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Google puts tech in place for censorship on Blogger Blogs

Filed under News by on February 1, 2012 at 2:22 pm {no comments}
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If you needed another reason to move away from Blogger or Blogspot, here’s a doozy.

In a little seen article (until now) printed on a Blogger help page a couple of weeks ago, Google has announced it has put in place technology that will allow it to censor blogs on the free Blogger platform for those blogging in countries where censorship is required.

Google will begin redirecting Blogger traffic to country-specific URLs, so that whatever country you’re in, you’ll get that country’s domain for Blogger-hosted blogs. If the blog you are visiting is in Canada the URL will end in .ca, in India the URL will end in .in. When you are on a Blogger blog you will know where that blog is located by the ending of the URL.

Google has put this redirect in place so that content can be removed on a per country basis. You can read more about it here at Wired.

It costs very little to host your own domain, what you save in hosting costs and domain fees by using Blogger is really negated when you consider the possibility of being censored based on the country you live in.

Twitter put similar checks in place last week and were faced with a rather large backlash.

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Saving the planet, one tablet at a time

Filed under Infographics by on February 1, 2012 at 11:16 am {no comments}

I love my iPad, I use it for everything from reading a book, and writing a post to playing Angry Birds and even changing the channel on the TV (the kid hates when I change the channel on the TV with the iPad). Now I can feel good about using my iPad because tablets are actually pretty good for the environment. According to this infographic by Vanarama,they use less energy than other gadgets (though I would never call my iPad a gadget) and the apps on the mobile devices can be controlled so resources aren’t being wasted. Hell, tablets are even beginning to use solar energy. How cool is that? So go out and buy that tablet you’ve had your eye on, you’ll do the planet some good.

 

how you and your tablet are saving the planet Saving the planet, one tablet at a time
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Saving the planet, one tablet at a time

Blue Mountain Arts Looking for Poets: Win $300!

Filed under Contests, Events by on January 31, 2012 at 10:40 am {no comments}
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Blue Mountain Arts is looking for poets who want to win $300 and have their poetry on a greeting card.

If you can write poetry you could win $300 in Blue Mountain’s Twentieth Biannual Poetry Card Contest.

Cool huh?

Poetry Contest Guidelines:

  1. Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming, although non-rhyming poetry reads better.
  2. Write about real emotions and feelings. It helps to have some special person or occasion in mind as you write.
  3. Poems are judged on the basis of originality and uniqueness.
  4. English-language entries only, please.
  5. Enter as often as you like!

For the fine print and how to submit your poem click here.

Blue Mountain Arts Looking for Poets: Win $300!

I love being a freelance writer because, you know, it’s so sexy.

Filed under Success Stories by on January 31, 2012 at 10:31 am {one comment}

I’ve been a freelance writer for several years now and I am always amazed that people see this job as sexy. I was at the Mall of America yesterday and a clerk in Eddie Bauer asked what I do for a living. I stumbled over my answer because I wear so many hats; freelancer, writer, ghostwriter, blogger, teacher (I will be teacher a class through community education this fall!!) but once I finally got it out he asked if it was as sexy as Charlize Theron made it look in that movie.

I haven’t seen that movie so I don’t know how sexy she made it look but it’s Charlize Theron so obviously it would be really sexy.

Um, no. Freelance writing, ghostwriting, blogging, etc… are not the most sexy of jobs. Unless, of course, you do all these jobs in the adult entertainment world and then I still doubt they’d be sexy…skanky maybe, but probably not sexy.

I didn’t aim to be a freelance writer. This was a career I backed into. I love it, don’t get me wrong, but it wasn’t something I have been trying to achieve since I was a young girl.

That said, I have always wanted to be a writer. A real writer, one who writes books and makes gobs of money. Unfortunately there are a lot of people reaching for the same apple on that career path and like acting there is a lot of waiting tables until you reach your dream. For me I have to write about things I might not have chosen to so I can earn the money needed to write my book.

Still, not a bad gig.

I don’t have to sit in a cubicle all day, I don’t have a boss who micromanages everything I do. I can wear anything I want to work, I can set my own hours and take off whenever I want. I can pick and choose who I want to work with. I have an incredible amount of freedom and that’s something that is really important to me because I need flexibility as a single mom.

On the other hand, I have no net and I have to hustle each job I get. I work long hours, don’t have time to take off whenever I want and when something goes wrong I have no one to blame but me. Um, and I don’t look like Charlize Theron, unless you count that one movie about the serial killer she did.

Still, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

 

 

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