The new search engine Blekko just launched, and it’s making SEO-related data that it has found during its crawling and indexing of the web available for all sites. Just what does it include and how useful is it?

Accessing SEO Data

You can access SEO data for any domain or URL by clicking the SEO link below any page in search results. You can click link for a list of external links.

The SEO tools include:

• a list of pages that link to the site
• link distribution and anchor text data
• crawl data
• pages indexed
• a site comparison tool
• a duplicate content report

Blekko also has created scoring, such as Host Rank and URL Rank. Other than assuming that a higher number is better, I’m not sure what goes into the scoring or what the scale is.

Link data

Of most interest to many site owners is likely competitive link data. Google webmaster tools only provides external link information to verified site owners, and Yahoo Site Explorer, which lists competitive link data but has a questionable future since Bing now powers Yahoo search results. Several third-party tools have stepped up to fill that potential void, another source of data is always welcome.

They keys to value in third party link data are always:

• How closely does the third-party index resemble the indices of the major search engines? Is substantial link data missing?
• How often is the reporting updated and how complete is each report? In other words, are reported changes in the number of links accurate or does each report simply reflect a different section of the site’s link graph because it’s from a different part of the web?
• How well does the third party canonicalize duplicate URLs and eliminate spam?

The first thing that confuses me about Blekko’s data is that the count provided from clicking link doesn’t match the count shown on the inbound links tab.

That said, clicking link under a URL in Blekko search results seems to provide a list of links to that URL (see first image above), sorted by relevance or date. The date sort seems like it could be useful for learning about new links to a site (although I find that analytics referral data is most useful for learning about new links to your own site).

Clicking the rank stats icon beside the sort options generates a list in table view with two scores beside each URL. I have no idea what these mean. The table includes a legend, but I don’t see the legend notations used anywhere in the table. Clicking more details brings up an even more confusing table. I can’t find help documentation for any of this on the Blekko site and while a few columns seem fairly obvious (lang, notporn), others are perplexing (people?).

The Show Terms button appears to simply include the data from the first view in the second view.

To get to the rest of the link data, you have to go back to the search results and click the SEO link. From there you can get both domain and page level data. Let’s look at page-level data to compare to the tables above.

Regional link distribution is interesting, particularly when looking at why certain pages rank in particular countries or for queries where location is relevant.

The second image shows what appears when clicking the see all 2500 link. I’m assuming that 2500 is the maximum number of URLs shown in this report, not that the link count has changed to 2500. As you can see, the first table includes the rank (although I don’t know what this signifies) and the second includes the date (again, I’m not sure if this date is when Blekko first discovered the page or last crawled it or something else), although both tables list both columns.

Clicking show graphs, brings up, well graphs.

The historical data could be useful. The inbound links by domain includes internal links (as does some of the table data), which may be less useful.

Clicking the Visualize icon next to a URL brings up yet another set of graphs, and at this point, while I’m all for more data, I’m getting a bit fatigued by little bits of data spread across multiple pages. Here, you enter up to four URLs to “visualize”, and this seems to provide comparison bar graphs.

These graphs include data that is on yet more pages. Head back to the overview page and scroll down for anchor text data.

The table is a little smooshed together, but I think the columns are number (of links with that anchor text), percentage (of that anchor text), good, exclude, and zapsite. This is some of the data I alluded to earlier that’s included on the comparison link graphs. I have no idea what any of it means. I imagine that “good” are the links that Blekko has deemed valuable, but after that, your guess is as good as mine.

But the big question is how does the link data stack up to what else is out there? Is it useful, for instance, for understanding what links Google sees to a site? This won’t tell us how consistent the data will be from crawl to crawl, but at least we can see a current comparison snapshot. Below are the link counts into the searchengineland.com domain (note that Yahoo Site Explorer data may not yet be restored). The first thing you’ll notice is that Blekko shows significantly fewer links than Google webmaster tools. Is this because Google is counting every link and Blekko is only counting each domain once, no matter how many times pages on that domain link in or is because Blekko hasn’t crawled as much of the web? Well, Blekko shows 145,281 inbound links to the URL searchengineland.com (as opposed to the domain), whereas Google webmaster tools shows 1,891,942 unique links and 4,993 total domains, so my guess at this point is that Blekko is counting unique URLs, but just knows about fewer of them.

In the past week, several SEO related topics are in need of summarizing. Here is a list of quick SEO takes in bullet format, for you busy SEOs and SEMs:

• Google Webmaster Tools has added “total links” to the revamped link reports.
• Yahoo seems to have fixed the broken site explorer linkage data.
• Google has fixed the blogspot indexing bug and now can index new blogspot blog posts.
• Google Webmaster Tool’s fetch as Googlebot is 404ing for some webmasters
• Google sometimes is using your heading tags for snippets as opposed to your title tags
• SEOs are noticing major ranking changes since Thursday of last week.

I believe that recaps some of the more recent SEO discussions from over the weekend that deserve your attention.

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Tackling the development of a new search and social media course is no mean feat – ask Aleksej Heinze, from Salford University’s Business School!  He’s been the driver behind a new academic-led, industry-supported search and social media course.

With MEC’s support for the course, Aleksej and I have met a number of times to discuss areas of the course’s content, with a view to develop not purely from an academic stand-point, but to consider real-life scenarios.  One of the things that came out of the debates we had then was this idea of posing several alternative approaches to search and social marketing in a way that prompted this idea of a course that promotes a foundational and more advanced level of understanding, with a thread of critical thinking throughout.

I love this idea.  I’ve previously shared what we work to deliver as part of our SEO training academy over on SEP, and one of the key items we raised here was in nurturing people’s analytical and inquisitive behaviour in SEO.  We’re working in a very subjectivity-led industry, as opposed to that of an exact-science.   SEO is an art built on the peripheral knowledge of the science of information retrieval after all, and even where people work towards making their approach to SEO more scientific, it’s nothing more than a weird science at best.

Critical thinking challenging misinformation

I like the idea that we dig in to out analytics and visibility, we test and explore on-site and off-site approaches to search engine optimisation.  As long as we share these observations with an understanding that isolating these test from unknown variables, sample sizes, caveats and a reframed methodology if necessary for the next round of tests, then I think this can be a healthy process to go through that just taking from elsewhere in the community.  This does not mean to say that all research should be shared, but just to say that even if you’re a bedroom SEO, then keeping an eye on the limitations of what you and others are testing is really quite healthy.

We recently shared some early observations on Google Instant usages in the UK.  We shared the shared the sample size, the number of verticals the test stretched across, limitations, a brief explanation of the approach to the analysis makes the research a little more valid, and very open-ended conclusions (making this more observational than definitive conclusions).  Through this approach it makes it easier for others to test for themselves the validity and value of what is being said, as opposed to just loose supposition.

I see Michael Martinez as someone with a very forthright opinion around the management and understanding of SEO, and certainly someone where critical thinking appears as a common thread in most of his articles.  For instance, on this very subject of science, SEO and chatter:

“…we share, we discuss, we analyze, and we critique. Scientists do this all the time. The chief difference between real scientists and SEO scientists, however, is that real scientists agree to be bound to a standard of quality that the SEO industry eschews…The science is based solely and completely upon what we do share that is confirmable and reliable. Everything else is just talk.”

This differentiation is a very healthy one.  Highlighting what is chatter, and what is definitively scientific in approach and output is all part of critical thinking, and I think that people can really take something away from this.  SEO is, without a doubt, still in its infancy.  It is still shaping up as an established industry, and it certainly hasn’t developed a comprehensive understanding of how to approach tests, knowledge sharing and the conclusions we pull from this.  But with that in mind, a little more critical thinking and a more resolute focus on the real value of what is being shared in training rooms, books and blog posts world-wide should almost certainly be a good thing.  I think so, anyway.

SEO Pride and Prejudice

Like many, I want to go to work and feel pride in what I do with the teams of people I work with, and this sense of pride may well be helped by the sense that collectively in our offices, we feel that we are delivering a solid SEO service, far beyond that what we are exposed to in many other places elsewhere.  So although we feel that other SEO propositions are misguided (which in itself is quite flattering and enlightening for our own), but it does require an element of astute critical thinking to highlight what we believe is good, bad and unhelpful information for how we approach SEO – and this is the whole point of this article.

Others though, see this wealth of misinformation as a real competitive advantage, including Aaron:

“I used to dislike misinformation in the SEO industry, but I have since come to realize that the more misinformed the public is the more opportunity there is for me. If it wasn’t abstract and full of misinformation then someone overseas would be doing it for $5 a day and I would lose most of my income. So I say let’s see some more bogus scientific studies.”

Now, I wouldn’t go down such a hard-line route as this, as I personally think that there are too many areas in the provision of SEO consulting that really can’t be provided in a more commoditised way (just in the same way as marketing, PR, creative teams haven’t been outsourced to more inexpensive regions of the world).  That said, I do think there is a great deal of value in the comment, as it essentially acts as a sort of filtering system – separating the wheat from the chaff.

Critical Thinking & SEO Strategy

Transferring critical thinking to the way we learn is only one application though; developing plans and delivering activity with critical thought can be hugely helpful too.  So let’s get down to a few tips…

Quite a few years ago, two gentlemen, Simon Wootton and Terry Horne, developed 6 suggestions for critically evaluating strategic ideas and plans.  These were:

• Competitiveness
• Controllability
• Compatibility
• Feasibility
• Impact
• Risk

At a strategic level you can quite easily see how critical thinking of this nature can really test the true value of ideas in the context of which they sit.

But, how do you teach day-to-day critical thinking?

Some might argue that critical thinking can’t actually be taught at all, and it’s actually more to do with what the person was born with between their ears, but I whole-heartedly disagree.  I think you can quite easily teach someone to work to a framework of which challenges the validity of an opinion, and develops a reasoned, critical judgement of their own.

The UK’s Open University provides a few ideas around how critical thinking can take shape, and importantly, how you can nurture critical thinking. A few take-aways from these articles that I think are especially helpful for those more SEOs interested in critical though include:

• Pause for thought when reading – we’re in an online industry where we know scanning of content is prevalent so occasionally pause for thought.
• Actively learn – critically engage in the content.  Ask yourself how, why, what, when, who, etc as often as you can about subjects you think are especially important.
• Work with others – learning alone is not going to be helping in moulding balanced and considered opinions as through shared-learning we naturally test each other’s understanding.
• Think independently – just because you’ve read something, doesn’t make it true!

There’s really isn’t anything too sophisticated in what is being said here – something I often think when reading management books, but challenge is really bringing to life as part of your day-to-day behaviour.  Are you up to the challenge?!

Anyway, give it a try – see if this sort of approach to reading blog posts, books, attending seminars or conferences, changes the way you understand and use the information around you.

I founded one of the first internet marketing agencies, called Multimedia Marketing Group (MMG) in 1994. Started in Portland, I moved it to Bend, Oregon in 1997 with seven employees. Of those seven, most are still active (and prominent) in the internet marketing world today: Marshall Simmonds, Derrick Wheeler, Adam Sherk, my son Adam Audette, Matt Hockin (and yours truly).

MMG moved steadily up-market and worked with many large-name enterprise clients. It grew to 85 employees and was sold to a London based agency in 2000 and was the foundation for an internet marketing roll-up for them. The roll-up is a significant player today and is called Outrider.

A number of other internet marketers got their start with MMG in Bend, including Bill Hunt, Disa Johnson, Jeremy Sanchez, Andre Jensen, and many others.

My most recent endeavor was to help my son Adam Audette launch AudetteMedia, a boutique SEO firm that has grown and moved up-market quickly over the past three years.

Rumor has it that you coined the phrase “search engine optimization.”

We started SEO before arriving in Bend, but we formalized it in early 1997. I paid Danny Sullivan’s way to Bend in ’97 to work with us and we subsequently strengthened our services. I coined the phrase “search engine optimization” in early 1997, which is documented by a copy of the MMG site in the Wayback Machine .

There is more discussion about this claim in a blog post that my son Adam Audette wrote for theAudetteMedia Blog.

Can you tell us about your recent business ventures?

I have recently left AudetteMedia for a new endeavor. My father once said to me, “you are so idealistic.” He was right. I was young and I was idealistic. The odd thing is that it has never gone away—it has pervaded every business venture that I have ever undertaken. Which brings us to the itch…

I have worked my entire life in marketing and sales, with some technology (systems integration) thrown in. Of course the object of that is to help folks sell more stuff. I’m pretty good at and I have especially enjoyed my time using the internet as my primary marketing channel. I gain satisfaction from helping folks sell their stuff, and it has been materially rewarding for me at times. But now, in my dottering old age, I’m looking for a little deeper satisfaction. I’d like to feed the idealistic streak that never went away.

I intend to start a new company, called 501 Strategies that will offer internet services to the non-profit sector. I have a junior partner, Tom Warton. Tom is a very bright MBA who shares my idealism. It’s kind of in his genes as his father, also a MBA (and an ordained minister), has applied his efforts over the years to build companies in third world nations in order to create jobs. His belief is that you need to feed their bodies before you feed their souls.

Our idea is to build a for-profit, employee-owned (I have always wanted to structure a company as employee owned—another aspect of the idealistic streak) company that works with non-profits, the type that is being referred today as “social enterprises.” I mentioned to someone who asked what we would be doing that we would be providing internet marketing to non-profits, and Tom corrected me, saying that we would be offering internet management to non-profits, a description I much prefer.

We think we can get pretty fired up helping social enterprises further causes that we ourselves are passionate about. We’re hoping to do well enough so that we can use a portion of our profits to enable some of our clients to start without paying a fee.

While I’m somewhat of a newbie to the non-profit world, it occurs to me that I will still be selling product. In the case of non-profits they are really seeking only three things that I can identify: a spreading of their message in order to build awareness and supporters; time from volunteers; and financial support. Of course the internet and particularly the rise of social media and mobile, are just perfect for this. My sense is that strategies and tactics used for non-profits will not differ all that much from those used working with the folks who sell widgets and time. As many of you know, my former company offered a full suite of internet services and I anticipate that 501 Strategies will do the same, as opposed to specializing in one area.

What specific challenges and opportunities do non-profits face with internet marketing?

Some challenges that come immediately to mind are at times a modest budget level and possibly a modest expertise level (with so much dependence on volunteers). We are hoping to help them with both. While 501 Strategies is being formed as a for-profit company, our hope is to start our fee structure at zero by using a portion of our profits to fund the marketing efforts of worthy non-profits. As to filling their expertise needs, I’m confident that my long experience in the industry, strong contacts within the industry, and a proven ability to build a world-class team will create a resource of value.

Opportunities are vast. Social media marketing is just a natural for non-profits. What a powerful tool to increase and enhance communications among those who share a passion in a cause. Plus many non-profit websites are pretty primitive and do a poor job of converting their call to actions. And very few have a mobile-friendly version of their website. I envision as being just huge for non-profits. Plus the entire area is under-served for one reason or another.

At the Bend WebCam, you made the following statement: “SEO turned ADD from a negative to a positive.” Can you explain this further?

This was a little tongue in cheek, but not entirely. I have always had a short attention span, which is a fault in most lines of work. However, in the early days of the internet, things were moving so fast that it was imperative to adopt an approach of “ready, aim, fire,” which is what comes naturally to me. Unlike most corporate settings, there was no time to aim and aim and aim. You had to move, innovate, create—and do it all quickly. Remember, we were making it up as we went along.

How do you see SEO and social media working together?

Search marketing is a great way to provide content and links that help an SEO cause. Oddly, though, I don’t think that SEO is as important to non-profits as to many other organizations. The reason is that so many non-profits are local in nature and the local innovations that are currently occurring in search really help those locally focused.

What advice would you offer to new people just getting into SEO?

Be careful about being a one-trick pony. Things change fast with the internet and there is a great deal of added safety in mastering and/or offering more than one area of expertise. For example, mobile search at Google has increased 10x in the just the past year and that has many implications. It’s a bit of a challenge: while it’s important to have specialized expertise in a medium that is becoming ever more complex, it’s also important to maintain flexibility as things can change right out from under you practically overnight.

John, thank you very much.

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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Motorola's Droid 2 Global edged closer to release on Monday with a price slash to the Droid 2 at Verizon. The device, which only shipped in August, has already dropped from its original $200 on contract to $150. The move hinted that Verizon is clearing out stock for the world roaming version.

The cut was accompanied by a similar cut on the HTC Droid Incredible, though this may be to prepare for the upcoming HTC Merge and not the Motorola phone.

The Droid 2 Global should primarily add GSM for calling outside of the US and a limited amount of HSPA-based 3G to allow roaming in Europe, primarily on Verizon's partner Vodafone. A slim chance exists that the Droid 2 may also get a faster 1.2GHz processor — Motorola workers at CTIA were wondering if the Droid Pro had the added speed — but most features would remain unchanged. A five-megapixel camera with 720p video and 16GB of total storage should stay, as should Android 2.2 with pre-installed Flash. [via Engadget]

Press Release:

Motorola Roadster™: Clearest Calls from Your Car

Stay in touch on the road with Roadster™, the latest Bluetooth®1 in-car speakerphone from Motorola’s Elite Series. Roadster’s dual-microphone noise cancellation technology makes sure you can be heard over road noise and blocks out background noise better than any other speakerphone currently on the market. Equipped with MotoSpeak™, Roadster reads aloud text messages and allows you to dictate your text response, so you can stay in touch while on the road.

Industry-leading Call Clarity
Roadster keeps your conversations clear and eliminates background noise with dual-microphone technology for superior noise cancellation. You can even listen to your calls over your car speakers by using the FM transmitter. The loud, 2-watt speaker works to combat cabin noise and wind, so you can focus more on the road and less on what’s going on around you.

The Smartest Way to Stay in Touch
MotoSpeak features bring you the latest text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology. Hear your text messages immediately and then dictate your reply. MotoSpeak even announces who is calling from your contact list. Simply download the free MotoSpeak application to your Android-powered 2.2 device and sync with Roadster, ensuring that you keep your eyes off your phone and on the road.

Intuitive and User-Friendly
Roadster automatically turns on when you get in the car and off when you leave, ensuring you are always hands-free. You can even answer or ignore incoming calls with a single word and use the dedicated voice-dial button to keep focused on the road. The smartly-placed buttons provide easy access to the most-used functions, and audible voice prompts give you updates on Roadster’s battery life and more. Perfect for long drives or on-the-road business calls, Roadster has up to 20 hours of talk time2, so you’ll never have to worry about cutting calls short.

Advanced Features
Stream music via A2DP on Roadster’s powerful speaker, or over your car’s speakers using the FM transmitter. Advanced Multipoint lets you pair Roadster with two devices, so you can take calls from your business and personal phones at the same time. Staying productive on the go has never been easier.

Motorola Roadster™
Talk Time2 Up to 20 hours
Standby Time2 Up to 3 weeks
Bluetooth® 1 Version v2.1
Weight 90g
Dimensions 90×70x14 mm
Range Up to 10m
Features
• MotoSpeak™ Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech technology
• Best-in-class dual microphone noise cancellation
• Auto On/Off
• Advanced Multipoint technology
• FM transmitter

Motorola Roadster™ Bluetooth®1 headset will be available in the US in Q4 2010.

Press Release:

Motorola CommandOne™: Ultimate Hands-Free Experience

Keep your hands free and your calls clear with CommandOne™, the latest Bluetooth®1 headset from Motorola’s Elite Series. With an enhanced version of MotoSpeak™, CommandOne provides the ultimate hands-free experience to answer your calls and text messages directly from the headset, keeping your hands available for the rest of your busy life.

Stay Connected the Smart Way
MotoSpeak features bring you the latest text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology. Hear your text messages immediately and then dictate your reply. MotoSpeak even announces who is calling from your contact list. Simply download the free MotoSpeak application to your Android-powered 2.2 device and sync with CommandOne, making life hands-free without hassles.

Hands-Free Simplified
Simplify your hands-free experience with voice controls by replying “answer” or “ignore” to incoming calls. CommandOne keeps you updated with audible voice prompts that tell you when you’re connected, which phone is ringing, and current battery level. Never let your headset slow you down. With Rapid Charge you can get up to 2.5 hours of talk time with just 15 minutes of charging and a battery meter also appears on select phones, so you can easily track you current power level.

Crystal-Clear Conversations
With CrystalTalk™ technology, you know your calls will be clear. This innovative technology uses dual-microphone noise cancellation that wipes out the sound in the background. Amazing audio quality can be heard on both sides of the conversation.

Work, Play and Everything In Between
With an A2DP profile for streaming audio on CommandOne, you can listen to navigation, your favorite music, videos, and games right through your headset. Also, receive calls and connect to two phones at once, so you can multitask between business and pleasure. Advanced MultiPoint lets you place one call on hold while accepting one on another phone, so you can switch from work to play and back again, all while staying connected to CommandOne.

Motorola CommandOne™
Talk Time2 Up to 5 hours
Standby Time2 Up to 7 days
Bluetooth® 1 Version Version 2.1 with EDR
Weight 12 g
Dimensions 54×18.5×11 mm
Features
• MotoSpeak Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech technology
• CrystalTalk™ dual microphone noise and echo cancellation technology
• A2DP streaming audio
• Voice Controls
• TrueComfort™ design
• Advanced Voice Prompts
• Advanced MultiPoint Technology
• Rapid Charge for 2.5 hours of talk time in 15 minutes
• EasyPair™ technology

Motorola CommandOne Bluetooth1® headset will be available in the U.S. in Q4 2010

Press Release:

Motorola Finiti™: Hear and Be Heard, Anywhere

Designed with extreme conditions in mind, Motorola’s latest Bluetooth®1 headset – Motorola Finiti™, is latest edition to our Elite Series. Finiti’s three microphone solution lets you carry on a conversation wherever your adventures take you. With an MotoSpeak™, Finiti allows you to listen to a text message and dictate a response, leaving your hands free to tackle whatever life throws at you.

The Stealth Mode
Using a combination of three microphones, Finiti brings you the best-in-class noise and wind cancellation, so you can have clear calls and be heard in any environment. Crystaltalk™ dual microphone technology dramatically cancels everyday background noise and provides amazing audio on both sides of the call. For an extra boost in extreme conditions users can activate the stealth mode, which converts your vocal vibrations into speech. Using true bone conduction technology3, the stealth mode microphone relays your voice while eliminating the most extreme noise and wind (up to 40 miles per hour), offering a premium headset experience.

A Smarter Way to Text
Finiti helps you stay connected while staying hands-free, even when texting, with enhanced Motospeak. Hear your text messages immediately and then dictate your reply. MotoSpeak even announces who is calling from your contact list. Simply download the free MotoSpeak application to your Android-powered 2.2 device and sync with Finiti, so whether driving or multitasking at home, Finiti allows you to stay in touch while staying productive.

Command with Your Voice
Never let phone calls trip up your daily routine. With Finiti, answering or ignoring a call takes a single word, either say “answer” or “ignore” when you receive an incoming call. It’s simple to manage your calls hands-free with voice activations, the caller’s name is also read aloud for all contacts in your phonebooks, so you know who is calling without lifting a finger.

Quickly Sync
The intuitive features on Motorola Finiti help you get connected quickly. It uses audible voice prompts that tell you when you’re connected, which phone is ringing, when stealth mode is activated and your current battery level. And you never have to wait to chat – with Rapid Charge you get up to 2.5 hours of talk time with just 15 minutes of charging. A battery meter also appears on select phones, so you can easily track you power level.

Motorola Finiti™
Talk Time2 Up to 5 hours
Standby Time2 Up to 6 days
Bluetooth® 1 Version Version 2.1 with EDR
Weight 12 g
Dimensions 54×18.5×11 mm
Features
• Three microphone technology with the stealth mode and CrystalTalk™ noise cancellation
• MotoSpeak™ Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech technology
• A2DP streaming audio
• Advanced Voice Prompts
• Advanced MultiPoint Technology
• Voice Controls
• Batter Meter
• Rapid Charge for 2.5 hours of talk time in 15 minutes
• EasyPair™ technology

Motorola Finiti Bluetooth®1 headset will be available in the U.S. in Q4 2010.

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Ah, enthusiasts. Damn the torpedoes, time and money; when the dedicated maven decides to make something of his own, he doesn't just do it a little. Hence, when James-Michael Gregory Harlan of Pontiac, Michigan wanted a slot car track as long as his name, he made it himself and called it the White Lake Formula 1 Ring.

An exhibit designer by trade, Harlan brought his massive skills to the endeavor by creating a track he believes “comprised many of the challenges one might encounter on a modern F1 circuit.” Hermann Tilke should take notes. The track itself is CNC routed on the AC2car system that lets two cars run on the same slot – giving racers a chance to pass each other using the lane changers.

Built in a 20-square-foot space, the ring is 1/32-scale, the lap is 145 feet long, and it features 19 turns and 2.5 feet of elevation change. Surrounding it is a hand-built and painted environment that includes pit lanes, a helipad and crane, bleachers and viewing towers, and lights for night racing. It comes as no surprise that he's been working on it for years. You can see the fruits of his labor in the video after the jump and the gallery of high-res photos below. Once you're done with those, be sure to check out even more pics on Flickr.

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When I was looking for a publisher in the olden days of 2008 (47 years ago in ebook time), it seemed clear that the way to make a living as a writer was to get an agent, find a publisher, sell your book in stores, and wait for the money truck to back into your driveway, even if didn't always work out that way. But now that Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and other ebook vendors let you self-publish your books electronically (also called indie publishing), many unpublished writers think it's a no-brainer to forgo traditional publishers.

As someone who has seen both sides, first as a self-published ebook author and now as traditionally published author with Simon & Schuster, I can tell you that each avenue has its pros and cons, all of which I can sum up by saying: if you think writing is hard, wait until you try publishing.

Bestselling author Seth Godin ditched his publisher to sell his books directly to readers because he feels that he no longer needs his publisher's support for packaging, marketing, and distribution. On the other hand, Philip Goldberg wrote his own post about why he thinks a traditional publisher is still both relevant and needed. I'm sure both of them thought a long time about why they write, who their readers are, how they'd find those readers, how they want to spend their time, and what resources they have.

I know I considered all of the same issues that Godin and Goldberg did. When I self-published my three books last year, it was extremely gratifying to post my novels to the Kindle store and see my sales progress on a daily basis. I had total control over my cover, the title, the release date, and the pricing of my books. When I received the offer of publication, it meant taking my books off the Kindle and having them unavailable to readers for another year or more, but I felt that what I gave up was more than compensated by what I was getting in return: editing help, bookstore distribution, credibility with foreign publishers, and an advance payment against future royalties.

My decision wouldn't have been right for everyone and for every situation. Electronic self-publishing knocks down huge barriers to entry and gives writers a choice they've never had before, which is fantastic and is energizing the writing industry in a new way. But when deciding whether to indie publish, don't overlook all the questions traditionally published authors have been dealing with for years…

• Who will translate my book into Chinese? If you want a world-wide presence, foreign language translations open you up to a much larger audience. Stieg Larsson has sold four million books in the US, but he's sold forty million worldwide. I know many writers whose foreign sales outpace their US sales.
• How do I get Entertainment Weekly to review my book? It is difficult for any author to get media attention, let alone from a national magazine. For self-published authors, it's even harder unless your book is already a major phenomenon. Respected publicists are out there, but they don't come cheap, and you may decide to hire one anyway if you are traditionally published.
• If I don't get an advance, how will I pay my Netflix subscription while I write my next book? E-publishing is changing this equation because money can start coming in immediately if you self-publish, but it may not equal what you could get with an advance. On the flip side, if you have an idea of what you can make on your own by self-publishing, it gives you more negotiating leverage for a possible traditional publishing deal.
• What financial risk am I willing to take? Any kind of business is always a risk. If you self-publish, you are putting your own money into the venture with no guarantee of success, and you may be foregoing an advance of guaranteed money to do it. Even if your sales are great now, they may not continue that way forever (ask any real estate agent). If you go with a traditional publisher, you're selling the rights to your work for an advance that may never earn out. Both directions have great upsides and downsides, so crunch the numbers to see what's right for you.
• How will I get substantive and knowledgeable help editing my manuscript? Everyone needs an experienced editor to give them feedback on their book. You can hire one, but make sure you're getting your money's worth. And if you are approached by a traditional publisher, interview the editor to see if there is a good fit for your style.
• Do I care if I see my book in print? For some people, it still doesn't feel like you have a book until you can hold a paper one in your hands. I know when I was publishing electronically, it felt like I wasn't a “real” author because my book wasn't in stores. That stigma, however, is quickly vanishing, and indie writers can hold their heads up high and say they're authors.
• How much of a control freak am I? Let's face it: writers love control. We create whole worlds. We get to control every single thing our characters say, do, and feel. We control whether they live or die. However, we have very little control over whether someone picks up our book, buys it, reads it, and likes it. Self-publishing gives us that sense of control we crave, but it comes at a cost in money, energy, and time. Publishing independently may very well be worth it to you, but be aware those costs exist.

The great thing about both self-publishing and traditional publishing is that writers can make money doing what they love. If you have a passion to write, there is no better time to be an author. But if you want to make writing your business, be sure you're asking all the right questions before you choose a path.

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This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand. Amen.

I won a copy of SELF PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR on the twitter machine and it just showed up today. I think I'll pull some kind of Kenny Goldsmith and retype all the poems, change their names to "Untitled" and send them to various little mags to show the world just how unsophisticated the damn kids these days are WTF?

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Aug 21st, 2010 at
1:58 am

jimmy & jill:

what are you two on about with your comments? Can you not SEE that the child is enjoying reciting the poem? That he takes pleasure in saying the words?

We all learn by rote when we are young and how you can possibly see his apparent pleasure at knowing this poem as something negative is beyond comprehension, really.

What he is learning from such an exercise will serve him well for years to come. It doesn't matter if he isn't sure what a cornflower is for now. We all learned songs and nursery rhymes without knowing what every word meant.

Hi guys! I'll respond to the “why do you make it so hard?” comments. The short answer is: because that makes it fun! Here's where we're coming from:

The movies we show are the _exact_ same movies that are probably playing on basic cable, probably that same night. Last month, we showed “Jurassic Park” on the side of the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Delaware Museum of Natural History. The movie was showing on Syfy the same night, but the two experiences are very different. I'd forgotten that Jurassic Park is actually *incredibly* scary. And being able to stare at and compare actual dinosaur teeth? Well, it's a fun night out.

If you're 40 like me (definitely not a millennial), you remember the nail-biting experience of driving to the movie theater, wondering if you were going to get a good seat. C'MON DAD FLOOR IT! JESUS!

Nowadays, with movies available ubiquitously and on-demand, we're trying to put some of the inconvenience, fear, and excitement back into movies. Because that's where some of the fun comes from, too. We're DEFINITELY not exclusive — I'll drop as many corny hints as anyone needs to figure out where the MacGuffin is — but rather, we're working to have something fun that's a bit more than “click this button here” “okay then, you're done.” This is intended to be additive and welcoming.

We have about 300 members so far, with anywhere from 50 to 200 showing up for a screening. It's definitely not meant to be a cooler-than-you thing, but rather a shared adventure movie club. If you're in the area (West Chester, PA) come on out if you like!

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