I’ve been looking for a real world copy of this for a while… and it’s been a free ebook all along:
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. MacKenzie – Project Gutenberg
I’m so jealous of the tools and resources that young people have at their disposal today. Makes me weak-kneed to think of the incredible amount of information my 5 month old daughter will be able to access throughout her life.
Let’s keep the web clean for the next generation.
I co-hosted AffiliateThing on WebMasterRadio.fm this week with Shawn Collins (Lisa was sick).
We had a great time and I’m proud to be a member of the “6 Timers Club” on the show (take that, Kurkal).
Affiliate Thing Podcast – March 26, 2008 | Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins: “The March 26, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing features guest co-host Sam Harrelson, since Lisa Picarille was under the weather.
Sam and Shawn were joined by Will Martin-Gill, senior manager of Internet marketing for eBay, to discuss eBay migrating their affiliate program from Commission Junction to in-house.
Also, they cover a new CAN-SPAM ruling, death of Facebook, Sam’s reality show of building an affiliate site, and affiliate link disclosure.”
Here’s the mp3 for your listening pleasure (or you can head here for the stream to listen).
FAIL STAMP
Over on GeekCast.fm, I’m doing a new series of podcasts called “10 Minutes With” where I have a conversation with someone from the online tech or marketing world about a particular topic for 10 minutes.
Today, I chatted with Ted Murphy of Izea (formerly PayPerPost) about disclosure. It’s a quick, but valuable and interesting, listen.
Head over to GeekCast for the streaming audio:
10 Minutes with Ted Murphy: Disclosure : GeekCast.fm: ”
As part of the ‘10 Minutes With’ series here on GeekCast.fm, I recently chatted with Izea’s Ted Murphy.”
And here’s the mp3 for download.
Lisa Picarille has started something really amazing.
She’s getting more women in the affiliate marketing space to realize that they can leave the makeup and fancy hair at the door and just hit record. We all care more about the actual content.
More on Affiliate Videoblogging » RevenueToday: “Since many people contacted me about yesterday’s post on women affiliates and videoblogging, I thought I would make a short video response.”
Here’s Stephanie Agresta‘s response:
And here’s Missy Ward‘s response.
Great job getting the video conversation going, Lisa. This needed to be said.
Keeping track of Twitter conversations can be a pain since the platform doesn’t lend itself to keeping track of threaded comments. Users have developed the “@” form of replying, but unless you are constantly observing your Twitter stream and following everyone, you’re going to miss out on comments.
So, here are two great ways to keep up with Twitter conversations involving yourself (or others you may be interested in). If you combine these with your feed reader, it’s incredibly powerful.
First, is Quotably:
Sam Harrelson’s twitter conversations – Quotably.com
Then, there’s a Yahoo Pipes app that I first heard about from @DougH via Twitter:
Pipes: Twitter Reply Sniffer with Dates
Give them a try if you want to stay on top of your Twitter presence (or someone else’s).
We spend close to $100,000 every minute in Iraq, but we can’t afford to keep NASA’s budget at its current size and ensure more incredible discoveries about our solar system (and ourselves since we are all created from stardust) from the Mars rover Spirit?
Spirit, the Mars Rover, Left to Die Before Its Time [Mars Rover]: “But now it looks like Spirit has rolled on its six wheels and done science experiments for the very last time. The U.S. government has forced NASA, this country’s national space agency, to cut its budget by 4 million dollars. And that means only one rover, Opportunity, will survive. To say that this is a tragedy is an understatement.”
Amazing. Human short-sightedness never ceases to disappoint me.
Yet another reason to vote for change in ’08.
Update: Spirt Has Been Saved!
Stickers?
I’ll put them on my laptop and make you famous at all the marketing conferences where I speak every year (not to mention the ones I attend).
Email me@samharrelson.com for my address. I’ll even send an SASE if you’re that cheap.
I’ll even blog about you if you don’t make me send an SASE!
http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_94716.mp3
Download – Cinch from (803) 413 – 6834 on Monday, March 24, 2008 11:09 AM
Salon.com does a fantastic job of presenting the situation at the Baghdad Museum after the US invasion of Iraq five years ago and where things stand now.
There’s a text transcript as well as a mp3 podcast available of a very valuable roundtable discussion…
The looting of Iraq | Salon News: “Among the many unintended and unforeseen consequences of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began five years ago this week was the wholesale looting of Iraq’s museums and archaeological sites. Iraq has been called the cradle of civilization. Starting with the Sumerian civilization, which more than 5,000 years ago produced what may be the world’s first examples of writing and math, the area centered on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and known as Mesopotamia has been home to a succession of cultures — Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian. Many believe southern Iraq was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden. But within weeks of the first American airstrike, the cradle of civilization had been robbed. Baghdad’s National Museum of Iraq, among the globe’s premier repositories of antiquities, was ransacked over the course of a week in April 2003. Statues were dragged down the steps, artifacts six millennia old were carried off in plastic bags. American soldiers were not dispatched to protect the museum until the thieves were long gone. “
You can download the podcast here.
is it kosher to say “happy easter”? i should know with a divinity degree, i guess. makes me feel sorta uneasy saying “happy easter” since what we’re observing here was a rather revolutionary event.
maybe we should say “take easter seriously this year, dammit” instead of “happy easter”?
GRB080319B by Pi-of-the-Sky
During night 2008.03.18/19 the “Pi of the Sky” apparatus located at Las Campanas Observatory was observing the Swift satellite field of view with 10s exposures from 5:49 UT. At 6:12 UT we observed exceptionally bright optical flash reaching 5.8 magnitudo. It was automatically detected by the flash recognition algorithm.
GRB080319B by Pi-of-the-Sky
“blogging” is broken. way too over the top, too finely produced and too fake.
time to burn it to the ground and start over.
we’re doing it wrong.
http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_94226.mp3
Download – Cinch from (803) 413 – 6834 on Friday, March 21, 2008 5:21 PM
“It was from that planet [Nibiru], the Sumerian texts repeatedly and persistently stated, that the Anunnaki came to Earth. The term literally means ‘Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came.’ They are spoken of in the Bible as the Anakim, and in Chapter 6 of Genesis are also call Nefilim, which in Hebrew means the same thing: Those Who Have Come Down, from the Heavens to Earth.”
– Zecharia Sitchin, Genesis Revisited
“Throughout Mesopotamia, from the earliest times of Sumer and Akkad, all lands were owned by gods and men were their slaves. Of this, the cuneiform texts leave no doubt whatever. Each city-state had its own principal god, and the king was described in the very earliest written documents that we have as ‘the tenant farmer of the god’.”
– Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
n the night of 2008-03-20 (UT) we observed the optical afterglow of GRB 080319B (GCN 7427, Racusin et al.) with Gemini-South + GMOS in g, r, i, and z filters (4x180s in each filter). The source is well-detected in all bands. Magnitudes, calibrated to SDSS DR6, are: UTstart UTend t(hr) filt mag err 06:52:17 07:10:19 24.808 g 20.95 0.09 07:11:19 07:26:11 25.099 r 20.55 0.03 07:27..
GRBlog: GRB080319B
sometimes i hate blogging. scoble nailed it this morning (scobleizer.com).
thinking about rolling it all up into one crispy paper ball and throwing it into the fire.
whatever it is… i guess i’m referring to the blogging aesthetic. so completely fucked up and unncessary.
didn’t we invent this blog shit to counter the stogedy crap that was flowing from the pro’s?
what happened to punk blogging?
we sold out.
for shame.
fix it?
I’ll be speaking on a panel at the upcoming Web2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Lisa Picarille (Revenue Magazine), Stephanie Agresta (Affiliate Karma), Marc Levin (formerly of Yahoo) and Cam Blazer of DoubleClick Performics and I will be discussing responsible affiliate marketing strategies in a web2.0 world…
The Changing Landscape of Affiliate Marketing: Bloggers, Social Media and Online Merchants : Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 — Co-produced by CMP Technology & O’Reilly Conferences, 04/22/2008 – 04/25/2008, San Francisco, CA: “Affiliate marketing is a proven way to monetize online content, and emerging publishers know it’s important to maximize relationships with merchants. Merchants also derive value from the growth of the blogosphere and social media. Experts in affiliate marketing (representing the publisher, merchant and affiliate network perspectives) will explore how these new publishing paradigms use existing affiliate models, and further enhance strategies for monetization of blog and social media content.”
Should be a blast and will be the first time I’ll have spoken at Web2.0 Expo. Let me know if you’ll be there.
BTW, where is everyone staying? I need to “get a room.”
If you’re here for affiliate or online marketing posts, you might also want to check out the revived CostPerNews site that I love so much and get to keep…
Cost Per News: “As part of my settlement after leaving ReveNews, I get to retain the ownership of CostPerNews.”
It’s going to be a blast dusting off the cobwebs and getting that place back in order. Join me?
