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Monday, August 10, 2009
U.S. Post Office R.I.P
In case you hadn't noticed, the Internet has become quite the thing. Considering the ease of e-mail and text-messaging, those paper love letters and corny cards have come to seem obsolete. The Postal Service has been in a bad way for a while; so much so that now the government has considered closing 677 offices.
"The writing is on the wall, and the postal service obviously has to make some tough decisions if it wants to weather this storm," Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said during a hearing.
Some Postal and Congressional sources say that only 200 out of the possible 677 offices will be likely to close after a close review, but either way, this will mean massive layoffs.
[via Washington Post]
"The writing is on the wall, and the postal service obviously has to make some tough decisions if it wants to weather this storm," Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said during a hearing.
Some Postal and Congressional sources say that only 200 out of the possible 677 offices will be likely to close after a close review, but either way, this will mean massive layoffs.
[via Washington Post]
Corazon Aquino, R.I.P
The former president of the Philippines died Saturday, August 01, 2009. She was a friend of the United States and an enemy of Communism.
Ronald Reagan played an important role in her rise to power in 1986. The Heritage Foundation lists this as one of a hundred "conservative victories" during the Reagan years:
Reagan's encouragement of a peaceful transfer of power from Ferdinand Marcos to a democratically elected, non-Communist government in Philippines contrasts dramatically with Carter's failure to insist on legitimate succession procedure in Shah's Iran and Somoza's Nicaragua.
Ronald Reagan played an important role in her rise to power in 1986. The Heritage Foundation lists this as one of a hundred "conservative victories" during the Reagan years:
Reagan's encouragement of a peaceful transfer of power from Ferdinand Marcos to a democratically elected, non-Communist government in Philippines contrasts dramatically with Carter's failure to insist on legitimate succession procedure in Shah's Iran and Somoza's Nicaragua.
Cash for Clunkers
Princeton economist Alan Blinder recently proposed a new government program he christened “Cash for Clunkers” in an article in The Times’s Business section.
Under the program, the government would buy back old cars at above market prices and scrap them. According to Blinder, this would accomplish a policy trifecta: 1) help the environment by getting the most polluting cars off the road; 2) stimulate the economy by getting money in the hands of people who will spend it and increase the demand for new cars; and 3) reduce income inequality by funneling the money to the poor.
I am skeptical of this proposal for a number of reasons.
This plan has the general feel of a gun buyback program, but instead of buying crappy old guns the government is buying crappy old cars.
When it comes to gun buybacks, both the theory and the data could not be clearer in showing that they don’t work. The only guns that get turned in are ones that people put little value on anyway. There is no impact on crime. On the positive side, the “cash for clunkers” program is more attractive than the gun buyback program because, as long as they are being driven, old cars pollute, whereas old guns just sit there.
Still, my guess is that unless the price the government pays for the clunkers is very high, the majority of vehicles that are turned in will not have been driven much, if at all. Indeed, I suspect one of the most visible responses to this program will be a new market for mechanics fixing up cars that don’t run at all just enough so that they can be driven to the government’s lot to collect the cash.
The biggest problem with this policy, however, is the way it distorts long run incentives. Let’s say the rules of the program say that a car must be at least fifteen years old to qualify for a big government subsidy to scrap it. This gives powerful incentives to people with twelve-year-old cars they were planning on scrapping to keep driving them for three more years to collect the government bounty. Instead of reducing the number of clunkers on the road, this program could actually lead to an increase!
It also seems to me that any effect on the demand for new cars would be extremely limited. People who drive clunkers are generally not in the market for new cars. Presumably their replacement car will be a used car. The increased demand for used cars will lead to higher prices for used cars, which will push some buyers towards a new car, but the likely impact on new cars would be small.
Finally, it is not even clear that this program would have such beneficial redistribution effects either. In the short run, it would represent a windfall profit to those who own clunkers. In the long run, however, there is a market for used cars. In response to the program, the price of nine-year-old cars would have to rise enough to offset the increased value associated with a near-clunker someday becoming a clunker that can be sold to the government. The benefits of the program will actually be spread widely over all car owners, not narrowly focused on the poor.
This program highlights some general concerns that arise with government programs. The first is that policies which might be a good idea if implemented as one time, short term programs, can be much less attractive if made permanent because of the way they distort incentives.
I suspect that even if this policy was introduced as a one time program, it would be extended because there would be a constituency for it. The second thing this program highlights is that it is extremely difficult to deal with negative externalities (in this case pollution) by subsidizing them (as this program does). If folks are doing things that we want less of, it makes a lot more sense to punish them for those behaviors (through extra taxes for instance) than to reward them.
Under the program, the government would buy back old cars at above market prices and scrap them. According to Blinder, this would accomplish a policy trifecta: 1) help the environment by getting the most polluting cars off the road; 2) stimulate the economy by getting money in the hands of people who will spend it and increase the demand for new cars; and 3) reduce income inequality by funneling the money to the poor.
I am skeptical of this proposal for a number of reasons.
This plan has the general feel of a gun buyback program, but instead of buying crappy old guns the government is buying crappy old cars.
When it comes to gun buybacks, both the theory and the data could not be clearer in showing that they don’t work. The only guns that get turned in are ones that people put little value on anyway. There is no impact on crime. On the positive side, the “cash for clunkers” program is more attractive than the gun buyback program because, as long as they are being driven, old cars pollute, whereas old guns just sit there.
Still, my guess is that unless the price the government pays for the clunkers is very high, the majority of vehicles that are turned in will not have been driven much, if at all. Indeed, I suspect one of the most visible responses to this program will be a new market for mechanics fixing up cars that don’t run at all just enough so that they can be driven to the government’s lot to collect the cash.
The biggest problem with this policy, however, is the way it distorts long run incentives. Let’s say the rules of the program say that a car must be at least fifteen years old to qualify for a big government subsidy to scrap it. This gives powerful incentives to people with twelve-year-old cars they were planning on scrapping to keep driving them for three more years to collect the government bounty. Instead of reducing the number of clunkers on the road, this program could actually lead to an increase!
It also seems to me that any effect on the demand for new cars would be extremely limited. People who drive clunkers are generally not in the market for new cars. Presumably their replacement car will be a used car. The increased demand for used cars will lead to higher prices for used cars, which will push some buyers towards a new car, but the likely impact on new cars would be small.
Finally, it is not even clear that this program would have such beneficial redistribution effects either. In the short run, it would represent a windfall profit to those who own clunkers. In the long run, however, there is a market for used cars. In response to the program, the price of nine-year-old cars would have to rise enough to offset the increased value associated with a near-clunker someday becoming a clunker that can be sold to the government. The benefits of the program will actually be spread widely over all car owners, not narrowly focused on the poor.
This program highlights some general concerns that arise with government programs. The first is that policies which might be a good idea if implemented as one time, short term programs, can be much less attractive if made permanent because of the way they distort incentives.
I suspect that even if this policy was introduced as a one time program, it would be extended because there would be a constituency for it. The second thing this program highlights is that it is extremely difficult to deal with negative externalities (in this case pollution) by subsidizing them (as this program does). If folks are doing things that we want less of, it makes a lot more sense to punish them for those behaviors (through extra taxes for instance) than to reward them.
Make money online
There are a lot of people out there who would love to know how to make money on the Internet with out getting scammed. The truth is that there are many websites offering you to make money on-line, but none of them will get you a dime.
When you are looking for way to make money on-line you need to be looking for free sites if you have to pay something then most times it’s a scam. I am going to tell you, you can make a lot of money on the Internet but I really don’t think you can make so much that you can live off of it. You could make some where around $100 to $200 a month.
If you want to make money you can live of, then I would say: look for ways to start your own business. It will cost a start up fee, but you never know, you might find one for free out there.. you just have to look.
I have been making money on-line for some time now and I’ve learn a lot, like PTC is not a good way to make money. Doing offers and writing about how I make most of my money on-line is a good start. I have done some survey to make money but sometime you may not be the right person for that survey and the survey sometimes can be very long. I believe the best way to make money is offers and writing.
What's your best way to make money on-line?
When you are looking for way to make money on-line you need to be looking for free sites if you have to pay something then most times it’s a scam. I am going to tell you, you can make a lot of money on the Internet but I really don’t think you can make so much that you can live off of it. You could make some where around $100 to $200 a month.
If you want to make money you can live of, then I would say: look for ways to start your own business. It will cost a start up fee, but you never know, you might find one for free out there.. you just have to look.
I have been making money on-line for some time now and I’ve learn a lot, like PTC is not a good way to make money. Doing offers and writing about how I make most of my money on-line is a good start. I have done some survey to make money but sometime you may not be the right person for that survey and the survey sometimes can be very long. I believe the best way to make money is offers and writing.
What's your best way to make money on-line?
Measure the link power
Google says in their help section that to rank better on the search results, links from other sites to your website play an important role.
They also say that links from more important websites, which means websites with better page rank, are better than links from websites with little or no page rank at all.
Knowing this, you might be tempted to filter the sites you will work on to get links to you such as the article directories
or websites like squidoo and hub pages.
How to measure the power of a link from a website?
First check the Page Rank of a website using a tool. Google toolbar is the fastest way to check it. Just install it and activate Page rank, then you will see a green bar on the top with the rank displayed.
Links from websites with better page rank are much better than from websites with no page rank at all or page rank 0.
The website iWebtool has a box to enter the website you want to check the page rank, still using Google toolbar is much faster.
Alexa rank is another thing to check. Getting links from sites that have more traffic is better than getting links from sites that have little or no traffic at all.
To check the rank of a website with Alexa you can install Alexa Firefox Add on and immediately see the rank of any website you visit.
However, unlike Google page rank, alexa rank might change from time to time and sometimes it changes a lot!
Finally check the domain popularity of a website. See how many pages Google indexed, the more the better.
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They also say that links from more important websites, which means websites with better page rank, are better than links from websites with little or no page rank at all.
Knowing this, you might be tempted to filter the sites you will work on to get links to you such as the article directories
or websites like squidoo and hub pages.
How to measure the power of a link from a website?
First check the Page Rank of a website using a tool. Google toolbar is the fastest way to check it. Just install it and activate Page rank, then you will see a green bar on the top with the rank displayed.
Links from websites with better page rank are much better than from websites with no page rank at all or page rank 0.
The website iWebtool has a box to enter the website you want to check the page rank, still using Google toolbar is much faster.
Alexa rank is another thing to check. Getting links from sites that have more traffic is better than getting links from sites that have little or no traffic at all.
To check the rank of a website with Alexa you can install Alexa Firefox Add on and immediately see the rank of any website you visit.
However, unlike Google page rank, alexa rank might change from time to time and sometimes it changes a lot!
Finally check the domain popularity of a website. See how many pages Google indexed, the more the better.
Tags: google rank checker, link popularity checker, link quality checker
SEO attack
Google has a all-inclusive amount of accoutrement that can advice anyone absorbed in optimizing their website get started. Among these accoutrement Google’s keyword assay apparatus is one of the best starting credibility for your seek engine enhancement (SEO) campaign. In this commodity I will awning some of the basal uses for this account and how it relates to your SEO strategies as able-bodied as how it gets you indexed by Google.
The aboriginal affair that needs to be accepted is what a seek on Google entails. By no agency does Google run a accepted concern on every website that is on the internet rather if you run a seek it tries to bout your seek adjoin the advice it has listed in its database. This database is anytime growing, not by individuals suggesting that Google seek their website but by the absurd technology that Google implements, Spiders.
Spiders are programs or scripts that are always browsing web pages already in Google’s database for new advice added to the site. This is how Google keeps you up to date with accordant content. While they are analytic these sites the spiders chase every hotlink on that website. Be it to addition page on the website or to an absolutely new website. What needs to be advised is this “Google adds new sites
by afterward links from sites already listed.” This is the key to both accepting listed and to your websites optimization.
Right now you are apparently allurement yourself “How am I declared to get sites to hotlink to me?” While this may assume like a difficult assignment in absoluteness it is not. Google not alone does the plan of award and indexing your website but alongside helps you achieve this.
Here is area Google’s Keyword Assay apparatus comes into play. This apparatus gives you statistics about whatever keywords you enter. For archetype if you run a seek for “shoes” the aboriginal three keywords that aftereffect from this are:
•DC Shoes
•Running Shoes
•Vans Shoes
Basically the keyword assay tells you, based off whatever basis chat you blazon in, what added key phrases appear up based off that keyword forth with a host of added data. While the abstracts it provides is absolutely admired to your SEO action it is alfresco the ambit of this commodity and will be addressed afterwards on. The best way to explain this is by an archetype which should advice to coalesce the information. I own a aggregation that sells accouterment for dogs and I accept just created a website. The website is not indexed by Google and I apperceive no one abroad in my industry with a webpage. I aswell do not accept the money to appoint a aggregation that does SEO but I am just a bit adeptness if it comes to these things. I accept absitively the keywords I wish to activate authoritative are “Dog Clothes” about I cannot do this abrupt as there are abounding companies that appear up if I do a seek on Google for “Dog Clothes.” Here is area I about-face to my accurate keyword assay tool.
When I run a seek with this apparatus I appear beyond these results:
•Dog Clothes
•Designer Dog Clothes
•Small Dog Clothes
•Cheap Dog Clothes
When we do the seek ourselves we apprehension that the keyword “Dog Clothes” has 23,000 account searches (this was at the time of this article) and the next keyword in band “Designer Dog Clothes” has 1,800 account searches. Our next footfall is as follows. We accessible our browser and arch over to Google and run a seek for our new keywords. With the after-effects that we get from this seek we are now accessible to yield our additional footfall in both optimizing our website and accepting it indexed.
We activate by allotment the aboriginal 10 to 15 sites that appear up, finer sites that are not web forums, blogs, or amusing arrangement groups (we will accord with those in addition article). We acquisition the acquaintance advice for the aggregation and forward off our action to actualize an affiliation. This action should cover a abrupt introduction, the hotlink URL(web address),the affectation argument of the hotlink i.e. “Custom Leather Accouterment for Dogs”, a abrupt description of your site, and a absolute hotlink to your affiliates page. If you absorb alone an hour or two a day for a anniversary beeline you will accrue an immense amount of humans absorbed in creating an affiliation. Shortly afterwards your hotlink appears on their site, abnormally if they accept a top Google Page Rank, you will be indexed by Google and will accept accustomed your abject for your SEO campaign.
The Google keyword assay apparatus is actual able and as you accept noticed in arena with it that it provides far added abstracts than what is covered so far. Play about with the abstracts and use Google’s advice area as it is loaded with accessible advice accompanying to Google’s accoutrement and there functions. In our next commodity we will go over some added appearance of Google’s keyword assay apparatus and how they can be acclimatized to supercharge your SEO results.
Tags: Internet, SEO, traffic
The aboriginal affair that needs to be accepted is what a seek on Google entails. By no agency does Google run a accepted concern on every website that is on the internet rather if you run a seek it tries to bout your seek adjoin the advice it has listed in its database. This database is anytime growing, not by individuals suggesting that Google seek their website but by the absurd technology that Google implements, Spiders.
Spiders are programs or scripts that are always browsing web pages already in Google’s database for new advice added to the site. This is how Google keeps you up to date with accordant content. While they are analytic these sites the spiders chase every hotlink on that website. Be it to addition page on the website or to an absolutely new website. What needs to be advised is this “Google adds new sites
by afterward links from sites already listed.” This is the key to both accepting listed and to your websites optimization.
Right now you are apparently allurement yourself “How am I declared to get sites to hotlink to me?” While this may assume like a difficult assignment in absoluteness it is not. Google not alone does the plan of award and indexing your website but alongside helps you achieve this.
Here is area Google’s Keyword Assay apparatus comes into play. This apparatus gives you statistics about whatever keywords you enter. For archetype if you run a seek for “shoes” the aboriginal three keywords that aftereffect from this are:
•DC Shoes
•Running Shoes
•Vans Shoes
Basically the keyword assay tells you, based off whatever basis chat you blazon in, what added key phrases appear up based off that keyword forth with a host of added data. While the abstracts it provides is absolutely admired to your SEO action it is alfresco the ambit of this commodity and will be addressed afterwards on. The best way to explain this is by an archetype which should advice to coalesce the information. I own a aggregation that sells accouterment for dogs and I accept just created a website. The website is not indexed by Google and I apperceive no one abroad in my industry with a webpage. I aswell do not accept the money to appoint a aggregation that does SEO but I am just a bit adeptness if it comes to these things. I accept absitively the keywords I wish to activate authoritative are “Dog Clothes” about I cannot do this abrupt as there are abounding companies that appear up if I do a seek on Google for “Dog Clothes.” Here is area I about-face to my accurate keyword assay tool.
When I run a seek with this apparatus I appear beyond these results:
•Dog Clothes
•Designer Dog Clothes
•Small Dog Clothes
•Cheap Dog Clothes
When we do the seek ourselves we apprehension that the keyword “Dog Clothes” has 23,000 account searches (this was at the time of this article) and the next keyword in band “Designer Dog Clothes” has 1,800 account searches. Our next footfall is as follows. We accessible our browser and arch over to Google and run a seek for our new keywords. With the after-effects that we get from this seek we are now accessible to yield our additional footfall in both optimizing our website and accepting it indexed.
We activate by allotment the aboriginal 10 to 15 sites that appear up, finer sites that are not web forums, blogs, or amusing arrangement groups (we will accord with those in addition article). We acquisition the acquaintance advice for the aggregation and forward off our action to actualize an affiliation. This action should cover a abrupt introduction, the hotlink URL(web address),the affectation argument of the hotlink i.e. “Custom Leather Accouterment for Dogs”, a abrupt description of your site, and a absolute hotlink to your affiliates page. If you absorb alone an hour or two a day for a anniversary beeline you will accrue an immense amount of humans absorbed in creating an affiliation. Shortly afterwards your hotlink appears on their site, abnormally if they accept a top Google Page Rank, you will be indexed by Google and will accept accustomed your abject for your SEO campaign.
The Google keyword assay apparatus is actual able and as you accept noticed in arena with it that it provides far added abstracts than what is covered so far. Play about with the abstracts and use Google’s advice area as it is loaded with accessible advice accompanying to Google’s accoutrement and there functions. In our next commodity we will go over some added appearance of Google’s keyword assay apparatus and how they can be acclimatized to supercharge your SEO results.
Tags: Internet, SEO, traffic
Earn money with search engines
Search Engines are what connects you and someone else. The connection to someone else, the idea of money is possible. Whether it is selling a product or earning commission, earning money is possible. Search Engines are also great ways to find secret or amazing information. You may see on the Internet the saying, “Google is your best friend”. It is true; you can search other companies and large money makers
and find out their secrets.
The main way I will use search engines to make money is driving traffic to my website. By driving traffic to my website, they view it and I make money from the advertisments on the side. All of my viewers is legit traffic so I know the information is interesting.
Search Engines will then rank your website based on it’s keywords. For example, Google is a very exciting search engine to get ranked high on, Why? A large amount of Internet users will use Google or have Google as their homepage. If your webpage is ranked towards the bottom, you better know how to advertise.
Now anyone can take time to write something and make it into a website. Many people in the world have the ability to work on a computer and have not understood the possible money making tactics that their are. The Internet is also great for children to learn new things and explore new topics of history or science. Children can find a connection to their homework and the Internet and learn more. The Internet could probably get into any college with its knowledge.
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and find out their secrets.
The main way I will use search engines to make money is driving traffic to my website. By driving traffic to my website, they view it and I make money from the advertisments on the side. All of my viewers is legit traffic so I know the information is interesting.
Search Engines will then rank your website based on it’s keywords. For example, Google is a very exciting search engine to get ranked high on, Why? A large amount of Internet users will use Google or have Google as their homepage. If your webpage is ranked towards the bottom, you better know how to advertise.
Now anyone can take time to write something and make it into a website. Many people in the world have the ability to work on a computer and have not understood the possible money making tactics that their are. The Internet is also great for children to learn new things and explore new topics of history or science. Children can find a connection to their homework and the Internet and learn more. The Internet could probably get into any college with its knowledge.
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Get more traffic
The amount of money you will make with your content is directly linked to the amount of sales you can make. Content that engages users to click and buy will generate more money than content that generate nothing but impressions.
The second thing that has a direct impact in your earnings is the amount of traffic you have. So far so simple.
Now things start to complicate. How can you get more traffic
and how can you make content that makes users want to click and then buy?
Let’s see traffic first. No one will see your content and read your articles just because you published them, you need to take some action. No one will type the full URL to read it, so this means that all your traffic will come either from search engines or from other links. To rank higher on search engines you need to pay particular care to the keywords in the title and in the first paragraphs. When a user types keywords that match your title, your results on Google will be shown on bold which increases both the chance of getting a click and to be shown on the results obviously. You should use Google keyword tool to see the keywords for that subject that get the most searches then use them in the title.
To get traffic from other sites you should make all the links you can from other sites to your pages. Sites that get big traffic like Facebook and Myspace are the greatest ones, however if you are not a super star you will not get that much visits so focus only where you get visitors, else just write more articles.
Expensive content is the last thing to take in consideration. Expensive content is that content that can pop the most expensive ads in the inventory. Search on Google for the most expensive ads and then make content for them. Be particularly careful to the area you are going to get readers. Most of these ads are region targeted so not all your readers will see the same ad.
Tags: ads, advertisements, Advertising, articles, cash, Clicks, earnings, expensive content, money, sale, sales, triond
The second thing that has a direct impact in your earnings is the amount of traffic you have. So far so simple.
Now things start to complicate. How can you get more traffic
and how can you make content that makes users want to click and then buy?
Let’s see traffic first. No one will see your content and read your articles just because you published them, you need to take some action. No one will type the full URL to read it, so this means that all your traffic will come either from search engines or from other links. To rank higher on search engines you need to pay particular care to the keywords in the title and in the first paragraphs. When a user types keywords that match your title, your results on Google will be shown on bold which increases both the chance of getting a click and to be shown on the results obviously. You should use Google keyword tool to see the keywords for that subject that get the most searches then use them in the title.
To get traffic from other sites you should make all the links you can from other sites to your pages. Sites that get big traffic like Facebook and Myspace are the greatest ones, however if you are not a super star you will not get that much visits so focus only where you get visitors, else just write more articles.
Expensive content is the last thing to take in consideration. Expensive content is that content that can pop the most expensive ads in the inventory. Search on Google for the most expensive ads and then make content for them. Be particularly careful to the area you are going to get readers. Most of these ads are region targeted so not all your readers will see the same ad.
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Search engine ranking
High search engine ranking is what all of us who are trying to succeed at writing on the internet are trying to accomplish. The reason being, a high search engine ranking pretty much guarantees that you article is going to get a lot of page views simply because it is one of the first four to ten articles that someone searching the web will see.
High search engine ranking says a lot to the person viewing the web page.
1. It says that you have written about a popular subject - This is exactly what you want to do. Popular subjects get a lot of attention. Personal stories can have appeal if they are about something that a lot of people are interested in or doing themselves.
2. It says that you have written your title well – I discussed this in a previous article. Writing a good title (headline) is very important. In writing your title, you want to get to the subject that you are writing about as soon as possible. You should try to achieve this in at least three to four words. Sometimes it’s not easy but you should try nonetheless.
3. It means that you have sufficiently tagged your article - Tagging your article is as important, and maybe more important, as writing a good title. If youhave tagged your article properly along with the other things mentioned here, you should see a good number of “hits” to your article. Every time someone types a word or phrase into a search, a listing of articles with that word or phrase shows up on the search page. If your article has an abundance of search phrases and words in them, the search engine will show your article. The more of them your article has, the higher your article’s search ranking will be.
4. It says that you have gotten a lot of page views – This may sound like double-talk but it’s true. If your title and popular subject got you a high search engine ranking, then by default, your high ranking will get you a lot of page views. I forget what the exact percentage is but somewhere in the neighborhood of 70% to 80% of web page clicks are done on the first four to five web sites listed on a search engine page. I may be off a little but not much.
5. It says that the search engine has confidence in and approves of what you wrote – You better believe, if a search engine gave you a high ranking, they have read over your article with a fine tooth comb. Their reputation is on the line. Page views and clicks mean money to them just like it does to you. You can bet they are not going to put their name and reputation behind content that makes them look bad or unprofessional.
6. It says that you’re a better writer than you thought you were – Having a high search engine ranking means that you have impressed a major corporation (because that’s exactly what they are) to put their name behind yours.
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High search engine ranking says a lot to the person viewing the web page.
1. It says that you have written about a popular subject - This is exactly what you want to do. Popular subjects get a lot of attention. Personal stories can have appeal if they are about something that a lot of people are interested in or doing themselves.
2. It says that you have written your title well – I discussed this in a previous article. Writing a good title (headline) is very important. In writing your title, you want to get to the subject that you are writing about as soon as possible. You should try to achieve this in at least three to four words. Sometimes it’s not easy but you should try nonetheless.
3. It means that you have sufficiently tagged your article - Tagging your article is as important, and maybe more important, as writing a good title. If youhave tagged your article properly along with the other things mentioned here, you should see a good number of “hits” to your article. Every time someone types a word or phrase into a search, a listing of articles with that word or phrase shows up on the search page. If your article has an abundance of search phrases and words in them, the search engine will show your article. The more of them your article has, the higher your article’s search ranking will be.
4. It says that you have gotten a lot of page views – This may sound like double-talk but it’s true. If your title and popular subject got you a high search engine ranking, then by default, your high ranking will get you a lot of page views. I forget what the exact percentage is but somewhere in the neighborhood of 70% to 80% of web page clicks are done on the first four to five web sites listed on a search engine page. I may be off a little but not much.
5. It says that the search engine has confidence in and approves of what you wrote – You better believe, if a search engine gave you a high ranking, they have read over your article with a fine tooth comb. Their reputation is on the line. Page views and clicks mean money to them just like it does to you. You can bet they are not going to put their name and reputation behind content that makes them look bad or unprofessional.
6. It says that you’re a better writer than you thought you were – Having a high search engine ranking means that you have impressed a major corporation (because that’s exactly what they are) to put their name behind yours.
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Blacklisted on Google
If you want to get Google to blacklist your website, just follow these easy steps:
So you’ve created a brand new website and you are looking for ways to get it blacklisted from Google. Well, this will be incredibly easy when compared to getting quality traffic from Google and other search engines. There are certain things that Google looks for that they consider cheating. These practices will get your website blacklisted from Google. These are usually shortcuts, shortcuts will create more work for you than you can possibly imagine if you are truly serious about getting your website quality traffic.
The first, and easiest, way to get blacklisted is to use one of the many directory submission services available on the web. This way you can get blacklisted and spend some money while doing it. These services are never free. You may be able to gain some traffic through the directories if you are lucky, really lucky. The problem is that these directories
don’t tend to get much traffic at all, which is why your website was able to get listed so easily.
The second option would be link sharing programs. If your website is associated with a link sharing website (these can be found for free) then it may end up getting blacklisted. Google looks for any unnatural links that you may have obtained and if it finds that you are part of a link sharing program that may be enough. To get real traffic you don’t need a link sharing program to be able to share links with other websites. Just contact the webmaster and ask for a link exchange. You will probably be refused if you do not choose your words carefully and your website must have something unique to offer. Webmasters get many of these requests.
The final way to get blacklisted is a little more involved and you can do it by accident. Many people who are aggressive in the promotion
of their websites will legitimately create many backlinks and directory links as soon as they create their website. Google with notice this many backlinks in a such a short period of time and consider it unnatural.
Whatever criteria Google uses to blacklist sites is their own and there is no point arguing about it. So take your time and slowly work to gain legitimate backlinks so that you can gain natural traffic and be able to avoid the black hand of Google.
Good Luck!
Tags: adsense, google, traffic, website, Websites
So you’ve created a brand new website and you are looking for ways to get it blacklisted from Google. Well, this will be incredibly easy when compared to getting quality traffic from Google and other search engines. There are certain things that Google looks for that they consider cheating. These practices will get your website blacklisted from Google. These are usually shortcuts, shortcuts will create more work for you than you can possibly imagine if you are truly serious about getting your website quality traffic.
The first, and easiest, way to get blacklisted is to use one of the many directory submission services available on the web. This way you can get blacklisted and spend some money while doing it. These services are never free. You may be able to gain some traffic through the directories if you are lucky, really lucky. The problem is that these directories
don’t tend to get much traffic at all, which is why your website was able to get listed so easily.
The second option would be link sharing programs. If your website is associated with a link sharing website (these can be found for free) then it may end up getting blacklisted. Google looks for any unnatural links that you may have obtained and if it finds that you are part of a link sharing program that may be enough. To get real traffic you don’t need a link sharing program to be able to share links with other websites. Just contact the webmaster and ask for a link exchange. You will probably be refused if you do not choose your words carefully and your website must have something unique to offer. Webmasters get many of these requests.
The final way to get blacklisted is a little more involved and you can do it by accident. Many people who are aggressive in the promotion
of their websites will legitimately create many backlinks and directory links as soon as they create their website. Google with notice this many backlinks in a such a short period of time and consider it unnatural.
Whatever criteria Google uses to blacklist sites is their own and there is no point arguing about it. So take your time and slowly work to gain legitimate backlinks so that you can gain natural traffic and be able to avoid the black hand of Google.
Good Luck!
Tags: adsense, google, traffic, website, Websites
Top Words Searched
This article does not contain any pictures. It does not even contain useful information. It is an experiment I want to preform about article promotion and learning the ins and outs of SEO.
I have read a lot about promoting articles on line and decided it was time for me to try an experiment and see if filling the content with the top words searched if my page views will sky rocket. My quest took me to search the top words searched and below is what I found.
On AOL hot searches the top words searched are :
John Hughes
Steven Tyler
Unemployment
Anna Paquin
G.I Joe
NASA
Amanda Rodrigues
NASCAR
Hailey Glassman
‘Big Brother’
Unemployment
San Andreas Fault
Channing Tatum
‘Entourage’
Ask IQ:
Facebook
MySpace
YouTube
Craigslist
Flowers
What does my name mean
Hotmail
How much should I weigh
How to kiss
Cash for Clunkers
Top Advancing Searches:
Cash for Clunkers
Bill Clinton
North Korea
Euna Lee
Laura Ling
Corazon Aquino
Paula Abdul
Sugarland
Michael Phelps
LA Fitness
Top News Searches:
Cash for Clunkers
Bill Clinton
North Korea
Euna Lee
Laura Ling
Corazon Aquino
President Obama
Michael Jackson
Meghan McCain
US post office closings
Box Office Top 10:
Funny People
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
G-Force
The Ugly Truth
Aliens In The Attic
Orphan
The Hangover
The Proposal
Meghan McCain
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Top 10 Ask.com Movie Searches:
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Bruno
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
G-Force
The Ugly Truth
Julie & Julia
A Perfect Getaway
Aliens in the Attic
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I know there is just a group of words in the above content. There are also a ton of links included in this post to. Will this help to promote an article? I am not sure but it does seem that if you enter enough words that are on the top list of things searched it makes sense to me that my article will pop to the top more often.
I know this is not my best article written but I do hope you all will bear with me as this experiment unfolds.
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I have read a lot about promoting articles on line and decided it was time for me to try an experiment and see if filling the content with the top words searched if my page views will sky rocket. My quest took me to search the top words searched and below is what I found.
On AOL hot searches the top words searched are :
John Hughes
Steven Tyler
Unemployment
Anna Paquin
G.I Joe
NASA
Amanda Rodrigues
NASCAR
Hailey Glassman
‘Big Brother’
Unemployment
San Andreas Fault
Channing Tatum
‘Entourage’
Ask IQ:
MySpace
YouTube
Craigslist
Flowers
What does my name mean
Hotmail
How much should I weigh
How to kiss
Cash for Clunkers
Top Advancing Searches:
Cash for Clunkers
Bill Clinton
North Korea
Euna Lee
Laura Ling
Corazon Aquino
Paula Abdul
Sugarland
Michael Phelps
LA Fitness
Top News Searches:
Cash for Clunkers
Bill Clinton
North Korea
Euna Lee
Laura Ling
Corazon Aquino
President Obama
Michael Jackson
Meghan McCain
US post office closings
Box Office Top 10:
Funny People
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
G-Force
The Ugly Truth
Aliens In The Attic
Orphan
The Hangover
The Proposal
Meghan McCain
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Top 10 Ask.com Movie Searches:
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Bruno
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
G-Force
The Ugly Truth
Julie & Julia
A Perfect Getaway
Aliens in the Attic
ladder scripts bookmark4u travel latest high score set mambo
piano cover playstation 2 altavista bonsai arbre ligne computer repair autos pinochle pc hotels newspublish laptop deals simple compositeur musique travel pourquoi tenir un journal affiliate marketing car rusting eba corporate jet youtube chupix cms zboard marketing appartamenti barcellona notebook comparison hp laptops manger plus absolument laiguille pinochle origine notebook price internet marketing used laptops jeux playstation 2 tippmann 98 paintball giocatore di basket basket calendario money allumettes hommes projet robotique cars gaming laptop pinochle joueurs gifts indian perles accompagnement au piano comment tenir un journal nature cheap notebooks textiles magazine toshiba laptops email marketing poker centro uffici catania
I know there is just a group of words in the above content. There are also a ton of links included in this post to. Will this help to promote an article? I am not sure but it does seem that if you enter enough words that are on the top list of things searched it makes sense to me that my article will pop to the top more often.
I know this is not my best article written but I do hope you all will bear with me as this experiment unfolds.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Can Paula Abdul dance?
Even though Paula Abdul won't be returning to 'American Idol,' ABC executives would love to secure her as a judge for the next season of 'Dancing With The Stars.
While no official confirmation has been made, ABC wants Abdul to grace the judges' table with current 'Dancing' judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli. "I was a little stunned by the decision, and we would love to have her," McPherson said.
I think she's a huge talent," ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson said. "There's a sensitivity and an empathy that balances out 'Idol,' and we'd love to get a piece of that.
While no official confirmation has been made, ABC wants Abdul to grace the judges' table with current 'Dancing' judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli. "I was a little stunned by the decision, and we would love to have her," McPherson said.
Chinese flee powerful typhoon
A typhoon slammed into China's east coast Sunday, flooding entire villages, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of nearly a million residents, after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the island's worst flooding in 50 years.
Rescuers on rubber dinghies, wearing life jackets and crash helmets, helped stranded villagers in hard-hit areas of China, while officials elsewhere cycled through floodwaters to deliver food to residents trapped in their homes.
Only rooftops and the highest tree branches were visible above the murky brown water that engulfed part of China's southern Cangnan county. Homes were destroyed and at least one child died after a house collapsed on him in heavy rain in Zhejiang province.
In southern Taiwan, a six-story hotel toppled into a rain-swollen river whose rushing waters had knocked out its foundations.
Typhoon Morakot made landfall in China's Fujian province Sunday, carrying heavy rains and winds of 74 miles per hour, the China Meteorological Administration said.
Taiwan, meanwhile, was recovering after the storm dumped more than 80 inches of rain on some southern counties on Friday and Saturday, the worst flooding to hit the area in half a century, the Central Weather Bureau reported.
Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center said a woman was killed when her vehicle plunged into a ditch in Kaohsiung county in heavy rain Friday, and two men drowned in Pingtung and Tainan. It said 31 were missing and feared dead. Crashing floodwaters had washed away roads and bridges in the island's south.
Nearly 1 million people were evacuated from China's eastern coastal provinces by early Sunday — more than 490,000 people in Zhejiang and 480,000 in neighboring Fujian. Authorities in Fujian called 48,000 boats back to harbor.
Thirty-nine flights from Wenzhou city in Zhejiang were canceled Sunday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Village officials in Zhejiang rode bicycles to distribute drinking water and instant noodles to residents stranded by deep floods, Xinhua said.
Rescuers on rubber dinghies, wearing life jackets and crash helmets, helped stranded villagers in hard-hit areas of China, while officials elsewhere cycled through floodwaters to deliver food to residents trapped in their homes.
Only rooftops and the highest tree branches were visible above the murky brown water that engulfed part of China's southern Cangnan county. Homes were destroyed and at least one child died after a house collapsed on him in heavy rain in Zhejiang province.
In southern Taiwan, a six-story hotel toppled into a rain-swollen river whose rushing waters had knocked out its foundations.
Typhoon Morakot made landfall in China's Fujian province Sunday, carrying heavy rains and winds of 74 miles per hour, the China Meteorological Administration said.
Taiwan, meanwhile, was recovering after the storm dumped more than 80 inches of rain on some southern counties on Friday and Saturday, the worst flooding to hit the area in half a century, the Central Weather Bureau reported.
Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center said a woman was killed when her vehicle plunged into a ditch in Kaohsiung county in heavy rain Friday, and two men drowned in Pingtung and Tainan. It said 31 were missing and feared dead. Crashing floodwaters had washed away roads and bridges in the island's south.
Nearly 1 million people were evacuated from China's eastern coastal provinces by early Sunday — more than 490,000 people in Zhejiang and 480,000 in neighboring Fujian. Authorities in Fujian called 48,000 boats back to harbor.
Thirty-nine flights from Wenzhou city in Zhejiang were canceled Sunday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Village officials in Zhejiang rode bicycles to distribute drinking water and instant noodles to residents stranded by deep floods, Xinhua said.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Statistics
At Harvard, Carrie Grimes majored in anthropology and archaeology and ventured to places like Honduras, where she studied Mayan settlement patterns by mapping where artifacts were found. But she was drawn to what she calls “all the computer and math stuff” that was part of the job.
“People think of field archaeology as Indiana Jones, but much of what you really do is data analysis,” she said.
Now Ms. Grimes does a different kind of digging. She works at Google, where she uses statistical analysis of mounds of data to come up with ways to improve its search engine.
Ms. Grimes is an Internet-age statistician, one of many who are changing the image of the profession as a place for dronish number nerds. They are finding themselves increasingly in demand — and even cool.
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”
The rising stature of statisticians, who can earn $125,000 at top companies in their first year after getting a doctorate, is a byproduct of the recent explosion of digital data. In field after field, computing and the Web are creating new realms of data to explore — sensor signals, surveillance tapes, social network chatter, public records and more. And the digital data surge only promises to accelerate, rising fivefold by 2012, according to a projection by IDC, a research firm.
Yet data is merely the raw material of knowledge. “We’re rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, an economist and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Digital Business. “But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.”
The new breed of statisticians tackle that problem. They use powerful computers and sophisticated mathematical models to hunt for meaningful patterns and insights in vast troves of data. The applications are as diverse as improving Internet search and online advertising, culling gene sequencing information for cancer research and analyzing sensor and location data to optimize the handling of food shipments.
Even the recently ended Netflix contest, which offered $1 million to anyone who could significantly improve the company’s movie recommendation system, was a battle waged with the weapons of modern statistics.
Though at the fore, statisticians are only a small part of an army of experts using modern statistical techniques for data analysis. Computing and numerical skills, experts say, matter far more than degrees. So the new data sleuths come from backgrounds like economics, computer science and mathematics.
They are certainly welcomed in the White House these days. “Robust, unbiased data are the first step toward addressing our long-term economic needs and key policy priorities,” Peter R. Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, declared in a speech in May. Later that day, Mr. Orszag confessed in a blog entry that his talk on the importance of statistics was a subject “near to my (admittedly wonkish) heart.”
I.B.M., seeing an opportunity in data-hunting services, created a Business Analytics and Optimization Services group in April. The unit will tap the expertise of the more than 200 mathematicians, statisticians and other data analysts in its research labs — but that number is not enough. I.B.M. plans to retrain or hire 4,000 more analysts across the company.
In another sign of the growing interest in the field, an estimated 6,400 people are attending the statistics profession’s annual conference in Washington this week, up from around 5,400 in recent years, according to the American Statistical Association. The attendees, men and women, young and graying, looked much like any other crowd of tourists in the nation’s capital. But their rapt exchanges were filled with talk of randomization, parameters, regressions and data clusters. The data surge is elevating a profession that traditionally tackled less visible and less lucrative work, like figuring out life expectancy rates for insurance companies.
Ms. Grimes, 32, got her doctorate in statistics from Stanford in 2003 and joined Google later that year. She is now one of many statisticians in a group of 250 data analysts. She uses statistical modeling to help improve the company’s search technology.
For example, Ms. Grimes worked on an algorithm to fine-tune Google’s crawler software, which roams the Web to constantly update its search index. The model increased the chances that the crawler would scan frequently updated Web pages and make fewer trips to more static ones.
The goal, Ms. Grimes explained, is to make tiny gains in the efficiency of computer and network use. “Even an improvement of a percent or two can be huge, when you do things over the millions and billions of times we do things at Google,” she said.
It is the size of the data sets on the Web that opens new worlds of discovery. Traditionally, social sciences tracked people’s behavior by interviewing or surveying them. “But the Web provides this amazing resource for observing how millions of people interact,” said Jon Kleinberg, a computer scientist and social networking researcher at Cornell.
For example, in research just published, Mr. Kleinberg and two colleagues followed the flow of ideas across cyberspace. They tracked 1.6 million news sites and blogs during the 2008 presidential campaign, using algorithms that scanned for phrases associated with news topics like “lipstick on a pig.”
The Cornell researchers found that, generally, the traditional media leads and the blogs follow, typically by 2.5 hours. But a handful of blogs were quickest to quotes that later gained wide attention.
The rich lode of Web data, experts warn, has its perils. Its sheer volume can easily overwhelm statistical models. Statisticians also caution that strong correlations of data do not necessarily prove a cause-and-effect link.
For example, in the late 1940s, before there was a polio vaccine, public health experts in America noted that polio cases increased in step with the consumption of ice cream and soft drinks, according to David Alan Grier, a historian and statistician at George Washington University. Eliminating such treats was even recommended as part of an anti-polio diet. It turned out that polio outbreaks were most common in the hot months of summer, when people naturally ate more ice cream, showing only an association, Mr. Grier said.
If the data explosion magnifies longstanding issues in statistics, it also opens up new frontiers.
“The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd,” said Daniel Gruhl, an I.B.M. researcher whose recent work includes mining medical data to improve treatment. “And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at — explain those anomalies.”
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“People think of field archaeology as Indiana Jones, but much of what you really do is data analysis,” she said.
Now Ms. Grimes does a different kind of digging. She works at Google, where she uses statistical analysis of mounds of data to come up with ways to improve its search engine.
Ms. Grimes is an Internet-age statistician, one of many who are changing the image of the profession as a place for dronish number nerds. They are finding themselves increasingly in demand — and even cool.
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”
The rising stature of statisticians, who can earn $125,000 at top companies in their first year after getting a doctorate, is a byproduct of the recent explosion of digital data. In field after field, computing and the Web are creating new realms of data to explore — sensor signals, surveillance tapes, social network chatter, public records and more. And the digital data surge only promises to accelerate, rising fivefold by 2012, according to a projection by IDC, a research firm.
Yet data is merely the raw material of knowledge. “We’re rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, an economist and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Digital Business. “But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.”
The new breed of statisticians tackle that problem. They use powerful computers and sophisticated mathematical models to hunt for meaningful patterns and insights in vast troves of data. The applications are as diverse as improving Internet search and online advertising, culling gene sequencing information for cancer research and analyzing sensor and location data to optimize the handling of food shipments.
Even the recently ended Netflix contest, which offered $1 million to anyone who could significantly improve the company’s movie recommendation system, was a battle waged with the weapons of modern statistics.
Though at the fore, statisticians are only a small part of an army of experts using modern statistical techniques for data analysis. Computing and numerical skills, experts say, matter far more than degrees. So the new data sleuths come from backgrounds like economics, computer science and mathematics.
They are certainly welcomed in the White House these days. “Robust, unbiased data are the first step toward addressing our long-term economic needs and key policy priorities,” Peter R. Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, declared in a speech in May. Later that day, Mr. Orszag confessed in a blog entry that his talk on the importance of statistics was a subject “near to my (admittedly wonkish) heart.”
I.B.M., seeing an opportunity in data-hunting services, created a Business Analytics and Optimization Services group in April. The unit will tap the expertise of the more than 200 mathematicians, statisticians and other data analysts in its research labs — but that number is not enough. I.B.M. plans to retrain or hire 4,000 more analysts across the company.
In another sign of the growing interest in the field, an estimated 6,400 people are attending the statistics profession’s annual conference in Washington this week, up from around 5,400 in recent years, according to the American Statistical Association. The attendees, men and women, young and graying, looked much like any other crowd of tourists in the nation’s capital. But their rapt exchanges were filled with talk of randomization, parameters, regressions and data clusters. The data surge is elevating a profession that traditionally tackled less visible and less lucrative work, like figuring out life expectancy rates for insurance companies.
Ms. Grimes, 32, got her doctorate in statistics from Stanford in 2003 and joined Google later that year. She is now one of many statisticians in a group of 250 data analysts. She uses statistical modeling to help improve the company’s search technology.
For example, Ms. Grimes worked on an algorithm to fine-tune Google’s crawler software, which roams the Web to constantly update its search index. The model increased the chances that the crawler would scan frequently updated Web pages and make fewer trips to more static ones.
The goal, Ms. Grimes explained, is to make tiny gains in the efficiency of computer and network use. “Even an improvement of a percent or two can be huge, when you do things over the millions and billions of times we do things at Google,” she said.
It is the size of the data sets on the Web that opens new worlds of discovery. Traditionally, social sciences tracked people’s behavior by interviewing or surveying them. “But the Web provides this amazing resource for observing how millions of people interact,” said Jon Kleinberg, a computer scientist and social networking researcher at Cornell.
For example, in research just published, Mr. Kleinberg and two colleagues followed the flow of ideas across cyberspace. They tracked 1.6 million news sites and blogs during the 2008 presidential campaign, using algorithms that scanned for phrases associated with news topics like “lipstick on a pig.”
The Cornell researchers found that, generally, the traditional media leads and the blogs follow, typically by 2.5 hours. But a handful of blogs were quickest to quotes that later gained wide attention.
The rich lode of Web data, experts warn, has its perils. Its sheer volume can easily overwhelm statistical models. Statisticians also caution that strong correlations of data do not necessarily prove a cause-and-effect link.
For example, in the late 1940s, before there was a polio vaccine, public health experts in America noted that polio cases increased in step with the consumption of ice cream and soft drinks, according to David Alan Grier, a historian and statistician at George Washington University. Eliminating such treats was even recommended as part of an anti-polio diet. It turned out that polio outbreaks were most common in the hot months of summer, when people naturally ate more ice cream, showing only an association, Mr. Grier said.
If the data explosion magnifies longstanding issues in statistics, it also opens up new frontiers.
“The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd,” said Daniel Gruhl, an I.B.M. researcher whose recent work includes mining medical data to improve treatment. “And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at — explain those anomalies.”
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Children's Paradise
If you based your worldview on fictional television programs, you would conclude that life was a lot better for kids back in the fifties. Nothing seriously bad ever happens to kids on Leave It to Beaver. But on shows like Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, innocent children meet one grotesque fate after another. If we could only go back to the good old days, it seems, kids would be safe, and parents could sleep well at night.In chapter 4 of my next book, I compare this "television reality" to actual reality. Using standard official statistics, We've compiled U.S. youth mortality rates for 1950 versus 2005. We break the results down by disease, accidents, war, homicide, and suicide. Here are the initial results:
Overall, today is much safer than 1950. That's probably no surprise to anyone who knows basic economic history. What's particularly interesting is that safety gains are especially large for younger kids. The mortality rate for kids under 5 was almost five times greater in 1950, 3.7 times greater for kids 5-14, and 2.2 times greater for 15-24 year olds.I suspect that many people will object, "Yes, but if you break the results down by cause of death, modernity is worse in both homicide and suicide - two out of the five categories." Our reply: All modernity has done is roughly double two vivid near-zero risks. In exchange, we are vastly safer from the formerly quantitatively fearsome risks of disease, accidents, and war.Bottom line: Modernity delivers the children's paradise that the fifties only promised. Maybe the nation's parents should try turning off their televisions for a minute of gratitude that they aren't Ward and June Cleaver?
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Overall, today is much safer than 1950. That's probably no surprise to anyone who knows basic economic history. What's particularly interesting is that safety gains are especially large for younger kids. The mortality rate for kids under 5 was almost five times greater in 1950, 3.7 times greater for kids 5-14, and 2.2 times greater for 15-24 year olds.I suspect that many people will object, "Yes, but if you break the results down by cause of death, modernity is worse in both homicide and suicide - two out of the five categories." Our reply: All modernity has done is roughly double two vivid near-zero risks. In exchange, we are vastly safer from the formerly quantitatively fearsome risks of disease, accidents, and war.Bottom line: Modernity delivers the children's paradise that the fifties only promised. Maybe the nation's parents should try turning off their televisions for a minute of gratitude that they aren't Ward and June Cleaver?
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Quiz
Imagine you’re a member of Congress. You’re a fan of the Cash for Clunkers program. You discover that the $1 billion that Congress budgeted for the program has been spent in FOUR DAYS. The program is now out of money. What do you do?
A. Realize that $4500 per clunker was too big a subsidy and that you can achieve the same effects with a much smaller amount.
B. Worry that maybe there is some fraud in the program and that some of the cash isn’t going to clunkers
C. Increase the budget by $2 billion
The correct answer for clunkheads is C, of course. That’s the wise choice when you are spending other people’s money. What fun that must be!
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A. Realize that $4500 per clunker was too big a subsidy and that you can achieve the same effects with a much smaller amount.
B. Worry that maybe there is some fraud in the program and that some of the cash isn’t going to clunkers
C. Increase the budget by $2 billion
The correct answer for clunkheads is C, of course. That’s the wise choice when you are spending other people’s money. What fun that must be!
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Ninety Six Billion
The mounting price tag for the rescue of Fannie and its goverment-sponsored sibling, Freddie Mac, is surpassed only by insurer American International Group Inc., which has received $182.5 billion in financial support from the government so far.
Fannie Mae’s new request for $10.7 billion from the Treasury Department will bring the total for Fannie and Freddie to nearly $96 billion. Freddie is expected to report its quarterly results on Friday.
The government has budgeted $400 billion for Fannie and Freddie’s losses. I wonder if it will be enough. If I understand the data correctly, the Fed bought about $600 billion of Fannie and Freddie’s assets. Wonder what they will ultiamtely be worth.
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Fannie Mae’s new request for $10.7 billion from the Treasury Department will bring the total for Fannie and Freddie to nearly $96 billion. Freddie is expected to report its quarterly results on Friday.
The government has budgeted $400 billion for Fannie and Freddie’s losses. I wonder if it will be enough. If I understand the data correctly, the Fed bought about $600 billion of Fannie and Freddie’s assets. Wonder what they will ultiamtely be worth.
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Disparaging Twitter
It seems common to disparage twitter by saying that people are just sharing mindless minutiae that no one cares about.Maybe it is the case that twitter is, in fact, a time-wasting endeavor08072009-twitter-fail-whale filled with people just pumping out tons of information that no one cares about. I am much more inclined to believe, however, that something doesn’t get as popular as twitter without providing some benefit to its users. Whether or not I can provide an eloquent defense of the utility of twitter, I think that its ubiquity (and the ubiquity of social networks in general) provides fairly compelling that they do provide utility (and probably net utility).
And that is why I find it so grating to hear the standard poorly-articulated disparagements of Twitter (and before that Facebook and mySpace and LiveJournal, etc) - the question is not “why should I care what you are doing?” (or at least, that is not necessarily an interesting question). In fact, the more interesting question is, “What, if any benefit does Twitter provide to its users, and if it does not provide any benefit, why do they use it?” If you don’t think that there is any reason to want to know about the minutiae of other peoples’ lives, then you should be puzzled by Twitter and you should almost certainly not be dismissive. Think about it - if millions of people derive some benefit from using Twitter but you can’t even fathom why, by determining why they find it entertaining, you could be discovering a previously unknown form of pleasure. Or maybe you’ll have a better understanding of how the millions of people around you think and interact. That’s not to say that the search costs won’t be higher than the potential benefits (that’s up to you), but I do think that it’s worthwhile to recognize that these sorts of puzzle are more interesting than you might think a priori.
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And that is why I find it so grating to hear the standard poorly-articulated disparagements of Twitter (and before that Facebook and mySpace and LiveJournal, etc) - the question is not “why should I care what you are doing?” (or at least, that is not necessarily an interesting question). In fact, the more interesting question is, “What, if any benefit does Twitter provide to its users, and if it does not provide any benefit, why do they use it?” If you don’t think that there is any reason to want to know about the minutiae of other peoples’ lives, then you should be puzzled by Twitter and you should almost certainly not be dismissive. Think about it - if millions of people derive some benefit from using Twitter but you can’t even fathom why, by determining why they find it entertaining, you could be discovering a previously unknown form of pleasure. Or maybe you’ll have a better understanding of how the millions of people around you think and interact. That’s not to say that the search costs won’t be higher than the potential benefits (that’s up to you), but I do think that it’s worthwhile to recognize that these sorts of puzzle are more interesting than you might think a priori.
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DDoS-атака как Total Perspective Vortex
Наверное почти все заметили, что вчера вечером одновременно легли Livejournal, Twitter и Facebook. Я сначала даже подумал, что мой провайдер сошёл с ума и установил фильтр на социальные сайты, как поступает руководство некоторых офисов.
Большинство уже, наверное, знает, почему легли социальные сети – как сообщил глава службы безопасности Facebook это была DDoS атака на одного единственного грузинского жж-юзера.
DoS атака удалась – три крупнейших сайта легли надолго. Ещё один сайт, который хотели положить, Blogger, выстоял, но грузился вдесятеро дольше обычного. Но это только часть картины.
Те, кто организовал эту атаку наверняка никогда не читали Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, а если и читали, то напрочь забыли историю про Total Perspective Vortex. Иначе они бы вряд ли стали делать то, что сделали.
Total Perspective Vortex – западня, созданная с целью уничтожить Президента Галактики Зафода Библброкса. Ловушка представляла собой искуственную вселенную, попав в которую клиент вдруг видел целиком “всю непредставимую бесконечность мироздания, – и, где-то там, в глубине, крохотное пятнышко, малюсенькую точку на микроскопическом пятачке, над которой было написано: “Вы находитесь здесь”. Человек попавший в ловушку погибал в жутких мучениях, поскольку его мозг не мог вынести открывающейся картины полной собственной ничтожности в масштабах Вселенной.
Однако Зафод вышел из ловушки не просто целым, но и с сильно выросшим самомнением. Случилось это потому, что вся искуственная Вселенная Total Perspective Vortex была создана с единственной целью – уничтожить Зафода. Это и подвело создателей ловушки – так как эта вселенная была создана для Зафода, Зафод оказался самым важным, что в ней есть. Не ничтожеством по сравнению с миром, а самим смыслом его существования.
Примерно то же самое произошло с социальными сетями. В вчерашней результате атаки так нелюбимый некоторыми хакерами cyxymu стал известен всему миру. О нём отписались испанская El Pais, французская Liberation, немецкий Spiegel, английская Guardian, американская Washington Post и японская Yomiuri. Короче, все основные мировые газеты. Некоторые из них даже взяли у cyxymu короткие интервью. Теперь, если между Россией и Грузией снова возникнет конфликт, мировая пресса будет знать, к кому обращаться.
Теперь мнение cyxymu по вопросам российской политики будет интересно всему миру – мнение человека, из-за которого положили сотни миллионов аккаунтов, всегда интересно.
Позавчера сухуmu был известен максимум десяти тысячам человек. Сегодня о нём знают – какая там аудитория у мировых СМИ? Пятьсот миллионов? Миллиард? И большинство этих людей относится к нему с сочувствием – люди вообще склонны сочувствовать жертвам массовой травли.
С чем я искрене и поздравляю и cyxymu и хакеров.
PS – ЖЖ тем временем не даёт запостить ничего, что содержит слово cyxymu. Попробуйте – сами убедитесь. Зато на Твиттере и Фейсбуке эта тема очень популярна. Не говоря уже о мировых СМИ.
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Большинство уже, наверное, знает, почему легли социальные сети – как сообщил глава службы безопасности Facebook это была DDoS атака на одного единственного грузинского жж-юзера.
DoS атака удалась – три крупнейших сайта легли надолго. Ещё один сайт, который хотели положить, Blogger, выстоял, но грузился вдесятеро дольше обычного. Но это только часть картины.
Те, кто организовал эту атаку наверняка никогда не читали Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, а если и читали, то напрочь забыли историю про Total Perspective Vortex. Иначе они бы вряд ли стали делать то, что сделали.
Total Perspective Vortex – западня, созданная с целью уничтожить Президента Галактики Зафода Библброкса. Ловушка представляла собой искуственную вселенную, попав в которую клиент вдруг видел целиком “всю непредставимую бесконечность мироздания, – и, где-то там, в глубине, крохотное пятнышко, малюсенькую точку на микроскопическом пятачке, над которой было написано: “Вы находитесь здесь”. Человек попавший в ловушку погибал в жутких мучениях, поскольку его мозг не мог вынести открывающейся картины полной собственной ничтожности в масштабах Вселенной.
Однако Зафод вышел из ловушки не просто целым, но и с сильно выросшим самомнением. Случилось это потому, что вся искуственная Вселенная Total Perspective Vortex была создана с единственной целью – уничтожить Зафода. Это и подвело создателей ловушки – так как эта вселенная была создана для Зафода, Зафод оказался самым важным, что в ней есть. Не ничтожеством по сравнению с миром, а самим смыслом его существования.
Примерно то же самое произошло с социальными сетями. В вчерашней результате атаки так нелюбимый некоторыми хакерами cyxymu стал известен всему миру. О нём отписались испанская El Pais, французская Liberation, немецкий Spiegel, английская Guardian, американская Washington Post и японская Yomiuri. Короче, все основные мировые газеты. Некоторые из них даже взяли у cyxymu короткие интервью. Теперь, если между Россией и Грузией снова возникнет конфликт, мировая пресса будет знать, к кому обращаться.
Теперь мнение cyxymu по вопросам российской политики будет интересно всему миру – мнение человека, из-за которого положили сотни миллионов аккаунтов, всегда интересно.
Позавчера сухуmu был известен максимум десяти тысячам человек. Сегодня о нём знают – какая там аудитория у мировых СМИ? Пятьсот миллионов? Миллиард? И большинство этих людей относится к нему с сочувствием – люди вообще склонны сочувствовать жертвам массовой травли.
С чем я искрене и поздравляю и cyxymu и хакеров.
PS – ЖЖ тем временем не даёт запостить ничего, что содержит слово cyxymu. Попробуйте – сами убедитесь. Зато на Твиттере и Фейсбуке эта тема очень популярна. Не говоря уже о мировых СМИ.
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Sarah Palin on Facebook
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.
"Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.
The claim that the Democratic health care bills would encourage euthanasia has been circulating on the Internet for weeks and has been echoed by some Republican leaders. Democrats from Obama on down have dismissed it as a distortion. The nonpartisan group FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania says the claim is false.
The allegation appears to be based on a provision of the House bill that would require Medicare to pay for end-of-life counseling sessions, on a voluntary basis, for beneficiaries who want the service. Medicare already covers hospice care. And legislation passed by Congress in 1990 requires that patients be asked if they have a living will.
Obama addressed the controversy during a July 28 AARP-sponsored town hall.
"Nobody is going to be forcing you to make a set of decisions on end-of-life care based on some bureaucratic law in Washington," he said.
An e-mail sent to Palin's spokeswoman to confirm authorship of the Facebook posting was not immediately returned Friday. There was no immediate reply to phone messages left late Friday with the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office seeking comment on Palin's remarks.
Republican criticism has also included claims that the reform plans will lead to rationing, or the government determining which medical procedures a patient can have.
However, millions of Americans already face rationing, as insurance companies rule on procedures they will cover. Denying coverage for certain procedures might increase under proposals to have a government-appointed agency identify medicines and procedures best suited for various conditions.
Palin resigned as Alaska governor on July 26 with nearly 18 months left in her term. She cited not only the numerous ethics complaints that had been filed against her also her wish not to be a lame duck after the first-term governor decided not to seek re-election next year.
Palin, popular with conservatives in the Republican party, has said she wants to build a right-of-center coalition, and there is speculation she will seek the presidency in 2012. In the two weeks since she resigned, Palin has made only one public appearance, giving a Second Amendment rights speech last Saturday before a gun owners group in Anchorage.
Palin or her aides post notes on her Facebook account about once or twice a week, usually to set out policy statements, issue news releases or refute rumors circulating on the Internet.
Palin also has been largely silent before Friday's Facebook post. She was a voracious user of the social networking site Twitter, and promised to keep her supporters updated with a new private account after she left office. But that hasn't happened, leaving some of her fans begging for updates in the past two weeks.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.
"Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.
The claim that the Democratic health care bills would encourage euthanasia has been circulating on the Internet for weeks and has been echoed by some Republican leaders. Democrats from Obama on down have dismissed it as a distortion. The nonpartisan group FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania says the claim is false.
The allegation appears to be based on a provision of the House bill that would require Medicare to pay for end-of-life counseling sessions, on a voluntary basis, for beneficiaries who want the service. Medicare already covers hospice care. And legislation passed by Congress in 1990 requires that patients be asked if they have a living will.
Obama addressed the controversy during a July 28 AARP-sponsored town hall.
"Nobody is going to be forcing you to make a set of decisions on end-of-life care based on some bureaucratic law in Washington," he said.
An e-mail sent to Palin's spokeswoman to confirm authorship of the Facebook posting was not immediately returned Friday. There was no immediate reply to phone messages left late Friday with the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office seeking comment on Palin's remarks.
Republican criticism has also included claims that the reform plans will lead to rationing, or the government determining which medical procedures a patient can have.
However, millions of Americans already face rationing, as insurance companies rule on procedures they will cover. Denying coverage for certain procedures might increase under proposals to have a government-appointed agency identify medicines and procedures best suited for various conditions.
Palin resigned as Alaska governor on July 26 with nearly 18 months left in her term. She cited not only the numerous ethics complaints that had been filed against her also her wish not to be a lame duck after the first-term governor decided not to seek re-election next year.
Palin, popular with conservatives in the Republican party, has said she wants to build a right-of-center coalition, and there is speculation she will seek the presidency in 2012. In the two weeks since she resigned, Palin has made only one public appearance, giving a Second Amendment rights speech last Saturday before a gun owners group in Anchorage.
Palin or her aides post notes on her Facebook account about once or twice a week, usually to set out policy statements, issue news releases or refute rumors circulating on the Internet.
Palin also has been largely silent before Friday's Facebook post. She was a voracious user of the social networking site Twitter, and promised to keep her supporters updated with a new private account after she left office. But that hasn't happened, leaving some of her fans begging for updates in the past two weeks.
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Jay-Z, Kanye West and Paula Abdul
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Rihanna, John Hughes and Molly Ringwald
Rihanna will appear on the September 14 launch of The Jay Leno Show — her first performance since being assaulted by Chris Brown in February. But she won't be alone:
She's performing "Run This Town" with Jay-Z and Kanye West, which is a track from Jay-Z's new album. [People]
Matthew Broderick: "I am truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes. He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family." [E!]
Molly Ringwald: "I was stunned and incredibly sad to hear about the death of John Hughes. He was and will always be such an important part of my life. He will be missed — by me and by everyone that he has touched. My heart and all my thoughts are with his family now." [ET, People]
Jon Cryer, aka Duckie from Pretty In Pink, on the death of John Hughes: "This is a horrible tragedy. He was an amazing man to work for and with. He respected young actors in a way that made you realize you had to step up your game because you were playing in the big leagues now. That's why he got such great performances out of his actors. My heart goes out to his wife Nancy and their children." [ET]
Old habits die hard: Amy Winehouse "is still clearly emotional, and seems to suck her thumb when times are bad." Yes, there are pictures. [Daily Mail]
Paula Abdul may make a deal with American Idol — if they give her what she wants, which is $10 million a year. [TMZ]
Meanwhile, Paula says: "At this point, there are so many wonderful things that are being offered to me. And I got to take a deep breath, sleep a little ... and go through everything." [AP]
Um, Constantine Maroulis got his ass kicked trying to defend Paula Abdul's honor or something. [Gatecrasher]
Blech: Heidi Montag is oompa-loompa orange on her Playboy cover, and covered in dirt. [Perez]
Hotter than Heidi is 51-year-old Sharon Stone, topless in Paris Match. In the immortal words of Cassie: Stop acting like you haven't seen a titty before. [TheLifeFiles]
"Jon Gosselin's guide to being a lothario: manipulation and neediness." LOL. A psychotherapist says: "He's picking up a lot of women who are trying to rescue him… Jon's not the faithful type. Men like him are very good at connecting with women, and the woman starts to feel as if he is there for her. But he's just there to boost his own ego." [NY Daily News]
Despite what was reported in the Post yesterday, Kristin Davis denies that she cut ties as a goodwill ambassador for the human rights group Oxfam. [NY Daily News]
Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt are back together, and were seen on an Air Pacific Flight to Red Bull Island. Yes, Red Bull Island. Not a joke. Can't wait to see them do this again. [Page Six]
If you have tickets for Madonna's concert in Ljubljana, Slovenia, you are one of a select few: The show's been canceled, and poor ticket sales are reportedly the reason. Although her peeps say "unforeseen logistical difficulties" are the reason. [Reuters]
From a profile on Charlene Yi: "Ms. Yi walked the short red carpet in wet brown suede shoes and a red cardigan sweater. After posing for pictures, she picked up the olive-drab Army backpack she had left with a publicist after posing for pictures. Ms. Yi told reporters that she had never dated Michael Cera. 'Gossipers!' she yelped. 'You are all gossipers!' Well, why did she pick him to play her onscreen boyfriend in the first place? 'Martin Lawrence passed,' she quipped. Touché!" [Observer]
Charlene Yi says of Michael Cera: "We were never together. If we were, I'd like to know when that was. And thank God, because it would be devastating to promote this film if I was heartbroken." [The Daily Beast]
Bethenny Frankel is trying to get pregnant. [Page Six]
Leonardo DiCaprio: Spotted hanging out with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, Anne Vyalitsyna. [Page Six]
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were flying to New York when their plane had to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas after the engine overheated. No one was injured, and both actors Tweeted about their experience, because if you don't put it on Twitter, it never happened, right? [People]
Jermaine Jackson is "cashing in" on Michael Jackson's death by releasing a recording of "Smile," the song he performed at the memorial. Plus, he's working on a series of tribute concerts. [MSNBC Scoop]
Jermaine says: "In his death, I have found a mission for my life. My existence is now dedicated to spreading Michael's message." [Mirror]
"Michael Jackson was scheduled to undergo a second physical by an insurance company doctor at the time of his death." [LA Times]
David Letterman has beat Conan O'Brien in ratings for the fourth week in a row. i'll admit it: I'm on team Dave. [NY Daily News]
Nora Ephron writes "In Defense of Ryan O'Neal": "Ryan O'Neal had not seen his daughter Tatum in years. He thought she was a Swedish person. I completely understand. The truth is that had I been gay, I might have accidentally made a pass at my own sister in a mall in Las Vegas. So who's to judge? Not me." [HuffPo]
Queen Latifah and five ladyfriends hit a lesbian party in NYC on Wednesday, and this is news. [Page Six]
The woman suing Morgan Freeman for flipping her car will have her day in court next year. [USA Today]
This report claims that Patrick Swayze's fuller face and full head of hair prove that his battle with cancer is going well, even though he is still smoking. [NY Daily News]
Congrats to SNL's Bill Hader, who will be a dad; his wife is pregnant. [People]
Aerosmith concerts are postponed while Steven Tyler recovers from falling off of the stage. [USA Today]
"I had to turn him down. I really hated the idea of Channing Tatum. I told di Bonaventura that this is not the guy to play one of the most feared killers of the 20th Century. I think Mickey Rourke would really be good. He's got that sense of danger, and there's a similarity between the two. But it's not Channing Tatum." — Phil Carlo, who wrote The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. [Page Six]
"To me, the idea of being an actor and being stuck in Los Angeles — a city that's totally based on one job — is so uninspiring. New York completely fulfills every need I have on a daily basis. I'm madly in love with this city." — Josh Lucas. [Page Six]
"Resident Evil started out as this fun project. I went in for it as a joke. 'Sure, I'll go make an action movie,' I thought, 'This'll be cool, because my brother loves the video game so much.' It's turned into a steady job. See? [making a fist] The knuckles? They're all cut up. They used to be really soft, but they can't use them any more [in L'Oreal ads]. They use someone else's." — Milla Jovovich. [Guardian]
"My mom [Bebe Buell] and gran were models and took such good care of their skin I couldn't help but learn. My dad is also full of great beauty advice, like wear your perfume in your belly button and on the soles of your feet so it becomes part of you." — Liv Tyler, to Elle. [Daily Express]
"I'm always shocked that there's an interesting, full-fledged, ambitiously wrought role for somebody like me, that somebody's willing to put in a movie, it's unusual, that's what I mean by shocked. I'm not shocked because … 'Gosh, me? How do I know how to act?' [Laughs] But there's so many unbelievably talented, richly talented women and men that are older, that just don't get a chance." — Meryl Streep. [Salon]
"I have this phobia of becoming someone's 'girlfriend.' I have guy friends who have been dating a girl for six months and our other friends don't know her name. They just ask, 'Hey, where's your girlfriend?' And I want to scream, 'OK, her name is Sally, and she's awesome, and you've known her for months. Where did her identity go?'" — Charlene Yi. [The Daily Beast]
Madonna, Britney Spears and Dr Phil
A London man found the album from Amy Winehouse's wedding to Blake Fielder-Civil in a dumpster with some photos torn out and Amy's beehive colored in.
The man said, "I don't know if Amy threw the album away or her ex (did), but my wife said that's what she would do if we ever divorced, so it could have been the actions of an angry woman... Whoever threw it away obviously never wanted to look at that album again." Amy's rep issued a statement that she wanted it back, and the man returned it. [The Daily Express]
A 44-year-old woman has accused Dr. Phil or sexually molesting her when she was being treated by him and interning for him in the summer of 1985, according to The National Enquirer. "He profoundly affected the course of my life. The world should know this man is a predator and a bully. He shouldn't be telling Americans how to live their lives, how to improve themselves." said the woman. [The National Enquirer]
Vanessa Hudgens lawyer says she's considering filing criminal charges against websites that publish nude photos of her taken when she was underage. She took the photos herself and believes her computer may have been hacked. [TMZ]
Tony Curtis claims in his new book The Making of 'Some Like It Hot' that he and Marilyn Monroe had an affair while filming the movie. They were both married to other people, and he says she was pregnant with his child, but miscarried. [The Daily Mail]
Despite recent rumors that Katherine Jackson is so convinced foul play was involved in Michael Jackson's death she wants a third autopsy done on his body, a family source says, "there is neither a plan nor a need for another autopsy." [E!]
The Jackson family has finally decided to bury Michael Jackson at Forest Lawn cemetery six weeks after his death. [WENN]
In a federal complaint filed in New York, DEA agents say Michael Douglas' son Cameron Douglas has moved "pounds" of crystal meth since 2006. He was investigated for three years and allegedly tens of thousands of dollars of crystal meth. Three of his former clients are cooperating with prosecutors in the hope that the sentence for their narcotics convictions will be reduced. [TMZ]
Miley Cyrus has been granted a temporary restraining order against Mark McLeod, the man arrested on Tuesday for allegedly attempting to stalk her. [TMZ]
Wrigley's has "formally terminated" their relationship with Chris Brown. When news of his assault on Rihanna originally came out the company just suspended his campaign. [TMZ]
Many American Idol staffers are excited to see Paula Abdul go according to a "veteran key Idol staff member" who said, "Can't you hear our celebration? We broke out the good champagne tonight." [Chicago Sun-Times]
Paula says Simon Cowell already misses her and claims she hasn't heard that Nigel Lythgoe of offered her a guest judge spot on an episode of So You Think You Can Dance. [TMZ]
Some American Idol sources say there's a good chance Paula Abdul will come back to the show next season. [TMZ]
Victoria Beckham will guest judge one episode of American Idol next season. [The Daily Mail]
Tom Sizemore was arrested on domestic violence charges after an altercation with a woman in L.A. last night and is still in custody. [TMZ]
Polish fire emergency services have to approve evacuation routes before Madonna's Warsaw concert can take place. Some Polish Roman Catholics are protesting the concert, which is scheduled to take place during the feast of the Assumption of the Holly Virgin Mary because they say Madonna is anti-Christian. [UPI]
A lawyer for Samantha Burke, who is having Jude Law's baby in October, responded to an interview request saying, "At this time, Samantha has decided not to give an exclusive story," which Radar thinks is news. [Radar Online]
Does the following sentence mean anything to you? "Leonardo DiCaprio went on a mad bender in Ibiza last night - with Jodie Marsh's ex-hubby Matt Peacock." We know how to say, "Where is the library?" and "Did Peter Andre cheat on Jordan?" but are still not fluent in British. [The Sun]
Kid Rock sent over $1,500 to a pizza boy who was beaten by a gang and needed emergency reconstructive surgery after reading about his story in The Cincinnati Enquirer. [The Daily Express]
Steven Tyler was dancing onstage and fell off the stage at a show in South Dakota. He was taken to the hospital and treated for minor head, neck, and shoulder injuries. Video at the link. [TMZ]
Kate Gosselin will be on Today on Monday for her first interview since she and Jon Gosselin announced that they're divorcing. [Associated Press]
On August 15 Alyssa Milano will marry talent agent David Bugliari at a private home in New Jersey. [Radar Online]
Milla Jovovich and director Paul Anderson will marry on August 22. "It's going to be small," she said, "It's just going to be family and close friends. And it's at our home and it's going to be kind of like Havana/Cuban, like very California-Spanish feeling. It's going to be nice." [People]
The Jay Leno Show will premiere on September 14 with musical guests Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West. [Variety]
Britney Spears will appear at the Teen Choice Awards on Monday night. [BritneySpears.com]
Kristen Wiig bought a Manhattan co-op from Mad Men and Sopranos director Alan Taylor. [N.Y. Observer]
In the video at the link RHOA's NeNe Leakes says, "I TiVo a lot of things I'm on. I'm just the bomb," and discusses her love for Anderson Cooper and Maxwell. [Entertainment Weekly]
In Paul Giamatti's new film Cold Souls he plays "an angst-ridden actor who is also Paul Giamatti and who literally has his soul surgically removed to help him cope with the stress of his career and life." He says of playing a fictional version of himself, "The only time it really struck me as very weird was when someone said my whole name during a scene, and I'd go, 'We should cut and start again because there's obviously a mistake there.' Then I'd remember I was actually playing me." [Reuters]
Molly Ringwald says of her new twins Roman Stylianos and Adele Georgiana, "You get up with one of the babies and feed and change that one and get the baby back to sleep, and the other wakes up, and then you feed and change that one. It is exhausting, but it's wonderful," [People]
"My friends love coming over [to my house], because they get fed," says Jennifer Aniston. "It's the best restaurant in town." Her personal chef adds, "Jen's a homebody. It's been so much fun to create a place where everybody feels comfortable, like one big family." [People]
Sienna Miller says she "probably looked awful" for dating married father of four Balthazar Getty. "I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl," she said. "I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations and the situation I got into was not ideal, but it happened and if I could go back and be more responsible, I would." [Us]
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