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These are rough times for the concept of fair use, especially when lawyers citing fair use as a defense don’t seem to quite understand it much more than those sending out cease and desist letters. The latest fair use kafuffle stems from the already ridiculous spat between Miss California, Carrie Prejean, and Perez Hilton.
Please don’t make me sum up what that was about; read about it at Wikipedia and come back.
First let’s echo Ron White when he says, “you can’t fix stupid.” Now that we agree on that, let’s also doubt that imposing stiffer penalties on those stupid enough to post video evidence on YouTube of themselves committing a crime won’t really act as a deterrent. Because, again, you can’t fix stupid.
The first rule of Write Club is: do not anger the feminists. The second rule is: do not anger the blogosphere. And if you’re stupid enough to anger the feminists bloggers, be prepared for the beating of your life. A little evidence to back up what you’ve suspected for a long time should be saved for the poker game, not for Forbes readers.
Marketers are investing a lot of money in PPC ads, but it appears that too many of them are neglecting the quality of their landing pages.
There are things you just can’t sell on eBay. You can’t sell live animals, body parts, or your immortal soul. And as some unscrupulous entrepreneurs will learn if captured, you can’t sell babies, either.
RSS and Blog spam remain a maddening phenom in the world of Really Simple Syndication. Doc Searls takes the time to elaborate about this on his blog and explains why.
In deciding to rank your website, search engines pay a lot of attention to the actual content they find on your webpages.
The official name of XP sold in European markets is Windows XP Home Edition N. The “N” stands for … now get this … “not with media player”.
If you have read any internet marketing resource ever created, you have no doubt seen simple, one sentence, pot-shot solutions to all of your problems: You will only be successful if you think you are successful. You will make money if you work hard. Think outside of the box. Content is king!
When I was a broker at Merrill Lynch in the late ’70s and early ’80s, I was trained to sell stocks using classic cold-calling techniques. My colleagues and clients were tough and fast-moving and wanted only answers. Quickly. I had to know my product and have my sales skills down pat. Smile and dial. Come in with a great opening. Wow them with sexy stocks and great numbers. Be clever and charming, and let the buyer think he was calling the shots. My opening line was “Hi, Mr. Jones. I’m Sharon Drew Morgen with Merrill Lynch, and I’m a broker. I’d like to take three and a half minutes of your time to tell you about a stock that’s going to go up in the next week. Do you want to make some money?”
