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“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

and

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

- Wayne Dyer

“Any person who reads too much and uses their own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

– Albert Einstein

It has often been observed that individuals lost in a Desert will set off with the intention of walking in a straight line but will eventually return to their starting point. Why is this?

While we were digging around investigating WordPress in preparation of using it for RV.Net blogs. We found a couple sites that allow you to create WP Themes. Those sites are:

Word Press Theme Generator
Theme Press

I have not tried them out yet, but Pat has been so we’ll see what we come up with. If you know of any others send them to me and I will update this post.

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

I was looking for a good place to get T’s done for the group and I ran across Cafepress.com. You should really go check it out. They have all kinds of stuff you can create. I tried to do some versions of shirts we might want to use. I think I like the off white with the brown logo best personally. Does anybody have a preference? Pat can you help me out by doing a PNG of both the brown and the black logo? The final product will be much better that way.

The grounds keeper at a sports complex watered the grass every evening when the sun was setting. The Grass grew fine. Before a major event, though, he sprayed the grass during the midday heat. Why?

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Citizen ads are new to me. Stacey mentioned them to me so I searched and found this business week article about them she had mentioned. Seems this latest fad exploits the idea of having your product/community zealots produce your advertising. Interesting, I wonder if this will really take off? Is it a really something people should consider or not. Any opinions?

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”

– Mohandas Gandhi

http://www.addthis.com/

I noticed that TechCrunch was using this, should we add it? They have a write up on AddThis you may want to review as well. If we want to add the AddThis widget to our site, the customization tool is here. We can try it out here and see if we think it will be something to add to the RV.Net Blog.

Benefits of AddThis Widget are:

• Easy Bookmarking – Makes it very easy for your visitors to bookmark your website or blog, and subscribe to your feeds (support most bookmarking and feed reader services)
• Social Traffic – Helps your visitors promote your website or blog to the social bookmarking services, which will bring back more traffïc to your website or blog.
• Less Clutter – Saves real-estate and reduces confusion on your website. You just put one button; we worry about all the other buttons for you.
• Statistics - Provides valuable statistics showing what content your visitors bookmark the most on your website or blog, over various time periods (and more soon)
• Free - All this is completely free, and will remain free.

Jose sent a link to Pick-n-Click Ads in to me. It is a great example of a company attempting to take advantage of the long tail of advertising. This site appears to allow you to pick and click to create your own ads in the following media:

• Print
• Radio
• Television
• Direct Mail
• Online
• Collateral

Stacey at Ehlert would like to explore creating something like this online for marketplace ads in their publications.

What if people could fill out, choose a couple of creative layout options, pick which of our magazines they want to run in, put in a credit card and get an ad placed. And the ad uploads to the appropriate magazine ftp site, the production coordinate grabs the ad and it runs. They could have the option of running the ad in print and online. Since Boating Industry and Powerboat seem to be the two mags with the most marketplace ads it would be great if we could test something with those two sites in particular.

Any ideas how we could pull something like this off?

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

– C. S. Lewis

How were insects once used in the diagnosis of a serious disease?

Let me know if you need hints.

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

– John F. Kennedy

Chuck, Stacey and I meet with Fullscreen Publications a couple days ago. This is the second time I have reviewed their product offering. The biggest difference between what they had 2 years ago and now is:

• Increased control over the display and layout via a web based wysiwyg editor
• They now have an app you can buy for your own servers vs. a hosted solution

Their product is absolutely amazing. It would be perfect for a magazine, event, Tour business or even a product like CSP. Go to the site and click portfolio and the watch. Hot.

A professor of archaeology was on an excavation at the site when he found an ancient and interesting item. He took it home and put it in his study. His wife and children were away so there was no other person in the house. He locked up and went to bed. In the morning he was horrified to find the item was gone. A thorough search showed it was not in the house. There had been no break-in and no one else had entered or left the house. What had happened?

“Odds are that the simplest solution to a problem is the correct one.”

This is know as “lex parsimoniae” or the law of succinctnesses.

– William of Ockham

I thought this tool looked very cool and compelling. They have many kinds of snapsohots you can add to your site. Click here and scroll down to see all the options. The configuration tool is here.

Can we add this to our our blog, article server and user contributed content server at AGI? What about the directory sites, etc . . . . What do you guys think? How can we use this? Can we integrate it with the Forums?

http://www.snap.com/