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Feature: Evaluating Social Networking in New England
I’ve changed direction with my blog. I was a little naive to think I could launch the next FaceBook or MySpace (not really my intention) merely by soliciting others to engage in social blogging. Lets face it, I don’t have the programming skills, I don’t I have the financial resources and I don’t have access to the tools necessary to be successful. Or do I?
I’ve spent the last month evaluating social blogging and social networking sites with the expectation that I will ultimately define a business plan for engaging boomers and retirees online.
Feature: How much will you get back?
President Bush has signed into law a $165 billion economic stimulus package providing rebate checks to taxpayers. You might receive a check for $300, $600, $1,200, or even more depending on your conditions.
Originally, PBS Newshour provided a calculator to help taxpayers to determine the amount of the rebate, but that calculator has been proven to be faulty. With the help of Consumerism Commentary, they have posted a new calculator, revised several times over the past few days to increase clarity and accuracy. This calculator properly takes into account the information from the bill passed by Congress. However, any information presented should not be considered tax advice.
If you’ve completed your tax return, pull out your 1040 and paste the amounts from the following lines as directed by the tool: 7, 37 and 57. What will you spend all that money on?
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Shorts & Rants: No particular order, tell me your favorites and I will add them to the post.
1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Hannibal Lecter’s (Anthony Hopkins) mocking assessment of Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), after she gives him a questionnaire to answer: (”You’re so-o ambitious, aren’t you? You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube, with a little taste. Good nutrition’s given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you’ve tried so desperately to shed - pure West Virginia. What does your father do? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you. All those tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars, while you could only dream of getting out. Getting anywhere, getting all the way to the F…B…I”); and then after Clarice retorts, he adds his famous line of dialogue: (”A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chi-an-ti. You fly back to school now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly. Fly, fly, fly.”) Pure West Virginia
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Feature: Cape Cod’s Best Blogging Community
Walter Brooks, Publisher and Editor of CapeCodToday.com (cc2day) has built a reputation as The Blogfather of Cape Cod. At 78 Brooks has spent the last five years recruiting over 170 Cape bloggers to cover news from Mashpee to P-Town. Most of the blogs run the gamut from feral howling to finely rendered verse. Many are retirees, or are still working their day jobs. At Cape Cod Today you’ll find ex-politicians, ex-policemen, ex-teachers, current teachers, current harbormasters, and current artists.
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