Wed, 13 May 2009 23:03:33 GMT

Realtor list

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Sat, 02 May 2009 14:50:46 GMT

One more step to bank nationalization

While the Federal Reserve says most US banks are well capitalized and will be okay in these stress tests, chances are the public and investors will still have to confront the n-word. Nationalization is on its way.

Read carefully between the lines of this otherwise bland New York Time piece . According to that piece, experts assess that US banks might still need $1 trillion in capital. "As the dust settles from the shakeout on Wall Street, the 19 banks subject to stress tests are starting to divide into three groups: the strong that can weather the storm; the weak that will need new, perhaps significant, support; and the ones on the verge, whose fate will be decided by regulators."

The question is where those banks "on the verge" are going to get that money. Surely not private investors.

Earlier this week, I did a blog entry suggesting the US government was moving in the direction of nationalizing the banks via the back door. This is unfortunate. From one perspective, governments don't know how to run banks. From another, nationalization might well be the only way to fix the toxic assets. What's needed is a full and open debate, possibly even Congressional approval. Doing it by the back door to avoid that debate is wrong. Posted by: leon      Read more     Source

Sat, 02 May 2009 14:07:31 GMT

From Ideas to Reality

Nicole Wong at VentureBeat recently took a look at some basic rules to live by if you want to get your ideas (business of otherwise) off the ground. And excellent rules they are. She collected the rules by listening to presenters at a two-day conference - the 99% Conference.

If you're interested enough in entrepreneurial issues to be reading this blog to start with, you probably already knew rule number one: Engage in personal projects and things that you love. While that's a foundation for small business success, the second rule is perhaps more important to getting started in business: Share your ideas and listen to other people's.Often people don't share their ideas liberally because they're scared other people will either steal them or criticize them, Belsky said. But he and other speakers emphasized the importance of sharing ideas, and do so quickly - because debate helps you decide which are likely to gain traction. Talking about your ideas will also increase the chances you'll see them through, he said, since you'll feel accountable to the people you've shared them with."Belsky" is Scott Belsky, founder of Behance.

Wong goes on an talks about some other rules for getting your ideas off the ground in some detail.
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Sat, 02 May 2009 13:33:07 GMT

Does Wikipedia matter?

Laurent MR and Vickers TJ from the Faculty of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium published an article about Wikipedia and its health information database.

OBJECTIVE To determine the significance of the English Wikipedia as a source of online health information.

DESIGN We measured Wikipedia’s ranking on general Internet search engines by entering keywords from MedlinePlus, NHS Direct Online and the National Organization of Rare Diseases as queries into search engine optimization software.

RESULTS Wikipedia ranked among the first ten results in 71-85 % of search engines and keywords tested. Wikipedia surpassed MedlinePlus and NHS Direct Online (except for queries from the latter on Google UK), and ranked higher with quality articles.

CONCLUSION Based on its search engine ranking and page view statistics, the English Wikipedia is a prominent source of online health information compared to the other online health information providers studied.

Believe me, I’m one of the biggest fans of Wikipedia. I’ve been working on medical articles in Wikipedia since 2004!

We are working hard and trying to put proper references into the medical entries there, though it will still take a lot of time to create a really comprehensive and medically reliable encyclopaedia.

But do the authors think pageviews and search engine rankings can indicate the real quality of a medical article? Is that a joke?

If I can manage to make my article climb up on search engine result pages by using SEO tricks and direct people to my site, it means my content is medically appropriate?

I tell you the answer, it is not!

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Fri, 01 May 2009 02:37:14 GMT

Red Barn Pictures

Take a drive through rural America, and red barns are a common sight. All across the nation, barns have an important function on the farm. The barn is the place where farm animals were kept warm and safe; a dry place for crops to be stored for those long winter months.

Here are a variety of these magnificent farm buildings.

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Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:40:15 GMT

Search Engine Marketing

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With increasing globalization, it has become a fact that one can find numerous prospects online. Millions of people are searching for the products and services we provide. NuReach Global Internet Marketing Services has channeled the search of those million prospects towards my website. This has given me and my medium sized business tremendous opportunity to compete with the larger corporations. Thinking about it was somehow impossible for me before I came across NuReach Global Internet Marketing Services. They are the best social media services as well as a fine source of reliable and principled Search Engine Marketing and in So-Cal. They are the answer to your search for effective ways to promote your website and boost your site in the search engines. I can claim that you will they are dedicated on bringing results for you. I did not have to send my hard earned money on various campaigns that target people who are least interested the kind of products and services
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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:36:49 GMT

DUEL PHOTOCAP: When Idiots Attack

In an effort to procrastinate from my real work, I decided to throw together this impromptu photocap of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge. I"m happy to report that the new season, titled The Duel II, seems to be off to an exciting start. CT threw his traditional pre-challenge punch, which got him sent packing back to Southie. Meanwhile, everyone else slutted it up in New Zealand, and when they weren"t exchanging bodily fluids, they were attempting to strategize with the most Byzantine set of plans that I"ve seen on reality TV. It made no sense, and if it did, I couldn"t follow it. Not that it really matters. When these kids aren"t hooking up or fighting, I tend to just zone them all out. Anyway, fun times after the jump.... Posted by: B-Side      Read more     Source

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:54:41 GMT

Sideways Photography

Sideways Photography.What got our attention to this post are the hilarious comments; well what do you think, can these be real? Or is this yet another shopped set? Whatever it is, but it looks interesting and it reminded us of our old post "Gravity, Think Again " where the whole room and the furniture and fixtures were arranged and fixed to get the needed effect. Check it out, we are sure you will appreciate the effort put in, all it takes is two days and it can be done in ten simple steps. Posted by: Venus      Read more     Source

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:59:07 GMT

30 Beautiful Pictures Of Animal Photography

Photographing animals can be a challenge and requires patience, determination and understanding of animal behavior so that you can expect how they will be likely to act or react and predict the moment for a good photograph.

Good exposure, color and blur settings in addition with proper shutter speed and focusing techniques are essential to produce stunning animal photographs. Posted by: Gerard      Read more     Source

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:54:51 GMT

Fusion IO Drive

Is the Fusion IO Drive a harbinger of doom for the humble hard disk? The product is based on what they call ‘ioMemory’ and apparently features some blisteringly fast performance figures. We’re talking orders of magnitude faster data throughput, folks. What with top end laptops now featuring solid state drives as standard and this level of technology offering incredible speed advantages of around 100x, all we’re really waiting for is the price efficiency curve to kick in and bingo, Winchester/Bernoulli tech is dead. Maybe. Keep your eye on this one for the future.

 Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the ioDrive and ioDrive Duo are the world’s most advanced NAND clustering technology designed for server based application-centric storage — giving you the power to dramatically improve both your application memory capacity and storage performance. The ioDrive increases performance such that every server can easily match the I/O performance of the world’s fastest enterprise SAN. Posted by: Redferret      Read more     Source