Archive for the 'Blogging' Category
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) Jerry Buell,who teaches social studies at Mount Dora High School, received a ‘Teacher of the Year’ award in 2010. But this year he was suspended by his district for making anti-gay marriage comments on his personal Facebook page. In response to the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York, Jerry wrote […]
Filed under: Blogging, Church and State, Education, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Homosexual Marriage, Persecution, Politically Correct, Schools, USA
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
For those who continue to make fun of all the Millions ‘Tweeting’ away their lives, now even the Pope tweets. Pope Benedict XVI sent out a message on Twitter to publicize the launch of the Vatican’s new website- News.va, The following was the pope’s first message: "Dear Friends, I just launched http://t.co/fVHpS9y Praised be our […]
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Today is the 5th anniversary of this blog and my humble start in the blogosphere. In that time I have observed many different trends and changes. I have also seen many good blogs and bloggers come and go. Here’s a link to my very first article: “Technophobe Starts Blog” Millions of folks started blogging in […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
I am attending the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas today (Fri. 10/15) A great time to meet new people, see old friends, find new programs and apps. and re-evaluate everything you are doing online. Its like on big ‘Time-out’. The day started with a ‘key note’ discussion about how blogs and new media are affecting […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Here’s a couple of CNN hosts discussing the possibility of regulating and controlling the Internet and particularly blogging. Response: An over-the-top response to the ‘Sherrod incident’. Many in government and the MSM would love to control the Internet. It has become the ‘wild west’ when it comes to ‘free speech’ and an alternate source of […]
Filed under: Blogging, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech, Internet, MSM
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5-0 on Thursday to begin proceedings on formulating new Internet regulations. The pretense for FCC involvement revolves around a concern for providing some kind of so-called ‘net neutrality rules’ to even the playing field for different ISP providers. However, some are concerned that this is like […]
Filed under: Blogging, FCC Regulation, Internet, Obama Administration
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
I am in Las Vegas today and will be attending some of the BlogWorld events—the Keynotes for sure and the Exhibit floor. However, unfortunately I am also here on business so have a couple of things that I must do for my regular job also. I look forward to the encouragement and new stuff I […]
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
(Image by StephenMitchell via Flickr) A new bill has been introduced in Congress addressing ‘Cyberbullying’- H.R. 1966. The dangerous part is the unforeseen ways the bill may ultimately be used by authorities and interpreted by activist judges in the future. The ‘Cyberbullying’ bill revolves around using the Internet in particular—email, blogs instant messaging, websites, text […]
Filed under: Blogging, Freedom of Speech
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that this blog and all of the Answers For The Faith blogs were taking forever (30 seconds) to load and at other times not at all. At first I attributed it to a possible database attack like I had experienced early last year. After checking all my databases, […]
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
By Ben Norman (Southam,UK: Computer Step, In Easy Steps series, 2007, 192 pages) This is a valuable introduction to Google. All of the Google tools and services are mentioned and examples are given on how to sign up, set up,and use Google stuff. Also, Google SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a major focus of the […]
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