G’day! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The author of the brilliant ‘The AdSense Code‘ is just about to release his follow-up, the brilliantly-titled ‘Click Here To Order‘.
The book promises to show you how door-to-door salesman became millionaires by applying their sales techniques to the internet; [...]
I agree that the word ‘expert’ can be bandied about with complete abandon and recklessness of ethic. If someone comes to you proclaiming ‘expertise’ in anything, please please please do your homework. Read their blog (assuming they have one), listen to their podcasts, google them, find out who links to them and who they link to (who you keep company with says much about you).
For goodness sake, put your egos aside and think about what is best in the long term for your business or your client’s business. If you or your agency doesn’t have the expertise involved do not be afraid to call in an expert. That’s what Clarity Communications in Perth has done with me, and I applaud their foresightedness and ethical responsibility to their clients.
My colleague-in-arms Steve (aka the always readable and often rightly controversial twitterlebrity ‘Vaspers the Grate’ and also aka PluPerfecter) has compiled a wonderful list of posts that ‘outs’ the less-than-delightful ‘Amanda’, and I strongly urge you to let yourself be forewarned (which is, after all, forearmed). Oh, and you’d think someone would have told Brian that using images from SXC.HU (my favourite photo site, by the way, and source of many of the images I use in my presentations) ethically requires the user to acknowledge the photographer. But then ethics has never been Brian’s strong point…
Lost scenes from Metropolis found – Boing Boing
According to ZEITmagazin, several of the rediscovered scenes are essential to the film’s plot. The magazine replays how the missing reels ended up in the private collection of a film critic and eventually came to light again. Hat tip to Boing Boing
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