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  1. Podcast Brothers 04-20-07 Podcast Brothers
    2. 20 Apr 2007 at 4:00am
    bPresented by: a href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/register.php" target=_blankPodcast New Media Expo - Register to attend today/a/bbrbra href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/register.php"img src="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/images/ppmelogo200x23.gif" border="0"/abrbr#13;#10;Tim and Emile Bourquin, The Podcast Brothers, talk about: the a href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/conference.htm"conference program/a sessions have been posted, thanks to a href="http://www.revver.com"Revver/a and a href="http://www.podango.com"Podango/a for sponsoring the Expo, the Podcast Advertising Agreement and Insertion Order has been updated (a href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/PodcastAdvertisingAgreement.doc"Word format/a), pros/cons of repeating content for new listeners, a href="http://www.podcastingunderground.com/"Jason Van Orden's/a audio comment about "free" podcasts, times when making your podcast free actually makes you more money, when to have your audience register and even pay to get your show, Apple iTunes as "the network", a href="http://www.loomia.com"Loomia's/a change of business model (via a href="http://www.foundread.com/view/good-migration"Found:Read/a), getting your show listed higher in search engine rankings, how to tag posts, audio and video about the Expo (a href="http://technorati.com/tag/newmediaexpo2007"NewMediaExpo2007/a), a href="http://www.polymorphicpodcast.com/"Polymorphic Podcast/a and a href="http://thepmpodcast.com"Project Management Podcast/a remind us about the a href="http://www.feedforall.com/autodiscovery.htm"FeedForAll RSS Auto-discovery tool/a, check out the a href="http://newmediaexpo.magnify.net/"New Media Expo Magnify.net channel/a, and a href="http://www.bloggerandpodcaster.com"Blogger and Podcaster Magazine/a has launched the first issue.#10;#10;brbrIntro by: Scott Whitney of a href="http://www.podworx.com"PodWorx, LLC/abr br /a href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/podcastbros/PodcastBrothers_04-20-07_PodcastBrother s.asx"Play in Windows Media/a br /a href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/podcastbros/PodcastBrothers_04-20-07_PodcastBrother s.ram"Play in RealPlayer/a br /a href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/podcastbros/PodcastBrothers_04-20-07_PodcastBrother s.m3u"Play mp3 stream/a br /a href="http://www.newmediaexpo.com/podcastbros/PodcastBrothers_04-20-07_PodcastBrother s.mp3"Direct link to mp3 file/a br /br /a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tncnewmedia/PodcastBrothers_04-20-07_PodcastBr others" target="_self"Comments/a


  2. Reading list, Virtual online worlds and MMOGs
    3. 18 Jan 2008 at 5:41am
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    p (Preface#8230;not much blogging lately as i#8217;ve been struggling with my spam issue for several months. At least a href="http://www.earnersblog.com/wordpress-hacked/"i#8217;m not alone/a with this particular problem but having to wade through instructions to a href="http://www.reaper-x.com/2007/09/01/hardening-wordpress-with-mod-rewrite-and-hta ccess/"harden Wordpress/a and worry about the nasty emails i#8217;ve received from Google are making me reconsider the amount of energy required to host a blog on my server vs a hosted provider. Spam is gone#8230;for now#8230;will see how things continue to develop before I make any drastic decisions#8230;)/p pBeen learning about virtual worlds and economies lately and thought i#8217;d share some of the interesting links i#8217;ve dug up:/p ul liA presentation from the Future Play conference in Toronto. a href="http://www.constances.org/"Dr. Constance Steinkuehler/a, assistant professor in the a href="http://www.education.wisc.edu/ci/ect/?folder=homeamp;section=people"Educational Communication amp; Technology program/a for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues that MMOs and online worlds are good “push technologies” for education, rather than threats to it. A a href="http://people.auc.ca/brodbeck/constance.mp3"really nice talk/a (mp3), very down to earth and informative./li liPresentations from last year#8217;s State of Play conference in Singapore. All talks are worth listening to but highlights for me included the talk on a href="http://origin.eastbaymedia.com/~nyls/asx/SOP_5/200807_02.asx"regulating virtual worlds/a, a href="http://origin.eastbaymedia.com/~nyls/asx/SOP_5/200807_03.asx"kids, education and virtual worlds/a and some great crosscultural insights in the a href="http://origin.eastbaymedia.com/~nyls/asx/SOP_5/200807_04.asx"connecting east and west/a panel. (loads very slowly at first#8230;)/li lia href="http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/"Play Money/a by Julian Dibbell. Absolutely brilliant, fun, informative, somewhat of a compulsive read actually#8230;a great introduction to the life of a a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=tamp;ct=resamp;cd=1amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiped ia.org%2Fwiki%2FFarmer_(gaming)amp;ei=ulOHR-z9NZ32wQHpkOzjDgamp;usg=AFQjCNHmj3Tv7Wk8N tGFENJZPjoJIysLpwamp;sig2=2-KSxXJ7Ibs7bICMrHQvKg"gold farmer/a./li liEdward Castronova#8217;s fascinating economic explorations of the MMOG phenomenon in a href="http://www.amazon.com/Synthetic-Worlds-Business-Culture-Online/dp/0226096262"Sy nthetic Worlds: The business and culture of online games/a/li liSelected talks from a href="http://www.vgsummit.com/videos.php"Virtual Goods 2007/a. An overview of the conference plus commentary on the subject is a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/06/24/making-real-money-from-virtual-goods/"available here/a from Om Malik along with a list of a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/06/13/top-ten-most-popular-mmos/"top ten MMOGs/a by active user or subscriber. (Update: The conference site seems to have gone down over the past few days but the talks are still available via Brightcove: a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1078549878/bctid1111458217"Confer ence intro/Habbo/Nexon/Neopets/a, a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1078549878/bctid1111458218"The value of digital goods/a, a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1078549878/bctid1112164083"Making virtual economies work/a, a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1078549878/bctid1111372284"Virtua l items, mainstream or not/moderated by Robert Scoble/a, a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1078549878/bctid1114198743"Busine ss models/a. Well worth a listen. Not sure how long they will be online.)/li liBrief a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/31virtual.html?_r=3amp;thamp;emc=tha mp;oref=sloginamp;oref=sloginamp;oref=slogin"article/a from the NY Times (free login required) about the rapid growth in virtual worlds for children./li liSome of the most creative Flash-based stuff i#8217;ve seen in years is coming out of France including large games like a href="http://www.dofus.com/"Dofus/a, or smaller ones like a href="http://www.pioupiouz.com"Piou Pioux/a (chicks) and a href="http://en.dinoparc.com/"DinoParc/a. Bryan has also recently take a liking to a href="www.nexon.net"Nexon/a#8217;s games#8211;in particular a href="http://kart.nexon.net/"KartRider/a!/li /ul


  3. Linux News Log Podcast #143
    4. 31 Oct 2007 at 2:11am
    h3Items Covered During this Episode/h3 pstronga href="http://media.techpodcasts.com/linuxnewslog/http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect. mp3?http://audio.quicksurf.com/audiocasts/Linux-News-Log-143-2007-10-30.mp3"Download Podcast (MP3 Format)/a/strong/p pstronga href="http://media.techpodcasts.com/linuxnewslog/http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect. ogg?http://audio.quicksurf.com/audiocasts/Linux-News-Log-143-2007-10-30.ogg"Download Podcast (OGG Format)/a/strong/p ul lia href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138720-c,linux/article.html"How To: Switch From Windows to Linux/a/li lia href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/63546,red-hat-patches-multiple-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%98 critical%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99-vulnerabilities-in-linux.aspx"Red Hat patches multiple ‘critical’ vulnerabilities in Linux/a/li lia href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/10/22/daily24.html"Linux data center automator Levanta raises $8M/a/li lia href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/23/1913239"ATI Releases AIGLX Linux Driver/a/li lia href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2007/10/microsoft_relea_2.h tml"Microsoft Releases Update for VM Additions for Linux/a/li lia href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3749020799.html"Compact, customizable Linux gadget targets IP telephony/a/li lia href="http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/27/sco-gets-bankruptcy-cour t"SCO wants bankruptcy court approval to sell its Unix business/a/li lia href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138884-c,linux/article.html"First Look: Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Linux/a/li /ul h3Subscribe To The Show/h3 ul lia href="http://linux.quicksurf.com/?feed=rss2amp;cat=78"RSS 2.0 MP3/a/li lia href="http://audio.quicksurf.com/?cat=5#038;feed=rss2"RSS 2.0 Ogg Vorbis/a/li lia href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73331500"iTune s MP3/a/li /ul h3Show Sponsors/h3 ul liTry GoToMeeting free for 30 days at a href="http://www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts"GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts/a. No credit card needed./li lia href="http://quicksurf.com/?page_id=984"Want to advertise on this show? Click Here!/a/li /ul h3Contact Information/h3 ul lia href="http://linux.quicksurf.com/"Visit us on the Web!/a/li lia href="http://podcasts.quicksurf.com/"Visit Our Sister Shows/a/li liEmail: linux at quicksurf dot com/li liVoice Mail Hot Line: 602-466-3134/li lia href="http://www.facebook.com/p/Adrian_Bacon/763731094"FaceBook Profile/a/li /ul h3Memberships/h3 ul lia href="http://www.techpodcasts.com/"img src="http://quicksurf.com/pictures/techpodcasts/tp_badge_gry.gif" alt="Tech Podcasts... if it's tech, it's here!" border="0"//a/li lia href="http://blubrry.com/"We#8217;re listed over at BluBrry! Check It Out!/a/li /ul pstrongCommunity:/strong a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2url=http://linux.quicksurf.com/?p=2286title=Linux +News+Log+Podcast+#143"Digg this/a | a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://linux.quicksurf.com/?p=2286title=Linux+News+ Log+Podcast+#143"Del.icio.us/a/p


  4. Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #35
    5. 23 Jan 2007 at 3:00am
    p align=centerimg id="image4631" src="http://paxnortona.notfrisco2.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/panslabyrinthfaun.jp g" alt="panslabyrinthfaun.jpg"//p pspan style="float: left; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px"img alt="square178" src="http://www.notfrisco2.com/webzine/Joel/archives/squares/square178.gif" width="50" height="50" border="0" align=left //spanA battle over lost cargo is dominating the British media while in the United States the trial of the Cheney aide who allegedly leaked Valerie Plame#8217;s name has begun. Meanwhile the Academy Award nominations have been announced (and Babel received too many), so with that we shall begin:/p ul lia href="http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards/noms.html" target="_new"The 79th Academy Awards have been announced/a. I am cheering for a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/" target="_new"Pan#8217;s Labyrinth/a for Best Foreign film and Jennifer Hudson for Best Supporting Actress./li liWhile Elkit was sleeping, I sneaked into her blog and kyped this list of a href="http://www.eliteskills.com/free_education/?foo=x" target="_new"free online education resources/a./li liCheck out the bemusing photos from the a href="http://feministing.com/archives/006402.html" target="_new"National March for Life/a./li liA member of a href="http://www.pwob.org/" target="_new"Psychologists Without Borders/a is off to Cambodia to interview a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6289741.stm" target="_new"the jungle girl who turned up last week/a. Some experts dispute the claim that she had turned feral. Did child abuse by her policeman father drive her into the forest?/li lia href="http://film.guardian.co.uk/festivals/news/0,,1997043,00.html?gusrc=rss#038;feed =1" target="_new"Is emHounddog/em in violation of child pornography laws?/a/li liCyber-criminals are expected to use booby-trapped websites as businesses crack down on email gateways. a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6290413.stm" target="_new"#8220;Lax security on US-hosted websites is one of the key reasons the US remains a hotspot for cyber crime, said Sophos.#8221;/a Watch out for malicious downloaders that exploit security breaches in Internet Explorer and Firefox. a href="http://www.opera.com" target="_new"Opera/a incorporates safety features as part of its basic package./li liBruce Schneir suggests that a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/debating_full_d.html" target="_new"full disclosure not secrecy/a is the best way to fight computer cracking./li liCounterspin features discussion about how conservatives are trying to coopt a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King"Martin Luther King/a by gutting his message. There#8217;s also a piece on journalist Sarah Olson who is being subpoenaed for her interviews of Lieutenant Ehren Watada—the first commissioned officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. a href="http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin011907.mp3" target="_new"Mp3 here/a and a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=15#038;rm=CounterSpin011907.rm" target="_new"RealAudio here/a./li liThe two Iraqs #8212; Red and Green #8212; are the topic of an interesting a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/soldz01232007.html" target="_new"Counterpunch article/a./li liFollowing its anorexia claim against Keira Knightley, a href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1996621,00.html?gusrc=rss#038;feed=1" target="_new"the Daily Mail has now resorted to the tired old tactic of red-baiting/a./li lia href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_sc/austria_melting_glaciers" target="_new"Alpine glaciers have fifty more years of life as the world heats up./a/li liemMicroraptor gui/em, an early flying dinosaur, has been found to have a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6287367.stm" target="_new"dropped its legs to form a biplane-like configuration/a. (Also a href="http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,181403373,1439,f/" target="_new"here/a.)/li lia href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070122181038.htm" target="_new"The day may be coming when dentists don#8217;t drill or jab./a/li lia href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6286689.stm" target="_new"Alzheimer#8217;s Disease can now be vaccinated against/a./li liMandy Moore joins the legions of film stars who say that a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200 70122/ap_on_en_mo/people_mandy_moore" target="_new"they have struggled with depression/a./li lia href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070122/ap_on_bi_ge/pfizer_restructuring" target="_new"Zoloft manufacturer Pfizer is cutting 10,000 jobs and closing 5 plants/a to deal with the challenges of generic pharmaceutical rivals./li lia href="http://www.psycport.com/showArticle.cfm?xmlFile=ap%5F2007%5F01%5F22%5Fap%2Eonli ne%2Eall%5FD8MQIJO83%5Fnews%5Fap%5Forg%2Eanpa%2Exml#038;provider=Associated%20Press" target="_new"Antidepressants such as Zoloft and Prozac may make your bones more brittle./a/li /ul


  5. Google 411 — Free Information Listings via Phone
    6. 2 May 2007 at 9:54pm
    pIf you call 800-466-4411, Google provides you with free business information listings, equivalent to calling information, only free. This a href="http://labs.google.com/goog411/" title="Google 411" target="_blank" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/labs.google.com');"Goog-411/a service is worthwhile to enter as a contact on your cell phone so you can access it while driving. When I was lost in Seattle I called Google to connect with the place I was headed./p pHere#8217;s a sample of me calling for Sam Ash music store:/p p/p


  6. THE RIGHT TO DETERMINE
    7. 20 May 2007 at 10:07pm
    div class='snap_preview'pHave to draw attention to a comment over at Real Debate Wisconsin that takes brass cojones./p pIn one of the a href="http://realdebatewisconsin.blogspot.com/2007/05/wrong-outrage-people.html"threa ds/a on the termination of Jessica McBride#8217;s radio show, a commenter identifying himself as #8220;goofticket#8221; made the following comment:/p blockquotep Now it#8217;s time to get her off the faculty at UW-M./p pWe certainly don#8217;t need a hack, like McBride teaching, communications to anyone./p/blockquote pI left a comment addressed to it, but feel that I need to expand on this in a post of my own./p pAdd another idiot to that list: a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jamesmdw/6901809495231569256/?a=52069#225224"W ilson828/a over at a href="http://wigdersonlibrarypub.blogspot.com/2007/05/mcbride-fired.html"Wigderson#82 17;s Library amp; Pub/a. Demanding that Jessica be fired by UWM./p blockquotepThe bitch was bitch slapped. Now the next question is how can UWM keep her employed after such demonstration of conduct? As a taxpayer I call for Jessica McBride’s termination from teaching at UWM/p/blockquote pFor those of you who think there isn#8217;t any celebration and high-fiving at the level of a Packers#8217; touchdown, there#8217;s more proof. This was pure celebratory end zone dance from a trash-talking turd merchant./p pOn what grounds should she be terminated?/p pWhat kind of arrogance does it take for an individual to feel he has the right to drum anyone out of a profession or the workplace in general simply for disagreement on political views? What makes #8220;goofticket#8221; or #8220;Wilson828#8243; think they are more qualified to evaluate Jessica#8217;s abilities as an instructor than her superiors, who actually observe and conduct real evaluations?/p pAre #8220;goofticket#8221; and #8220;Wilson828#8243; going to stalk Jessica, follow her around from profession to profession, making sure she is never able to work again except at a job of which they approve, simply because of her political views? #8220;Goofticket#8221; and #8220;Wilson828#8243; now become the arbiters of what work Jessica McBride or by extension anyone can do because of what they believe?/p pThis has nothing to do with her capabilities but rather the disagreement of #8220;goofticket#8221; and #8220;Wilson828#8243; with her political views. If that#8217;s the case — disagreement with one taxpayer over the political views of a university instructor, assistant professor, adjunct professor or professor — then there#8217;s a whole lot of people on the UW payroll that I want removed./p pWhere were #8220;goofticket#8221; and #8220;Wilson828#8243; when Kevin Barrett was spewing his 9/11 Truther moonbat conspiracy theories on my dime? Probably defending Barrett#8217;s #8220;academic freedom.#8221; Cue the a href="http://www.brandens.net/files/Sounds/FX/Animals/CRICKET4.WAV"chirping crickets/a again. Boy, they#8217;re getting a workout lately, aren#8217;t they?/p pMore moonbattery from #8220;goofticket#8221;:/p blockquotep Time for us to take back the free press from the profit press, and teach our kids what free, responsible communications is./p/blockquote pIn other words, shut down all opinions except those that you want to hear. Imprison anyone who dissents and send them to re-education camps./p pAll media is profit, and profit isn#8217;t a dirty word, no matter what your gummint-run skoolz or commie lib college profs told you. If there ain#8217;t a profit, they go out of business./p pCommunism/Socialism/Marxism still doesn#8217;t work anywhere it#8217;s tried./p /div


  7. SPEC Talk Radio will cover Acheiving Value in Your Company for Investors - Ma...
    8. 23 May 2008 at 12:00pm
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    SPEC Talk Radio's special guest will be Michael Halliwell, Director at Taylor Consulting Group. Valuation is the biggest sticking point for companies negotiating for investment or for the sale of their company. www.taylorgroupconsulting.com We'll cover the different approaches to reaching the Value of a company. We'll cover bootstrapping and methods for increasing value with limited funding. To get the full list of Free or Near Free resources, go to www.launchfn.com and click on the Info


  8. DRM: Digital Rights Restrictions - Richard Stallman Viewpoint: Video
    9. 24 Feb 2007 at 2:28am
    pstrongDigital Rights Management, or a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRM"DRM/a/strong, is an all-too-pervasive means by which the manufacturers of hardware and software - including music and video - place restrictions upon the people that buy it from them. If you have ever downloaded a music track from a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itunes"iTunes/a, or a movie from a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Unbox"Amazon Unbox/a, bought an audio book from a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audible.com"Audible/a or tried to get your music collection back off ana href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod" iPod/a, you have already come into contact with a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management"DRM/a. /p pimg alt="Richard_Stallman.jpg" src="http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/Richard_Stallman.jpg" width="454" height="456" /br / span class="photocredit"Photo credit: a href="http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/weblog/gallery/richard-stallman/richard-sta llman-Pages/Image1.html"Ovidiu Predescu/a/span /p pstrongEffectively, DRM is a means of controlling and restricting/strong how you listen to, watch or interact with your digital media. For one, it is designed to prevent you from sharing it with your friends, and for another it is kept in place to ensure that you do not tamper with, remix or in any way alter the digital content that you have purchased. In some cases you are restricted to accessing this media using a single device. Lose the device, lose the media. /p pIncreasingly, consumers are standing up and refusing to be treated like criminals by the people whose salaries they pay. While there are a a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=remove+drmie=utf-8oe=utf-8rls=org.mozilla:en-U S:officialclient=firefox-a"growing number of ways to remove DRM/a from software they remain largely illegal, and perhaps the most effective stand that consumers can take against it is to boycott products that implement DRM altogether.br / /p pbr /br / strongIn the second part of Robin Good's exclusive interview/strong with a href="http://www.fsf.org/"Free Software/a pioneer and founding member of a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/node"Defective By Design/a a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman"Richard Stallman/a, they discuss the current status of DRM and the alternatives available to you as a consumer and producer of digital media. /p pWhat is DRM, where can you find it in action, and what are the alternatives? !-- FA -- /ppstrongRichard Stallman on DRM - with full transcript/strong /p pRG: emCan we spend a few words on the status of DRM and your concern on activities around it?/em /p pobject width="425" height="350"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8p9IU4zp7mU"/paramparam name="wmode" value="transparent"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8p9IU4zp7mU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"/embed/object /p pemIn line with Richard Stallman's wishes, this video is also available to a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/RobinGood-RichardStallmanOnDRM12930.ogg"download in the Free Software Ogg Theora format/a/em /p pstrongRichard Stallman/strong: DRM refers to Digital Restrictions Management. That’s the practice of developing software specifically to restrict the users, where the program says “I don’t wanna show you this file… I don’t wanna let you copy part of this file… I don’t wanna print this file for emYou/em, ‘cause you’re no good.” /p pLiterally the developers design the software to stop you from doing things. Microsoft does it, Apple does it, Adobe does it, Sony did it in a very nasty way and received a lot of criticism for it a year ago. It’s therefore a temptation that many proprietary software developers face – to put in malicious features. /p pYou can’t tell in many cases whether a proprietary program has malicious features. Some kinds of malicious features are visible – DRM is visible – if the program refuses to let you do certain things, you can see that. If it spies on you, you may not be able to see that – it’s a different malicious feature. /p pThese malicious features are possible because of the fact that the developer has power over the users. If the users were in control, they would take out the malicious features. And with Free Software, that’s what happens, except we never put them in because it would be like trying to rob a bank by pointing your finger at somebody and saying “I’ll shoot my finger at you”. You know, its’s going to be obvious that you can’t and nobody’s going to do anything but laugh. And so nobody even gets tempted to try to put malicious features into Free Software because they know that someone else will take them out. /p pBut with proprietary software, once the developers have power over the users they can put in anything they want, and the users can’t change it. They’re constantly faced with the idea of choosing the features to hurt the users and help themselves at the users expense. /p pRG: emWhat are the actions that we as individuals can take to stop some of this?/em /p pobject width="425" height="350"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0FP7pWNu40"/paramparam name="wmode" value="transparent"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0FP7pWNu40" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"/embed/object /p pemIn line with Richard Stallman's wishes, this video is also available to a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/RobinGood-RichardStallmanOnDRM22640.ogg"download in the Free Software Ogg Theora format/a/em /p pstrongRichard Stallman/strong: The main thing you can do to stop DRM is don’t accept products with DRM. Don’t use Apple iTunes, don’t buy HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, don’t buy ordinary DVDs unless you get a copy of the illegal Free Software that can play a DVD. I prefer simply not to get any DVDs that are encrypted, because that’s a better solution from my point of view. /p pSo if you reject these things, and don’t install Real Player or Windows Media Player on your machine – these also implement DRM. If you care about freedom, then when someone asks you to give up your freedom for practical benefits, you’ll say no. And ultimately that’s what we depend on. /p pBut there’s more you can do, if you want to spend some time opposing DRM go to a href="http://www.DefectiveByDesign.org"DefectiveByDesign.org/a, which is the website of our protest campaign against DRM. We have had many public protests this year, on the DRM issue, and we are continuing to do so. The more people join the campaign, the more we will be heard. /p pbr / br /br / img alt="defectiveipoddrm.jpg" src="http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/defectiveipoddrm.jpg" width="280" height="373" /br / span class="photocredit"Photo credit: a href="http://www.DefectiveByDesign.org"Defective By Design/a/span /p pbr / strongDefective By Design/strong /p pa href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org"Defective By Design/a is both a well featured online resource and an organization determined to raise public consciousness as to DRM and assist them in living without it once and for all. In addition to bringing about a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/blog/881"international protests/a and a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/blog/896"direct action/a against DRM, Defective By Design also offer a a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/guide"growing list of DRM-Free products and services/a that consumers can use as alternatives to their a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/guide/"DRM-restricted counterparts/a. /p pstrongIn the following short video/strong, we see one example of Defective By Design members taking their message to the street, and learn more about the ideas behind the organization and its issues with companies like Apple, who make heavy use of DRM in their iTunes and iPod products. /p pThis is one of many Anti-DRM protests carried out by Defective By Design. It took place at the San Francisco Apple Store in June of last year. The featured speakers are a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poole"Henri Poole/a of a href="http://www.DefectiveByDesign.org"DefectiveByDesign.org/a / a href="http://www.civicactions.com/"CivicActions/a and a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21"Mike Linksvayer/a of a href="http://www.creativecommons.org"Creative Commons/a. /p pobject width="425" height="350"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_YdnccYI2-w"/paramparam name="wmode" value="transparent"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_YdnccYI2-w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"/embed/object /p pbr / br /br / The Defective By Design website challenges the notion that DRM is necessary, and underlines the fact that it is used to maximize profits, while minimizing the control users have over the content they have paid for: /p blockquote''emBig Media describe DRM as Digital Rights Management. However, since its purpose is to restrict you the user, it is more accurate to describe DRM as Digital Restrictions Management. DRM Technology can restrict users’ access to movies, music, literature and software, indeed all forms of digital data. Unfree software implementing DRM technology is simply a prison in which users can be put to deprive them of the rights that the law would otherwise allow them. pFrom Richard Stallman, President of the FSF:br / ”The motive for DRM schemes is to increase profits for those who impose them, but their profit is a side issue when millions of people’s freedom is at stake; desire for profit, though not wrong in itself, cannot justify denying the public control over its technology. Defending freedom means thwarting DRM.”/em''br / (a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org"Defective By Design/a, 2006)/blockquote /p pbr / As a consumer you have the right emnot/em to buy software, music, video or electronic devices that treat you as a potential criminal regardless of your intentions. Exercise that right. /p p''emSo what is the alternative to DRM?/em'' /p p''emstrongNo DRM/strong/em.'' /p pbr / br /br / strongFurther Resources:/strong /p pIf you would like to read more about DRM, and the alternatives to this restrictive business model, the following web sites may be of interest:ul /p plia href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/node"DefectiveByDesign.Org/a - A great resource and one way that you can get directly involved in the battle against DRM/li /p plia href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/2006/07/25_a429.html"The Gripe Line Weblog/a in DRM's defence/li /p plia href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management"Wikipedia on DRM/a - an extensive wikipedia entry on DRM/li /p plia href=2http://www.fsf.org/"Free Software Foundation/a - Richard Stallman's surefire way to make sure you are DRM free: avoid proprietary software./li /p plia href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/guide"Defective By Design's Guide/a to DRM-Free products and services that deserve your custom/li/ul /p p /p pbr /br / Originally written by Michael Pick for a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/"Master New Media/a as:br / a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/drm/digital-rights-management/drm-as-digital-righ ts-restrictions-Stallman-interviewed-20070224.htm"DRM: Digital Rights Restrictions - Richard Stallman Viewpoint: Video Interview/abr / /p


  9. The Free American Hour - May 19,2008
    10. 19 May 2008 at 10:00am
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    Kevin and Jackie Freiberg JOB MARKET LOOKING BLEAK? 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors off Business-as-Usual More and more economists are saying we are probably heading into a recession with some opining that we are already in one, the job market is looking bleak. Pink slips are already flying fast in Wall Street firms, banking and in the housing and credit markets. Along with that, builders are laying off workers by the thousands and the list goes on. The looming question is: In this shr


  10. Monday Media Mareting Minute: Get marketing on your to-do list
    11. 28 Apr 2008 at 10:57am
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    pIn this week#8217;s episode, just under three minutes, learn the way to make marketing an automatic party of business-as-usual./p pemWant more tips like these?/em Sign up for Be Heard!,  the free weekly online newsletter for entrepreneurs, solo professionals, consultants, coaches and small business ownersbr / that will help you learn the secrets to attract more targeted clients and customers through publicity and promotions. a href="http://www.beheardsolutions.com" target="_blank"Go to http://www.beheardsolutions.com./a/p span class="UTWPrimaryTags"Tags: a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/entreprenur/" rel="tag"entreprenur/a, a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/marketing/" rel="tag"marketing/a, a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/monday-media-marketing-minute/" rel="tag"Monday Media Marketing Minute/a, a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/scheduling/" rel="tag"scheduling/a, a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/small-business/" rel="tag"small-business/a, a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/solo-professional/" rel="tag"solo professional/a, a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/start-up/" rel="tag"start-up/a, a href="http://www.startupspark.com/tag/startup/" rel="tag"startup/a/spanp class="akst_link"a href="http://www.startupspark.com/?p=493amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_493" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow"Share This/a /p pa href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~a/b5media/StartupSpark?a=uBHgXr"img src="http://feeds.b5media.com/~a/b5media/StartupSpark?i=uBHgXr" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?a=80fXzG"img src="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?i=80fXzG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?a=TW4KRG"img src="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?i=TW4KRG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?a=Klcx5g"img src="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?i=Klcx5g" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?a=FFm9OG"img src="http://feeds.b5media.com/~f/b5media/StartupSpark?i=FFm9OG" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/b5media/StartupSpark/~4/279438907" height="1" width="1"/


  11. Internet Business Downloads Galore!…
    12. 25 May 2008 at 4:01am
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    pThe following is a list of downloads I have provided through this blog over the years…/ppYours strongfree/strong today…compiled here:/ppa href="http://buildinginternetwealth.org/josephratliff/ramblings/AffMasters.pdf" target="_blank" title="The Affiliate Marketing Masters Course"The Affiliate Masters Course/a/ppa href="http://buildinginternetwealth.org/josephratliff/ramblings/Bum%20Marketing%20Sec rets%20Revealed%20jr.pdf" target="_blank" title="Bum Marketing Secrets"Bum Marketing Secrets Revealed/a/ppa href="http://buildinginternetwealth.org/josephratliff/ramblings/Explosive%20Influence %20Tactics%20v2.pdf" target="_blank" title="Explosive Influence Tactics"Explosive Influence Tactics/a/ppa href="http://buildinginternetwealth.org/josephratliff/ramblings/Issue%202.swf" target="_blank" title="Joseph Ratliff's Ramblings..."Ramblings Of A Down To Earth Marketer Vol 2/a/ppa href="http://buildinginternetwealth.org/josephratliff/ramblings/issue1.swf" target="_blank" title="Joseph Ratliff's Ramblings..."Ramblings Of A Down To Earth Marketer Vol 1/a/ppa href="http://buildinginternetwealth.org/josephratliff/ramblings/joeratliff.mp3" target="_blank" title="Lynn Terry Interview"Affiliate Marketing with Blogs, an interview with Lynn Terry of ClickNewz.com/a/ppa href="http://buildinginternetwealth.org/josephratliff/ramblings/Profit%20Funnel%20Ide as.pdf" target="_blank" title="Profit Funnel Ideas"Profit Funnel/a/p ...


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    13. 15 Jul 2007 at 8:22pm
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  13. I Look For A Wife At LimmudLA
    14. 18 Feb 2008 at 6:31pm
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    pa href="http://www.lukeford.net/archives/updates/080218.htm"My LimmudLA videos/a./p pKhunrum emails: quot;Was this a kind of Yiddisha Woodstock? Did you hustle up any female companionship?quot;/p pYes and no./p pLet me start at the beginning./p pFriday. I can#8217;t find a ride, so I drive away at 11a.m., arriving at noon. I dump my stuff in my room and with a copy of Jay McInerney#8217;s trash novel quot;Story of my Lifequot; in hand, set up shop near the entrance./p pI#8217;ve long found that an air of intellectual pretension, a seeming absorption in a book and a higher cause that picking up chicks is a great way to pick up chicks and encourage wayward lasses to begin conversations with me that they#8217;ll later come to rue./p p(I#8217;m only writing like this because I know it#8217;s what you expect from me #8212; the lowest common denominator #8212; and it#8217;s what I#8217;m most comfortable churning out, but please realize that all this horny blogging is just a metaphor for my love for G-d, Torah and Israel and really has nothing, absolutely nothing at all,nbsp; to do with cheap thrills. I#8217;m ready for a lasting commitment. Ladies, why am I not married?)/p pA cute blonde volunteer sits next to me. She has no choice. I#8217;ve got the good seat. All must pass me. I#8217;m ready to see and be seen./p pJust as I#8217;m about to wave my book around and look fascinating, this old geezer with long white hair plonks down beside her and starts going off about some non-Orthodox day school in Melbourne, Australia./p pBollocks! Foiled again!/p pI decide to broaden my horizons and give the older chicks a chance. Later Friday night, in a strictly hush-hush and off the record conversation with one of Jewish journalism#8217;s leading lights, I find myself using an expression that had never before occured to me: quot;GILF.quot;/p p#8216;Nuff said./p pThere are about 650 attendees. About a third are Orthodox (compared to less than 10% at the last a href="http://www.limmudny.org/"New York Limmud/a). Public space at the conference is kept holy aka shomer mitzvos. It#8217;s nice not having to deal with ringing cell phones and the other detritus of non-Orthodox Jews when I#8217;m trying to have a transcendent experience on my Shabbat with that tiny percentage of Jewry who do things as G-d intended./p pI find nothing disturbs my prayers more than finding used condoms and pork rinds on my way in to shul./p pBeginning with the end in mind, I supplement my Shabbos davening with lengthy selections from a href="http://www.amazon.com/Get-Spiritual-Memoir-Divorce/dp/1558749292"The Get: A Spiritual Memoir of Divorce/a./p pFor the rest of the conference, I strategically carry around quot;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Gone-Mild-Reclaim-Self-Respect/dp/1400064732"Girls Gone Mild/a.quot; Nothing like using a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Shalit"Wendy Shalit/a to wicked ends./p pEverybody is nice to me at LimmudLA. Rabbi who normally look away when I pass by now wish me quot;Gut Shabbosquot; and talk to me like I#8217;m a human being./p pIt#8217;s almost enought to make me want to be nice back./p pAn organizer says: quot;I spent most of the conference talking to people in the halls. I was most surprised and fascinated by the utter lack of complaints (OK, except your chanteuse DF#8217;s plea for more Reform/Reconstructionist Jews). Everyone was practically giddy, even people who are usually hard to please.nbsp; It was almost too easygoing. This is not what I#8217;d expect from a Jewish crowd. The most interesting explanation I heard of why people were so happy was that they didn#8217;t feel any pressure to be anywhere or do anything at any point in time, so there was space for them to choose whatever they wanted to, which in turn made them want to go to sessions. We get so suffocated by Jewish institutions wanting our time, money, and attention, that it kills desire.quot;/p pI go to bed about midnight every evening and arise shortly after 7 a.m. In between, I walk around shining as the Bible instructs (light unto the nations and all that)./p pAround 2 a.m. Saturday, a href="http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=2277"my roommate/a stumbles in. He#8217;s documentary filmmaker and social entrepreneur a href="http://www.nextnextentertainment.com/"Todd Daniel Schechter/a./p pWe share our first words and I know they#8217;ll stay with Todd for the rest of his short not-so-observant life./p pI know Todd#8217;s at the conference to get grants for his non-profit, so I talk him up wherever I go./p pquot;Yeah, this is my roomie Todd. He#8217;s a nice guy #8212; when sober#8230; He came wandering into our room at 2 a.m. He#8217;s quite belligerent when drunk. He had three girls with him. I urged him to share#8230;quot;/p pquot;Yeah, this is my roomie Todd. He talks in his sleep. Yeah, at the top of every hour, 3 a.m., 4 a.m., 5 a.m., he screams out the sh#8217;ma. It unnerved me at first but I#8217;ve learned to respect his commitment to the oneness of G-d.quot;/p pNot sure if I did Todd any good, but I got to perform and that#8217;s what#8217;s important./p pOne morning I came out of the shower and announced to Todd, quot;If you work out, you too can have a body like this.quot;/p pDuring a href="http://www.limmudla.org"LimmudLA/a, I become fascinated with the plight Soviet Jewry./p pMy new cause is fueled by one Soviet Jew in particular #8212; a href="http://www.amazon.ca/One-More-Year-Sana-Krasikov/dp/0385524390"author Sana Krasikov/a (a href="http://www.forward.com/authors/sana-krasikov/"the Forward/a, a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/sana_krasikov"the Atlantic/a, a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/03/051003fi_fiction"the New Yorker/a). She has a book of short stories coming out and she#8217;s easy on the eyes./p pAfter confessing my amazement that I had just attended a presentation (by Sana) on the a href="http://www.masteragenda.com/cs/lla08/ps/530"first Soviet-Jewish generation/a, a Russian bloke confides in me that his interest in the session was similarly not purely intellectual./p pI just thank G-d that Sana didn#8217;t give any sessions on the history of something gross or I#8217;d be in truly bad shape right now./p pMust not follow my eyes after which I prostitute myself./p pMust not grumble./p pMust seem at least semi-sane on my blog to repay the generous confidence of my new Orthodox friends./p pSunday night, for her last presentation on some fancy pants bit of literature, Sana persuades her four attendees to give her high-brow efforts the big skip and join her at Clive Lawton#8217;s lecture on Jacob (amazing stuff!)./p pEvery time I looked down during limmudla, I saw that my zipper was down./p pHmm. Perhaps because I was not blogging, I had to find another way to embarrass myself./p pSaturday night, a friend walks out of an elevator./p pAs I#8217;m walking in, he says, quot;I wouldn#8217;t go in there if I were you.quot;/p pIt turns out that somebody has left behind a very rude smell./p pIsn#8217;t there a Torah law against that?/p pMost of my Orthodox friends daven Orthodox but some of them shake it up and take in the more risque and less orthodox offerings (though they were warned by their Orthodox compatriots that this was a desecration of G-d#8217;s name). One Orthodox guy I know deliberately walked around the LimmudLA bare-headed just to see what it felt like./p pOne day I#8217;m going to walk around and just be nice to everyone for 24 hours, just to see what it feels like. I might even wear my kipa./p pOn Sunday morning, actor a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rifkin"Ron Rifkin/a, 69, talks about his Jewish journeys. Raised Orthodox, sent to yeshivot, he#8217;s never been to Israel./p pHe left Orthodox Judaism at age 32./p pHe says President Bush is stupid./p pHe gives me permission to blog his talk and put the video on the internet./p pSunday. 10 a.m. Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and his sex therapist wife Doreen hold what they say is their first joint session in a quarter century. It#8217;s about deviant sex and it#8217;s filled with pages from the Talmud and the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch./p pa href="http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos/sextalk.wav"Audio/a/p pThe room is jammed with about 150 Jews./p pDoreen#8217;s practice is filled with Orthodox Jews. One woman came to her because she and her husband had been unable to consummate their marriage. Doreen introduced her to dildos. The wife learned to penetrate herself. Doreen told her to have her husband watch. The couple said no because then their children would be born deformed./p pWe study the Talmudic texts which say that if a man looks at that place, his children will be born deformed./p pFrom a href="http://www.edah.org/febbios.htm"Edah.org/a:/p blockquotepstrongRabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller/strong is in his twenty-seventh year at UCLA Hillel as director. He previously served as Hillel Director at Ohio State and as Rabbi of Congregation Ahavat Achim, New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was ordained in 1971 at Yeshiva University where he also earned a Masters Degree in Rabbinic Literature. Rabbi Seidler-Feller is a lecturer in the Departments of Sociology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA where he teaches courses on the ldquo;Jewish Experience in Contemporary Americardquo;, on the ldquo;Social, Cultural, and Religious Institutions of Judaismrdquo; and on ldquo;Philosophers and Mysticsrdquo;. He serves on the Governing Council of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, on the Advisory Council of EDAH, a voice of Modern Orthodoxy and is a founding member of Americans for Peace Now. Chaim is the founder of the Streisand Center for Jewish Cultural Arts at UCLA Hillel and was a rabbinic consultant to Barbara Streisand during the making of the film Yentl. Chaim is the recipient of the Youth Education Stairways (YES) Award as exemplary clergyman in recognition of these efforts. He is married to Dr. Doreen Siedler-Feller and is the father of Shulie and Shaul./p pstrongDr. Doreen Seidler-Feller /strongis currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA Medical School where her responsibilities include supervising residents and interns and teaching third-year medical students selected topics in the psychology of doctoring. She also has a private practice of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Seidler-Feller received her MA in Clinical Psychology in 1973 from The Ohio State University and went on to receive her PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1980. For five years, she was an assistant professor at California State University and for four years, she lectured in Psychology at The Ohio State University. From 1968-1969, she was teaching associate and taught in conjunction with playwright Arthur Sainer./p /blockquote pa href="http://masteragenda.com/cs/lla08/ps/451"Here is how the class is described at limmudla.org/a:/p blockquote pSexual Repression and Obsession in Traditional Jewish Practice: The Case of the Kitzur Shulhan Arukh/p pAlthough the Jewish tradition is generally open-minded regarding sexual behavior within marriage, certain repressive ideas have gained currency over the centuries and have determined sexual attitudes within elements of the Orthodox community. The claim of this workshop is that the Kitzur Shulhan Arukh, a popular 19th century halakhic work read broadly by Yeshiva High School students, is largely responsible for the dissemination of these ideas. Among the issues to be discussed will be masturbation, tzniut in dress and modesty in sexual intercourse. We will read the texts, explore the origins of these teachings, look at alternative sources, and discuss the psychological impact of these prohibitions and inhibitions./p /blockquote pDoreen: quot;In the course of working with her, I had brought her to the point where she was comfortably able to insert a dildo, which she acquired from me, dildos of various sizes, as a bridge to working with her partner. I told her to ask her husband to look at what you are doing so that he can orient himself.quot;/p pquot;She came back to me the next week and she said to me, #8216;He can not look there. It is not allowed. If he looks there, my children will be blind and disabled.#8217;quot;/p pquot;I was shocked by that. I don#8217;t like to give people prescriptions they can#8217;t follow. I don#8217;t want to injure them. I don#8217;t want to be insensitive. That#8217;s the basis for this study session because I was at a loss to understand what she was talking about.quot;/p pRabbi Seidler-Feller: quot;When I was at yeshiva high school, the only source of information we had on sex was the kitzur Shulchan Aruch#8230; Once in a while we#8217;d have a rabbi who#8217;d say things like, #8216;Keep your hands out of your pockets.#8217;/p pquot;There was a whole mode of transmission that was allusive and suggestive but nobody talked directly to us so the boys looked in the book. Over the years, I thought, how damaging.quot;/p pquot;I went on the YU tour of 1964 and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin was our tour guide and all these guides, me too, had these private sessions with Rabbi Riskin. You could talk openly with Rabbi Riskin.quot;/p pquot;Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch) was Hungarian#8230; That reinforces those who of us who have particular prejudices [about Hungarian Jews].quot;/p pWidespread laughter./p pquot;I lived in Borough Park. I was surrounded by Hungarian Jews.quot;/p pA man in the audience tells Doreen that men are dogs and fixated on sex./p pDoreen: quot;Why? Because sex serves a wide range of functions for you, not only those connected to being a dog, but to being intimate with another human being, succulence, nurturing#8230; You#8217;re being reductionist to the point of absurdity. We have to think more broadly about male sexual desire#8230; [The Talmudic sex ethic] depends on a mechanical construction of the model of a man.quot;/p pRabbi Chaim: quot;How can we as religious people deal with lust? Shouldn#8217;t the holy person be clear of all lust?quot;/p pquot;I see young students who are becoming more religious. They don#8217;t read the Rambam. The Rambam is the loser in the battle for the Jewish world. They learn the manuals, which quote all the most stringest opinions.quot;/p pquot;This [extreme attitude towards sex] comes from the mystical tradition.quot;/p pquot;The Zohar says that masturbation is the worst sin. It#8217;s the only sin for which there is no forgiveness#8230; It caused the flood.quot;/p pDoreen returns to the troubled couple she mentioned at the start of the class: quot;I taught him how to insert the dildo without looking.quot;/p pSunday afternoon, a href="http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/rob_eshman.htm"Jewish Journal Editor Rob Eshman/a moderates a panel on Jews in Hollywood. The discussion is a mind-numbing collection of pious cliches (livened up by the contributions of actor a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539651/"Josh Molina/a who sat with me at dinner Friday night). a href="http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos/hollywoodjews.wav"Here#8217;s 15-minutes of audio/a./p pJosh says he went to yeshiva through eighth grade at Westchester Day School and once walked out of an audition because he would not eat pizza during Passover./p pIn 2002, Molina went to a rally for Israel. He was to sit in the celebrity chairs at the dais. At the sign-in table, nobody knew who he was./p pJosh wondered why so few Jews in Hollywood support Israel./p pJoan Hyler says that suicide bombers in Israel over the past few years pushed Amy Pascal (head of Sony) to get involved on behalf of the Jewish state./p pJill Cutler: quot;We just sold a television show to AMC. Our lead character is not Jewish. His father is the comic relief of the show. Somehow we got into a conversation about my grandmother. She lives in a Jewish home for the aging. So the father who is not Jewish lives in a fancy old age home in New York and he chooses to live there because Jews know how to take care of their own.quot;/p pquot;We#8217;re looking to show Jews in as positive a light as possible, but not in your face, it enhances the story.quot;/p pa href="http://masteragenda.com/cs/lla08/ps/621"Here#8217;s Jill#8217;s bio on the LimmudLA website/a: quot;Jill Cutler is currently President of Winkler Films, Oscar-winning director/producer Irwin Winkler#8217;s production company. From 1991 to 2006, Jill was a motion picture literary agent for Creative Artists Agency. During her time at CAA and Winkler Films, she has worked with some of the most high profile screenwriters, producers and directors in Hollywood.quot;/p pRon Rifkin says he#8217;s been asked to play Shylock about ten times and always refused because quot;I don#8217;t like the way Shakespeare talks about Jews. I know it#8217;s a great play#8230;quot;/p pJosh Molina(?) says: quot;In general, the portrayal of Jews on screen is very positive, with Ari Gold a rare exception. It has something to do with Hollywood being 50% Jewish.quot;/p pRon Rifkin: quot;I don#8217;t know if I agree with you, but I can#8217;t think of examples now.quot;/p pOn the verge of falling asleep, I go upstairs and take a nap./p pI hear great reviews on a href="http://www.yicc.org/rabbi.htm"Rabbi Elazar Muskin/a#8217;s presentation at this time on the history of the yarmulke./p pI meet a bloke named Brent. He has a shaved head and works at EBay. Each time we shake hands, he twists my hand under his, even though I resist. He says it#8217;s a business trick he does to men to establish dominance./p pIt ticks me off. I#8217;m the uber-blogger. Don#8217;t try to dominate me or I#8217;ll blog about you./p pI#8217;m told the session on Arabs and the internet was quot;all porn. It#8217;s good for your image that you skipped it.quot;/p pTalmud Professor a href="http://masteragenda.com/cs/lla08/ps/459"Gail Labovitz/a (she has a Ph.D. and rabbinic ordination from JTS) has a way with titles. I attend her quot;Guerilla Girls of the Talmudquot; class Friday night. She discusses five women in the Talmud who challenge the patriarchy./p pDuring the rest of the sessions we share, I always see this ardent articulate feminist knitting yarmulkes as she engages in the great questions of life./p pa href="http://www.passionmarketing.com/press/"Gary Wexler/a keeps interjecting in all the classes I share with him. It#8217;d be annoying if his points weren#8217;t so smart./p pI catch several sessions with the world#8217;s sexiest grandmother, a href="http://www.harrywalker.com/speakers_template.cfm?Spea_ID=808"Professor Arna Poupko Fisher/a. On Friday afternoon, she wears these long black riding boots and talks about her shopping spree at Barneys./p pShe has her own horse at home in Cincinnati./p pDr. Fisher says a woman came up to her at LimmudLA and said she was amazed at how much she had changed over the past 15 years./p pThen Dr. Fisher was chareidi and married to a rabbi. Now she#8217;s more modern and married to a businessman who became Orthodox for her./p pArna says she got her driver#8217;s license suspended because she got so many tickets. When she eventually got everything under control and was driving under the speed limit, she spotted a cop one day and said, quot;Aren#8217;t you impressed with how I#8217;m driving? I haven#8217;t had any tickets in months.quot;/p pThe cop responded: quot;You#8217;re all we talk about, Dr. Fisher.quot;/p pAt Dr. Fisher#8217;s Sunday afternoon session on Jewish belief, I pop up, quot;With an insignificant number of exceptions, the only people who are going to observe the Torah are those who believe it comes from G-d.quot;/p pThat#8217;s the only religious belief that truly matters. Belief in G-d is not a big deal, notes Dennis Prager. It is whether you believe the Bible comes from G-d. If you do, you#8217;ll take it seriously./p pAll the rest of theology beyond ethical monotheism doesn#8217;t matter much./p pa href="http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/lawton/"Clive Lawton/a is my biggest discovery at LimmudLA. He helped found the UK Limmud in 1980./p pa href="http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos/clivelawton.wav"Here#8217;s audio of his Saturday night talk/a on quot;What are Jews for?quot;/p pI learn:/p p* That Jewish day schools in Los Angeles are a $150 million per annum business (of which only $120 million are covered by tuition)./p p* I#8217;m told that LimmudLA is less intellectual than LimmudNY. That LimmudLA needs to do more outreach to intellectuals (academics, rabbis and the like) as well as to Persian, Reform and Reconstructionist Jews./p pAt a href="http://www.debbiefriedman.com/"Debbie Friedman/a#8217;s concert Sunday night (I sit next to Rabbi Seidler-Feller), she says before singing her perennial quot;a href="http://www.ritualwell.org/lifecycles/healinghardtimes/healingfromabuse/SongMiSh ebeirach.xml"Mi Shebeirach/aquot; healing prayer, that she wants us to bless each other. We#8217;ll sing the song once together and then we should let her sing it once to us./p pquot;You can#8217;t put out and receive at the same time,quot; she says. quot;If you want to resist something, put out.quot;/p pThere#8217;s widespread laughter./p pIt wasn#8217;t Debbie#8217;s best choice of words./p pMonday morning. I catch Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller#8217;s lecture on quot;A Jewish perspective on the relationship between Judaism and Islam.quot;/p pThe rabbi says it is important to dialogue with other religions but it was very difficult to dialogue with Islam. After two years, he gave up./p pquot;To do real dialogue, you have to be able to talk not only about all the good things in your tradition, but you have to be able to talk about the bad things. Masochism is not my way. If I#8217;m going to reveal some of the negatives [about Jews and Judaism], politically, that#8217;s what they#8217;re most interested in, and the Muslim participants sit there absorbing it all and never letting go of themselves, you#8217;re just human. I became resentful and I left./p pquot;I came back to a meeting and told them why I left. Everybody was upset and resentful. There were some good people there#8230;quot;/p pquot;I want you to be able to recognize fundamentalism#8230;[including] in your own community. Thank God our fundamentalists are not militants, some are.quot;/p pquot;Read Commentary this month, the a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/In-Search-of-Moderate-Muslims -11223"article on moderate Muslims/a. It puts a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/"Daniel Pipes/a in his place. Please don#8217;t follow Daniel Pipes. If you follow Daniel Pipes, you are down the road of hopelessness.quot;/p pquot;If we had listened to Daniel Pipes, most probably there would not have been a 9/11./p pquot;So why didn#8217;t we listen to Daniel Pipes? Because you couldn#8217;t. He made everything so bad that no one could believe him.quot;/p pquot;You have to speak a language people can absorb. If you say they are all bad and the only good Muslims are Zionists, no one#8217;s going to believe you. First of all, those Muslims, no one cares about them except Jews. Why do we need Muslims to be Zionists? We need Jews to be Zionists.quot;/p pquot;We need strong Muslims who believe in their cause who we can argue with#8230; I#8217;m not hopeful.quot;/p pquot;The Muslim critics are mostly in the West. Muslim critics are very scared#8230;that they#8217;re going to die.quot;/p pquot;Nietzsche called it a slave morality. We developed our morality in the conditions in which we were oppressed. Therefore, we developed a whole theory about how to deal with those who are vulnerable in society. No empirenbsp; developed a theory about how to deal with those who are oppressed.quot;/p pquot;My teacher and friend Krister Stendahl taught me#8230;that when they (his Harvard students) study [New Testament] texts in their class which are anti-Jewish#8230; Number one. Contextualize. That passage has to do with the First Century. It has nothing to do with Jews today. Number two. If you can, reinterpret those texts.quot;/p pquot;Every religious tradition has baggage.quot;/p pquot;It has to be identified and reinterpreted if possible.quot;/p pquot;We#8217;re supposed to wipe out the seven nations. That#8217;s not a good verse. The worst thing you can do is justify it.quot;/p pquot;One of the reasons for our survival is the interpretative tradition.quot;/p pquot;Stendahl says contextualize, you have to give it some history. History is important. History neutralizes the sense that it is divine ordinance. You have to live on two levels. That you believe it is God#8217;s word and that it has history. Once you historicize something, it gives it a sense of life. It lived in the world. You give it some context. It is not eternal.quot;/p pquot;Second, reinterpret. Third, if you can#8217;t reinterpret, sometimes you have to make a judgment and say that it is immoral. That is very difficult.quot;/p pquot;There is a pre-history of the Koran. The problem is that people who do research about the pre-history of the Koran can get killed because it is God#8217;s word. When you proclaim that something is God#8217;s word, it is a good thing to be moderate. It#8217;s dangerous./p pquot;That#8217;s the story I was going to tell before. When we had a dialogue between Jews and Muslims, and they asked us all to come with a story from our Tradition. I was a wise guy. I chose the story where the [Talmudic] rabbis rejected God#8217;s miracles. The Christians loved it. The Muslims were sitting at the edge. I told myself, good thing this is on Hilgard Avenue. If this were the Middle East#8230;quot;/p pThe rabbi draws his finger under his neck./p pquot;People who do historical studies on the Koran are taking their lives into their hands. This guy wrote a Ph.D. at the University of Cairo on the literary analysis of the Koran and they rejected his Ph.D. and they made sure that his professor could not teach again.quot;/p pquot;They have a very bad problem. We can#8217;t work it out for them. We suffer for their problem. When I debate with Muslims, I talk about this. What right do I have to be critical of Islam? I say, I#8217;m suffering for the things they#8217;re teaching. I#8217;m going to talk about it. It#8217;s no longer theoretical.quot;/p pThe rabbi gives me permission to put his speech online./p pOn the last session Monday, I catch the play quot;a href="http://www.curtainup.com/modernorthodox.html"Modern Orthodox/a.quot; It is more modern than orthodox, filled with sex talk and steamy kissing, yet several parents, including Orthodox parents, have no problem with their small children taking in this deviant hump-filled performance./p pI wish my conscience wasn#8217;t so exquisite or I wouldn#8217;t be bothered by such things./p pLeaving LimmudLA, I#8217;m at such a height of holiness that it verges on the impossible for any woman to view me as an erotic object. It#8217;s a small price to pay for being Your Moral Leader./p pI offer Todd Schechter a ride to Los Angeles but warn him he#8217;ll have to sit in the back. I don#8217;t describe my van and the fact that there are no seats in the back./p pSo, Monday afternoon, I#8217;m walking to my van with my friend Michal and Todd. We throw his stuff in the back. He looks in and sees with horror there are no seats. Only a grim iron mess. He turns green and mentions he had a bad experience in a van./p pNot sure if some bad man picked him up in one when he was at a tender age and forced him to do things against the strict instruction of Leviticus. Todd does not elaborate./p pHe wonders how long a drive it is to L.A./p pI figure if I tell him the truth, he won#8217;t get in, so I lie and say quot;45 minutes.quot;/p pI know this is against the Torah but it#8217;s jolly fun for me./p pTodd clambers in reluctantly and for the next hour and a half I get my jollies at his expense, swerving all over the road, commenting on how quot;the brakes seem to be working todayquot; and singing a href="http://www.ritualwell.org/lifecycles/healinghardtimes/healingfromabuse/SongMiSh ebeirach.xml"Debbie Friedman#8217;s quot;Mi Shebeirachquot;/a number until both Michal and Todd want to end their miserable existences and go on to the True World./p pAround LAX, Todd confesses he#8217;s nauseous. I tell him to give us a heads up before he chunders so Michal can videotape him./p pThat makes Todd go all up stubborn and stiff upper lipish though when I finally dump him out in Brentwood at the Coffee Bean and drive away, I imagine he collapsed in a heap and initiated his first personal relationship with G-d./p pIt#8217;s the worst car ride in the life of this Horace Mann graduate (except perhaps with the mythical bad man who coulda touched him inappropriately and driven him to become a quot;social entrepreneurquot;)./p pPerhaps I never let him out of my van? a href="http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos4/080212/121.htm"Here are/a a href="http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos4/080212/122.htm"the last/a a href="http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos4/080212/123.htm"known pictures/a of a href="http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos4/080212/124.htm"Todd Daniel Schechter/a still alive. He keeps up such a brave front in the face of terror. Donate now to Luke Ford through paypal if you#8217;d like to see Todd set free so he can make another amazing presentation about bridging differences at the next stop on the Jew circuit./p pa href="http://www.revver.com/video/689371/todd-daniel-schechter-in-the-back-of-luke-fo rds-van/"Video/a a href="http://www.revver.com/video/689368/filmmaker-todd-daniel-schechter-held-hostage -in-the-back-of-luke-fords-van/"Video/a/p pa href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofileamp;friendid=45 46528"From Todd#8217;s MySpace/a: quot;A native New Yorker with big plans, I#8217;m a smart ass, a little cocky, don#8217;t like whiney or lazy people, and think disagreement is healthy. Having said that I can get along with just about any kind of person that#8217;s out there. If you want a list of more stuff about me here it is but you really wont know till you find out: creative, demanding, understanding, passionate, opinionated, sensitive, adventurous, ingenuitive, energetic, self-aware, and up for anything. Love being active, doing things, but I also like to occasionally veg out at home too. I Like music, food, politics, theatre, film, dancing, eating, cooking, conversation, architecture, museums, walking, Skiing, Acting, Performing, Learning, Lectures, Teaching, Reading, Meeting people, Writing, Photography, Building, Fixing, laughing, stargazing, and just about everything else. You Dig?quot;/p pPS. I#8217;ve got post-limmud letdown and I#8217;ve had to a href="http://www.lukeford.net/archives/updates/080218a.htm"make a video/a to express my feelings./p pPalestinian stand-up comic Ray Hanania (who said this weekend that as a consequence of this Israeli-Palestinian comedy tour, he#8217;s lost all his bookings with Arab audiences) a href="http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/02/15/a-palestinian-at-limmud-la/"blogs Feb. 15./a/p p!--adsense--/p


  14. SmallBizPod #39 - Friday 2 February 2007
    15. 2 Feb 2007 at 7:52pm
    pThis week a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp39.mp3"SmallBizPod #39/a, the podcast for anyone interested in entrepreneurship or starting and running their own business, takes a detailed look at what it takes to list your business on AIM, the a href="http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/"London Stock Exchange/a#8217;s market for growth businesses in the UK and beyond. The show includes an interview with the deputy head of AIM, a href="http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/products/companyservices/ourmarkets/ai m_new/Contact+us/"Marcus Stuttard/a, and also a new segment, the diary of a #8216;wantrepreneur#8217; as well as the usual feedback and commentary from listeners./p pThis show is brought to you in association with sponsors a href="http://www.bibbyfinancialservices.com?source=smallbus_podcast"Bibby Financial Services/a./p pRight click a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp39.mp3"here/a to download/p pstrongListen now:/strongbr / a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp39.mp3"Download audio file (Sbp39.mp3)/abr //p pIf you#8217;d like to subscribe free using an RSS feed, download your free aggregator software like a href="http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php"Juice/a or a href="http://www.dopplerradio.net/"Doppler Radio/a and right click on the orange subscribe button on the top right hand side of this page copying the link into your aggregator. For those who#8217;d like to download SmallBizPod or listen to it now, right click on the download link or left click on the grey arrow button above to play now./p pstrongShow Notes/strong/p pstrongSummary/strong/p pIntro:/p p• 00:00 Alex on what#8217;s coming up in the show.br / • 01:32 Thank you and hello to all new listeners and how to send your feedback./p pFeatures:/p p• 04:29 strongInterview/strong with Marcus Stuttard, deputy head of a href="http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/products/companyservices/ourmarkets/ai m_new/"AIM/a. Marcus outlines some of the practical issues facing businesses looking to list on AIM including how to work with nominated advisers, dubbed NOMADS. Alex and Marcus also talk about why a business might prefer listing rather than private equity as a means of finance, how challenging an IPO is for a business, understanding the practicalities of being under public scrutiny, disclosure and open communication. The interview also touches on some of the challenges facing AIM itself./p pComments:/p p• 19.10 Email comment from Daley Ervin at Arizona State University with comments on the Taylor/Labarre interview and seeks advice on reading for budding entrepreneurs from SmallBizPod listeners.br / • 20:41 Email comment from Nick Jones re umms and errs.br / • 21:38 Email comment from Nuno Pereira in Portugal who suggests a SmallBizPod listeners#8217; forum. What do you think, should SmallBizPod have a forum?br / • 22:39 Email comment fro Lucie at a href="http://www.follettmotors.com/"Follet Motors/a on Commerzbank or Commerce Bank.br / • 23:19 Email comment from entrepreneurship student Laura Hammond.br / • 23:19 Email comment from a href="http://www.russellbarton.com"Russell Barton/a, a photographer in Western Australia with a particularly impressive a href="http://www.weddingphotographerblog.com/"blog/a.br / • 25:13 New faces on the SmallBizPod a href="http://www.frappr.com/smallbizpodcommunity"Frappr Map/a - add yours too and check out a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/smallbizpod/"MyBlogLog.com/a too.br / • 26:48 Comment on the blog from Rob a href="http://main-spring.blogspot.com/"Smorfitt/a re innovation - inspiration or necessity?/p pFeatures:/p p• 27:43 strongDiary of a Wantrepreneur/strong with Kelvin Jones. 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  15. 140 How Profitable Was Your Last Gig
    16. 10 May 2007 at 5:46pm
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  16. SmallBizPod #47 - Tuesday 22 May 2007
    17. 23 May 2007 at 6:36pm
    pThis week a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp47.mp3"SmallBizPod #47/a, the podcast for startups and entrepreneurs, returns to the subject of venture capital, how to pitch your business and how to secure funding. The show features interviews with a student, business owner, teacher and sponsor all of whom took part in London Business School#8217;s innovative a href="http://www.london.edu/entrepreneurship/venturecapitalinvestmentcompetition.html "Venture Capital Investment Competition/a. Find out which team of trainee dragon#8217;s won and which business was honoured to come top of the investment list. The show also covers off the latest listener comments, news from the a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog"SmallBizPod blog/a and a real gem of an electronica track./p pThis show is brought to you in association with sponsors a href="http://www.bibbyfinancialservices.com?source=smallbus_podcast"Bibby Financial Services/a./p pRight click a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp47.mp3"here/a to download/p pstrongListen now:/strongbr / a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp47.mp3"Download audio file (Sbp47.mp3)/abr //p pIf you#8217;d like to subscribe free using an RSS feed, download your free aggregator software like a href="http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php"Juice/a or a href="http://www.dopplerradio.net/"Doppler Radio/a and right click on the orange subscribe button on the top right hand side of this page copying the link into your aggregator. For those who#8217;d like to download SmallBizPod or listen to it now, right click on the download link or left click on the grey arrow button above to play now./p pstrongShow Notes/strong/p pstrongSummary/strong/p pIntro:/p p• 00:00 Alex on what#8217;s coming up in the show.br / • 01:34 Thanks to a href="http://www.bibbyfinancialservices.com?source=smallbus_podcast"Bibby Financial Services/a for sponsoring SmallBizPod.br / • 02:29 Thanks also to all those who have put their pin in the a href="http://www.frappr.com/smallbizpodcommunity"SmallBizPod Frappr/a map including: Andrew Smith in New Zealand and Tym Allison from the USA.br / • 03:21 The a href="http://smallbizpodnet.ning.com"networking site/a continues to grow and a special mention for Anthony a href="http://smallbizpodnet.ning.com/profile/anthonyb"Brewitt/a and his Cyberman. /p pFeatures:/p p• 04:36 strongInterviews/strong with some winning participants of a href="http://www.london.edu/entrepreneurship/venturecapitalinvestmentcompetition.html "London Business School#8217;s/a (LBS) Venture Capital Investment Competition including MBA student Mike Salvaris and member of the winning VC team, Johanna Walker of a href="http://www.london.edu/"London Business School/a, Peter Brooke from a href="http://www.findware.co.uk/"Findware/a the winning business and David Rowe from a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Business/Startups/talktous.aspx"Microsoft/a. Johanna outlines the origins of the competition and how it works. The conversation also delivers plenty of practical advice from all concerned about venture capital, term sheets, pitching, preparation and communication./p pComments:/p p• 20:53 Email comments from a href="http://gsapra.blogspot.com/"Gagandeep Singh Sapra/a who is looking to start an Indian small business podcast.br / • 21:27 Look out for a SmallBizPod special on Indian entrepreneurship.br / • 21:55 Blog conversation with a href="http://positivechurn.blogspot.com/"Clive Birnie/a of a href="http://www.severndelta.co.uk/"Severn Delta/a, open business and free advice on seeking equity funding.br / • 23:09 Email from Chris Rivett re a a href="http://www.1aim.org.uk"Northampton networking/a group.br / • 23:57 Plans for a series of SmallBizPod Live events in Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, London and Edinburgh.br / • 24:40 Email comment from John at a href="http://www.blog.bmaws.com"BMAW/a and the joys of a href="http://www.technorati.com"Technorati/a./p p• 25.34 strongMusic/strong - One of Alex#8217;s all time favourite electronica tracks called Connect by a href="http://www.archive.org/details/mtk113"Blisaed/a with many thanks to the a href="http://www.mono211.com/"Monotonik/a net label./p psmallstrongTags: /stronga rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/small+business+podcast"small business podcast/a, a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/venture+capital"venture capital/a, a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/small+business"small business/a, a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/SMB"SMB/a, a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/finance"finance/a/small/p p class="akst_link"a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/?p=87amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_87" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow"Share This/a /p br / pcentercopy; BizPod Media Ltd at a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk"www.smallbizpod.co.uk/a and licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.5/center/p br / div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=EJPCRrxp"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=EJPCRrxp" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=Z7HXpPkn"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=Z7HXpPkn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=84Czp48j"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=84Czp48j" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=alMGqwez"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=alMGqwez" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=FI7g0d6a"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=FI7g0d6a" border="0"/img/a /div


  17. Texas CTO Council Mtg: Anita Givens
    18. 6 Feb 2007 at 12:59pm
    p img width="250" height="239" src="http://www.mguhlin.net/media/anitagivenstxcto.png" br bImage:/b Anita Givens at Texas CTO Council Meeting on 02/06/2007 /p p a href="http://www.mguhlin.net/audio/anitagivens022007txctomtg.ogg"img src="http://www.mguhlin.net/media/ogg-podcast.png" border="0" Listen to Anita Givens (unedited/uncut)/a /p blockquote Anita Givens is speaking...these are my rough notes, and any inaccuracies are my fault because I couldn't type fast enough and paraphrased. My observations are in ][ brackets. Listen to Anita to get accurate info lt;smilegt;. ibThanks to Anita Givens for granting permission to share this audiocast and photo with you!!/b/i. /blockquote p quot;We now have a vehicle for sharing what Texas wants to do for tech for the next 14 years. This new plan is from 2006-2020. There 3 things that people want to know: /p p What is it you want to accomplish? This plan really tells you where we want to go and what it's going to take to get there. There's a lot of talk in the plan about how much it's going to cost. We have about 4.5 million students in Texas. Any number times 4.5 million is a big number. /p p We can't ask for more than we got before...we want to restore the tech allotment to $115,000,000. We are now back at level funding. In the grand scheme, there is a long road ahead. It will be the end of May before we know what the funding is going to be. It's important to share why the investment in Ed-tech is SO important. You've prob heard from the national perspective, that there are some key things--global competiveness, investment increase in achievement in math and science, better prepared workforce, data-driven decision-making. /p p [Anita is emphasizing the impact of tech and its importance]. /p p We're busy implementing House Bill 1. HB1 provides $275 per high school students...some of that is for advancing the academic opportunities those students have. Also a need for a 4x4 curriculum. Guess where we have the fewest teachers at our HSs...math and science. Looking for online courses, videoconferencing, technology is one of the strategies for achieving that. /p p [someone in the audience asks why we can't pay teachers to stay in high school in these areas...not articulated to Anita...why not?] /p p End of course tests are being developed as online tests. Whether we continue to put TAKS online, a combo of TAKS and end of course, or end of course, the primary delivery method will as an online test. One of the things we talk about is...it's fine to use the tech to do those things, but don't forget about the tech that has to be in the classroom for the instructional side. We know that people recognize the need for that. /p p Today, the House Public Education Committee, meets for the first-time. The chair of the committee is very interested in tech. There are other members who have expressed an interest in tech. A few bills have already been introduced last year is Rep. Madden is a state-wide virtual school network. Find some way to structure online learning across the State. There is a lot of interest in doing something at the state-level of coordination. What it might look like, we have no real idea. Know that is on the minds of a lot of folks. Depending on what happens, it could have a definite impact on your plans and how you will accommodate online learning. /p p Another one is how the telecommunications infrastructure fund collection is being used. They've stopped all that has been done with TIF funds, but collection is still occurring. $210 million was collected, but $115 million was paid for the tech allotment. The TIF is the source of funds for the state technology allotment. We know that Senate Bill 1 has the $115 million in the appropriations bill out of general revenue. As they stop that collection, that's going to lower the amount available...whether or not they stop that collection, what impact will that have on the tech allotment? What's the revenue system stream or funding source? (e.g. general revenue). /p p When you say the word instructional materials, it means diff things to diff folks. Discussion of a textbook allotment, textbook/tech allotment, and discussion continues about how to change that process. In the meantime, HB1. The Board adopted secondary math materials. /p p Another piece of the puzzle known as ancillaries...items that the publisher provides as part of the textbook for quot;free.quot; Lot of CDs come with these materials. Publishers were concerned about changing the adoption process since it was clear the legislature wanted more electronic content. So Proclamation 2004, there 14 electronic products that made the list, as well as the ancillary list. have any of you seen those materials? Do you know what's coming? No one else but math teachers have heard this. Some are providing software generated assessment tool, access to web sites, but some are providing online edition of print. Many of them have a student response system, a scanner, a laptop for the teacher, some have an LCD projector, and some have an interactive whiteboard, and some have all of those. /p p Your math teachers may be selecting math materials and technology that will be introduced for free in schools. We need to be talking to our Math folks to find out what they are selecting. If your dept is not in close communication with Math Depts, you [tech dept] could be surprised. /p p After math, the next area up for adoption is K-12 Reading/Language Arts. This is the largest area up for adoption...there is a lot of stuff that comes with that particular content area. Back in 2004, if enrollment growth continued, that the cost of those two proclamations could be a billion and half dollars. They are looking at technology as a more effective way to deliver instructional content. /p p [this is great because it means that we will have to equip teachers and classrooms with technology...glad I submitted this, but would have been happier if we'd been listened to sooner] /p p The perception is that schools see textbooks as free, they're entitled to them. The constitution says that schools are entitled to them. But is this the best way of delivering economical materials? Is this economically viable and appropriate for kids? things change very quickly...so rhetoric is that we still have textbooks in classrooms that are older than children using them. They perceive that there is a lot of free content out there...you can prob teach using what's available for free on the web. /p p [they is legislature, I believe] /p p We did not issue a proclamation 2006, but there will be a proclamation 2007 for elementary...proclamation 2008 for secondary, but none of the decisions have been made. We also know that the state auditors office has surveyed all the textbook coordinators in the state about how that operates...something is going to happen but we don't know for sure what will happen. that's for the upcoming session. /p p The other thing we're trying to look at is the possibility of online courses, review of instructional materials with online materials, possibility of online testing...put all those things together in an online environment, it's going to have an impact at the state level and districts and how we plan for the future. There is going to be opportunities to talk through best practices and TEA will want to hear back from you. If one of those things is to step back and get out of the way, then we need to do some planning. This will be important to leverage the wisdom of those involved in day to day work to ensure that this is all beneficial. /p p There is a lot of interest in expanding TIF from legislators, but they are also interested in going in different directions. /p p Question from audience: What amount was TEA shooting for the Tech Allotment?brIt would cost almost $200 per student. The State Board wasn't comfortable for that. They approved $50 for student for 07-08, and $60 for 08-09. Some legislators have proposals for increasing state allotment by $25 per year. /p p Question: Any serious discussion regarding providing math/science teachers a raise to keep them?brThere has been talk of a special stipend and conversations are taking place around that. In the next few weeks, we'll hear some more /p p Textbook-credit pilot...what's up with that? That pilot ended in 2004 so there's no money involved. What has happened is that a bill was introduced to expand that pilot state-wide. /p p [More was said, and I hope to share the digital recording of Anita's presentation.... ] /pp span class="technoratitag"Technorati Tags: a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/mguhlin" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for mguhlin"mguhlin/a, a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/tcea" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for tcea"tcea/a, a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/tcea2007" target="_blank" rel="tag" title="Link to Technorati Tag category for tcea2007"tcea2007/a/span


  18. SmallBizPod #55 - Saturday 29 September 2007
    19. 29 Sep 2007 at 7:12pm
    pThis week a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp55.mp3"SmallBizPod #55/a, the small business podcast, includes an interview with Jon Smith, CEO of a href="http://www.firstartist.com/"First Artist Corporation/a on rapid response, growth by acquisition, listing on AIM and the business of premiership football. There#8217;s also a round up of listener comments and a tremendous song to finish the podcast./p pRight click a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp55.mp3"here/a to download/p pstrongListen now:/strongbr / a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcasts/Sbp55.mp3"Download audio file (Sbp55.mp3)/abr //p pIf you#8217;d like to subscribe free using an RSS feed or better still iTunes, just follow the a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/podcast-faq"podcast screencasts/a to find out how easy it is to make sure you never miss an episode of SmallBizPod./p pFor those who#8217;d like to download SmallBizPod or listen to it now, right click on the download link or left click on the grey arrow button above to play now./p pstrongShow Notes/strong/p pstrongSummary/strong/p pIntro:/p pspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"•/span 00:00 Alex on what#8217;s coming up in the show.br / span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"•/span 1:43 Thanks to a href="http://www.sage.co.uk"Sage/a for their sponsorship of SmallBizPod.span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"/p pFeatures:/p pspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"•/span 03:13 strongInterview/strong with Jon Smith, CEO of a href="http://www.firstartist.com"First Artist Corporation/a, a sport, entertainment and marketing management company he founded in 1986. Jon and Alex talk about results of a a href="http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true #038;_pageLabel=template10#038;pageID=AV_0014"Vodafone/a survey which reveals British business is slow to respond to enquiries. Jon provides an insight into time management, growing a business through acquisition, AIM listing, dealing with the media, and the business world behind premiership football./p pComments:/p pspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"• /span 20:51 Thanks to the latest people to put their pin in the a href="http://www.frappr.com/smallbizpodcommunity"SmallBizPod Frappr map/a including: Blake Duerden from Wimbledon, Brian McSwiney from Cork, Graeme from Dundee and a guy from Houston, Texas.br / span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"• /span 21:53 Comment on the blog from Blake Duerden on the ubiquity of Google, being inspired by SmallBizPod and the diary of a wantrepreneur.br / span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"• /span 23:36 Comment from a href="http://www.realoasis.com/"Richard Boyd/a on Sage#8217;s sponsorship.br / span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"• /span 24:08 How to comment on the blog, by email or by leaving a phone message. Also check out the a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2370743429"SmallBizPod Facebook Group/a and the launch of a a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/news"small business news/a section of the site.br / span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"• /span 26:14 a href="http://www.akaza.net/"Andrea Drottholm/a emails seeking advice on how to set commissions for a sales team and ensure staff are delivering benefits not just costs.br / span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"• /span 27:48 a href="http://www.goldenmoments.com/"Paul Cheatle/a returns to offer his advice on when is the best time to quit your day job and start your own business.br / span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"• /span 29:08 a href="http://www.evolve-digital.co.uk"Andrew Banks/a on better titles for SmallBizPod in iTunes./p pspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"•/span 30.40 strongMusic/strong - Everything is OK by Halou./p pstronga href="http://redirect.iodalliance.com/artist.php?id=F6CFD39397C7A91096BF1947EC4CC1C58 CD2C9045D94995AB111C12A4AB0C6F4" target="_new" rel="nofollow"Halou/a/strongbr /ema href="http://redirect.iodalliance.com/download_track.php?id=DD6B185A3A9988503826D3280 39E6E1ABEB25E16D595F9357F0488D15735856A14245DC83895857EB823713B7785545E" target="_new" rel="nofollow"img src="http://promonet.iodalliance.com/img/download_icon.gif" border="0" #8220;Everything Is OK#8221;/a/em (mp3) br / from #8220;Wholeness amp; Separation#8221; br /a href="http://redirect.iodalliance.com/label.php?id=8E4DC939BB7C5780918F13D693D285DAE4 311180F8D0311E1D9190E506579A3F" target="_new" rel="nofollow"(Vertebrae)/abr clear="all"br /img src="http://promonet.iodalliance.com/img/service_icon_4.gif" strongBuy at /stronga href="http://redirect.iodalliance.com/buy_album.php?id=DD6B185A3A9988503826D328039E6E 1A567E1D29D222B8041AA1111083919D897BB6F70B51CB0C44575717A3D5D16C6D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"iTunes Music Store/abr /img src="http://promonet.iodalliance.com/img/service_icon_1.gif" strongStream from /stronga href="http://redirect.iodalliance.com/buy_album.php?id=DD6B185A3A9988503826D328039E6E 1A2930B779136D1AD9DDD3756736486BA13EA71DAAA05A1C281D1137ED94B5D10B" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Rhapsody/abr /img src="http://promonet.iodalliance.com/img/icon_landing_page.gif" a href="http://redirect.iodalliance.com/buy_album.php?id=DD6B185A3A9988503826D328039E6E 1A95A28938FB80B75EE47352CC80172F13367E9F3A8BEB64D21B4B73937412D648" target="_new" rel="nofollow"More On This Album/a/p psmallstrongTags: /stronga href="http://technorati.com/tag/small+business+podcast" rel="tag"small business podcast/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/acquisition" rel="tag"acquisition/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/growing+business" rel="tag"growing business/a/small/p p class="akst_link"a href="http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/?p=97amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_97" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow"Share This/a /pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=h5LwTSXd"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=h5LwTSXd" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=otxhaySx"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=otxhaySx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=FOIU8HWm"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=FOIU8HWm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=PPhr5Gcq"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=PPhr5Gcq" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?a=qUQQMWVs"i mg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast?i=qUQQMWVs" border="0"/img/a /div


  19. Cooking The Books
    20. 8 Feb 2008 at 2:51pm
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