Ontario Emperor

"Steven, inasmuch as I've currently maintaining several blogs in addition to my most semi-popular blog, I've been meaning to respond to this post. But it took me eight days to get around to writing a response. While my situation is unusual, inasmuch as my main blog isn't devoted to a specific topic, and I've effectively carved content out of the main blog to populate the other blogs, your warning about spreading oneself too thin certainly has merit. I'll have to revisit this in a few months and see if I'm keeping up all of the blogs, or if I've given up blogging altogether and have resorted to poking people in Facebook." - Ontario Emperor

"Stowe, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've come to the debate several years too late, and by this time most of the conversion about pay per post is of the level "pay per post is bad, end of subject." Your explanation was most helpful." - Ontario Emperor

From the page: "The press asked the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) to comment on the Hollister incident and their response[citation needed] was that 99% of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens, and the last one percent were outlaws. Thus was born the term, "one percenter"." - Ontario Emperor

"Stowe, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've come to the debate several years too late, and by this time most of the conversion about pay per post is of the level "pay per post is bad, end of subject." Your explanation was most helpful." - Ontario Emperor

When Petros and Money were local, they would respond to every email. But the responses were short...like tweets. Doesn't look like they've learned how to use the Twitter reply function yet, though. - Ontario Emperor

From the page: "the Japanese blogosphere...is filled with reports about Google hiring Cyberbuzz, a Tokyo-based Internet marketing company to promote the keyword feature (its widget version) with a pay-per-post campaign. And in fact, the search string Google Hot Keywords Ranking+Blog Widget+CyberBuzz in Japanese in Google's own Blog Search leads to a few dozen results, indicating the reports aren't made up of thin air. This blogger, for example, integrated the keyword widget and praises the list as being very useful to be kept up-to-date on what is going on in the world. This one says the keywords change every 20 minutes and that the new Google feature once quickly helped in obtaining information on a Japanese TV star. All postings end with a disclosure that says: I am taking part in the Cyberbuzz campaign." - Ontario Emperor

"What do you see as the difference between pay per post and tradeshow sponsorships? Is it a difference of expectation (i.e. people expect trade show giveaways to be sponsored, but expect blog posts to be non-sponsored)? I explored this issue in a post that I wrote later in the day, but I'd like to hear reasons why the two SHOULD be differentiated." - Ontario Emperor

"What do you see as the difference between pay per post and tradeshow sponsorships? Is it a difference of expectation (i.e. people expect trade show giveaways to be sponsored, but expect blog posts to be non-sponsored)? I explored this issue in a post that I wrote later in the day, but I'd like to hear reasons why the two SHOULD be differentiated." - Ontario Emperor

From the page: "The way that I see it (and as I've mentioned, under my superhero name, in comments to both the Hodson and Boyd posts), this type of product placement activity is rampant not only in the two industries mentioned, but in other industries. " - Ontario Emperor

"I'm sure that a number of bloggers are adjusting their routine due to SXSW. I read a LinkedIn status update from one blogger; the blogger was in the process of writing some posts in advance to appear during SXSW. Look forward to the "not insignificant amount of information" that you will be providing." - Ontario Emperor

"Are you saying that the TERM is radioactive, or that the CONCEPT is radioactive? As Steven Hodson notes in an Inquisitr post, the concept can be found in several industries. He names PayForPost as an example, but also notes the old payola scandal from 1950s radio and the modern Artist Airplay variant on Jango. There are a number of other examples, which extend to product placement on movies and TV, the height of the shelf on which your favorite grocery item can be found, the helpful carrying bags that you get at trade shows, and so forth. In the general sense, I do not object to paid placement, provided that the payment is disclosed. The problem occurs when there is inadequate disclosure of the sponsorship." - Ontario Emperor

"Sales agents, working on behalf of the company, must have access to the Yelp publishing system, and are able, either directly or through company processes, to move or remove reviews." - Ontario Emperor

From the page: "CrimeDex, now owned by 3VR, a San Francisco company that makes an image recognition system for surveillance cameras, says it is used by more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies and private businesses like banks and retail chains. For a monthly fee, members can submit information, photographs and videos related to possible crimes and make comparisons with data from agencies that may be seeing similar patterns or suspects." - Ontario Emperor

"Excellent post re the bandwidth (and the RAM) limiting our move to the cloud. Perhaps I'm a Luddite, but another issue is portability; tangible solutions such as CDs and DVDs are actually more portable than cloud-based services. I still tend to buy CDs rather than download music, especially since the last time I downloaded music, it was from MSN Music (which no longer exists). Perhaps the technical rules are changing, but if you're dependent upon a service to house your data, you have to deal with the risk of the service disappearing one day." - Ontario Emperor

"It is well known that some bands will pay to appear in clubs on the Sunset Strip. Even bands that don't pay to appear are often required to guarantee that a certain number of fans will show up to the club date; if they don't, your minutes on stage could very well be reduced. Whatever you call it, the payola model is alive and well in many industries, as you note. One can debate the moral issues involved, but for me the only thing that would be wrong would be if payments were made and not disclosed." - Ontario Emperor

Follow-up thoughts http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2009... - Ontario Emperor

"In 1998, Judge Keller wrote the opinion rejecting a new trial for Roy Criner, a mentally retarded man convicted of rape and murder, even though DNA tests after his trial showed that it was not his semen in the victim." - Ontario Emperor

This particular post has inspired me to start a blog on Faith. The level of complete ineptitude, lack of fact-checking, and misguided vitriol is far too much to respond to in a mere comment. - Mark Trapp

Mark, once you start your blog on Faith, please let us know about it. I look forward to reading it. - Ontario Emperor

From Empoprise-BI: "Why would someone do this? A person would only mention a former employer if the mention would benefit the person's current endeavor." - Ontario Emperor

From Empoprise-IE: "Now I could get all haughty and claim that the Times is exaggerating things in a desperate move to get out of bankruptcy itself, or I could point out more reasonably that the experience described here is not the typical experience of the majority of Inland Empire residents, but this is Straight's experience - I don't think she's writing fiction here." - Ontario Emperor

"At the same time Barack Obama is making good on his promise to end a ban on research that destroys human life, he is calling cloning dangerous and profoundly wrong. not that I do not agree with him—there is a first time for everything—but that he appears to have a moral outrage over a scientific process less objectionable than the one he is endorsing wholeheartedly as national policy." - Ontario Emperor

From Empoprise-MU: "When Rolling Stone assembled its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in November 2003, the second album on the list was Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys....[T]his is somewhat ironic when one remember what Jann Wenner initially thought...." - Ontario Emperor

H/T Mark Trapp. "Of course, the CD didn't immediately take off right then and there. It needed a little help from Sony, which worked with Philips to get the format standardized. The standard they named Red Book, which included everything from playing time (initially 60 minutes), to the disc diameter to sampling frequency. Put simply, the collaboration worked out, and Red Book was a success." - Ontario Emperor

"DHS has received $1 billion for air travel security under President Obama's stimulus package; money will be used to enhance checked baggage security and liquid threats in carry-on baggage" - Ontario Emperor

"This is a great opportunity for us to accelerate our strategic plan for checked baggage security screening, improving security and convenience at some of our nation's busiest airports as well as supporting President Obama's plan to stimulate the economy," said DHS secretary Janet Napolitano. "The proposed construction projects are projected to create more than 3,000 jobs and will continue our security strategy of risk-based application of assets and funds." - Ontario Emperor

My editorial comment - perhaps it's not wise to emphasize the job creation aspects of this grant. If you do the math, $1 billion to create 3,000 jobs works out to over $333,000 per job, which happens to be well above the so-called $250,000 level that divides the rich from those who truly work. - Ontario Emperor

"Excellent introduction to biometrics. Obviously you can delve a lot deeper into the various topics (Daubert challenges, the recent U.S. National Academy of Sciences report), and you can include other biometrics (vein), but this presentation is an excellent introduction to the topic. Very readable. Obviously the group wasn't watching "Friends" ALL the time... :)" - Ontario Emperor

Original item posted by FriendFeed user Ideamonk http://friendfeed.com/ideamonk - Ontario Emperor

From the page: "The German government's buy-back of Bundesdruckerei has now been completed. The move comes around eight years after the high tech security firm was privatised." - Ontario Emperor

"I'm sure that a number of bloggers are adjusting their routine due to SXSW. I read a LinkedIn status update from one blogger; the blogger was in the process of writing some posts in advance to appear during SXSW. Look forward to the "not insignificant amount of information" that you will be providing." - Ontario Emperor

"Are you saying that the TERM is radioactive, or that the CONCEPT is radioactive? As Steven Hodson notes in an Inquisitr post, the concept can be found in several industries. He names PayForPost as an example, but also notes the old payola scandal from 1950s radio and the modern Artist Airplay variant on Jango. There are a number of other examples, which extend to product placement on movies and TV, the height of the shelf on which your favorite grocery item can be found, the helpful carrying bags that you get at trade shows, and so forth. In the general sense, I do not object to paid placement, provided that the payment is disclosed. The problem occurs when there is inadequate disclosure of the sponsorship." - Ontario Emperor

"Excellent post re the bandwidth (and the RAM) limiting our move to the cloud. Perhaps I'm a Luddite, but another issue is portability; tangible solutions such as CDs and DVDs are actually more portable than cloud-based services. I still tend to buy CDs rather than download music, especially since the last time I downloaded music, it was from MSN Music (which no longer exists). Perhaps the technical rules are changing, but if you're dependent upon a service to house your data, you have to deal with the risk of the service disappearing one day." - Ontario Emperor

"It is well known that some bands will pay to appear in clubs on the Sunset Strip. Even bands that don't pay to appear are often required to guarantee that a certain number of fans will show up to the club date; if they don't, your minutes on stage could very well be reduced. Whatever you call it, the payola model is alive and well in many industries, as you note. One can debate the moral issues involved, but for me the only thing that would be wrong would be if payments were made and not disclosed." - Ontario Emperor