Literally to the joy of Linux users, the site sqlspace.com (The one Digg banned back in 2007 for hosting a screen shot of Ubuntu being featured on Windows Marketplace.) is now allowed to be submitted.

It was a censorship case that Digg was standing on the wrong side of, but of course they had to do as their Microsoft sponsor required. That meant for a period of roughly 5 months there were no negative stories about Microsoft, and all stories that were submitted were either buried or literally banned. Such as Sqlspace.com for hosting the below screenshot.

Enjoy the new reality.

Yooter is one of the first advertising agencies in the country to adopt foursquare as a key component of any
robust mobile advertising agency program.

The company can help draft a viral program for your company to help increase traffic to your location(s) and help increase business overall using one of the lowest cost social media tools available, that has people literally walking in the front door of your business.

Pretty nifty.

An official at Harley-Davidson was rumored to have stated that Carmichael Lynch lacks the digital, Social and Search capabilities that are needed for a modern advertising campaign. In other words, if what we were told was true, Carmichael Lynch lost the account due to lack of proper SEO and SMO skillset.

The story is breaking…. enjoy the new reality.

This letter is on behalf of the millions of Digg users that were greeted on Monday to the latest news on Reddit.

Seriously, attached is the below screenshot of Digg in it’s full glory.

Kevin, If I wanted to go to reddit.com, I would have went to reddit.com. Digg has turned into an RSS reader… and honestly Google News is way better than what you are providing.

I strongly urge you to stop wasting your time and switch back to the former format, buggy as it was, it still wasn’t something that was completely fed by a reddit RSS reader. Something I already have as a Firefox bookmark.

This design is a complete epic failure and most likely will reduce Digg to a forum level trafficked site similar to something like SqlSpace.Com

It was fun while it lasted.

(Bethlehem, PA – August 30, 2010) – Active Data Exchange, a leading provider of web-based calendaring, event marketing, event registration, and information broadcasting solutions, announced their partnership to develop on the Blackboard Learn™ platform today.

The Blackboard Developers Network™ is an innovative community of technical experts with a passion for using technology to enhance teaching and learning. From this partnership, Active Data Exchange plans to integrate its Active Data Calendar solution to allow organizations to easily publish calendar information from the Blackboard Learn platform across websites, mobile phones, social media and other digital media.

“Leveraging the Active Data Calendar technology within the Blackboard Learn platform will allow our clients to aggregate all of their events and deadlines into a centralized calendar to find out what’s going on across the enterprise. It’s exciting to break down calendar silos for clients using Active Data Calendar and the Blackboard Learn platform,” said Susan Yee, CEO of Active Data Exchange.

About Active Data Exchange, Inc.
Active Data Exchange provides enterprise calendaring solutions to over 300 organizations across North America with its Active Data Calendar solution.  Used by communities, government agencies, colleges, K-12 school districts, finance and information technology departments, corporations and media companies, Active Data Calendar provides the ability to aggregate and distribute event, key dates and deadline information across multiple websites, departments and organizations. Clients include New York City Department of Education, University of Colorado, Palo Alto School District, Temple University, California State University, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Miami Dade College, Tecnologico de Monterrey and others.

Blackboard, the Blackboard logo, Blackboard Learn, the Blackboard Alliance Program, the Blackboard Developers Network, and Blackboard Building Blocks are registered trademarks of Blackboard Inc. All rights reserved.

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CONTACT: SUSAN YEE
Phone:  (610)997-8100
Email:   syee@activedatax.com

Blockbuster Inc. plans to file for a pre-packaged bankruptcy in September. The Bankruptcy will most likely include a massive restructuring of the company including firing of the thousands of employees there and some say the company will completely convert to a “redbox / netflix ” hybrid with kiosks, mail order and streaming being their only channels.

The bankruptcy will allow them to get out of virtually all leases for their locations and allow them a “painless way” to fire all the employees.

The company has been on it’s deathbed for roughly half a decade or longer. So this doesn’t come as a surprise to many individuals. The company wiped out the advertising agency budget back in 2007

By 2009 the headlines on Tribble were stating “this company needs to fold”

By early 2010 we were stating that “blockbuster” was too big to fail. (yes we were making fun of both the company and the bailouts.)

We think it’s game over.

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This is perhaps the worst of the worst.

This individual ruined thousands of lives and families, yet he will be taking his $100 million bonus. For the record a $100 million dollar bonus roughly equals 2,500 jobs at $40,000 a year.

He will take nearly half of the total number of people he has fired in salary.

This is in reward for having the most technologically primitive advertising agency holding company in the industry. With very little investment in organic search optimization and a very weak holding for social media.

Enjoy the new reality…. also he might as well say “F-U” to the 2,500 people and their families walking the streets as he passes them in his limo.

Enjoy the new “job creation program” that the city of Philadelphia is employing as some people will pay more in taxes than they earn.

This is a virtual outrage, literally.

The problem at hand is the city is running out of funds, and it’s relying on anything that might generate income, including blogging where if Google Adsense sends you a 100 dollar check.. the city wants $300 + another $5-$10 or so in revenue taxes.

Enjoy the new reality… earn $100 dollars get taxed $310 for it.

The city of brotherly love, where your taxes go to the greater good.

I love the sign even though I have no clue what the sign says.

This is poor advertising as it shows that the quality of your product is similar to the product of your sign.

This isn’t even remotely fair as honestly dunkin coffee is perhaps the best. Beating “crapbucks” by a 5:1 margin.

So please Mr. Dunkin, invest alittle in your sign, it reflects the quality of your product.

Signed,
Your fans

This is a photo of the new owner of Facebook.

Let’s see the courts decide on this one.

The agreement called for Zuckerberg to do computer coding work and provided for a $1,000 investment by Ceglia in a project called “The Face Book,” in exchange for a 50 percent stake, Ceglia claimed. A clause in the contract gave Ceglia an additional 34 percent for delays in the launching of the site, he claimed in court papers.

Giving Paul Ceglia a total of 84% ownership of “the facebook” which was eventually just known as Facebook.

Enjoy the new reality.

See the problem isn’t a cell phone carrying a radio as it would increase the price of the phone only a few dollars and honestly it’s not a terrible idea as to pick up local stations, the problem is the RIAA dictating to us what we “must have” on our phones.

A perfect quote from the article:

“Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that do.”

Sounds like the typical advertising agency to me.

The issue at hand is do you want the RIAA telling you what you can and cannot have on your phone? What hardware you are allowed to carry, and what you MUST carry?

I am sorry guys, this is too much for even me to handle. Go away RIAA.

Aunt2, Uncle2, Uncle1, Aunt1,

Before I start to answer your wonderful, intelligent email, let me apologize to you. I guess I should have thoroughly explained what my role is in talking for my father. My father is so upset that he thinks for his health it was better that he gave me his power of attorney to deal with you, well, Fantastic Four, if you will. If you like to have a copy of said power of attorney, just let me know, and I will give you the name, address and phone number for the lawyer so you can pay to obtain one from him. Now, normally, I avoid confrontation. I always think there is a rational, mature way to deal with human beings. Of course, you are (FAMILY LAST NAME)s, so, that strategy will not work, now will it.

Just up front, I do not like you. I never have. I think we can leave the charade for someone else. If you ever thought I walked around you with a type of attitude that seemed like I thought I was better/smarter than you, it was not you. I did and I am. I will try to use small words so I do not lose any of you in getting the gist I am trying to convey. I want to make sure you know where you four stand with me. I will not call you Aunts or Uncles, because, let’s be honest, you were never one to me. However, luckily for you, this is not about me. Also, I have endless, boundless Integrity so I will do EXACTLY what my father requests for me to do.
Now for the response to the email you sent….
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Are you serious? You got to be kidding me, right? I started looking around for candid cameras reading this. I mean, come on people. First, let’s start with the person that sent this. The four of you picked Aunt1 as your spokesman? Aunt1, the one who was not strong enough to stop her husband from killing himself with alcohol and enabled him right to the grave. Seriously, how do you sleep at night knowing you did that to a human you loved? Of course, not like you are going to win any parent of the year awards,too. Well, I guess the advances in mood-altering pharmaceuticals are really quite amazing nowadays. I guess you four decided the best way to get your way was to insult/bully your way into submission. Not the ideal way I would have tried, but it is a way, nonetheless. With that, let us look at the first line, shall we? This first line is precious..let’s take a look at this masterpiece.

This is in reply to (ME)’s email. This is a family matter and think that we should deal with any issues between siblings.
Siblings, there is a good word to think about. I know who my father is, eh Uncle2. AS siblings, any normal person would assume a sibling would come and support a sibling owned/operated business. Funny, all the times I worked in my father’s business, I never saw any of you. I guess none of your vehicles needed any work over the 2 decades he was there. However, we have so much more to go and I do not want us to get stuck down memory lane over how you are all shitty siblings. You know you are, no sense of beating that dead horse.

1. The property market is low right now. The 4 of us feel that we should wait for the market to improve. As long as (FIRST COUSIN FEMALE) is living there and covering the taxes, house insurance and utilities why should we sell? If we don’t pay these items and it goes to a collection agency they can put a lien on all our houses and ruin our credit. I don’t want this to happen to me and I’m sure you don’t want this either. We had an offer for $50,000 and one for $60,000. Why would we give you $35,000 if you force us to sell now for $50,000 and who do you think has the money to pay you $35000?

Hilarious. I asked my dad if he heard anything about how his four wonderful siblings were looking out for his best interests or if he knew about any offers. What do you think he said? As for the 35,000, let us think of ways you could get the money to buy his share out. Steal it, I am sure one of you knows a thing or two about that. Or, if all of you sign over your 6500, you now have 26000 bucks towards the 35000. From there, you can do some cool math to figure out that you will need 9000 more from either 1, 2, 3, or all 4 of you. I am sure Uncle1 can break it down for you on how the split will work that way. But, if you do not want to wait, grab a calculator and try out the numbers yourself. Learning is knowledge and knowledge is power. Of course, one of you could decide to take out a loan. Not sure how good your credit score is, but you can go to the bank and ask around. Those people are very helpful.

2. You want the $6500. To get that money you have to sign the paper ( just like the lawyer said on her cover sheet). If you don’t sign and the money sits in the bank, after 2 years the state of PA gets the money, not the lawyer. We have 6 months left before this happens. Please sign! Maybe you don’t care about the money and you don’t need it, but being by myself I could use it.

Yeah, I talked to my dad about this. He rather it go to the State then to you four. And with how Rendell has run the state into the ground, PA kind of needs the money right now. I am pretty sure in my last letter I used the phrase, my father will never sign this, ever. So, I am wondering what part of that phrase escapes you? I am going to assume the word ever was the word you had trouble with. So, here is the definition I was referring to when I wrote, ever. 1. at any time. This means, when combined with the word never, hell has a better chance of freezing over than having the signature you need on this piece of shit paper.

3. The $800 dollars is in case (FIRST COUSIN FEMALE) moves out. This gives us a year to sell the house. This money is for taxes, house insurance and utilities. You will get the remaining money back or all of it as soon as we can sell for a fair price. It doesn’t cost us money out of our pocket as long a she is there and hopfully the housing market will improve. Since you did not pay your share the last time these costs arose, we felt it necessary to put money in ecsrow now rather then asking for money later.

(FIRST COUSIN FEMALE) moved in? That was a decision you got everyone to sign off of, right? I mean, I would hate to have to evict poor (FIRST COUSIN FEMALE) and/or charge her with trespassing because the 4 of you decided you did not need to get permission from the other owner. I love the fact that you are so lazy that you could not spell hopEfully or eSCrow correctly. Maybe you should download Firefox or Chrome and use one of those browsers? When you type in those, a little red line shows up under the word you misspelled and you can click on it to see what the computer suggests. Just sayin…might want to look into that. They are free, so, that is your price range too.

4. Mother gave the car to Uncle2 before she died. She wanted Uncle2 to have it. The car you bought was Uncle2′s and you agreed to buy it for $6000 ( which was below market price as it was). That was between you and her and has nothing to do with her and Uncle2. This was her wish and I don’t want to make her mad, do you?
This line, IMHO, has it all. It has a lie, an insult, an assumption, lacks any research by any of you(not to be expected, since you are all truly as dumb as you look, but I digress), and tries to shame someone using the memory of a dead person into doing something. Granny did not give Uncle2 the car. I mean, if you guys are not going to be honest with yourselves, how the heck can you be trusted to be honest in dealing with anyone? As for the car my father bought, maybe you could have done some research to see exactly how much the car was worth. If only there was a place or a book that had the prices of every vehicle in it. Give you a hint, I would start here…www.kbb.com. I also distinctly remember my father saying out loud that he would pay 6000 dollars for a car worth, according to the state, 6000 dollars and if anyone wanted it they could pay the money and have the car. Now, you might be confused by the why would I care about what the state of Delaware says, but, and Uncle1 might be able to help some of you out(I think of you as the smartest one, which just means I think you are the smartest kid with Down Syndrome), when you take a vehicle out of state and register it in another state, that state charges you full value of what it is worth to get their taxes out of it. I can show you the check to the state for that, my dad still has an old copy of it. Of course, that means you will have to do some math to figure out exactly what the state says it is worth, but I think one of you can handle it. As for making her mad, well, that is just funny. Stealing, lying, cheating, insulting your sibling makes her smile?

Please think these items over and reconsider your demands. We are a family and I don’t want this to separate us. Remember the speech you gave at the funeral? This is not worth the hard feelings that will come out of this.
Aunt1

What family? What kind of sick person insults someone and then uses the term family? And, I laugh to think you are all so vain that you thought that speech was directed at you. Of course you all would, no one is more important than yourselves. Now, you are all probably wondering why I did not mention Aunt2. Aunt2 has a special place in my parents’ hearts and my next email if this is not settled will reveal all the thoughts and ideas they have for her. I will shine the truth spotlight on her so brightly she will never be able to feel comfortable in a room with you all. You see, I know all the family secrets. Just so you know where I am coming from, I am a short, balding, divorcee whose ex wife remarried 6 weeks after his divorce. I do not talk to my one brother and probably never will, and I do not care. I also graduated from college with a 4.0 in business, been deployed(speaking of which, Uncle2, nice military career you had, eh chief) , and I have been more successful than any of you have in half the time. Not that it should surprise any of us, right? If you want to send emails back and forth insulting each other, I am in. I actually volunteered to do this for my dad because I have had 36 years of you people. It was not one thing, it takes a long time to build up the amount of contempt I have for all of you.
So…where does this leave us at?
This is what he wants:

1. Either for the land to be sold(no lower than fair market value(appraised at)) and his share given to him or for someone to buy out his share at 35,000 dollars

2. 6500 dollars that is his share of the money

3. 800 dollars from the escrow. Either the land is sold or someone bought his share, either way, his money will not be needed for this

4. 500 dollars from Uncle Uncle2 for the car. My Father paid 6000 to Granny for the car he got, he thinks it is only fair Uncle2 does the same thing

Time is a ticking….PA must be very excited for the money. I could have easily stated this in the beginning and been done with it, but I felt you guys needed more of a personal touch on what needs to be done. And since I do not trust any of you to guard a warm bucket of piss, I will make sure the lawyer looks over whatever you send with a fine tooth comb.
Do not underestimate me, I am a (FAMILY LAST NAME),
(ME)

The story is developing, however we have had multiple confirmations that he was on board of the plane that crashed.

The former longtime Republican senator is confirmed as one of the passengers on the plane. The official, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, says Stevens’ condition is unknown.

A National Transportation Safety Board investigative team has been dispatched from Washington, D.C., and was expected on the ground Tuesday morning.

Wyoming
Washington DC
Vermont
North Dakota
Alaska
South Dakota
Delaware
Montana
Rhode Island
Hawaii
Maine
New Hampshire
Idaho
Nebraska
West Virginia
New Mexico
Nevada
Utah
Kansas
Arkansas
Mississippi
Iowa
Connecticut
Oklahoma

Everyone in those states theoretically is on food stamps. That’s the new reality people. We have literally 1/2 the nation on food stamps in terms of number of states.

Let that settle in. 1/2 the number of states in the entire country, if you add their population up roughly equals the number of people on food stamps. I don’t see how an ad agency can advertise to people with no money.

This is a massive problem, it’s something that has been unheard of in recent times, only mirrored by the great depression in terms of severity. So go ahead and continue to feel that things are getting better, when in reality things are getting worse, much worse.

I fully expect a severe double dip recession unless someone comes up with a big bubble. Until that time there continues to be less need for work as less and less people are making ends meet and have any disposable income to use to purchase services and goods.

Truly, enjoy the new reality.

The watered down law will still take place on Thursday, but without the parts that angered opponents — including the parts that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.

The judge also stopped the parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is credited with stopping the worst parts of the law.

The problem many had with this law, is that it’s not a state that can decide foreign policy, but rather that comes from Washington DC.

Currently the parts that were blocked were mostly “put on hold” rather than removed, no doubt this will continue though the legal system for some time.