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Tue, 2008-Apr-29 by Jeff Mowatt.

So, hello and welcome to my part of the experiment.
I’ll be discussing the concept of of People-Centered Economic Development, our work on a Marshall Plan in Ukraine and smear campaign intended to discredit what we’ve discovered in homes for disabled children, described as Death Camps.
It began back in 1996 with a white paper, delivered to US President Clinton and by 2004 had taken the form of a social business operating from the UK
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Tue, 2008-Apr-29 by nmw.
A couple weeks ago, I listen to the “For Immediate Release” podcast (Show #331) hosted by Neville Hobson & Shel Holtz — and I was flabbergasted: Shel & Neville actually agreed with Cabel Maxfield Sasser’s statement that “URL’s Are Totally Out” (and they went on to say that it would be a simple & straightforward matter to select a phrase that could be plugged into a search engine — e.g. a “one-size fits-all” search engine such as google.com — such that the phrase would come out on top). My immediate reaction was: “this is utter nonsense“. I called in to ask Shel & Neville to explain how this could be done and their reply was basically: “We have no idea“.
So today I went and dug out the post by Mr. Sasser: I found that what Mr. Sasser seems to have meant is that it’s not the entire URL that matters, but rather mostly the most significant part of the URL that matters: the domain name. He didn’t say so per se, but that is what became readily apparent (or even obvious) from reading his post. As I said in my response: This is nothing new! (YAWN)
My takeaway is that many people will say something and not even realize that they are contradicting themselves. When this results in news headlines that are completely misleading, then that should be corrected. Let’s hope that Shel & Neville & Cabel realize their mistakes and correct them.
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