This very well illustrated video of a talk from Sir Ken Robinson about the need to change education is worth watching. In about the middle he talks about the epidemic of ADHD and how wrong-headed it is to be drugging children when we should be making them MORE alive, not less alive. (more…)
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How to Count Backlinks
For the past couple of years I’ve been farming out link-building work for my clients, to several companies that have specialized in article marketing. Is Article Marketing for Link-Building Dead? However, the recent Panda updates seem to have resulted in the de-indexing of the majority of all the article marketing links, as far as Google […]
On Maybe Losing our Broadbent Post Office
The US Post Office in Broadbent, Oregon, where we get our mail here on the ranch, is on a short list of 46 post offices that are likely to be closed in Oregon within the next few months. Apparently there are 3200 post offices locations that are being considered for closure nationwide; only 46 are […]
Old Friends, Not Being on Facebook, and the History of the Telephone
Over the last few days I connected with an old friend on Facebook; a woman I hadn’t heard from in 35 years. I knew her when she was a vibrant young woman. She was married during the 70’s to a very nice guy who helped me out of a jam once upon a time. She […]
Solar Power Plus Radio Equals Rural Internet Connection
Our Solar-Powered Radio Internet Connection On June 28, 2011, my internet service provider (ISP) went out of business. One minute I was surfing the web at about 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second – a fairly fast internet speed — at least it was fast enough to get work done online) and the next minute they […]
Google +1 (Google Plus 1) is available
Installing Google +1 on your site Google recently released its “+1” service, which is a button you put on your blog or on your website, which lets people who visit the page tell Google that they like the page they are on. Google will then use that in determining which sites to display, and will […]
Good Link Building Tips
Good search engine rankings (especially at Google) depend mainly on two things: Having plenty of good text content that Google can index. Google doesn’t really index pictures well, or flash, or javascript, or videos. Google can’t pick the text out of an image or a Flash presentation or a video. They do a great job […]
Intelligence. What is it?
I’m reading the book Scientology, a New Slant on Life, for the first time in 30 years. This book, by L. Ron Hubbard, was recently re-released, with typographical and other errors cleaned up; all the basic books of Scientology were gone through carefully, compared closely against the original author’s manuscripts so as to make them […]
What You Say Can Leave a Lasting Impression
Today is the 61st anniversary of the publication of Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard. When I first picked up a copy of Dianetics on display at the Greyhound Bus terminal in Medford, Oregon, in the summer of 1968, I read the back panel of the book and rejected outright […]
CCHR Florida – Music Video Contest
My friends over at Citizen’s Commission for Human Rights (CCHR) Florida are having a music video contest. If you can sing or play an instrument, or are otherwise creative when it comes to making music videos, free to enter the competition. Sounds like a lot of fun. (more…)