Fiction Review David Gutersons The Other
- June
- 11
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Two 16-year-old runners from opposite sides of Seattle, one descended from bankers, the other from “nail bangers,” meet at a high school race. They connect over a shared love of wilderness hiking and lighting out for the territories - “with all the subtext of escape implied by that phrase from Huck Finn.”
Neil Countryman, who narrates [...]
Oakland Raiders God Bless America And Long Live Raider Nation
- May
- 19
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Over the past few weeks I have read many Oakland Raider articles written by the Raider Nation, Sports analysts and those who despise the black & silver. To be honest, I am the writer who is part of the Nation of Raiders…. I don’t get paid for my opinions and don’t have to worry about [...]
Immigration can scar families who need love
- April
- 20
My wife was 14 when her mother decided to leave. At a time
when a Latina girl dreams of her “quince%26#241;era” - her “Sweet 15 Coming Out” - and looks at her mother, however imperfect, as a model of womanhood, her mom disappeared. She chose to immigrate to the United States, through the petition of her [...]
Thousands of Posts Flood Starbucks Site
- April
- 16
SEATTLE - Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks Corp. launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling U.S. business.And they’ve kept those thoughts coming, by the thousands: Create a punch-card system with a free drink after so many purchases. Give people a free [...]
Warne quits all first class cricket
- April
- 6
I am retiring from all first class cricket but will participate in the IPL (Indian Premier League) with the Jaipur franchise as captain and coach, the great Australian leg spin bowler told the Hampshire website.
Warne, who took 708 wickets in 145 tests following his 1992 debut, was going to play for Hampshire again this season [...]
E-Marketers Getting Crafty in Spam-Flooded World
- March
- 18
New Tools in the Toolbox
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and others are moving to foster adoption of widgets as alternative advertising vehicles, attempting to leverage the viral nature of the gadgets and the fact that content can be dynamic and regularly updated.
There are now thousands of widgets that can be loaded onto desktops or fed into [...]
E-Marketers Getting Crafty in Spam-Flooded World
- March
- 18
New Tools in the Toolbox
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and others are moving to foster adoption of widgets as alternative advertising vehicles, attempting to leverage the viral nature of the gadgets and the fact that content can be dynamic and regularly updated.
There are now thousands of widgets that can be loaded onto desktops or fed into [...]
EXPERT ADVICEExchanging Real Money in Virtual Worlds
- March
- 18
Creating a Payment Environment
The concept of a virtual currency has to be created to allow for trading within the virtual world. Second Life has introduced Linden Dollars; Cyworld trades in Acorns; and World of Warcraft users pay for their transaction with virtual gold. In addition, an efficient payment mechanism has to be installed within the [...]
E-Marketers Getting Crafty in Spam-Flooded World
- March
- 18
New Tools in the Toolbox
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and others are moving to foster adoption of widgets as alternative advertising vehicles, attempting to leverage the viral nature of the gadgets and the fact that content can be dynamic and regularly updated.
There are now thousands of widgets that can be loaded onto desktops or fed into [...]
Enthroning the E-Shopper
- March
- 18
Personalized Ads
Vendors are attracted to the personalization features for a few reasons. Those interested in the services are tech-savvy. Eighty-three percent of custom purchasers have been online for five or more years, compared with 66 percent of all online consumers, according to Forrester Research. Similarly, more than half of custom product purchasers have e-commerce [...]
