What is the world coming to? It’s time people spoke out. According to Canada.com
“Can you really libel someone in 140 characters or less? The short answer, you could quickly tweet, is yes. The first libel suit against a Twitter user was launched in March, in the United States. It joins a growing class of suits against bloggers, message-board posters and social network users. The message is, there is nowhere to hide if you’ve posted something that is defamatory or has infringed on somebody’s copyright. Worse, you could end up personally liable for millions of dollars – a trend that may force consumers to think about buying liability insurance to protect them from their online words. “I think many people are unaware of the risks they are taking,” says Amy Denise, editor of insure.com. “It’s just so easy to get angry and lose control of what you say on the Internet.” In the case of the first lawsuit, notorious rocker Courtney Love is being sued by designer Dawn Simorangkir, also known as Boudoir Queen, who alleges Ms. Love made defamatory comments about her in a tweet.”
I understand that lawyers need to earn a living… but come on! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I think we are on a very slippery slope in a society where even opinions are subject censure and litigation. I’m going to call it as I see it. Its bullshit in its purest form!
If Courtney Love doesn’t like someone or something she is entitled to attempt to influence my opinion of that person and it shouldn’t carry a liability. We are not the SHEEP that society is trying to make us. I will decide if Courtney makes sense or not. I will do my research and find my truth. I loathe any bastard that would sue under these circumstances.
Someone once said that the only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about. You’ll never find this cowboy suing anyone for their opinion of me or my activities… not matter what they say. I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion. If I read a twitter message that is critical of anyone or anything… I think to myself…”this person’s opinion is an interesting perspective.” We must remember…there is no reality. Reality does not exist. Each of us sees the world with different eyes. It’s quantum physics. It’s the “observation effect”. Each of us has our own take on reality. No reality is better than other. There is not right an and wrong. There only is. It is what it is… You’ve heard all the cliches.
What I will sue for is corporate activities that cause harm to people…for wrongful or negligent performance… where a reasonable person ought to have know the product or service would cause harm. For that… I will hammer any corporation. [Note to self: Put Big Pharma and those involved in Genetically Modifying our Food on the "watch" list]
We’re not in Kansas any more Toto! Revolution 2009 is a movement that can’t be stopped. Ashton Kutcher showed CNN that we can move a million people in a few days. The playing field has been leveled. If would behoove corporate citizens to pay attention.
With all due respect,
Nick
Tags: Revolution, Revolution 2009
We are clearly into an era that I’ll call – “The Changing Of The Guard”. The old boys are on their way out. Oil and even the monetary system is about to change radically. What’s even better is that they don’t even know it yet! Oh yes… There will be a “New World Order” all right…. JUST NOT THE ONE THEY PLANNED ON!
When I read material like this quote below, I feel really good. Finally someone gets it! Finally WE are in control.
Obama Pledges Online Comment Period on Most Bills Before Signing – A Signal that This President Will Use Internet to Increase Transparency
By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable, 1/21/2009 9:28:28 AM MT
President Barack Obama has sent an immediate signal that the Internet will be an important part of his pledge for a more open and transparent government.
And taking a page from regulatory agencies like the FCC, which have public comment periods before making decisions, the new president has promised to publish all “non-emergency” legislation online and allow the public to review and comment on it for five days before he signs it.
The new, and revamped, White House Web site opened with a blog posting from Macom Phillips, director of new media for the White House, who seemed to liken the site to a social network, saying it would “serve as a place for the President and his administration to connect with the rest of the nation and the world.”
Sounding like an online marketer, Phillips said the site was just the first in many efforts to “expand and deepen this online engagement.”
He encouraged surfers to keep tabs on the White House Blog via RSS feed, sign up for e-mail updates from the President.
Describing the site as an “online community,” Phillips asked for input on how to make the site better, even including an online form for the purpose.
The Obama campaign is universally acknowledged as the most Web-savvy in history, helping organize the youth vote that was crucial to his victory and keeping the media connected via regular e-mail updates.
I suspect that by 2012 we will be in full swing. Could it be that the Mayan Civilization knew what was going to happen? As many of you know, 2012 is the KEY date on the Mayan Calendar. As oil is pushed off the map in the coming years, it will be interesting to see what new energy forms come to the forefront. One thing is certain though. The age of the old boys is done. For this writer… it is not a day too soon!
Tags: New World Order, Obama
Review of: Submit Equalizer
Reviewed by: Nick Walsh (Lucidboomer)
For most websites, your profit margins are razor thin and you can’t afford to spend much of anything for advertising.
This is especially true when you’re trying to monetize a site with AdSense or other affiliate programs.
Instead, you’ve got get the free search engine traffic flowing and let people know about your site through directories and classified sites.
Moreover, you’ve got to get your pages into the search engines in the first place. Most people think of the big search engines, MSN, Yahoo, and Google.
But, they forget that a nice percentage of search traffic also goes through all of the small the search engines. Not to mention, that directories also have large amounts of search engine traffic running through them (because they claim many top rankings in the search engines).
However, the problem is that finding these free sites to submit to is often challenging. And, to make much of an impact on your site, you need to submit to a lot of them.
Submit Equalizer sets-out to eliminate this challenge by automatically submitting your sites to thousands of search engine, directories, and classified sites.
There are a number of solutions online that promise to blast your site to hundreds of thousands of sites. However, these solutions largely do not work because they submit to around 99.9% low quality sites.
Submit Equalizer only submits to sites specifically chosen to be likely to produce results.
After putting Submit Equalizer to work, I was impressed. I quickly saw a surge of search engines spiders (which means more pages are likely to be indexed inside)… and I did soon notice a few of backlinks inside Google.
But, the main benefit Submit Equalizer offers is the massive amount of exposure it gives your site. Because in only a short time after use, you’re listed in all of the major directories and search engines – essential when you’re relying on free traffic.
In other words, if all you’re using right now are paid advertising methods, then this tool may not be for you.
But, if you want to cash-in on free search traffic, then this tool should be required.
For usability, the tool works flawlessly. Most of the submission sites can be submitted to with the click of a button.
For the around 42 sites that require manual submission, Submit Equalizer has a built in web-browser and is a semi-automatic solution. This slashes the time it takes to get through submitting those sites.
The bottom line is that Submit Equalizer is a powerful tool to establish your websites to get the free traffic flowing in. I highly recommend it.
To grab your copy, visit:
SUBMIT EQUALIZER!!
1-800-466-4411
I discovered an amazing service yesterday. No calling a business from your cell phone is not just free.. but also totally easy!
I find this service so much easier to deal with than the telco’s voice system. It’s exactly what I’d expect from Google. Bravo to Google for this.
It’s a free telephone service that lets you search for businesses by voice and get connected to those businesses for free.
What is even better is that during your call to GOOG-411, just say “map it”, and you’ll get a text message with the details of your search plus a link to a map of your results right on your mobile phone.
I just doesn’t get much better than this!
What can we expect next?
Nick
Tags: Google, Technology
Welcome to the completely re-tooled Lucidboomer website. The internet is changing fast. Keeping up to date with the latest business ideas and tools takes a great deal of stamina. Fortunately there are some really wonderful people out there who make it their life’s mission to stay on top of this stuff.
Our sister site, Guru Junction, will cover the gurus in greater depth than we do. But we will cover a broader range of interest items for baby boomers in general. There will be a particular focus upon Health, News, Discussion, Tips, New and Innovative Consumer Products and Boomer Videos.
I hope you’ll find our site both interesting and thought provoking. As always, I am open to suggestions – as long as they don’t include things like jumping off cliffs or stepping in front of buses!
Nick Walsh
AKA Lucidboomer
Tags: Discussion, Work from Home
