Yahoo’s Shine – Misplaced Blogging for Money by Gender
Trying to tap the online money flow of women ages 25-54, Yahoo has launched Shine in blog format. Call it the “dumbing down” of blogging. In other words, targeting blogging to the lowest common denominator by assuming that adult women are primarily interested in stroller envy articles and buying footwear in response to a co-worker’s inappropriate behavior.
I can’t imagine any attorney, or responsible workplace supervisor for that matter, giving out that type of advice for the latter example. Frankly, it isn’t liberating — it’s degrading.
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ChiCom Thugs Hijack Search Engine Traffic
The Chinese government reminds us once again why it should be overthrown from within as an illegitimate totalitarian regime. Because President Bush and the U.S. Congress decided to honor the Dalai Lama, the ChiComs retaliated by hijacking and redirecting Chinese Internet users of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft search engines to the Chinese search engine Baidu.
Don’t reward this misbehavior. Boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics. Let our athletes compete there but don’t spend a dime or put a happy face in the crowd for ChiComs to exploit for propaganda.
