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Filed under: action needed, causes, children, health, politics
Delicious Irony: Mattel, Target, Wal-Mart Make Headlines Again
by Holly Jahangiri on Nov 18th, 2009
Delicious Irony: Mattel, Target, Wal-Mart make headlines ? or should that be ?leadlines?? ? again In August, I asked ?why did Mattel receive a waiver from CPSC that enabled it to test its own products for compliance with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act?? In a deliciously ironic twist, Mattel is once again making headlines with lead-tainted products. According to the Houston Chronicle, the Center for Environmental Health tested some 2...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: blogging, people
Monday News & Views
by Holly Jahangiri on Oct 12th, 2009
Imagine What Fun Dinner Table Conversation Was When I Was a Kid A few weeks ago, I clued you in to the The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World. Today, I bring you the Top 5 Most Bizarre Food Movies. Be warned; this is not VeggieTales. This is not even the VeggieTales cookie cutter. Some of these movies came with warning labels at the box office. How many of them have you seen? Did they whet your appetite, or kill it forever? New Blog Toys Did...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Featured, Headline, blogging, people
Monday News & Views
by Holly Jahangiri on Sep 28th, 2009
Image by Grant MacDonald via Flickr Politics makes strange bedfellows. Charles Dudley Warner (American Editor and Author, 1829-1900) But as one reader, who goes by Gulden_NL, pointed out, in a response to an article by Eric Jackson: I will make one more observation and leave it at that. I am a raging capitalist that has seen where the executive compensation situation in the US is taking us. Mr and Mrs America are now starting to si...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: advice or instruction, blogging, writing
3 Ways to Protect Your Content
by Holly Jahangiri on Sep 17th, 2009
Free, Easy Ways to Detect and Prevent Content Theft 1. Set up an alert system. Most of the copyright violations I?ve uncovered have been sent directly to my inbox by Google Alerts. There are other sites you can try, as well (such as FairShare, TYNT Tracer, or Copyscape) if you are specifically interested in monitoring the use of your work online. (more...)...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: blogging, friends, politics
Monday News & Views
by Holly Jahangiri on Sep 14th, 2009
I was wary of iBlogZone, at first. But it isn?t one of those ?get rich quick,? ?monetize your blog,? and ?make money online? sites. Oh, sure, the navigation bar reads like this: Make Money, SEO, Blogging, Internet Marketing, AdSense, Affiliate Marketing, Twitter 101, Domain 101. But DiTesco is a real human being whose desire to help others reach their blogging goals ? whether they are income generating goals or personal goals ? seems refreshingly...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Featured, action needed, education, health, politics
Will YOUR Kids Be in School Next Tuesday?
by Holly Jahangiri on Sep 3rd, 2009
"He's going to push his agenda on our children." That's how I first learned of President Barack Obama's plans to speak to students at noon next Tuesday. I was eavesdropping on the next table during lunch. In my defense, they were rather loud. I later learned that some parents were planning to boycott the President's speech - to keep their children home from school that day. And that some schools were planning to make "reasonable accommodations" t...Read More » Tags
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