Discrimination. Oh yes, thats what i would call it. But there must be a reason for that. I mean bloggers in general have mutated to become worse than even journalist. So, what is it with job seekers who also write blogs?

In a recent visit to chronicle careers, i came across this topic Bloggers Need Not Apply By IVAN TRIBBLE and i couldnt help but read through a very long article that went on to give examples of such instances whereby the employers actually went to Google to investigate the online activities of their applicants by tying the applicants name as the query. They employers actually use the content, to evaluate the job seeker, and that is really shocking.

I really do understand the stance of this employers, especially for the fact, that bloggers talk to much about themselves and their life on their blogs. We would discover that a lot of bloggers, just get the whole idea of freedom of expressing oneself wrong. Its the International network, for goodness sake. And anybody, infact everybody can read your stuff, whether protected or not, and things that are private should be private. And they should totally stay offline.

My advice to all bloggers out there,is if you know that you are going to be a “job seeker” in the future, avoid blogging on too personal stuff, especially things that are just meant to be private.

And here is a little excerpt from Chronicles to give you an idea of the degree of the situation here.

We’ve seen the hapless job seekers who destroy the good thing they’ve got going on paper by being so irritating in person that we can’t wait to put them back on a plane. Our blogger applicants came off reasonably well at the initial interview, but once we hung up the phone and called up their blogs, we got to know “the real them” — better than we wanted, enough to conclude we didn’t want to know more.

Shares of Google, the popular search-engine company, surpassed the $300 level for the first time on Monday, sparking memories of the dot-com stock craze of the late 1990s.

Google (Research) gained 2.3 percent to finish at $304.10, slightly below its high for the day of $304.30. The stock has now gained nearly 260 percent since it went public last August at $85 a share.

Much of the optimism surrounding Google comes from the fact that it is the leader in the white-hot online advertising industry. The company reported much better than expected sales and earnings for the first quarter, thanks to a booming market for online advertising, particularly ads tied to specific keyword searches.

And during the past few weeks, Google has released several new features — including a desktop search function for businesses and a test version of a personalized home page tool — that should help the company remain competitive against rivals Yahoo! (Research) and Microsoft (Research).

Source:CNN MONEY

OH yes, google is still a buy. I want to buy google stocks. Where can i get to buy it.

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I am tired of the manual surf feature of blog exposion. Things like Clicking the correct number !! waiting till the countdown finishes so that it does not bring a prompt of “Surfing too fast” and the list goes on and on, its really crazy. But wait a minute, was i talking about traffic booster? oh yes thats Traffic2uhits. Besides their auto surfing, they have this to offer you.

In the recent Nielsen//NetRatings of top internet brand for the year 2005, I was really shocked to find out that the great Google brand, was in the 4th position.

Well i guess, our angle of seeing things are not actually the way the are in reality. I was thinking Google was the top brand on the net. But i guess i was wrong. Keep it up Yahoo !

The number of online frauds vary by country. Below is a breakdown of the countries from where the most fraud originates as well as the least. According to ClearCommerce, approximately 6% of all online transactions from such countries as Malaysia and Israel (who are
actually on the bottom of the dirty dozen show below) are fraudulent.

I would add Nigeria to the international dirty dozen, with the help me get my money out of here email scam. It is also known to be one of the major players in the shipping the goods to a freight forwarder to circumvent the international shipping scrutiny. By the way, most of the victims of this scam pay through account debits and wire services.

Top Internet Frauds

Source: Internet Fraud Watch

Google Inc’s expansion has been phenomenal. And as it explores more solutions, its rapid expansion is prompting concerns that the company may know too much..

Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.

Although many Internet users eagerly await each new technology from Google Inc., its rapid expansion is also prompting concerns that the company may know too much: what you read, where you surf and travel, whom you write. “This is a lot of personal information in a single basket,” said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “Google is becoming one of the largest privacy risks on the Internet.” Not that Hoofnagle is suggesting that Google has strayed from its mantra of making money “without doing evil.”

Rather, some privacy advocates worry about the potential: The data’s very existence — conveniently all under a single digital roof — makes Google a prime target for abuse by overzealous law enforcers and criminals alike.

Through hacking or with the assistance of rogue employees, they say, criminals could steal data for blackmail or identity theft. Recent high-profile privacy breaches elsewhere underscore the vulnerability of even those systems where thoughtful security measures are taken.

This is very true. Google Inc just knows too much, and this is really scary. Especially when it comes to hypothesizing a possible security breach.
Source: Hackinthebox

I am a regular reader of Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Blog and today, my attention was caught by one specific topic titled “Get Into Motion“. The first thing that struck my mind was, “This is what people need to know”. Starting a business does not require a huge business plan, or even a huge ammount of capital to begin with.

And here is a quote of the post based on the actual content that was from Mashal Brains Blog. This was in response to a reader of his blog, stating his problem which was his inability to deal with the fears/motivations of starting a business.

Well his response is worth reading, and here it goes………..

Start small. Do something very simple in the business sense to get some positive momentum going. How simple? I might go down to a local flea market that has a lot of people flowing through on a Saturday, spend $10 of $50 or whatever it costs to rent a space, and try selling something. Anything. Go buy bananas and bottles of water at a local wholesale club and try selling them at the flea market. Sell hot wheel cars that you buy at Wal-Mart. Sell motor oil. It doesn’t really matter at the start, and it is quite likely that your first idea will not work. Spend a day walking around and see what other people are selling if you have no idea what to sell.

One of two things may happen: 1) No one buys anything, or 2) Some people actually do buy things. In either case, try playing with your prices and see what happens. Try selling different products. Try giving away certificates with the hot wheel cars and instructions with the motor oil. Just have fun with it and learn from it.

What you have done is profound: You have just started a business. Try to make it successful in the sense that, after all your expenses, you make a profit and you get paid for your time. Work at it over a couple of months. See what happens.

Now that you have started one business, try to take the lessons you have learned and start one that is a little more complicated. And just keep moving up the scale.

[If you have kids, I would suggest that you let them try a flea market business now, while they are young. They will be ahead of the game when they get older.]

{For Futher Reading}

Even before the ink has dried on proposals to relieve poor countries’ debts to international lenders, the deal agreed by the G8 at Gleneagles is under threat. [For Futher Reading.........]

What am i reading? Does this mean that there would be the likelihood of ammendment of the agreement?

This i say because

In a document that has been leaked to the activist group Jubilee Debt Campaign, Belgian IMF representative Willy Kierkens is quoted as telling the IMF executive board that “rather than giving full, irrevocable and unconditional debt relief… countries would receive grants”.

The IMF would then be able to withdraw the grants if countries failed to meet IMF conditions such as implementing the Poverty Growth Reduction Strategy which is a pre-requisite for receiving debt relief.

Well just like me,

The proposals have also alarmed African officials at the IMF, if the leaks are accurate.

The three African directors representing sub-Saharan Africa say any change to the G8 debt deal “would delay benefits” and that it “does not seem appropriate that debt cancellation would reintroduce conditionality”.

If the do really want to help, the should just do it. Otherwise what is all this nonesense?

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Please can someone tell me what the Googles URL is? Now do i sound stupid? I really do not think so. Actually that is the kind of questions we are supposed to be answering gladly.

When someone ask me this kind of question, i really would be very glad to answer . This not only because its an obvious answerable question, but its really simple and specific. But when someone goes into the extreme of asking technical questions, such as “What is entreprenuership? or even How do I start a blog?” and expects me to have an answer to such a question. Then I would say that, thats really a stupid question and such a question does not deserve any answer at all. I am not a walking technical dictionary for goodness sake, and it is really, very irritating and a total wastage of bandwidth and time to be answering such a question. Rather than answering irritating questions like this one, I would just scream out the two words “GOOGLE IT”.

I might sound mean, yes, but isnt those kind of questions irritating? The inability to do a little research on a subject of interest, has become a very disturbing attitude common amongst supposedly literate people online nowadays.

And suprisingly this irritating attitude, keeps on repeating itself because of the willingness of the responder to research on behalf of the questionier, and thus the questionier thinks that every person online happens to be a walking dictionary. And with that kind of attitude, we dont really learn much about that subject of interest. I think its about time, that people just start learning to say No to stupid questions, that deserve broad researches.

We do really need to encourage our friends and colleagues to start doing their own research for their own good, before thinking of asking any question in that relation. It does really helps them in learning broadly, and also thus save you the time and bandwidth you are suppose to use in doing something more reasonable and important.

Wouldnt you love to see your friend or colleagues talking and sharing about the technicalities of their subject of interests rather than asking? I guess we all do. And thats really what learning, sharing and contributing ideas of interest is all about, not spoon feeding.