Minnesota Democrats Exposed blogger, Andy Post, found an interesting way to get around paying Getty Images for a use of a photo they took of Keith Ellison in 2006. He stole if from The Telegraph. Here is the photo, as Andy Post published it to MDE: Notice the Telegraph citation? Like Ryan Lyk, Post does [...]
I thought this was an interesting citation to an image posted on Minnesota Democrats Exposed by Ryan Lyk: “Photo courtesy of Duluth New[s] Tribune”? Really? That sounds strange. I didn’t know that the Duluth News Tribune was in the business of giving away news content, including photos. One would think, at a minimum, that the [...]
W Times Square Hotel TP, originally uploaded by edkohler. Solid asymmetrical folding at the W Hotel in Times Square. Makes up for the sloppy sidewalks.
If there was one thing that makes me question the financial viability of online media businesses, it would be the differences in revenue generated by visitors to websites who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser, vs. the rest of the planet. Here’s what this looks like on TheDeets.com: What I’m seeing: Visits via Internet Explorer [...]
Ryan Lyk has been pretty quiet on Minnesota Democrats Exposed lately. Apparently, his time has been taken up with Tweeting about watching and rating video games on YouTube: He recently found time to take a break from his video game watching and rating activities to act outraged about an algorithmically served ad on MNPublius. As [...]
Andy, in the wake of yesterday’s tragic shooting of US Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, you wrote a post titled: “AN UNTHINKABLE ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY”. I have to ask you: Was it really that unthinkable? We’re living in a time when heated political rhetoric is often laced with violence. A person running for national office have plotted [...]
Team Deets is now 5 days old on Kiva. In that time, 15 people have joined the team, and issued $350 in loans to entrepreneurs in: Peru Cambodia Kenya Uganda Mongolia Tanzania Azerbaijan I’d love to see a few more of you motivate your mouses to take you to Kiva.org to join Team Deets and [...]
Here are a few things I expect to see in 2011. 1. Hands Free Scrolling – Someone will take advantage of the built-in cameras in computers to create a hands-free scrolling feature. Moving toward this is Instapaper’s awesome tilt scrolling feature in the pro version of the iPhone app, but tilt scrolling doesn’t cut it [...]
Yesterday, I was robocalled about an amazing financial offer that I would be eligible for if I left my name and number. That’s pretty hard to resist, so I did. The callback I received today was from 877-824-0973. I asked the sales person to explain to me how I ended up on his robocall list. [...]
Stephanie Hobbs recently boasted on the Yellow Pages Association’s blog, InsideYP.org, about the fact that the term “yellow pages” is among the top-50 terms searched for on the web. Here is some more information about the popularity of the term “yellow pages” worth considering: According to Google Trends, the popularity of the term “yellow pages” [...]
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