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california court smacks down a spammer
the court ordered a $2 million fine and imposed a 10-year injunction on pw marketing llc, paul willis and claudia griffin.
bad paul. bad claudia.
rock on, california. another 2500 or so of these, and you’ll close the deficit (if the last number i heard – $5b operating deficit – was accurate)
i have a few minutes, but not enough time to really get into the next issue i’m planning to tackle, so, from the past few days’ logs, i present to you some of the curious things that bring you to me (i was looking anyway)…
#1 rank:
ticketmaster and monopolies
monopolies in music industry
death of the cd
social networking sites
how to end conversations
duration of hurricanes
dead blog
universal problem solving
silly football players
first-page rank:
magnatunes
googlejuice
rafe esquith students travel
hobart shakespeareans
artists and redevelopment
lamp of diogenes
rolling stones album sales numbers
justification for unilateral action in response to the iraqi threat
music industry monopolies
united state president’s mistakes
usa patriot act prosecution methamphetamine
ticketmaster unfair
redevelopment bin
weather feeds
mr hubble
patrick dalzel / dalzel job / patrick dalzel job
pointless charts
vietnam war mistakes
shujaat rialto atlanta
the patriot act on tour
cell phone voice blog
second-page rank:
weedshare
business strategy in producing eminem music album
beatles back catalog
behavior modification model
annalena tonelli
third-page rank:
yang liwei
ticket master
rss weather
wmd found
fourth-page rank:
monopolies
support of the patriot act
rafe does have some salvation (compared to my last post), with some additional first-page hits if you add a few words or look for the hobart shakespeareans. still, i was hoping for better.
i would make some grand insightful comments about what brings people here, but not tonight. you people seem to like the music business stuff and the political stuff.
it seems at least one blog picked up on rafe, so i thought i’d see how the googlejuice for rafe was doing.
in an unfortunate development, it seems google has deemed my post on rafe esquith “not relevant” – it’s still on the first page but only if you go through the whole mess and “repeat the search with the omitted results included.” even then, it’s falling – now ranked #9.
i do hope this changes – i’ll check again sometime soon.
according to a usa today article (and several other reports, but i think this is an early one), defense secretary donald rumsfeld thinks the united states has not “yet made truly bold moves” in the war on terrorism.
is there something particularly timid about invading and occupying two countries? maybe that’s just a different war, and i just haven’t kept up.
i hate to read into thinks, but sometimes things reach my attention with just very bad coincidental timing.
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according to an associated press report, the united states has resumed tritium production after a 15-year break.
i suppose that makes sense, since the half-life of tritium is something like 12 years, and you think you’re going to need a sizeable thermonuclear arsenal available on short notice.
the [american] media is supposed to counter-spin the official spin
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in what could/should be an important tool to make things better, the bbc has launched the beta version of ican
iCan is a new BBC service which aims to help people start doing something about issues in their life
opening today in new york, storycorps has their first booth in grand central.
a first step in building a turn-of-the-21st-century oral history of america.
personally, i hope the vision expands. the rest of the world has interesting stories too.
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