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All F1 hybrid melons are never sterile, all will produce fruit. The only problem is that 50% may not come out the same as the fruit you ate. After each year you grow it out, the odds get even worse because you are basically de-hybridizing the melon.

Hello,

I came across your site, and began reading some articles. I see in this FBN article you had (see list of FBN community builders). I did not see a link to the community builders, is there a way to see or a link?

Thank you

What time of year did you plant them? What zone?

I’ve been following your post for a few years. My experience…
I saved seeds from a sugar kiss melon I bought from the grocery store in 2020, since seeds are unavailable for purchase.
The first year (2021) was a total experiment, being F1 hybrid I wasn’t sure what to expect but encouraged by your post. All my seeds that I started outside in a small 6pck sprouted. We grew them in our backyard in full sun. We successfully harvested a few very sweet melons that fall.
Last year (2022) we planted a few more of the same 2020 seeds and got a decent number of melons. We are backyard hobbyists growing in our suburban Los Angeles backyard. The melons are as sweet if not better than the original seed imo. The interesting thing is that some melons are yellow and some green (like a honeydew) inside, but both taste great!!!

This year (2023) I started plants for my neighbors as well. They say my melons were the best they’ve tasted and much better than the plants from the nursery. Lol. Also, going to try growing seeds from my own melons and seeing what happens in the following generation.

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I have been waiting on a fully sized golden melon for a month now, with no scaling on the outside. Is this normal?

This year I planted Sugar Kiss seeds and all of the melons turned out looking pale, and very light green inside. But they were as good in sweetness and tenderness as the parents were. In fact in some ways they were better than the Sugar Kiss cantaloupes.

Anyone else had this happen?

Does anyone know if the sugar kiss melons will grow in South Carolina, zone 8?

Several years ago I had success growing Sugar Kiss melons. This year I have had good success, but being hybrids the melons looked like Summer Kiss melons on the inside. I thought it was a failure, but on tasting the melons they were very sweat and juicy, but a slightly different flavor. I wonder what melons were used as parents.

So you grew these from seed you saved from a kiss melon you purchased? If so, any special instructions on saving, storing, and planting next year?

Inspired by Joseph Lofthouse landrace gardening I have interplanted White sugar kiss melon seed with Picaso (Gaya, Snow Leopard are alternate names). These parents are both sweet and delicious. Look forward to tasting the next generations:

How long did you wait to pick them? I have 3 good sized ones right now. One of them has turned 2/3 light orange in color. The other two are still green in between the white webbing. It been about 3 months since I started the plants.

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where can I buy some hybrid kiss melon seeds

Can you give any guidance on what you learned about when the best picking time is? I know cantaloupes slip off of the vine when ready. Do these? We are planting these this year (we just can’t get enough from grocery store!).

Cotton. You are the best. My grandfatherSam Ciener Sr had his store next to Harts for years and years was one of those great merchants who believed that success started from the ground up. Bravo to you. Yes, I was one of those kids that left and never moved back. Jack Cohen

Did you end up getting the same quality melon as the one you bought in the store!?

I would love to hear more of how your last season ended up with the ‘Sugar Kiss.’

How did it turn out? Were you able to grow it successfully? If so, how did it taste?

Great article. I to saved seeds from sugar kiss melon and have about 15 plants in the garden. Any update as to you’re melons growing to full size? Did they mature, or did the plant abort them are in the early stages of development? I hope you were able to enjoy you’re melons. I too am wondering if the space is going to go to waste in my garden. Any update would be most appreciated.

Any updates on the sugar kiss melons? I am in the early stages of trying to do the same thing and was wondering if you were able to get the plants to grow fruits?

Exciting news, Cotton! Congratulations! Would love to connect and learn more.

thanks, after wasting an hour on automator I found this solution. Great stuff.

Yes! Thank you!

Interesting stuff, Cotton. Thanks for sharing so openly with us – as you know, what we share then becomes a springboard for others who come along and can then have (hopefully) more educated conversations with their health care providers.

I like to say that we are actively changing what people find on the internet – and I think that’s pretty darn cool. 🙂

Really glad I connected with you! Thanks again!

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I’ve been dealing with bowel impactions for years. I literally have them monthly. They get so bad I bleed internally once it moves along. I’ve started using Metamucil (I use the generic, sugar-free brand or psyllium fiber), and it really makes a huge difference. The bane of my existence is cheese. I can usually eat nuts and seeds, as long as I remember to take the psyllium fiber twice a day. Cheese? Forget about it! If I even smell cheese I know I’ll be planting the silver bullet!

Whenever I feel bulk starting, I take a shot of Milk or Magnesia (again, the generic brands work just fine). If that’s not enough, about 12 hours later, I’ll take one biscodyl tablet. If the problem persists, 12 hours later, I’ll take two biscodyls. Then, 12 hours later, if I’m rolling on the floor crying for mama, I’ll use the biscodyl silver bullet.

If all that doesn’t work things out (bad pun?), then I head for the ER to get the jug. No fun!

Small tip that might help you realize when you have the problem a little earlier. I get lower back pain along with the general feeling of bloating. The bloated feeling comes first, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a bowel obstruction. The lower back pain almost always indicates the significant build-up of a blockage. That’s when I start my routine (above). Also, the lack of gas expulsion is a big indicator. Eat a burritto – if you aren’t clearing rooms within a couple hours, something could be wrong!

dude, you just made me save hours and hours. I love you

Awesome!

hmmm. need to be in on this dude!

Just passin through……

Bar raised, indeed. Other shows seem so poorly written now after watching this show twice now, haha.

Hi Cotton,

Thank you for letting others know about our extension.

To make things easier for beginning wp shops, we released now Product Addons as freebie – it can be downloaded from http://wordpress.org/plugins/jigoshop-product-addons/

Good Article Cotten. We’d like to refer to on our Foot care Blog if that is ok

I always appreciate you sharing your info and wisdom on WordPress. Great list of plugins. I’d have to add Better WP Security for excellent security checks and fixes, Duo 2 factor auth has become an essential tool on all my sites (easiest 2 factor auth in the world), and Jetpack. I could not live with out Jetpack these days.

Nice! Really helpful!

I use LogMeIn for church computers and have been a fan since I found out about them a few years ago.

5 hours ago – I had foot pain 2 yrs ago so dr put me on allopurinol 300mg. I was ok until 3 weeks ago when my? … right big toe became very painful. last night ..

This is also good.
The software works well, Ammyy Admin doesn’t require installation or specific config, works behind gateways NAT as well as within one LAN.

I can not wait til we are out there… I wont miss another.. anytime of night I am good to go.

It was great fun. Look forward to more of these.

Nice work, man. This really helped me out!

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Guess this guy doesn’t know you are supposed to impersonate a pretty young girl. Not someone that looks like us 😉

Cotton – I also had a history with your Uncle Gene’s shoe store. After we moved to Forrest City, I would go back to Helena to buy shoes. I had problem feet and Gene would spend hours getting me a comfortable fit. I was always greeted with a hug and got one when I left.

Wonderful!

Oh Cotton….Please, please be careful with that foot…Tell me you have already seen a Dr. for the foot!!! My brother, Ken lost his leg this past year because of a “little” sore on his foot!!! You are doing so great and I am praying this does NOT set you back!! Diabetes is a horrible disease..I fight it every day! Praying for you!

Congrats on surviving the Apocalypse and everything else being thrown at you. Now I’ve heard about the medications and finger tip pricking but I haven’t heard much about getting off the couch (or out from in front of the computer). So as my present to you for hanging around this long, bring that bike you said you were going to buy down to Little Rock and I’ll take you on a ride to help you get started. Oh, and now that you’re in the over 40 club I’ll let you in on a little secret. The 40’s are better than the 30’s and the 50’s haven’t been so bad either. Happy Birthday Cotton.

Keep up the good work! Sorry to hear you were having issues. Small changes make a big difference. Let me wish you a happy birthday also!

Geez Cotton! Is it possible for you to do ANYTHING that isn’t simultaneously terrifying and inspirational? SO glad you caught it in time, I don’t think the rest of us are ready to be without daily Spencer updates.

You got it Cotton! I’ll go a step further and say, if the dollar goes to zero (where it belongs)
many will say you can’t eat silver which is correct. You also can’t
stuff ten loaves of bread in your pocket to go across town to buy a few
steaks. There has to be a means of carrying wealth around and gold is just too pricy for every day expenditures. If the dollar fails which I absolutely expect, REAL MONEY, gold and silver will take over. So would you rather have $1000 bills or $100 bills in your pocket to go shopping for every day items? Your choice, gold or silver. Silver as for net worth right now is in far shorter above ground supply than gold. I dare say that Gold Silver ratio will change.

curious do you still recommend using the elegant themes over the ether?

Cool news! Love how you are helping your friends adopt.

are we able to use it to brand our own company? if so, that is a great solution!

Dude, you totally just saved me hours of work! Thanks for publishing!

Sweet Cotton! I’m definitely looking forward to using this one. 🙂

Does that mean that when embedding video in WP I need to use the full embed code instead of the short link (the easy, lazy way I like)?

Update: KARK Naked Guy has some competition:

The
heat, and possibly using drugs, apparently played a part in the arrest
of a naked Oil Trough man riding his four-wheeler in the area of the
Departee Creek Bridge Saturday afternoon.

Independence County
Deputy Wayne Green said he was dispatched to the area around 4 p.m. but
before he arrived Narcotics Officer John Scarbrough made contact with
the man, later identified as 60-year-old Ricky Dale Riley, and confirmed
that he was naked and appeared to be under the influence of drugs.

Green said when he arrived Riley, now clothed as per Scarbrough’s
orders, was fidgeting around and talking in strange sentences.

“Riley stated that he had been down in the creek and then he would
change the subject and begin babbling about something else,” Green said.
“Actions that I observed Riley doing were consistent with someone under
the influence of a controlled substance, most likely methamphetamine.”

At one point Riley was asked for identification and reportedly handed
Scarbrough a shopping bag, giving him permission to search it.

During his search, Scarbrough reportedly found a metal cylinder
containing two white pills, a yellow pill and a pink zip-style style bag
containing a clear jewelry-style bag with a white crystalline substance
inside. Also said to be found in the bag was a woman’s cigarette pouch
containing three hypodermic needles, a silver metal spoon and a
jewelry-style bag containing numerous yellow and white pills.

Riley was arrested and taken to jail where he was charged with
possession of a controlled substance and possession of an instrument of
crime as well as public intoxication-drugs. During his trip to the
Independence County jail, Riley was said to fidget and flop around
uncontrollably in the back seat of Green’s patrol car.

No court date was listed for Riley on Green’s initial report.

Cool stuff Cotton! Sometime you’ll have to tell me about why you chose Jigoshop for your site (over Foxycart). Inquiring minds….

I have been using it for a while and it’s really handy to manage multiple WordPress sites..

If that presentation is video taped, I’d be interested in seeing it. By the way, what is a Genesis Child Theme? I am aware of most of the child themes, is that some kind of basic child theme you start with?

Thanks

Thanks for the awesome write up, Cotton. Loving having the Central Ark contingent come up each year.

Looks like the ACTUAL link is 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/ComparePlugin/
(look for the ‘Compare Plugin’ files; latest is apparently  June-2010, and there’s another version labeled ‘unicode’…)

While I think the job is Gus’ to turn down, I think either Patterson or Peterson have the resumes to move in and not miss a beat. Certainly comfortable with the man responsible for making the hire.  He’ll do right by UA and supporters. 

paul petrino gets my vote.

Those are some awesome pictures you posted!! Thanks for sharing!!  And so blessed to see what a beautiful family you are! xoxo

That is great Cotton!  I know you all want to be home and get things going. We are praying that everything goes smoothly, every “i” is dotted and every “t” crossed.  

Man, we didn’t have the luxury of having those diapers. You had to peek to see if anything happen and take a chance of getting wet yourself. Ha!  

We are so excited for you guys!

Love it! Can’t wait to see you and Spencer when you get home!

I’m so excited for you guys! Anna and I love you both!

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That’s totally Awesome.. congrats and good luck and godspeed and have a blessed and safe journey .. and everything else that goes along with it!!!

I’ve watched your story via my cousin Kathy Wyrick’s facebook page and have been so inspired by your strength and courage, while keeping your faith so strong. I loved reading this post and wish you and your family the best in this new chapter in your lives, and know your sweet angel in heaven is smiling down on you during this process. Blessings for safe travel! Denise Synatschk 🙂

Hi! Was curious to know can a public figure with a page listed as a public figure get access to contact details of his fans – those who’ve subcribed to his page?

Hi there,

Don’t know if you are still checking these comments but I have been using WPRemix for my main website for a few years now and it has been great, very ‘tweakable’ but I am now looking to start developing sites for clients and have been looking into how WPRemix will work with WordPress Multisite.

Basically the issue I am trying to resolve is that I have changed a lot of small pieces of code within the WPRemix php and css files to get my 1st site the way I want it.  If I want to use the same theme on other sites they to will have all the changes I have made to suit the first site.

Having read up and asked of various forums it seems there are a couple of options:
1. Just install entire multiple copies of the theme, renaming each one slightly for use with each site you want to use the theme with.
2. Setup Child themes of WPRemix for each new site and copy then edit any files you want to modify in the child theme.

Any thoughts on these options or maybe another solution to being able to have multiple ‘different’ versions of the theme.

Thanks

Oh my!  You know recurring dreams tell us are deepest wants and desires… 🙂  I would not want a recurring dream.  I hope, not only for your sake but your wife and Bogey that it ceases soon. 

I’ve been attempting this for a while so glad I cam across this post. Thanks!

During our situation with Knox, it is so true that your message has lifted me. Thank you. As Joe has said. Stop trying to work things out on your own timing. Wait on HIS timing. There is purpose in all. Thank you Lord. thank you. Tiffany and Joe

I work faster in online applications like Lubith. It’s easier to work with than Artisteer (and you can instantly test/download/use your theme), it didn’t give me any compatibility problems and has some original editing tools that are really fun to work with.

My comment is this. There is nothing preventing people from doing both. As someone who spoke up about the economic problems in the Delta before anyone else — in fact even defined the problem — back in the 1980s, I have had to watch other “causes” get the attention and money while ignoring “our own backyard” for almost 30 years now. However, all of this either/or talk misses the larger point of this movement. Not only are we talking about removing a very bad guy by using a populist movement to pressure governments to prioritize international criminals like him, we are talking about doing it using social media as the means to that populist media. That is the point the film makes very well. By putting a deadline on the cause, it also puts pressure on those governments to act now instead of always putting it off for some other monied-special-interest public relations bought and paid for distraction. I really think if most people have seen what I have seen at the Federal and State levels, they would realize that most of the time the agenda of this nation is really driven by those monied-special interests, instead of the real issues of our day that influence our daily lives. This video makes the point very well, and uses this cause to do so, that social media has the potential to redefine how we solve problems as a civilization. It is already happening, as we all witnessed with the Arab Spring. But it is not just limited to that… and that is the real positive message here. If this works, maybe we will be motivated as a people to work on those “backyard” issues that always seem to be shelved for some “cause celebre” of the day. Those are my comments and thoughts. Thanks for posting.

My thoughts is that this is an elaborate money grab by a supposed charity.

this is nice article, i use yr command so many times to clean our sites. we successfully able to clean our site, but we keep becoming victim of hack again and again. Any suggestions, what to do?

I lost my husband of 6 years in September to cancer… we only had 5 1/2 moths to come to terms with the disease before it took him, we firmly believed through out that God would and could heal him… God did, just not in the way I desired…your openness and honesty has helped me come to terms with my anger with God that I was not willing to be open about… thank you so much for sharing!  My prayers are with y’all as you travel this road. 

Thanks!

Thanks so much Kathy!

Thanks!

I knew all that was going on but just reading your words made me cry.  I know someday we’ll understand just why God’s will was so different from ours but until then you’re both doing so wonderful keeping the faith.  No one totally understands how I have managed to be at such peace after Rufus passed away, but for the last month of his life he hurt so bad we prayed together that God would take him home and cure him and that is just what happened.  He’s walking with Jesus now and is helping to rock Shelby.  GOD is good!!!!!  Just know that my thoughts and prayers are still with you.  Love you both!

Hi, I’m a friend of Ammie Thomas in colorado, I’m one of the prayer warriors during this time for your family; but I wanted to give you another message – Ammie can attest to my character so you won’t think I’m a crackpot … You and Donna WILL someday reunite with Shelby Mae in heaven … I can attest to you that there is a heaven  …  years back, I was clinically dead for over 15 min after a heart surgery … I was given the privledge of a glimpse of what is to be … I was returned here on earth to complete the tasks God has for me … There is a loving God, Jesus and heaven – your Shelby is emerced in peace and love waiting.

Rod and I feel the same way. Thanks for letting us know everything. It was hard to read and feel your pain but as you say, there is hope and there is a reason. We will keep praying and we love you! 

So sorry for your loss.  We lost a tiny baby boy in October and I understand. 

Praying for you and your wife during this difficult time.

Cotton and Donna, your strength is amazing. You guys are truly an example of how faith in the lord can help get you through your darkest hours. God needed a special angel, and he chose your little girl to fill that spot. Have faith, you will see her one day and what a reunion that will be! God does work miracles, I have seen them myself. I believe there is one waiting for you guys, you’ll find it when you least expect it. take care and know that prayers are with you.
Marci

I love you guys! And ur right, god is and always has worked through u, and he will continue to do so. We all are still praying very much for Yal. You did good Cotton, you both did. The words just arent here for me to express the love that I feel coming from the two of u and the love yal have for God and the reassurance in God that you have reminded me of. God bless yal.

There is always a calmness around me when I pray to my awesome God, but after reading your story, I know that our God takes care of us at a time when we could never know the answers to why things happen. I am inspired by you and your wife, Donna and know that you will be fine in the days ahead. You have alot of friends, have made alot of friends and have directed alot of friends into HIS direction. May God continue to bless you and your family.

Thanks!

Thanks Sheila!

Thanks Ammie!

Cotton,

I am sorry for the loss that you and your family suffered.  I am one of those that has not asked God for a favor in a long time, but you guys were in my thoughts and prayers throughout this ordeal.  Thank you for sharing your story.  I cannot even imagine how difficult it must have been.  Stay strong.

Steve

I promise to read this whole blog post. I just can’t all at once. My heart goes out to you and Donna. 

cotton we continue to pray for u all! So thankful that the Lord is continuing to heal your wife! god bless u two!

I love you friend. I love Donna. And I love Shelby Mae. That is all I know.

You, Donna, and Shelby Mae have touched so many lives the past few weeks. I have been holding the three of you in my heart and will never let y’all go. Thank you for sharing your story and being such a good example of a husband, a father and a man of Christ.

I love that name! Shelby always reminds me of Steel Magnolias — and that’s a good thing.

Thanks, we haven’t went public w/ what the names are going to be yet but we will hopefully be able to do so later this week. Thanks!

Thanks, sorry just seeing your comment. 🙂

I’ve messed with the location based services a good bit and watched people use them. It’s still a huge minority and it never seemed to catch on with the younger crowd (teenagers). Latest reports are that the majority of location software on smartphones is used to find things nearby and not tell people where to find you.

I’m like you, I was really on fire for Gowalla when it first came out and still
Believe it is great for people who travel and who want to learn all about a new place they are visiting.

But most don’t travel that much…they stay within a certain area, predictable, and that’s where Foursquare comes in. It rewards the everyday stops.

It will be interesting to see what Gowalla does while all wrapped up in Facebook.

I would like to see more churches play aroun with Foursquare.

Thanks,
Scott

I think the board  had to do it. No other choice. I imagine there is no one on that board that did not have a  lot of respect, and a few that have personal relationships with Joe Pa. But there is way too much liability for the University to do nothing. The fire was out of control and burning everything in its path.  In the sports Illustrated story it says “McQueary also testified that he told Paterno what he saw the
following day, though it isn’t clear from McQueary’s testimony how
explicit he was in his description to Paterno. After
hearing from McQueary, Paterno alerted athletic director Tim Curley. Yet
instead of relaying what McQueary claims to have told him, Paterno
conveyed a milder and vaguer description. Specifically, Paterno
testified under oath that McQueary had said that Sandusky was engaged in
fondling or “doing something of a sexual nature” to a boy.”
Plus at some point a mother of a child called the university telling them about Sandusky fondling her son.  Nothing was done. Things like this are unacceptable. Even Joe Paterno admitted he wishes he had done more . But he didn’t.
(from Article in CSM)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Sports/2011/1109/Hindsight-haunts-Joe-Paterno-in-Penn-State-scandal-I-wish-I-had-done-more
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/michael_mccann/11/09/joe.paterno/index.html#ixzz1dK3KIShG

Cotton,

Excellent work here! I want to believe JoePa is not deeply involved in the cover up; however, we know he was aware the problem and reported it to the Athletic Director. Regarding the quick firing, the university was making a PR move to save face. Penn State would have looked bad if the football team and JoePa celebrated he last home game in the midst of a scandal, especially since he had knowledge of the crimes. Maybe a suspension until his name could be cleared (if possible) would have been the better approach. 

I work with many Penn State grads who love JoePa. They are confused and disappointed. They love and respect him like a father or grandfather. One person voiced concern over his follow-up to the incident appearing minimal. This could be due to the fact that he has many handlers and has been more of a figurehead in his old age. Nevertheless, people are shocked, hurt, and disappointed for varying reasons.

While his level of involvement is a mystery at this point, I can understand the competing perspectives. The university is first and foremost a university, and they have to protect their reputation and history of excellence. They must be concerned with their enactment with current and potential students as well as society. Football, as much as I love it, has to be secondary. If the head coach in this situation was not JoePa, would people be second guessing the trustees’ decision to fire him? Maybe… Maybe not. 

Nevertheless, JoePa has done amazing things for Penn State, his community and football. He “seems” like a wonderful person, and I desperately want this to be the case. Let’s hope when the dust settles we can all chant, JOE PA- TER- NO with confidence.

Yes, we will definitely be praying!

Great blog, Cotton. It’s been reported that Coach Paterno did know about the molestations and reported them to college administration. We don’t know if he was involved in a cover-up. He had to wonder though why Sandusky remained on the sidelines. Nevertheless, he doesn’t deserve to be fired now all these years later. He resigned and should have been allowed to complete the final games. This act has put the focus on Coach Paterno instead of on Sandusky where it should be.

Transitioning is the process of changing one’s gender presentation to accord with one’s internal sense of one’s gender – the idea of what it means to be a man or woman.

Congratulations. Thanks for sharing this information with us. 

🙂

Thanks!

Congratulations!! We are so excited for you two! What great parents you are becoming! Praying for you two my friends!

This is great news!! So happy for you both. Prayers being sent.

Great news Cotton!

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Exciting news!

So, so awesome Cotton!! Congratulations to you and Donna!!!

You 2 will make awesome parents. Grats man.

Talk to YouBlether.com, Tim’s the guy that hooked me up w/ this one. He will probably do you a good deal on one.

Thanks!!

Congrats Cotton and Donna!

Great post!  Nice that you share this with your friends.  I have struggled with depression for years and have  slight touch of OCD myself. 

I AM SO HAPPY FOR Y’ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

You are too much, man! I want a “I <3 Cotton Club" tee shirt. Time to put up a store. LOL

I’m happy when reading through your site with up-to-date information! thanks alot and hope that you’ll publish more site that are based on this website.

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I think you should read this and re-calibrate. http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation

Good dogs. Not always reliable. They post their schedule on Facebook and Twitter. They will cancel the day of and with as little notice as thirty minutes. If you like standing around with an empty stomach this could be the place for you. When I voiced my displeasure by way of email they emailed me the following.

“We are about as small, as small business gets. Next time I will tell the world I have diarrhea and a fever.
Less flaming, more understanding?
Brad Kossover OWNER/ OPERATOR”

Thanks for the reply Brad. They do not seem to be concerned about customer service.  They have built a second cart but they aren’t even able to staff the one that they have on a regular basis.

that’s precesily the reason why I refuse to pay for software. Long live software piracy!!! Paying top dollar for software that only does a half-assed job, yeah. piratebay.org rules !

I don’t know if it is still possible but it’s worth checking out to see if you can claim a place and link it to a Facebook page. Facebook is still using checkins and that way the any checkin would link directly to your page.

Concerning GeoSocial: We need to bounce some ideas. I created a Historical Gowalla trip for our church, and I’m considering a 4sq page to share tips and ministry events.

Also – start following the #chsocm tag on Twitter. @MeredithGould:twitter create the weekly twitter chat and stream is full of good ideas and people. The twitter chat is Tue 8pm

I can’t decide if I want to go to this or not. I’m not big on drinking the kool-aid but I have to admit the list of speakers is pretty impressive.  I’m a long-time Lou Holtz fan, and I think Bill Cosby definitely has some interesting views on society and our young people.  On the fence!

Office is bloated and overpriced. Moving to Google Calendar was the most freeing experience of my transition out of desktop apps and I’ve never missed outlook calendar options.

Thanks, I will definitely keep these in mind next time I do a video project.

I would love an invite. Haver gotten one yet but excited to check it out

Cotton, I’d love to be on the next Cotton Club Podcast!  I just wrote an article on Google+ and would love to talk more about it!

Cotton I went ahead and created a Facebook circle and then added my Facebook mobile email addy so I can simultaneously post to both. Makes maintenance a little easier

as I posted over at wordpress.org, the easiest way for a novice (like myself) to find the infected file is to list the PHP files by SIZE in http://FTP. 
the one that has the thousands of lines of base64 encoded strings sticks out like a sore thumb.
thanks for your attention to this subject. it was a real nightmare for me.

I got this one for free for downloading an extension in a popular website, i have been using the mac book it seems to be a good one it is really worth buying it. That’s what i can say.

That’s WP-Cycle: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cycle/

What kind of slider did you use or was it included with the Genesis theme?  I’m looking at sliders right now for a website.

Here I am awake at 3am reading blog posst I subscribe to. Well, it is about time! ;). But let first start off by saying, if you are not going to play any games from the Windows world, then I highly recommend Virtual Box – not because it is free. With 8gB of memory (you did get at least 8, right), Virtual Box screams and has some very good features worth looking at. Are you an Ultra Edit fan? They just recently release a Mac version. I like it but it still lack some features. I would to chat more, just give me a hollar.

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This blog is interesting and found to be useful.

It’s been a while since this post, but I will dig through my notes and see what I might can find and post back later.

Problem solved for Disqus? Maybe. The service still has lots of advantages over simply integrating Facebook Connect to blog, like giving users their own profile to keep track of their comments, easy installation including a WordPress plugin, video integration with Seesmic, and support for trackbacks. And, turning on Facebook Connect will apparently be as easy as checking a box and entering your Facebook API key in your Disqus account settings.

Wow……….wonderful experience.I am not telling its a good experience.But think positive…….Some thing worse might have happened.So, be cool and think what can be done to prevent this type of situation. Problems help us to learn some thing new.

Never judge the book from the cover.Really i got confused about your topic by the heading.Nice post.By blogging we can come to contact with many people. We can share our knowledge and can also get lots of information.

Being a part of this project has been an awesome experience for Donna and I both. I have learned so many things about the food service industry..This transpired about a month ago and he just had surgery on the eye yesterday and is recovering well w/ one eye sewn up and a lampshade over his head. Poor dog.

It is good to know about it, few months back i have heard and read in some blog that Google t.v is going to release, i.e Google is tying up with Sony to make the more convenient in terms of television,.

It is really good to know about it, any ways thanks for sharing nice one, I have bookmarked this web page, i like to forward this link to my friends too,I think we need to first get a business plan together for the event and then shop the idea around.

I think adding a video stream of lengthy one will definitely slow down the uploading time of website, it requires lot of time space to upload the website, it is better not to have a long and lengthy video streams.

I have never heard about this fish or never had seen it before. After reading this post, I believe this kinda fish is alive and wanted to check it out somewhere.

I recently uploaded my first video to Vimeo to dodge YouTube’s very tight copyright detection system; I just wanted to share a really cool mashup http://daghead.blogspot.com/2011/03/drop-it-like-ageispolis.html. I was extremely impressed and surprised that it provided a download link, and that I could update the video several times. GREAT!

I will be uploading to both YT and Vimeo from now on because as mentioned, YouTube gets more traffic and I post stuff in hope of feedback.

Hey Ross – sorry for the late response, just now seeing this. We would love to have your input on the project. We will be posting meeting notifications soon for our next committee meeting.

Hey Ross – sorry for the late response, just now seeing this. We would love to have your input on the project. We will be posting meeting notifications soon for our next committee meeting.

Cotton, this sounds great! I can’t wait to learn more about it

MMM don’t believe this..sorry!

Any event or venture to help get people involved in local tech, collaboration, and forward thinking is a good thing and very much needed..Any ways thanks for sharing this stuff, nice one..

Social media seem to be very popular and spread world wide,.every se expert will follow social media as a first step for promoting any sort of products or services. It has become very important and useful too..I just know listened to this podcast of ceo argyle.

Thanks for sharing, it seem to be interesting and useful ..I have read the same one in some blog too. I missed this event, .

Cotton,
Just some random thoughts for you to ponder on as you celebrate your anniversary this weekend..
Ideas for names:
InfoTechAR
Tech it to the Limit (ideal if we get the Eagles as a headline act!)
IntARact 2011
IgniteAR
TechConnect
AR TechConnect
EAR (Engage Arkansas) – imagine the EAR graphic, or maybe not

Anyway, one question I have is will the focus of the conference be purely technical (web, IT, design) in nature…or do you envision a broad brush that will include marketing, small biz applications & uses and other tracks that are vital for growth, but not purely technical in nature?

Either way, I like the idea and look forward to seeing you on the 28.

Paul

Hey everybody! We are trying to get a headcount for the number of people interested in attending the meetup on Monday, March 28th at 12 noon to discuss this project. You can help us out by RSVP online: http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com/blog/2011/03/18/conference-planning-steering-committee-meetup/ -thanks for your interest!!

@cotton I would love to be on the steering committee. I just got back from sxsw and highly motivated to bring something similar here!

Recently I have been seeing these recent comments, popular posts and recent posts sections on most of the blogs I visit. I thought it was possible by some plugins, and I was correct upto some extent.

Awesome, as soon as I know more about the meeting I will post an update to this post.

I’d like to help out. If the meeting is during the day, I can likely attend.

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Cotton- What day is the planning meeting? Is it the usual time at the flying saucer or?????

And any of you goobs can go buy one of those right now because I’m too lazy to get my wallet. Just know that if you use one of those and don’t give credit to me by at least sending good vibes out into the universe, you will pay.

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I think it’s a great idea! Any event or venture to help get people involved in local tech, collaboration, and forward thinking is a good thing and very much needed. Just let me know if there’s anything I could do to help and I’ll be glad to.

Let me think about it Cotton and see if I have an epiphany moment. It happens sometimes! LOL Hope you are doing better.

No offense Arlton, but “South Central” makes me think Pine Bluff, and not because it’s the ghetto. It’s just south of central Arkansas. And count me in to help somehow.

It was a very good refresh. The discussion went very well. It was very helpful for me.

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I can’t think of one right now, but I will do some research.

Very cool. Since I wrote this post Vimeo has added a lot of new features. Enjoy!

Awesome, thanks.

Oh thanks, i appriciate that!

Episode 21 – The Cotton Club Podcast is nice, Thanks for sharing this information.

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It is good to see and hear about this fish, I have a blog spot for many kinds of fishes in the same blog, Thanks for sharing
Nice one
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The video is really good and it shares a lot of information.

The Snakehead Fish which you found is interesting. But exactly where you found this in Arkansas?
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Its not a small post and as you have told its difficult to keep it short and it took me around 15 mins to complete reading this and I can understand your thoughts clearly.
Thanks for sharing.

I had a set of 12 resolutions for this year(2011) and thankfully I have achieved one of them. So, its always good to set resolutions.

Thank you Cotton for sharing your experience. Action to follow.

The LR Twitter community ROCKS. I’m not sure who was more touched this week at Canvas: those who were served, or those who did the serving!

I dont think this is due to a terrorist attack and I dont see any link to that. My belief is that this is all because of pollution. Everything on this earth is polluted including human being.

It’s definitely of biblical proportions.

Oh thanks, i appriciate that!

There have also been reports of dead birds in Sweden around the same time frame.

Here’s something to think about: A large airport in Florida had to shutdown until they moved some signs around (should be done by January 13th, 2011) because the magnetic north pole has shifted towards Russia to such an extent that “north” is no longer “north”.

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It’s the Cylons.

I have a Drupal powered Ecommerce website and my programmer is working on OCI compliance, I hope this post will be useful for him, I will send this link to him.

The solution I am trying is kind of a hybrid between Mozy and Dropbox as best I can tell right now. I am on day 2 of letting everything upload / synchronize. I am not for sure of my exact storage requirements yet but I am guessing its way over 2gb right now. haha.

As my life is already heavily invested in cloud services I’m intrigued and looking forward to hearing your thoughts and details on the solution.

My current method:

Personal Backup – Mozy http://netkno.ws/mozy [affiliate link]
I chose them because of the ease of setup while offering advanced configuration options. The app also does a simultaneous backup to an external USB drive so it saves a seperate backup routine. The killer feature is the ability to get my files on DVD in the case of disaster.

Business Backup – Barracuda http://bit.ly/ibjfKY
This appliance is superb. The SMB market is being transformed to bring an end to tapes and Barracuda got this solution right. Easy interface, easy setup, and they’ll ship you an appliance with all your data overnight in the case of an emergency. (note to anyone evaluating these systems the question isn’t how well it backs up data the question is how fast can you restore a full copy)

Concerning synchronization

Dropbox

But I’m not a heavy sync user. It’s more of a virtual USB drive for me. I do keep copies of contacts, bookmarks, and a few important .xml config files there.

Most of my req’d services are already cloud based and the most important set of files I maintain, client documentation, reside in a heavily encrypted volume. While some of my peers have experiment with putting this volume into dropbox the size of my file and the fact it has to sync on every mount/dismount has kept me from trying it out.

At the moment the free 2Gb Dropbox meets my needs but I imagine that will change this year.

Merry Christmas to you all from me.

It sounds like a great idea, for sure. I am not sure I have any ideas to contribute, but I would be very interested in participating. Technology in Arkansas is nothing to sneeze at, as we have shown in the past year. We just have to get some of the main players in the economic sectors to get behind it. Local Chambers are a huge help!

Let’s definitely get together. I think the best way to proceed is to form a steering committee of sorts that will basically provide input and chase down resources, etc. I don’t want to see a bunch of us get started on something though that will consume us. I think we need to first get a business plan together for the event and then shop the idea around.

Actually this is one of my first year goals with the CoWork. I think there is a lot of demand for something like this in central AR. Would probably need to be a fall time frame. Lets get together and talk soon.

Thanks a lot for the links Cotton Rohrscheib..

For me personally, I would much rather go to Target than Wal-Mart. I was kind of shocked to see Apple over Macy’s. I figured Macy’s had way more stores out there than Apple. I guess most people that go to Apple are on Foursquare though. I think Arkansas is the only state that doesn’t have a Macy’s.

I think, based on the consensus from my family of shoppers, Wal-Mart is either intimidating (everyone will be at Wal-Mart assumption) or non-tempting (Wal-Mart is known to always have low prices, and usually not the best quality). I didn’t step into a Wal-Mart on Friday, but my shopping preferences are done online, so maybe that affected some things as well. But it is interesting the percentages aren’t really close – the Mashable article bar graph showed about 5,000 more check-ins for Target than Wal-Mart – I find it harder to believe that Toys “R” Us is still in the top 67% of check-ins, especially since places like Wal-Mart and Target are the leaders.

IT is so good

Have you looked at Livescribe pens? You have to have a Livescribe notebook to use them, but your resulting notes are very similar to the way Evernote works. Evernote looks like a great tool, but there are times, in meetings, class rooms and the like, when cell phones are forbidden and you’re forced to take notes the old fashioned way: pen and paper. Livescribe pens can record audio as well as the notes you take in the notebook. Here’s a link to watch a demo: http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/index.html#

Tremendous…thanks so much!

I showed up. It was refreshing to get out of Little Rock for a change.

Thanks for the post Cotton. I appreciate your honesty , and I also thank God because he does that to us sometimes and it helps us put things in perspective. I know it does it to me occasionally.
Again, thanks.

Sometimes we need a good swift kick!

Jesus definately had a sense of humor, and liked to lampoon the establishment (pulling a coin out of a fish’s mouth to pay silly taxes). Sometimes, however, even he decided silence was the best (or perhaps the only viable) response. When faced with the absurdity of accusations at his trial, Jesus chose to remain silent, and to let the circus speak for itself. It takes a level of maturity and rationality that the Phelps family does not possess to back off from an idea, especially a really clever and well-intentioned one, in deference to the larger goal. Kudos to you.

not gonna lie. this makes me sad.

Wooooooohhh!!!!!!

Well said, sir!

Thanks for your opinion. I have decided to call off the operation. It was never the LGBTQ issue that motivated me as much as it was my overall dislike for Westboro. But, I do respect your opinion as well as your agenda and your freedom in this country to do whatever you can to promote tolerance and dispel hate. But for me it was more of a personal crusade against Westboro’s overall message of hate and everything they stand for. I am sickened when I see them protesting soldiers funerals. I wish you the best and rest assured we are keeping our hiney’s at home tomorrow. 🙂

You have to at least me points for creativity don’t you??

Thanks to everyone for all of their support, but I have decided to call of the Hiney’s on the Highway project, and here’s an explanation: http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com/blog/2010/11/09/no-hineys-on-the-highway/

Here is another little game the adults can probably play with immunity. Buy a number of long sausages, and stiffen them with a coat hanger or piece of #12 copper wire . hook the wire over your belt so it looks like a big erection . And march up to them while simulating masterbation.

I occasionally go to a gay bar with gay friends. Which btw, often prompts the wife to go – “what is it – gay, gay and more gay”?. To which I always reply “youre welcome to come and enjoy the fun. Last night we went to a str8 bar with a group that brings out about 400 gay people and some str8 supporters. And had a hell of a good time, the net crowd was prob 50 – 50 gay -str8, nobody gave a damn who was gay or not. There was all kinds of what I’d call bisex dancing, hot lesbians chicks and I wore my HRC T shirt that says “legalize gay”. the younger generation, at least in baltimore doesn’t give a damn who is gay or str8, in fact the high school girls in general seem to love gay guys.

BTW- google “guerrilla gay bar-baltimore to see more on this groups activities.

And pray that a meteor will crash through the phelps home in Topeka, and incinerate those freaks.

I was the guy who led the “attack” on these psychopaths at the big gay mass marriage in DC last April. I gathered up a group of kids and some other adults. And we marched towards these creeps. I was fondling my dick, and spit at them. Many of the kids and adults were engagged in same sex mouth to mouth kissing.

And the head bitch – I think it is shirey Phelps Roper doubled over ,screaming invectives I’ve never heard in my long life. And then they all jumped in their car and drove off to everyones cheers. I only wished I had an army bazooka – to fire a white phosphorus shell into their car – and watch these monsters just disolve in the fire that you cant put out until it consumes you, as we were told in army training long ago.

another thing done at WBC protests is people will pledge so much per minute in $ for hwo long the WBC stays. At one protest in Boston, I read they collected $700 for the gay straight alliance at the school, turning the tables on these creeps.

BTw, if you wonder what makes people like this , its endless child physical, and probably child molestation. Google “addicted to hate”, and you can read a book – its free – about them. Also, as we read about the rabid Nazi RATzi and his hatred of the gays, it does make one wonder if the catholic church’s hiding of endless molestation of the kids had a purpose – to make more people similar to the phelps. If you are catholic, don’t let the veneer of civility and love of the church fool you. they are all about power and control. They have yet to excommunciate Hitler, born and baptised catholic in 1888 in veryu catholic austria. And RATZI in 2009 UNexcommunciated a Bishop williamson, who is a holocaust denier.

Our whole family has left this ugly monstrosity from the dark ages of human history. If you are catholic you should also. Don’t let their threats of hell bother you, or their promises of life after death. For these creeps – the heirarchy of the church, its hell for sure, or just the maggots. A fitting end for another , just more sophisticated group of haters.

To be effective you have to figure out how to become part of the conversations people are having within the social network and target your ads around the conversations.

as much as this is an amazing idea, please be careful as to not get arrested for indecent exposure. most towns and police find out in advance if westboro is coming and prepare. if they’re on hand (or butt) it could, unfortunately, be a possibility and then the fruits of your labor would be down the toilet so to speak….

Just brilliant!! Why hasn’t someone thought of this before? Good Luck and if I weren’t in NC I’ld be there ready to drop trou with ya!!

RT @cottonr: We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

Support this! RT @cottonr We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

that made me laugh out loud. Great idea ha ha

Can we shoot them with paintball guns, and moon them??? lol!!!

RT @cottonr: We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

RT @cottonr: We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

RT @AaronBReddin: Hoping we can get @andersoncooper here for this: http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482 (@cottonr)

RT @cottonr: We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

RT @cottonr: We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

lol… YES.

RT @cottonr: Operation Hiney on the Highway to welcome Westboro Baptist to Arkansas – http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482 (would love your input & support)

You could always use rotten duck eggs, but the Three Stooges used a skunk.

RT @cottonr: Operation Hiney on the Highway to welcome Westboro Baptist to Arkansas – http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482 (would love your input & support)

Okay, just to update everyone, we now have a Facebook Group started: http://www.facebook.com/cottonr#!/pages/Hiney-On-The-Highway/167342496618343 as well as a Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hiney-On-The-Highway/167342496618343?v=app_2344061033#!/event.php?eid=143083469072548&index=1 and while you are at it, don’t forget to follow @hineysforhope on twitter: http://twitter.com/hineysforhope.

RT @AaronBReddin: RT @cottonr: We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

No doubt. I have fantasized about Paintballin’ them hundreds of times but I honestly think this will have the most impact.

Hoping we can get @andersoncooper here for this: http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482 (@cottonr)

RT @cottonr: We have an idea on how to counterprotest Westboro that everyone can get “behind” http://tinyurl.com/2f2k482

I’m in. Just wondering what time it will be……

This sounds like an entertaining and worthwhile endeavor. 🙂 Keep me informed!

Go Cotton!

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I haven’t connected disqus to facebook.

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Juan Williams may have a legal case against NPR. He was on Fox News today discussing that. Keep in mind that even MSNBC has called Juan Williams’ firing a wrong thing to have done to such a man. You know that NPR is extremely WRONG when both Fox News and MSNBC agree that Juan Williams did not deserve to be fired.

And, just so you guys know, since I watch ALL news outlets equally, Fox News has hired on a lot of NPR analysts and news contributors that routinely appear on The Factor, Hannity, and the weekend news shows. Mara Liason is a regular Fox News contributor. She is on Fox News every week.

Also, you will see far, far MORE points of view on Fox News then you will see on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NPR, NBC, CBS, and PBS combined. People like Bob Beckel and Ed Randel and Alan Colms, and on, and on, and on, appear on Fox almost daily.

The Factor has Democrat political strategists and party leaders on almost every night. Lamont Hill is on almost every Fox News show except Glenn Beck. Hill even appears on the 3AM show “Red Eye.” In fact, Beck’s show is the ONLY Fox News show that does NOT have Democrats, Liberals, and non-conservatives on the show every day (except as targets, and he’s not always wrong either).

I hate to admit this, but Fox News truly has become “Fair and Balanced” since President Obama took office. Is Fox News conservative? I would say yes, but they are totally unafraid of bringing in liberals and moderates and letting them have their say. Fox News exposed the Black Panther voter intimidation case that was dismissed when nobody else would. Fox News (Glenn Beck) exposed ACORN and helped bring down that corrupt organization.

Seriously, I hated Fox News for a long time. But, Juan Williams and Mara Liason got me to watch them on Fox News. It opened my eyes, because before that I simply towed the line that MSNBC and NPR and just about every other liberal news outlet was saying. I parroted them to friends in discussions when they defended Fox News. Then I started watching and saw how the lies from MSNBC, etc. became obvious. MSNBC has totally stopped any and all truly journalistic programs. They have become what Fox News used to be during the Bush administration. Now, NPR is following down that same path.

And, the real kicker here is that Fox News is the true ratings juggernaut. MSNBC is in the crapper. NPR is fading fast. CNN is a laughing stock. CNN fires Sanchez, a good move, but hires on Elliot Spitzer? Come on!

None of these people work for the public, so what we think is fair doesn’t matter one bit. These guys all work for different businesses. And what is not taken into account here, and what we may not ever know, is what policies are put in place by their employers. Some news outlets have very strict rules about what their staff — not just journalists, but all staff — can say, whether they can support politicians or political organizations, etc. Likewise, some outlets may go so far as to encourage sensationalism and scandal outside of the workplace.

When these guys get hired, they have to sign contracts just like anybody else. They have to work within the bounds of those contracts, and must face discipline if they don’t, just like anyone else. Many times employees feel like their accomplishments or stature make them exempt from the conditions of contracts they signed, and for many (like O’Reilly and Beck), that may very well be the case. Some businesses may consider ratings and revenue to be more important than the rules. But other businesses may enforce policies in a more equitable manner.

It may not be what he said, but that he said anything at all, that got Williams in trouble. Without knowing the details of his employment contract with NPR, we’ll never know.

And as a Methodist, I would like to confirm that yes, we are always up to something.

Some media outlets Fox included clearly have people that make a living and gain viewership by dealing in the realm of opinions. I think that is fine. Op/Eds are needed from all sides to critique and analyze the news of the day.

What bothers me about this story is that I personally don’t find Juan’s comments to be outrageous but the key issue is does the fact he has opinions make him less of a journalist?

All journalists have opinions and leanings but they set them aside when it comes to being a professional journalist. NPR is going to far on this issue by dismissing a respected member of their organization for sharing his personal opinions. I love NPR and I’ll continue to listen.

For more excellent information take a look at @jeffjarvis tweets this morning.

NPR employed Williams, Williams said something that caused NPR to fire him.
FoxNews employs O’Reilly, said said something, FoxNews did nothing (to my knowledge).

I really don’t understand your question; “How is it “Fair and Balanced” to not hold Fox hosts accountable when other networks do?” because they are different companies with different standards. I once worked for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., if I took a personal cell phone call while on “the floor” I would be fired, I know people who got in trouble for texting. However when I go to some non Wal-Mart stores, I am ignored by the worker(s) because they are on their phones or they answer a text. I was even checked out by a clerk who was on their cell phone the entire time the transaction took place. I was upset, but different stores have different standards.

Back to NPR verses FoxNews. Each has an audience, and that audience (in one way or another) pays the network for shows they want to see. O’Reilly’s audience expects him to say certain things and they pay FoxNews to hear it. NPR does the same thing. When the anchors/actors deviate from the script the audience expects; bad things happen.

Back to your quote: “Free Speech means Free Speech”. It would seem, by this example, that FoxNews is more of a believer in Free Speech than NPR is; as O’Reilly is still employed.

Juan Williams did not deserve to be fired. I canceled my NPR membership and will now boycott them completely. Congress needs to defund NPR.

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Cotton, I toyed with offering that kind of service too. But, if I put myself in the owner's shoes, I decided the best thing to do is to offer to build a social media (or online) marketing plan and help implement it. Further, I think you are on target with the education and coaching. I am with you in believing that the best person to speak on the company's behalf is a person on the company's payroll. The larger companies can hire someone, like you said, to monitor. I think smaller companies might consider an intern from the local college's marketing school.

Good stuff!

I completely agree with some or all of these things, as a 'Social Media …whatever', I can however tell you that regardless of the risks, the demand is still there. For me I would much rather educate a business owner or staff member of the business on how to manage their social media, not only would this be more beneficial & safe for me and the client but as you said, they know their business best. The sad truth is many business owners expect people to do this for them, and when handing out the huge responsibility of maintaining their online marketing, they hand it off to the youngest staff person — which can be even more disastrous because of lack of maturity or experience. One thing I do with my clients who just simply aren't ready to do their social media for themselves is phase out the process. I update/cleanup/maintain for the first few weeks/months while meeting with the client weekly/monthly on what I have done, how I have done it, and provide some sort of staff training all with the goal that a business can self sustain their social media by the end of a time period. Because every business is different these phases can take a few lessons, a few weeks, and sometimes months. For small businesses this allows them time to digest the vast amount of information that comes along with social media & better understand the industry. For many business owners and even corporations, the CEO is just getting a Facebook Profile started much less thinking about how to use it for business.

I think providing social media packages/training is crucial to a web firm, but have yet to see it done correctly. Thus the reason I have left several tech firms and started local2social. At the end of the day, most clients want to have the control of their marketing efforts, but many just are afraid to jump on board with social media because its constant change, and the overwhelming information you have to digest — allowing a client to have goals set in phases and seeing that accomplishment played out not only inspires the client in learning something new, but also allows the business to walk away with sound knowledge & a comfort level that provides confidence in their online presence.

Many people claim to provide great maintenance, etc. But the success of any social media campaign is the amount of effort given by the actual business owner or staff. My goals for local2social is to educate businesses, communities, and organizations about social media, because no one else seems to provide the answer to the daunting questions of privacy, business marketing & frankly what IS social media. Since the schools aren't teaching social media yet, some one has to do the job.

From my business prospective, if I could ever find a web firm that would pay me to EDUCATE their clients on HOW to use social media & the pros/cons of the efforts and understanding how all the pieces fit together instead of making me feel like I was some sleazy car sales man selling them a Facebook page without any guidance, I would feel like I hit the jack pot. Unfortunately many of the firms and organizations I have worked for treat social media like a cash cow, building the page — slapping on an outrageous price and selling it to an unknowing customer who thinks they got something special. Its like giving someone the all important last piece of a hidden puzzle.

Cotton, I like where your train of thought is taking you. You see the major risks that are all over this new reality of people relations, but you also see that people and businesses need help in figuring out just how to serve there customers best.

That's the big picture that we should stay focussed on: Give them what they need. The products that we provide will evolve as the clients needs evolve. The list above is a great breakdown of present needs that you've identified. Pricing them is easy – it's all about time, just like any other service you currently provide.

Monitoring if you explicitly tell what channels & terms you are monitoring would be a good service.

No one who doesn't have the power to act should ever be posting or responding in an official capacity, whether external or internal in employment.

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That’s definitely a great topic to write a post about, and I do plan on expanding upon various aspects of this post.

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I will say if you are an entrepreneur this movie will definitely motivate you more

I enjoyed it.

I agree with how some of the characters were portrayed. I wasn't digging that.

I did not like the ending.

And I also felt it is way, way, way, way, way too early for this movie to even be out. They should have released this 3 to 5 years from now.

I agree! Sean totally put Facebook on the map and he gets credit for that! The movie while part fact, part awkward fiction, was a great insight on how a vision & opportunity can take off and transform someone's life forever. I think there were some amazing lessons that can be taken away from the film about friendship, success, and the responsibility of being the youngest billionaire. It was also a great reminder that there will always be nay sayers, and people who will want to “sit on your shoulders” as the film puts it! Overall an extremely entertaining film that will easily be remembered for years to come as Facebook is a dominate way of life for so many people today.

Reading your article actually gives me the shivers. The experience which you've described above reminds me of the same youtube video which the anglers lure the sharks and then it just suddenly appears out of nowhere.

That is unbelievable! Wow, I'm speechless, and am grateful to live in Conway. I still love to read the newspaper, but I believe many are not helping themselves in several different ways including embracing social media. Local papers also have to do more to fill the paper with local news. Wire services are supposed to supplement, not be the core of the paper.

Someone I admire uses the tagline “Connecting people and ideas through technology” We are trying to make our community better. We all benefit from each other the same way that traditional media can benefit from embracing social media. To quote a great man “…the potential is unbelievable.”

What is so disconcerting about how some traditional media outlets view these events & communities is they fail to realize this is a revival of local communities.

In this specific example this is a group of local people built a 5-star educational and networking event in their hometown. I'm not sure what the philosophy or focus of a local newspaper is precisely but I'd think that Barcamp would be news worthy.

The thinking that advocates of social networking are somehow at odds with traditional media is complete misunderstanding. This is not a zero sum situation but rather an expanding of the overall pie. Radio didn't kill newspapers, TV didn't kill radio, and social media isn't going to kill any of them. There is room for all of us and the more we see ourselves in complimentary roles the more we will be able to create connected, informed, and growing communities.

Things are changing and yes certain models are having to adapt but the potential is unbelievable.

Love it. Kinda like the “master plan” of Clinton's presidential run being planned at Doe's.

Every idea starts somewhere, but if not captured somehow it's like a fart in the wind.

did'nt the service break the adsense terms? I thought adsense wasnt allowed in frames.

Disqus is a superior commenting platform in my mind.

i agree with you; i love onenote… i use it for setting and following up on my goals. it started slowly, over time i clearly see my progress very easily. forget about one note 2007, go for 2010 – it's even better

All I can say is that the WP Remix 3.0 theme is a pain in the ass. I bought it for at about 100 bugs and its a piece for the trash can. It is full of bugs and it does not do what you expect. The option “send to the editor” is nice but really not practicable if you have a lot of content. I am serious people, try something else !

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I'll do it.

We should just go and rent a big suite. Then we can pull a Hangover and wake up with Mike Tyson's tiger

I'm in! Wouldn't miss it for the world.

Awesome! I'm interested, let me know details.

I'm interested. This will be my first trip to SXSWi. Keep us posted on next steps.

Just got the time off approved… Count me in!

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Let me know what to do.

I'm in.

I WANT! I'm so there!

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Oh, look likes you had a gread day! I think fishing can bring lots of fun…I have to try this some day, too.!

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I know you Note++ for coding, have you thought of Netscape? It isn't a Javan IDE anymore. It does c++, php, ruby and … Although it seems like a heavy weight, you don't have to pull down everything. I hope the reformat went well.

Do you guys need a pizza? LOL have fun

Depending on your extent of database usage, MySQL Workbench is key for anyone who needs to keep control of the architecture of a DB. Is cross-platform, and extends MySQL Administrator with Data Modeling – which is why I have used this in the past.
Other than that, I am a Linux power user, so Windows seems foreign to me now – good luck with the reformat!

What part of Arkansas have these fish been seen?

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Recently I started using Omnigraffle, which works great. I also use Google Docs Drawings which is perfect for a quick scetch and you can collaborate in real time just by sharing your drawing's link. Search for “website wireframe” in Google Docs template gallery. I've found some great ones.

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I have to admit that some of your predictions might just come true this year. Anyways, let's wait and see what really happens. Sometimes, you get very surprised.

Can you please add a link to the Matt/Chris debated podcast that Mitch speaks about. Thanks.

A wireframe is definitely on my list of things to look at. LOL. Like I said, I didn't realize they existed. I guess I'm kinda late to the game.

What type of rigging were you using? I imagine it was pretty heavy duty stuff.

I use two different ones currently. One is called iplotz. it is an adobe air based program. and then I also use, mockflow. Ideally what I am looking for is a program where I can work with the client on the internet to actively move stuff around instead of having to create something and then go through 20 email revisions.

I've read about Mockingbird but haven't given it a try. I might do so someday soon. For me, the good ole moleskine suffices for me.

I was waiting to see what people would write. I didn't know these things existed! I thought you would use a graphics program or something to do a mock up. Of course, a sketchpad is always good. I might have to check in to this more.

I use omnigraffle, which is a mac based wireframing app: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/

I havent used mockingbird so I can't compare the two directly, but omnigraffle works really well for the wireframing I do. There's a 14 day trial, so it's worth a shot.

this looks like badass fun bro!

Some people in my circle concern me with questions relating to Pleth and IrishNinjas being at odds within the Jonesboro Office, but I keep reminding them that this is not the case.

As most of you know, Steven was my immediate supervisor at our previous employer. Steven is an amazing project director and a very close friend.

Craig and I worked together briefly for two different employers, and all I can say is that he has a brilliant mind and a cool demeanor. Congratulations to two very good friends and I'm glad to see them happy.

As far as the notion of Pleth and IrishNinjas being at odds with one another goes, I can only see a future where we work together on projects.

I'm very excited to work alongside these guys and I seek the opportunity to provide other services besides web design for Pleth.

Looks like you and your family had a wonderful time. I have caught shark off and on for the past 12 years near Galveston, Texas and it's probably one of my favorite things to do.