The big cable companies are trying to get rights to block content that doesn’t pay them money. Essentially, they are trying to regain control of the media for the big media corporations from the current generation of consumer created media.
… read more “Evil Cable Companies Trying To Take Over Internet”
Today is my 1st Blogiversary!
I’m actually not certain what day the blog was first actually started, because originally it was on my Myspace account. However, today is the anniversary of my 1st visitor according to Google Analytics! My site is now 1 years old… isn’t he cute?
My old college buddy, Kenny Kadar, came up to Seattle this last weekend to hang out with his college friends. Kenny made the mistake of going to the UW-Oklahoma football game where UW got absolutely creamed by the #2 team in the nation, but other than that I think he had a good trip. Unfortunately, I was only able to get one pic of the man (and he is sort of in the background of that lol), but here it is:
I think that photo was taken around 5 am.… read more “Kenny Kadar Visits Seattle”
In another shockingly stupid decision, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke bailout American International Group (AIG) to the tune of $85 billion.‚ Essentially what this means is that instead of the business managers and shareholders who made poor investment calls having to pay for their mistakes, these people who made dumb moves get to keep their profits while the ordinary american
taxpayer is left holding the bag.‚ … read more “Communists Paulson & Bernanke Bailout AIG”
I hiked up to the top of Mount Si in Snoqualmie, Washington on Saturday September 13th and it was gorgeous.‚ The first time I had climbed up Mt. Si I had stopped at the base of the 300 foot tall “Haystack” (essentially a big rock slab), but this time I climbed all the way up to the top and it was AWESOME.‚ … read more “Mount Si Hike”
It’s funny how easily people can be manipulated by having a crowd of other people around them. Watch this funny video of crowds of people play tricks on individuals. I love the first guy though- he completely ignores the whole crowd.
… read more “Crowd Control”
No, not the whole company. Yet.
Instead, I bought 5 shares for $439 apiece ($2200 total).
I think that Google is priced lower than it should be, considering the companies current cash flow and future prospects. I think that within the next five years, Google has a good chance of supplanting Microsoft as the dominant software company.… read more “Joel Bought Google”
Happy Birthday Josh Gross! Josh is my studly youngest brother.
I bought 70 Bank of America shares at‚ $28 per share for a total cost of $1,960.‚ In my opinion, Bank of America stock is looking pretty cheap right now and it is positioning itself to dominate the entire banking industry once events begin to stabilize themselves.‚ I think that there is significant risk to Bank of America too, but Bank of America has grown itself into such a behemoth that the US government will never let it fail.‚ … read more “Joel Buys Bank of America”
Document is very rough and still being worked on… please give me feedback in comments.
Online reputation management is the process of monitoring information and opinions on an entity (individual person, group of people, corporation, government, etc.) and providing tracking and reporting measurements that can accurately gauge the effect of other entities actions and opinions.… read more “Internet Reputation Management FAQs”