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Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

You just gotta love The Onion – They really nailed this one !

Living in a beautiful New England location has many drawbacks, one of them being that the local telcos are so ridiculously backwards, a vestigial tail of days gone by.

For instance, for me to make a phone call 5 miles down the road in the same state, one town over, is a long distance call. Crazy and absurd.

The other thing is boggles the mind are the phone books. Since 5 miles away is a long distance call, I also require an additional phone book to locate businesses in that town. Add this to the fact that I live in a tri-state area, and it shows what is antiquated business model for the Yellow Pages has become. Not for the various companies that publish the Yellow Pages, but for the businesses that pay to advertise in the Yellow Pages. usi

These days, I don’t even bother to call 411 and get charged an absurd $1.50, I use Google. If the business cannot be found on Google, then I find someone else who has what I need. In a tri-state area such as mine, the Yellow Pages are irrelevant, and I begin to understand the power of using Google for my search in a cell phone. That is a service I would even pay for, although, it would have to be far less than $1.50 per search.

Makes me start seeing the potential in having a Google cell phone, or a Google wifi phone. AT&T and Verizon, take a hike !

Well, I have been doing a new blog for outsider art for a client of mine, trying to help their old art gallery space to get found. In doing this research I have now officially graduated to the ‘hard core’ blogging word, embarking on the open source quest using WordPress. In my search for PHP tools to integrate WordPress with Flickr, I stumbled upon Tijs Teulings blog researching the WordPress Theme of Hemingway and Slickr where I clicked onto his link to MyBlogLog. So now I am on that site and see people viewing, I thought I would write this quich post to say “Hello all out there in the MyBlogLog community !

Well, as the titles says, I have outgrown the WordPress blog application in faily short order and now I am on to WordPress.

Joomla allows for a certain amount of robustness in content production and uploading capabilities, and as of late I have pitched a few new clients and the response has been faily overwhelming.

There is an aspect of ‘Interactive Design’ which has really determined how people interact with websites that has grown over the years that has taken on new meaning in the way I see the overall direction of website design.

Being a huge fan of Myst in the early days of CDRom’s I can safely say that I an not immune to the appeal of a certain amount of intrigue and discovery in the process of ‘walking’ through’ an new and wondrous ‘Virtual World’.  That being said the web has changed into a world where being grounded in the familiar has taken on an appeal all it’s own.  I guess this sounds like it is coming from the ‘if ya can’t beat em, join ‘em’ camp, but as a sales tool for engaging people in the notion of ‘website salvage’ becomes an attractive option.

Enter Joomla, a robust and powerful open source driven CMS which allows handing off of content and website management to the client.  I am very excited by the response I have had so far and look forward to really getting a handle on how to use this powerful new application.