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YouTube To Pay For User-Generated Content

From Slashdot: (original article) “Speaking at the World Economic Forum, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has revealed that the company plans to financially compensate users who produce and upload their content. With Google’s purchase of YouTube last year, followed by more aggressive attempts to monetize the site (such as the deal struck with Verizon Wireless), it…

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Sealand Is Up For Sale

Sealand, a tiny 550 sq ft micronation is up for sale. From ABC news Australia (original article): “A former World War II fort in the North Sea off England, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale. The Times newspaper reports the tiny…

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Wikipedia Blocks Qatar

From Slashdot: “Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country’s sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qatarese from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns…

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“Wiki” is in da house! I am in da Tube!

More Pictures Here! We adopt a pit bull from New York Animal Care & Control today, and just happen that the Fox 5 news are there doing a story about a potential pit bull ban in NYC, so you know what, out of nowhere I am on the news being interviewed on the reasons to…

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10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers

From Charity Navigation: These 10 charities are not living up to their missions. Each spends more than 50% of its budget paying for-profit fundraising professionals to solicit your hard-earned money. They are ranked by the percentage of their total functional expenses spent on professional fundraising fees. As a result, very little of the charity’s spending…

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Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent Own Half World Wealth

This study also reveals that 1% of the population owns 40% of the wealth and the poorest 50% own 1% of the world wealth. From the report The World Distribution of Household Wealth: The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a path-breaking study released…

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Updates On 11 Spring St- Three Days Open House

This is gonna be helluva partee! Shit I wish I can be there but I will be in India and Hong Kong for work. Fuck! New updates from Wooster Collective: As we begin to receive emails from people from all over the world who are flying in for the Wooster on Spring three day open…

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Movies that move me lately…

The Story Of Weeping Camel– This unique documentary follows a Mongolian camel that’s rejected her newborn white colt. Throughout her difficult delivery, the camel is aided by a family of shepherds, who instantly notice the mother’s rejection and make valiant efforts to warm the mother to her child. Now, all hope lies with the family’s…

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Net Neutrality

More Info: Save the Internet

Things I have been very interested in lately:

Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes)– The Sufi Dervishes Sema ceremony. Summer Grass Winter Insect– what Tibetans called Yartsa Gunbu. Feral Hogs Hunting– get rid of these smart, huge pest. Pacific Crest Trail– maybe one day I will thru-hike this 2650 mile trail. Rainbow Technology– store 256GB on a A4 size paper. Build My Own Cabin– for…

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