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Many ordinary people today operate their own websites, and growing numbers of even very humble folks like you and us is trying to use the world-wide popularity of the internet as a trail to finally hitting the big cash bonanza, like hitting an oil gusher or a prospector striking gold in the olden days of yore. But this means knowing how to make a website that can sell your products or services.
Now, one thing is for sure, and yes indeedy we do mean absolutely, your success will depend on how many “hits” or much traffic your website manages to haul in. Yup, it’s something like goin’ fishing, but we’re not trawling in our little back-country pond no more. Nope, today it’s turned itself into a great big huge ocean! So nowadays, there’s just no point to having a website no-one ever visits. The big question is how can you grab lots of that traffic away from the millions of other bigger and “slicker” sites out there, just circling us around like a school of barracudas?
Well, one of the best “grabbers” is get some movies or videos on your little website. Videos have made a goodly increase in popularity, and using videos on your own website will for sure get more people to look at it, even to admire it. But for goodness sakes, don’t try to promote your website by using videos that have been produced by them city-slicker professionals that force the “hard sell” or try to shove your product into buyers’ faces. The real trick is to be a lot less obvious. And we mean a lot, lot less. Downright “homey,” is what we say. Take a gander here at what a goodly piece of work we’ve done put together. Now we sure enough can make a slam-bang, “homey” movie or video for your website too! For you, the “homiest” videos such as that nobody’s ever seen before! And then Boom!! The big payoff, that huge pot of glittering gold at the end of the yon rainbow, it just might well be right around the next bend in the old country road!!
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Wired: The Wiretap Now
Studs Terkel, the eminent chronicler of American life, has written this Op-Ed piece in today’s edition of the New York Times:
“EARLIER this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic 
communications of people in the United States. They also agreed to “immunize” American telephone companies from lawsuits charging that after 9/11 some companies collaborated with the government to violate the Constitution and existing federal law. I am a plaintiff in one of those lawsuits, and I hope Congress thinks carefully before denying me, and millions of other Americans, our day in court.
During my lifetime, there has been a sea change in the way that politically active Americans view their relationship with government. In 1920, during my youth, I recall the Palmer raids in which more than 10,000 people were rounded up, most because they were members of particular labor unions or belonged to groups that advocated change in American domestic or foreign policy. Unrestrained surveillance was used to further the investigations leading to these detentions, and the Bureau of Investigation — the forerunner to the F.B.I. — eventually created a database on the activities of individuals. This activity continued through the Red Scare of the period.
In the 1950s, during the sad period known as the McCarthy era, one’s political beliefs again served as a rationale for government monitoring….I was among those blacklisted for my political beliefs. My crime? I had signed petitions. Lots of them. I had signed on in opposition to Jim Crow laws and poll taxes and in favor of rent control and pacifism. Because the petitions were thought to be Communist-inspired, I lost my ability to work in television and radio after refusing to say that I had been “duped” into signing my name to these causes.
By the 1960s, the inequities in civil rights and the debate over the Vietnam war spurred social justice movements. The government’s response? More surveillance. In the name of national security, the F.B.I. conducted warrantless wiretaps of political activists, journalists, former White House staff members and even a member of Congress.
Then things changed….In 1978, with broad public support, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which placed national security investigations, including wiretapping, under a system of warrants approved by a special court. The law was not perfect, but as a result of its enactment and a series of subsequent federal laws, a generation of Americans has come to adulthood protected by a legal structure and a social compact making clear that government will not engage in unbridled, dragnet seizure of electronic communications.
The Bush administration, however, tore apart that carefully devised legal structure and social compact. To make matters worse, after its intrusive programs were exposed, the White House and the Senate Intelligence Committee proposed a bill that legitimized blanket wiretapping without individual warrants….
I have observed and written about American life for some time. In truth, nothing much surprises me anymore. But I always feel uplifted by this: Given the facts and an opportunity to act, the body politic generally does the right thing. By revealing the truth in a public forum, the American people will have the facts to play their historic, heroic role in putting our nation back on the path toward freedom. That is why we deserve our day in court.”
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Touch from a Distance: The Bleak Exhilaration of Ian Curtis and Joy Division
Anton Corbijn’s new film, Control, is the story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the esteemed English post-punk band “Joy Division.” Curtis killed himself in 1980, just two days before the band’s first tour in the U.S.
This article describes his life and presents stunning photographs, two music videos, the movie trailer and a photo-gallery.
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Staring into the Mirror: Surging Technology and the Essential Self
There has been increasing alarm that technological advances have changed not only our everyday lives, but also the very nature of our sense of humanity. Others say that surging technology hasn’t had the ruinous impact that some have anticipated.
The article presents both perspectives, as well as very attractive, memorable photographs and a photo-gallery.
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