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Archives for June 2007

Google buys FeedBurner

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googleEver feel like google is pacman and all other companies are just dots waiting to be devoured?

Google has acquired another medium for its advertising engine by purchasing FeedBurner, a company that distributes syndicated content for blogs and other media Web sites, the companies said Friday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the figure of $100 million had been reported by TechCrunch, which broke the story last week.

“This is an area where we saw a lot of opportunity and that was growing quickly,” Susan Wojcicki, vice president of product management at Google, said in a conference call with reporters.

Google is the titan of paid search advertising and has a large network of Web sites that host ads Google sells through its AdWords online marketing system. The company has been expanding aggressively into enabling offline forms of advertising, such as in print and on radio and television. Now it can put ads in the more than 430,000 RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds that FeedBurner has and it can expand its AdSense Web site publisher network with the FeedBurner publishers, Wojcicki said.

Men, children and paedophilia

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I noticed this article in Spiked about men being put off volunteering to be coaches because of the intrusive nature of the child protection measures.

The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill, which passed through the Houses of Parliament in London at the end of last year, requires that all those who work with children must submit to a background check first. As one Home Office official responsible for CRB checks recently assured me, it is only those who have something to hide who are put off.

Now this bugs me it is only those who have something to hide who are put off.
 Bullshit! you don’t have to have anything to hide to be concerned about police types going through your background. Most especially in this political climate.

A survey found

that 17 per cent of men wouldn’t volunteer to work with children because they would face a criminal records check. Moreover, 13 per cent wouldn’t volunteer because they fear that they could be perceived as a paedophile.

It is unfortunate that men who are truly interested in being coaches and mentors many of whom would be excellent role models for children, are being tarred with the paedophile tag. [Read more…] about Men, children and paedophilia

Male blaming blogs

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Male Blaming BlogApril Reign is a male blaming blog according to this very disjointed post

In honour of this I’d like to invite you to join the all new [how could we possibly be improved?] Male Blaming Blogs and no group is complete without an official logo…see right—->

Wear it proudly on your blog!

*Male bloggers welcome to join. As long as you’re willing to take the blame. 😉