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Archive for January, 2009

WordPress.TV Launched! How-To Video Tutorials - Visual Blogging Help

Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under Resources for Bloggers

Are you a visual learner? Do you find it much easier to learn how to do something new if you can see it done rather than just reading how-to? Then WordPress.TV is for you. The recently launched site is full of videos which will teach you how to do almost anything related to setting up, [...]

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Faces of the Homeless: A Photo Essay

Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under People

Photo Credit: Md.Saiful Aziz Shamseer
Photo Credit: Bob Jagendorf
This gentleman told the photographer that he had been out in the storm the previous night.
I ran as fast as I could; dove into the front of Rays in The City for some cover from all the breaking glass.
Photo Credit: erokComā„¢
Photo Credit: Wayne Ray
Could this be someone’s grandmother?
Photo [...]

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Is Mainstream Media Trying to Kill the US Auto Industry?

Posted on January 13, 2009 - Filed Under Squawks

Does the Mainstream Media (hereafter abbreviated as MSM) tell you what to think and how to feel? They sure as hell try! They lead us down the garden path during every election campaign and, lately, they seem to be planning a funeral for the auto industry.
Are you as sick as I am of the constant [...]

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